Cache Location Ideas

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Our ongoing discussion about caches largely follows my thoughts and stuff I see on youtube and whatnot. Take some clothes, simple affordable gear, a bit of emergency food, few one ounce silver rounds if you have em, a basic gun that is gathering dust and a couple boxes of bullets. If you can add a tactical manual like Contact by Max Velocity and a nice affordable Berkey Sport Water Filter
then the cache is pretty well set. Many folks could do that with stuff
that is lying around in piles of like gear at their house. Anyway the concept of locations has come up.

Fundamentally in terms of locations I fear people can get so focused on finding a perfect scenario. I do not have a trusted survivalist family member who lives on a farm 150 miles away from me in a very remote area. Most people do not have that perfect scenario either. The issue is that people get so focused on finding a truly perfect scenario that they do not actually take action on more realistic scenario. Inevitably realistic scenarios have downsides. That is called life. 

In his excellent article John talks extensively about picking a location for burying stuff.While a bit labor intensive the security of a well thought out buried cache is pretty awesome.

Sootch did a good video on a storage space cache

I think this idea has some merit. Also this is a very good option YOU CAN DO. There are rental storage places in the burbs and cities. There really are not any excuses here. Storage units can of course be broken into however I do not personally know anyone who has had that happen to them. I would be discrete about putting stuff into the storage unit. Long guns in a duffel bag or something. Also I would have a decent percentage of the unit filled with mundane boring stuff. If you have 4 big boxes of old books, one of which has a case that is holding a couple pistols, a crook in a hurry isn’t going to find it. Toss a broken down AR into box 3 of “Christmas Stuff” and you are good to go.

Even if a friend is located in the next town 10 miles down the road a cache at their place still has value. Your home might burn down. A localized disaster like a tornado might get you but would probably miss them. Some sort of situation like a chemical spill or wildfire could force you to evacuate in a hurry but leave his place unaffected. You could offer some space to the friend in return.

A relative in an area you regularly travel to might have space for a Rubbermaid container in their garage or barn.

The point I am trying to get to is that there are options. Maybe some day when we all buy that little, or maybe not so little piece of land in the hinter boonies that will be a great option. However great these possibilities down the road are we need realistic options for today. The point I am trying to get across is that there are some realistic options for caches that most people can implement in the near future should they want to.