I have been and still am a practitioner of the cache. As a hunter/hiker, camper I learned at a Young age the value of being prepared for unexpected "adventures" ( such as roads or bridges being washed out suddenly) and have several cache's in the areas I frequent. This has served me well more than once. Believe me when I tell you, it's a comfort to have an emergency stash in the area when needed. Also that pint of brandy is a welcome sight on a cold wet night 😁
What a load of nonsense. There's absolutely no point to burying caches unless it's for someone else to find and use, or you're trying to cheat on some sort of military exercise. You're just burying shit for no reason, lol. 'Oh no, the bridge has been blown up and I'm now in a fantasy situation. Glad I buried those tins of beans now.'
@@ashleyvaughn4305 It was written in the spirit of humor but it has the virtue of being true. Store food in your car and in your hiking gear - don't bury it in random places outside unless it's a military survival exercise or you're on covert operations abroad, lol. it's a total waste of food.
After you are all done with your cache site. Water the plug,It will help the grass regrow faster. That's what I do when I add sod to bare spots in my yard and the grass seems to have a better chance to regrow
You can also place it horizontal but before last 5cm of dirt you return just throw fist full of old nails so if somon comes with metal detector he will shortly move on after he gets several nails digged up.
7:26 mins if the grass has runners, keep some of the grass in your plug attached to the rest of the surrounding grass it won't die and leave a brown patch. Just flip it over like a trap door spider's burrow door then flip it back once you're done digging. It's what metal detector fossicker's do 🤘
I feel like you're slyly trying to trick the bushcraft field into being more tactical. Love it, now we need more tactical personalities to trick the tactical field into bushcraft.
Awesome video my friend, i just received the 4 disk set DVDs, Green Berets No Nonsense Bug out today, I can't wait to watch. Thank you for all the educational videos on YT and on your web site, take care, stay healthy and God bless you and your Family always.
Thank you sir! Thank you for your service, thank you for sharing your knowledge. Always enjoy watching your videos me and my grandsons watch them together and we learn a lot much love from down the bayou
I kind of like pre dug holes. We have badgers all over the place and I have used their holes near prominent features to hide my stuff. If someone notices fresh dirt they normally assume that's what is.
I've done my own experiments and have had incredible results. If done right and packed right it will look the same a year later. Oil in excess all metal if you can and mineral oil works good and cost little. Butchers use this on stainless steal too keep it from rusting so...also FYI PVC end caps cost a shit ton of money as well as the pipe. 10inch cap 140 bucks per cap...one hundred forty dollars EACH!!! pipe 125 a foot....SICK!!! but Vaseline on those end caps makes it more better...water wise and removal. Good video for those who know.
As usual, many good considerations! But also consider wild pigs and dogs! They have excellent noses and can smell food and other stuff below the surface. Plus, they love digging stuff out. A problem I have not found a solution for yet. Maybe there are substances they do not like or will cover any food odor..
@@spacemanbill9501 Ammonia also. Full strength around and on garbage cans for raccoons, diluted with water in a spray bottle for pesky or aggressive dogs, cats etc.. I’ve used it for both of those situations
Pro tip.. When you don't have abundant water to pour.. Take a pee over the cache dite. It will conceal a lot of the loose dirt around the grass plugs..
If you’re in a non-permissive environment (bad guys), a technique I use is to emplace the cach in a place that I can get a good overwatch on (SLLS stop). I would also tag the package with ‘550 cord and attach that to something I can find. In my experience, locating a cache is a bitch at night. Maybe directional glint tape up in a tree so it’ll bounce in nods when you’re there. Awesome videos Brother. Reminds me of good times.
Just thinking a guy couple use a post hole digger dig vertically add a bigger pvc sleeve then just have your cache slid in and out of that sleeve if your going to be checking them regularly.
Hi Josh... Mike from Toronto here. I have 2 questions for ya. 1) Can you recommend any other online resources for printed topo maps pertinent to Canada? I continue to look for a good one but Caltopo, MyTopo, don't offer good selection or the map scales are too large to be useful. Considering making my own using QGIS software otherwise... 2) You mention placing caches along routes in cardinal directions at 2 day intervals. That to me seems like a cache for roughly every 20km. Would you say that is a fair estimate?
frequent snow cover/change of features? you could geo locate but id try to avoid reliance on tech. Generally id still bury but you could find plenty of areas elevated as well or hidey holes in specific trees etc.
How big are the oxygen absorbers you use? Can we use the ones that come in packages of things we purchase or should they be new? Is there a way we could dry them out to reuse?
Look on line for a oxygen absorber cheat sheet, it will show size bag and size OA needed. You need new ones, they can’t really be reused as they typically use something that oxidizes to remove oxygen.
What I appreciate most about Josh is not the amount of knowledge he shares, but how his intelligent and articulate discourse effaces the stereotype of hillbillies being a bunch of yokels. I hope the next time someone from Harvard, Yale, or Princeton decides to engage in foreign policy adventurism, that they personally run some war games against Josh and his folks as the red team.
