Posted on 11/14/2012 4:53:51 PM PST by Kartographer
1. Not Having Enough Water
2. They put too Much Importance on Their Gear
3. They lack the Knowledge it takes to Really Survive
4. The Rice & Beans Mentality
5. Becoming too dependent on your Guns & Ammo
6. Not Understanding that People will become a Threat During a SHTF Crisis
Preppers’ PING!!
People already are a threat and here it is only Wednesday.
I’d say that preppers biggest mistake is in planning to live apart from the community instead of rolling up their sleeves and pitching in to maintain the community.
Where I am at in a rural area, water will never be a problem.
Not sure what they mean by beans and rice mentality but that is two of the things I have just begun to stockpile, along with sugar, salt, spam and a lot of spices.
I like guns and ammo, I have more ammo than I will ever need no matter what. I have no intention of shooting anyone who is not an immediate threat to my life. I do realize that hunting will be a very ineffective way to provide food not very long after a catastrophe.
Actually I don’t foresee any time when food and necessities are completely unobtainable. Just that they may be very expensive and I may not have much of an income.
I just canned 14 more pints of rainbow trout last Saturday. That puts me up to about 30.
I practice regularly with (ie. use) my gear & rotate supplies routinely. Got a fancy fire starter flint and steel? Have you ever tried to use it? Ever fished with that gear? Ever sharpened a knife with the stone? Ever cooked in that pan? Set up that tent in the dark, in a wind? Ever actually dug with that folding shovel? Ever prepared a meal with that big honking ridiculous Rambo survival knife? (ha, now go get a normal sized one before you hurt yourself!) Ever prepared kindling with that hatchet? Do you now have work gloves in your survival kit - 'cause you're going to be using your hands a lot more and getting blisters... etc. etc.
There is a guy down in Alabama, wish I could remember where, but he is totally off the grid. Man, he is so fascinating!
#6 (b) - SHUT UP ABOUT IT
I will now go see article
yep
I'll be addressing that in my Poverty Cooking series chapter 2 that will be posted on the Friday Prepper thread. I was working on that today. ;)
/johnny
8. Leaving a huge paper trail in the form of credit card transactions and the like. If you don't think that big sis is tracking folks that buy MREs by the gross, you are not paranoid enough to be a prepper.
ping
What makes you think that preppers will do that? A television show? Or real-world experience with preppers?
Personally, I've cooked for neighbors when power was out after storms in the neighborhood because I had the equipment and skills, and quite a few of the neighbors are geriatics.
Prepping is about maintaining communities. God calls on us to be of service to others. I can't do that without being prepared, myself.
/johnny
Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
/johnny
6. Not Understanding that People will become a Threat During a SHTF Crisis
Im sure some liberals will be aking this question:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRGd0gD0QNE
Why can’t we be friends?
I seen you ‘round for a long long time
I really ‘membered you when you drink my wine
Why can’t we be friends?
Why can’t we be friends?
I bring my money to the welfare line
I see you standing in it every time
Why can’t we be friends?
The color of your skin don’t matter to me
As long as we can live in harmony
Why can’t we be friends?
I’d kinda like to be the President
so I can show you how your money’s spent
Why can’t we be friends?
Why can’t we be friends?
I know you’re working for the CIA
they wouldn’t have you in the Mafia
Why can’t we be friends?
Why can’t we be friends?
Amen to all of those.
And do all of the above without electricity or electrical light of any kind (candles and lamps OK)
I’ll offer #8.
8. WALK any distance carrying your stuff. and #9
9. Use hand tools for an hour
and geesh ... if you plan to bug out, ...
10. have you EVER packed you vehicle(s) with you stuff?
so when were you going to find out you had three vehicles’ worth of stuff to fit in 1?
and on and on. prepping is NOT just stockpiling.
7. Not having a plan to move away from the house.
Probably Jasper, Alabama.
Anyone buying MREs by the gross is going to die plugged up and miserable. Not very good preps.
In my community, folks come to me for weather questions because they know I'm a ham radio operator. All my neighbors know I can cook for crowds.
How am I supposed to meet my Christian obligation for service by hiding?
/johnny
“7. Voting Democrat (Yes.., they’re out there.)
8. Voting RINO (I’ve made this mistake.)
9. Ignoring your relationship with God. (Father, grant me
strength.)”
#9 should be #1, IMHO........
