how's it going guys welcome back to the pilot patriot channel
today we're going to be talking about building and burying a survival cache
if you don't know what a survival cache is it's basically just a kit that you build out
in some type of weatherproof or waterproof container that contains items that you might need
in a survival situation the basic concept is that you'll hide that cache in an area that only you
know about so that if you needed to if you needed to bug out from your home or something like that
you could hide this on your path so that you could dig it up so you'd have the items you need
to get you to safety now when you're thinking about a survival cast there's a few things you
need to think about the first is where you're going to hide it so ideally you want to make
sure it's in a low traffic area so that somebody's not just going to stumble up on it and find it but
you also need to make sure that you're not going to forget where it is later because theoretically
it could be months or even years before you get back to this so you want to make sure you're going
to remember where that is a couple ways you can do that is to find some type of identifying landmark
that's going to help you remember exactly where you buried that at you could also do some things
to mark the areas in a way that's not too obvious so i got my area all picked out i'm not going to
tell you exactly how i found it or what landmarks i'm using to find this spot other than one of the
ways i'm going to remember is that it's at the base of this tree right here now i have
other ways of remembering where this tree is now let's go ahead and get in here and talk about the
container that we're going to use because i'm really excited to show you guys this container
and then we'll talk about the contents and the things that i'm going to put into this kit
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now the container for your survival cache a lot of people use pvc pipe or ammo cans or things like
that and those are great options but i really think what i have here is going to be 10 times
better this is a completely waterproof container with an airtight and waterproof gamma seal lid
and what this actually is is a vittle's vault this is designed to hold dog food this is the 50-pound
version so it's one of the biggest ones they make it is basically a plastic barrel with a watertight
gamma seal lid it's just big enough for all the things that i want to put in it so i think this
is going to work out great now let's talk about the things that i'm going to put in it what i see
a lot of people do is they'll just throw a lot of random stuff down in the bottom of whatever
whatever their container is some of the common things are water food ammo that kind of stuff
now what i think a lot of people forget is once you dig this up and you get to those items
how are you going to carry them so the main thing that i'm going gonna have in mind is a go bag that
way all the items that i need are contained inside this bag all i have to do is pull it out throw it
on my back and i'm good to go if you're interested in seeing all the stuff that's in this bag this is
actually my 100 walmart survival kit i do have a video on that and i'll put that right here at the
top of the screen now of course 100 survival kit is not going to have all the best quality items
and stuff so i have added some more items and some better quality items into the bag in this
bag is going to be a bunch of survival items some shelter a bunch of food ways to cook that food and
things like that but at the same time you're going to remember this is getting buried in the ground
so you want to think about items that are going to work to help you get to safety but you don't
want to bury a ton of money in the ground and just leave it so these are lower cost items but i still
think they're going to do the job for getting me to where i need to go the other thing that i'm
going to have in here is a chest rig fully loaded with magazines tourniquet knife glow sticks uh
first aid kits uh flex cuffs pistol mags um fully loaded kit like i said same concept as the bag
i don't have to worry about trying to transport a bunch of boxes of ammo everything's right here in
this chest rig all i gotta do is pull it out of the kit throw it on my chest and i'm good to go
everything that i have in this cash is gonna be easily just thrown up on my body and i can get
out of dodge very easily without having to worry about how am i going to carry all this stuff
then also in the bottom of the container i'm just going to stuff a bunch of water bottles now i do
have ways to carry those i can shove them into the bottle holders on the side of the backpack
most likely i'm going to be with my family so some of them can grab some water bottles and stuff like
that the reason i don't have them in the bag is because it just made the bag too bulky to fit
down into my container so i'm just going to shove them down at the bottom they should be just fine
i'm going to have everything wrapped in a contractor bag so i don't have to worry about
any of it really getting damaged and being buried in the ground i'm not
too worried about that water freezing or anything like that either over time
all right guys now the last thing that i'm going to throw in this bag is something that a lot of
you guys may or may not be willing to do of course all the things i'm putting in this kit is for
me personally these are items that i want that i think i need obviously your kit could be different
if you have better ideas or other ideas please let us know in the comments below so the final item
an ar-15 as you can see we have vacuum sealed it this is an ar-15 pistol
so it fit nicely once it was disassembled now that is a very low-cost very bare-bones firearm
that i built specifically for this purpose i know that's going to be a little controversial
but i got it in there it's what i think i need i'm willing to do it because it was pretty low cost
so there we go and of course along with that because i want to be able to throw everything
on my body and go i'm also going to have a sling in there to carry that so let's get a
hole dug here we'll get this buried in the ground i'll show you exactly how we're going to do that
so
all right guys now as you can see there i didn't go super deep i went just deep enough to cover it
with a couple inches of dirt now even though it is a waterproof seal on that container you could
see i did put some flashing tape around the lid just to be extra sure and then i wrapped
everything in a contractor trash bag and then put another contractor trash bag on top before i back
filled the hole so hopefully this thing will be nice and waterproof a couple things you should
know that i also did you might not have seen i brushed all the pine needles and leaves over
to the side so that i could use them to cover the area back up and hide it when i was done
i also had another contractor bag over here to the side that i was putting all my dirt in
because you are going to have to have somewhere to put all that extra dirt from the hole
so i just put it on a contractor bag and i'm going to take it out of here with me
and just kind of spread it out somewhere else so you don't leave just a mound of bare dirt behind
it you want to do anything you can to hide this so that nobody else is going to find it now just
as an extra measure to help me remember where it is i did put a nice big rock here on top
that's going to protect it but it's also going to help me remember where it is now there are
several rocks like this around in the area so i don't think it's going to look weird i also
covered that with the pine needles and stuff too so it's very well hidden i think you guys probably
can't even tell that anything was disturbed here and hopefully nobody else will either especially
after a month or two all sign of me being out here will be gone but that's it for our survival cache
video guys hopefully this video helped you out if you have any suggestions or anything that i
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