@@AggyGoesOutdoors - Even then people happen to wander by even in remote areas, always at the least convenient times. I like to go out and camp with a tent with no floor, do all the digging and burying and covering inside the tent. Even if some guy out hiking or "exploring" happens along he won't see you doing what you're doing.
I have been and still am a practitioner of the cache. As a hunter/hiker, camper I learned at a Young age the value of being prepared for unexpected "adventures" ( such as roads or bridges being washed out suddenly) and have several cache's in the areas I frequent. This has served me well more than once. Believe me when I tell you, it's a comfort to have an emergency stash in the area when needed. Also that pint of brandy is a welcome sight on a cold wet night 😁
What a load of nonsense. There's absolutely no point to burying caches unless it's for someone else to find and use, or you're trying to cheat on some sort of military exercise. You're just burying shit for no reason, lol. 'Oh no, the bridge has been blown up and I'm now in a fantasy situation. Glad I buried those tins of beans now.'
@@OngoGablogian185 That's a lovely attitude.
@@ashleyvaughn4305 It was written in the spirit of humor but it has the virtue of being true. Store food in your car and in your hiking gear - don't bury it in random places outside unless it's a military survival exercise or you're on covert operations abroad, lol. it's a total waste of food.
After you are all done with your cache site. Water the plug,It will help the grass regrow faster. That's what I do when I add sod to bare spots in my yard and the grass seems to have a better chance to regrow
Great post my friend. Stay strong, free, happy and healthy. 🌞
You can also place it horizontal but before last 5cm of dirt you return just throw fist full of old nails so if somon comes with metal detector he will shortly move on after he gets several nails digged up.
Truth
G'day Josh, well done mate. Particularly like that box method, a mandatory strategy when you think about it. Cheers Duke.
Knowing my luck a settlement would be built ontop of it 🤦♂️ loving to content so trying my best to catch up 💪👍
7:26 mins if the grass has runners, keep some of the grass in your plug attached to the rest of the surrounding grass it won't die and leave a brown patch. Just flip it over like a trap door spider's burrow door then flip it back once you're done digging. It's what metal detector fossicker's do 🤘
I feel like you're slyly trying to trick the bushcraft field into being more tactical.
Love it, now we need more tactical personalities to trick the tactical field into bushcraft.
Awesome video my friend, i just received the 4 disk set DVDs, Green Berets No Nonsense Bug out today, I can't wait to watch. Thank you for all the educational videos on YT and on your web site, take care, stay healthy and God bless you and your Family always.
Enjoy it!
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret I will, just ordered 3 more DVD sets. Thanks, have a awesome weekend.
Thank you sir! Thank you for your service, thank you for sharing your knowledge. Always enjoy watching your videos me and my grandsons watch them together and we learn a lot much love from down the bayou
I kind of like pre dug holes. We have badgers all over the place and I have used their holes near prominent features to hide my stuff. If someone notices fresh dirt they normally assume that's what is.
I've done my own experiments and have had incredible results. If done right and packed right it will look the same a year later. Oil in excess all metal if you can and mineral oil works good and cost little. Butchers use this on stainless steal too keep it from rusting so...also FYI PVC end caps cost a shit ton of money as well as the pipe. 10inch cap 140 bucks per cap...one hundred forty dollars EACH!!! pipe 125 a foot....SICK!!! but Vaseline on those end caps makes it more better...water wise and removal. Good video for those who know.
Might be a good idea to take a gallon of water to “water in” the grass plugs once placed back on the ground at the end.
Practical implications. Thanks brother
I use the same ABS but in NorCal Sierras I bury them vertical with a posthole digger because of the fires.
Thanks for that video!
Great lesson. Thank you.
thanks for sharing with us!!! great ideas!!
Good video and tips Joshua , thanks for sharing ,God bless !
Very helpful, thank you for sharing.
As usual, many good considerations! But also consider wild pigs and dogs! They have excellent noses and can smell food and other stuff below the surface. Plus, they love digging stuff out. A problem I have not found a solution for yet. Maybe there are substances they do not like or will cover any food odor..
CS capsicum tear gas as a powder form should put the dogs off. Dunno about the pigs, tho.
Moth balls, vinegar, not in the hole but near it. Any extremely powerful smells should throw the pigs off
@@spacemanbill9501 yeah. Along with the vinegar add in a bit of apple sauce, and they’re sure to stay away if they don’t wanna be dinner 😜
@@andrewallason4530 could do what the Mexicanos do and wrap it in plastic and dryer sheets. Might make your food contaminated tho.
@@spacemanbill9501 Ammonia also. Full strength around and on garbage cans for raccoons, diluted with water in a spray bottle for pesky or aggressive dogs, cats etc.. I’ve used it for both of those situations
Pro tip.. When you don't have abundant water to pour.. Take a pee over the cache dite. It will conceal a lot of the loose dirt around the grass plugs..