Chick-Fil-a please.
That would be very unwise for some ne're do well to say.
Never P.O. the cook. It's dangerous.
Everything in a kitchen is hot, heavy, sharp, or potentially poisonous. ;)
As I said, some folks are problems now, they still will be. Same solutions apply in an emergency as in 'normal life'.
/johnny
The need for organization, preferably before the SHTF.
The Team is always superior to the individual.
I don't recommend hiding. But there is no obligation-Christian or otherwise-that we must discuss prepping in mixed company. It gives me the creeps to hear fellows down at Bass Pro Shops talking in front of perfect strangers about how many rounds they have stockpiled or what is in their bugout bags. If anyone asks me, I don't own any firearms and I don't have any idea about prepping.
Mmm only the best. Love that spicy chicken sammitch.
Your post reminded me of the e-book “Lights Out”. Regular guy pulls his neighborhood together after the power goes out indefinitely.
http://www.amazon.com/Lights-Out-David-Crawford/dp/0615427359
Folks don’t realize that true military MREs have very little fibre in them — so the grunt doesn’t have to take a dump at just the wrong time.
My son has come to LOVE meals high in fibre and veggies, as he knows what even a three day FTX can do to your innards.
Ummm. Back when I was married and had kids at home, we'd run through a least 12K rounds a year at the range. Never had an issue with being flagged, even under Clinton.
You do what you are comfortable with. It's important to be able to take care of yourself and your family in a way you think is appropriate.
/johnny
We have the team ID’d.
We have the rally point set.
We’ve set our innocuous code phrase to share via whatever medium is up when one or more of us pop smoke.
Our core isn’t enough to really make it, but it’s a good core for where we’re going. And the folks already there can fill in the gaps. (and vice versa)
I’ll be addressing that in my Poverty Cooking series chapter 2 that will be posted on the Friday Prepper thread.
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If you have a ping list for that, add me, please, if you don’t mind.
/johnny
Indeed. A family a four simply cannot defend in place, stand watch, get chores done and remain sane. It takes a team/community/ cooperating group of folks. A few leaders, enough followers, and a lot of doers.
Think about it, how would a family of four, or five, or six stand up a competent 7 X 365 X 24 X 360 degree watch?
/johnny
“Pilots get ‘low residue meals’ before long flights in small cockpits..”
The title to Chapter 3? Looking forward to Chapter 2!
“I’d say that preppers biggest mistake is in planning to live apart from the community instead of rolling up their sleeves and pitching in to maintain the community.”
I’d say the community will get me killed - due to No. 6.,
“Not Understanding that People will become a Threat During a SHTF Crisis.”
I’m hip. During Sandy, our neighborhood was without power for 8 days. After a few days, our neighbors started coming over in the evenings to sit by our fire to warm up.
We had awesome fireside chats.
They don't fall into the poverty idea, and they are cruel and unusual. ;)
/johnny
Staying tuned ;)
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2nd Rule of Prep Club: You DO NOT talk about Prep Club.
3rd Rule of Prep Club: If someone says “SHTF”, do a shot.
4th Rule of Prep Club: No more than two people to a retreat; one must be a buxom blonde coed for repopulating the human race.
5th Rule of Prep Club: One BOL at a time.
6th Rule of Prep Club: No tie-dye shirts, no socks with sandals.
7th Rule of Prep Club: Prepping will go on as long as it has to.
8th Rule of Prep Club: If this is your first ping to Prep Club, you HAVE to buy all posters a shot.
God....
Is there a way to mute the Prepper Peoople?????
Being unprepared for the fact that people WILL become VERY desperate before YOU run into resource issues WILL get you and your loved ones dead.
This means you MUST have a physical, mental and spiritual plan in place - that you believe in - to handle desperate people, whether they are 7 mos, 7 years, 27 or 70 years old.
AND Never threaten. Only promise.
If the sign says “we hang food thieves and looters” then make it so.
People will quickly fall in line.
You could leave this thread?
What’s YOUR point? (I missed it)
Is there a reason you post on threads you have no interest in, Troll?
I intend to do what I've done in the past, and help folks out as I can.
I'm in a position to do that without much fear, but plenty of awareness.
May get me killed, eventually, anyway, but who wants to live forever? I'd much rather hit the Pearly Gates while in the midst of community service than some things I've done in life. ;)
/johnny
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