u/wasteguy8

I broke open an Estonian chicken curry and rice ration last night for dinner. It was absolutely fantastic. If you haven’t had one yet, I highly recommend you get yourself one.

The Estonian rations are small and straight to the point. There aren’t many frills with them, but they’re always tasty and well balanced.

I used the pack of salty crackers with the pate, and scrounged up an additional pack of salty crackers for the main. Quite a bit of salty crackers, but I digress.

The chocolate cake was really the only downside of this ration. Well, that and the lack of an isotonic beverage. The cakes are dry and tough to get down, but in the field I’d imagine they’d be just fine.

The energy gel was had this morning after my morning coffee had worn off. They certainly provide a boost.

All in all a really good ration. If they added an isotonic beverage, it would’ve been even better.

Decided to use some different components that I had laying around. The main, honey, and black tea is Ukrainian, the white cabbage and corn is Czech, and the salty biscuits are from my recently murdered Romanian rations.

The honey was put on a salty biscuit, and the Ukrainian honey is absolutely fantastic.

The white cabbage and corn was surprisingly good. Those Czechs sure do love their vinegar.

The black tea was black tea, nothing to say about that.

The Ukrainian rice, pork, and vegetables was fantastic as well. Nice and hearty. I used some of the biscuits with this.

I only got 3 hours of sleep last night so I opted to bring a Czech PP-C Supplemental Pack with me to work.

A little bit after my customary medium dunks coffee, I opened this up and had an energy gel. It was orange flavored, and certainly sweet. I definitely felt it doing its job a short while later.

A few hours later I had the dried turkey meat, which was fantastic. The isotonic drink was good as well.

The extra energy gel got me through my drive home. I would definitely recommend these little packs.

I did not have the Grape Sugar, so I can’t comment on that.

Kimber 2k11 Stainless Target

Tonight’s dinner. I didn’t get any pictures of the actual food as my dog decided to go crazy when a neighbors dog ran up on the porch. She knocked over the drink when she hit the table, but alas, we moved on.

Oh well.

During the meal I ditched the Polish biscuits and added some pieces of this Belarusian crisp bread for the meat and buckwheat and then the canned meat.

This was a very good meal. The Polish rations never disappoint.

A few Romanian rations showed up today absolutely murdered.

I’ve now got 3 bags of snacks and drinks.

Decided to try this Czech ration tonight for dinner. It has the usual Czech components. That wooden spoon went right into the trash, because forget that.

The vegetable salad was something else. I’ve never had beets before, and I’m glad to say that I haven’t been missing much. The mix of beets, pumpkin, and peas was alright, but I’ll be fine never having it again.

The beef meat and rice was meh, at best. There wasn’t much flavor and it was pretty dry.

The “dessert” was fine, the same as you’d expect every time you open it up.

The best part of the meal was the chocolate bar and the drink.

I’m glad this is one Czech ration I’ll never have to consume again.

I recently had a package sent to me from Croatia. No big deal, I get one sent from there every other month or so.

Except this time, the package was delivered to somebody else a half hour away. I called the station this morning to inquire about it once I noticed that it had arrived at the wrong station. The person that answered the phone took down my tracking number and came back and said it was just an automated scan, and that it wasn’t there. They then hung up. I called back a few times and the phone just rang.

The package was delivered to somebody else, and they actually signed for it. I called the station a few more times once I saw it was “delivered” but they just let it ring.

My question is, if I go to the station, is there any chance of me getting this rectified or am I shit out of luck?

I’m going to be pouring one out for my potential lost rations.

In my experience, if an item has been in customs for longer than 3 days, they’ve opened it and ransacked it.

I just hope they left my Georgian rations alone.

Kimber 2k11

This is my first and certainly not my last 2011.

The buttery smooth slide has me giddy. Can’t wait to get it out to the range.