If you’re in a non-permissive environment (bad guys), a technique I use is to emplace the cach in a place that I can get a good overwatch on (SLLS stop). I would also tag the package with ‘550 cord and attach that to something I can find. In my experience, locating a cache is a bitch at night. Maybe directional glint tape up in a tree so it’ll bounce in nods when you’re there. Awesome videos Brother. Reminds me of good times.
Just thinking a guy couple use a post hole digger dig vertically add a bigger pvc sleeve then just have your cache slid in and out of that sleeve if your going to be checking them regularly.
thanks for sharing! I hadn't thought about something like this for placing a cache. Simple but brilliant.
Green Beanie. Hope you and yours are doing Great. Very good knowledge, and execution. Thank you for making the video.
Good video. What kind of shovel do you use.
Usually a Cold Steel Spetsnaz. That thing takes a beating. I think for this film I had a DMOS shovel which is like a beefed up e-tool. Really good too
Saying that you don't have the property to bury it on. Do you use the National Forest or where? Don't want to bury it on someone else's property.
Dont be a square dude
Do what you have to do. Why ask us? Millions of acres in NF’s….think about it.
Pick a spot that's been logged and cover the spot with the brush/ limbs from the operation. Use your brains, you'll figure out what works for you.
Any tips for doing this in urban areas?
So useful
Don't forget to leave a treasure map in your will.
What was that running in the field at 2.56 ?
Hi Josh... Mike from Toronto here. I have 2 questions for ya.
1) Can you recommend any other online resources for printed topo maps pertinent to Canada? I continue to look for a good one but Caltopo, MyTopo, don't offer good selection or the map scales are too large to be useful. Considering making my own using QGIS software otherwise...
2) You mention placing caches along routes in cardinal directions at 2 day intervals. That to me seems like a cache for roughly every 20km. Would you say that is a fair estimate?
*Be careful, a squirrel can find anything underground.*
Hope it brings a wrench.
Would you flood out with being on a flat with hills draining water down?
How would you recommend hiding caches in an area where the ground is frozen 5-6 months out of the year?
frequent snow cover/change of features? you could geo locate but id try to avoid reliance on tech. Generally id still bury but you could find plenty of areas elevated as well or hidey holes in specific trees etc.
RICKY BOBBY!!!! 🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁
A small wooden cross with a pets name on fresh burial.🤔
Some curious kid might dig that up....
How big are the oxygen absorbers you use? Can we use the ones that come in packages of things we purchase or should they be new? Is there a way we could dry them out to reuse?
Look on line for a oxygen absorber cheat sheet, it will show size bag and size OA needed. You need new ones, they can’t really be reused as they typically use something that oxidizes to remove oxygen.
Do you ever put ammo in your cashe? If so do you vacuum seal the ammo? Thanks for sharing, stay safe
Yes and yes 👍
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret thank you, Happy Father's Day
Josh, just a quick question. Do you maintain an inventory list for each cache and the items in it?
What kind of shovel is that at the beginning?
DMOS
My brother Steve used to eat earth worms in prison for packs of cigarettes. New York City people can’t fathom it. 😂😂😂
throw a zerust tablet in there also.
What shovel is that?
Winthrop
Apple air tags would be a good way to find your cache.
Doesn’t it have to be battery operated? It’d run out after a couple days
@@X.L.B1The battery lasts for about a year, allegedly.
This could also be a good way to know whether the cache has been found and removed, because you’ll be notified that the AirTag is moving.
Does any one know the name of the song in the intro?
I think this dude is D.B. Cooper
What brand shovel is that?
DMOS
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret thank you .
What I appreciate most about Josh is not the amount of knowledge he shares, but how his intelligent and articulate discourse effaces the stereotype of hillbillies being a bunch of yokels.
I hope the next time someone from Harvard, Yale, or Princeton decides to engage in foreign policy adventurism, that they personally run some war games against Josh and his folks as the red team.
I live on a boat. I can't bury anything.
This isn't his land ;)
👍👍
I'm curious as to how many people have random caches buried out there?
More than we think.
@@samuelnatal3221 I guess most people must be doing it under the cover of darkness other wise it's gonna be kind of obvious
@@AggyGoesOutdoors - Even then people happen to wander by even in remote areas, always at the least convenient times. I like to go out and camp with a tent with no floor, do all the digging and burying and covering inside the tent. Even if some guy out hiking or "exploring" happens along he won't see you doing what you're doing.
@@oldschooljeremy8124 hey that's smart! You wonder why our green beret didn't think of that!
@@oldschooljeremy8124 I do basically the same thing during hunting season I set up a hunting blind and bury them while inside.
Who the hell is gonna be out in the woods with a metal detector...
Maybe me 🕵️
Buy a shipping container and bury it the side of hill.
Apparently they are perfect for a bunker
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