I should actually add to this post on what I've added lately... Last week I made the jump to "crazy doomsdayer" and obtained a few RU6500 Honeywell Full Face respirators. With them, several sets of 75SCP100L filters.

Seem to be on a book roll lately. Added,
Firearms Assembly 3: The NRA Guide to Rifles and Shotguns

Sold some of my radio gear to purchase an upgrade.
ended up with this...
http://www.rigpix.com/yaesu/ft767gx.htm
A bit newer than what I had, but still a rig from the 80's
Advantages are more bands, automatic antenna tuner, and double the output power that I had!!!
Now if my voice would only come back, I could really test it out, but so far I'm already receiving much better than before!

I was in Sudbury this past week and the surplus store there is going out of business, having a SALE
WE ALL LIKE SALES DON'T WE!!!!!
I found some 1 lt Platypus flexible water bottles
I got the last 2 Katadyn Hiker Pro Backcountry water filters
A Ruko multi tool to up grade my grand sons bush craft kit a bit
A Brunton TruArc baseplate compass ( theses are nice as they haveno tool required declination adjustment )
All in all not a bad haul

I made a big batch of homemade cold process soap today. I also bought an elliptical machine, because after having my weight creep up a bit every year, along with blood pressure, I have decided what I REALLY need to add to my preps is improved health. I also got back into cross-country skiiing on the weekend, after not doing that for a few years. That means I've added some aches where I didn't know I had muscles 😉 but hopefully that goes away after a few weeks.

20 kilo of oats.
Siphon pump and hose for scavenging fuel or oils.
20kilo of white sugar.
A few different sized funnels, one with long flexible metal tube to get into hard places.
Another Dozen cans of chicken soup that we cycle through on normal base.
A great deal of Mylar bagging was done! New and older purchases.

8 gallons of home made wine.
12 large cans of coffee.
Large bag of saw dust 🙂

8 Gallons of wine... Nice. I have to admit that I can never truly seem to add wine, as my wife and I seem to drink it. The good thing is, we end-up making more:

"We should really put down some wine for Prepping."

"Yes, good idea Dear..."

It's a never ending cycle ... 🙂

I've purchased a GMC 300E Geiger Counter! They are very reasonably priced on amazon. Certainly not the biggest and baddest "all around" one out there, but for the price and what it does just fine for what I need. Will be heading up to Northern Ont in a couple weeks and looking forward to testing it out around some Elliot Lake areas, the Nuc Refinery in Blind River, for fun.

As an aside, you can download readings from your geiger counter and also see what other people have recorded throughout the world at:
http://www.gmcmap.com

Anything below 50 CMP is normal background radiation. There is a location in Rassvet, Russia...that recorded 748...

Very interesting Crowns own.. please report back on your findings.

Crownsown,
What if any are the calibration requirements for the unit?

Added a few items to the vehicle. 4 way wheel wrench ($4 at thrift store) and a glass breaker/seat belt cutter. Next trip to the pick n pull I will try out the glass breaker/belt cutter.

Very interesting Crowns own.. please report back on your findings.

Will do!

Crownsown,
What if any are the calibration requirements for the unit?

Added a few items to the vehicle. 4 way wheel wrench ($4 at thrift store) and a glass breaker/seat belt cutter. Next trip to the pick n pull I will try out the glass breaker/belt cutter.

The user manuals notes the factory reset will return the unit to the general settings for readings.

However, there is a process where you can specifically calibrate it also in the users manual on p. 14 which requires a radioactive source. I'll prob do that shortly also.

Mylared 10 kg of powdered milk and dried Raisins and pineapple bits

3x boxes of N95 masks priced at around $13 per box on Amazon - a very good sale price.