Posted on 04/13/2016 6:36:33 AM PDT by w1n1
The main reason the survival movement has further adopted the moniker "prepper" is to promote the whole idea of planning in advance for any SHTF that might happen. Now, to be clear, some survivalists are not preppers and some preppers are not survivalists. It is the perfect storm for semantics. My daughter would reply the ubiquitous "whatever."
Whichever you are, the day will come when some event will cause you a whole series of inconvenient circumstances from catastrophic events like a hurricane or a tornado that might actually destroy your domicile or, at the very least, cause you to have to evacuate for a time, maybe forever. Are you ready for that?
Whatever your personal stance, politics, or survival orientation, the bottom line is to be well armed and well prepared. Otherwise, you will be dependent on somebody else to help you evacuate (remember the Government busses in New Orleans that never showed up?), or somebody else to feed you. Worse yet, you and your family may be the ones victimized by outsiders that come down your street to take your stuff. It could even be the neighbors you don't even know. Read the rest of the story.
So I’m not subject to panic or hesitation. I have no doubt, if push came shove and I had to make someone eat a few rounds in order to protect my family (or food supply in SHTF), I would do so without hesitating and would do so pretty clinically.
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Somewhere in the archives here is a too-long-to-retell story about being home with my young niece after the death of my brother.
The general outline was a reasonable suspicion that the two men who drove up were violent. One disappeared out of sight, the other on the porch turning the door handle in attempt to get in the house.
My mind was sharp and I was in a state of strange calm. I had a loaded gun and knew that without hesitation, I would kill that person if he broke the door down.
In retrospect, if I had been forced to kill him, I’m pretty sure I would have been plenty sick afterward. Still, it’s a good thing to know I would not freeze or fall into a blind panic during an active threat.
> I have read many times that the universal response to killing a human for the first time is to get nauseated and vomit. Apparently it is common in battle.
> And if you don’t do that, you might be a sociopath.
I guess that makes me a sociopath.
When several dozen VC are running straight at you, there is no time for the pleasantries of puking like a girly-man. You just kill the first one and go on to the next.
LOL.
I recently got a load-bearing MOLLE vest (in multicam, of course) and Nalgene water bottle with fitting multicam water bottle carrier, all the appropriate MOLLE pouches & such.
One thing people should at least consider for when things get chaotic & woolly is plates & a plate-carrier. Although I did hear of a newer development coming, metal foam armor.
I have a categorized Excel spreadsheet of stuff to get over time, ranging from rail protectors to bipods & STS scopes. Every ONCE in a while, something gives me pause or makes me change my plans. I have links to the items, and calculations as to how much per month I can allocate for each.
I have an emphasis on being able to utilize COMMON ammo (9mm, 357&38, 40 S&W, 45 ACP, 12ga, 308&762x51, 7.62x39 & of course 5.56x45)
Where possible I prefer to have weapons that use same caliber (e.g. pistol carbines in 9mm & a Glock 17) & even more so same mags (e.g. Beretta 95FS and the right version of Keltec Sub 2000 carbine). Also, having the capability for a weapon to either be modified to use a different caliber (e.g. my 22LR kit for the AR15) or use more than one ammo: S&W Model 686 using .357 & .38, a S&W Governor using 45ACP, 45Colt & .410 shells.
Another point being, I consider that I have a household of 6 individuals, so I tend to do things in 3’s, like 3 AK47s. Planning to get a 3rd weapon in .308. Have an FNH SCAR and a DPMS LR-308. The third .308 will round this out as a bolt-action Remington 700 sps aac-sd tactical.
Its always humbling to find out that there is always something I’ve missed or overlooked. Even with plants, as focused as I am on perennials, I find there is usually something I’ve missed. (for example, recent discovery of marsh marigolds)
He grabbed his Winchester M2 and ran towards the Montagnards in the treeline. When they ran out of arrows, they told him: Shoot that one, and that one!
Well, he did shoot them, and wishes he could do it again, even today. He was rescued a couple of days later. Never flew again. Owns an RV and goes everywhere nowadays.
I have his pre-86 amnesty registered M2 .30cal. and will NEVER sell or give that up. Proven commie killer that one day, may be needed to kill tyrants, terrorist, criminals and commies here (but I repeat myself).
We don’t have plates, per se, but we do each have a set of Level II soft body armor.
Got ours from bulletproofme.com. Products are as advertised and on time.
Good luck.
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I'm hoping to run across a Rem 7615 in .308 (uses AR-10 mags).
I have come close to having to kill a goblin. It happened many years ago at an ATM on a brilliantly sunny Sunday afternoon in June. My young son was in his car seat jabbering and the young male goblin came off the main street in a long trench coat on a really hot day red alert#1, turned toward my truck without breaking eye contact with truck, red alert#2, kept one hand reaching inside his coat not revealing it, he was holding something, red alert#3.
I had already started my transaction with the ATM and reached into my glove box and pulled out my 9X18 Makarov and as I leaned back across the truck brought it up and visibly dropped the safety to the goblin, unbuckled my seat belt and was about to verbally challenge the closing goblin. He suddenly stopped dead in his tracks and didn’t move, eyes now down to the ground. About that time the machine spit my money and card out and I snatched them and floored it. Did I want to shoot, no, but had he continued closing I would have engaged him and was within seconds of doing so to protect my son.
Did not know about .308, thought it was .223 only? Armalite pattern magazines or DPMS pattern? The .223 at least uses M-16 stuff for universal compatibility. The magazine thing always ticks me about the .308 platform. I went DPMS.
It depends on the threat, no? I think you’d see some parents do some pretty violent things to someone who threatens the lives of their children. I doubt those parents think of that as bravado.
You’d also likely be surprised at the number of husbands who would open a can of major whoop-ass on anyone who threatened their wives.
In a nutshell, people will often do “the ultimate” to protect their loved ones. And, when you get right down to it, isn’t that what a SHTF scenario is?
Don’t sell your fellow Americans short. Many will fight if it comes to that.
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