*CLICK* Nope. *CLICK* Nope. *CLICK* Aaaahhhhhh........They want HOW MUCH????? Fuggetaboutit. I live 40 minutes from Fort Benning. I got more square footage of surplus stores to dig through than Henry Waxman has nasal passages to pick. 
Posted on 03/24/2010 4:12:18 PM PDT by Noumenon
http://www.hoodswoods.net/IVB/
http://glocktalk.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=151
There’s gobs of others, but these two are my favorites.
Don’t take martial arts.
I’ve been in the martial arts for over twenty years and can tell you, take a self defense course. There is a huge difference.
I ran my own school for 12 years. A quality self defence class is faster and more of what you are looking for.
After the course...practice
Agreed. This system is designed to get me out of this urban area back to our neck of the woods - just as you’ve described. And my E&E routes are planned accordingly. It won’t go well for those who suddenly wake up to a very harsh reality.
No class III, but living in the mountains there’s only one road from town up to us. That could easily be blocked... heck the highway department did it once miscalculating the amount of explosives needed to modify a rockface at one curve.
Add a Poncho and extra socks.
Also, what do you intend to barter with when you get to day 7?
“I don’t understand where all this mobility is taking you in the SHTF scenario. Off into the woods, then what?”
Scattered throughout the description of the physical contents is the other 99% of his survival PLAN. Routes. Communications. Destination. Friends.
All are important and need to be PLANNED in advance of any one of several events where they would be needed such as unrest, earthquakes, massive fires, hurricanes, etc.
The guy who taught us for 5 years + is ex-SOG. Very nasty, fight-to-win kind of guy.
*CLICK* Nope. *CLICK* Nope. *CLICK* Aaaahhhhhh........They want HOW MUCH????? Fuggetaboutit. I live 40 minutes from Fort Benning. I got more square footage of surplus stores to dig through than Henry Waxman has nasal passages to pick.
It’ll only take me 3 to 5 days to get home. There are folks along the way who won’t find me unwelcome.
Here in the midwest we've made some different choices but that's to be expected. The gear however doesn't really differ all that much.
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A friend of mine (suburbs of Atlanta) had kinda decided to drill a water well to aid in his family’s survival when TSHTF.
I asked him “how will you draw water when the electricity goes out?
How will you get fuel for your generator?
How will you defend your home and your generator and your fuel supply from the marauders and barbarians that are 72 - 120 hours away?”
He clearly had not thought out the reality of the dark future.
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Sounds great!
Correct. I won’t presume to lay out a plan for anyone, and I won’t discuss mine in detail. That’s an individual decision in any case. And no two will be alike.
Yep. There are some basic principles here. You know how that tune goes.
Most folks won’t test their stuff. Or their plans.
Bad planning, that.
I need one of those!
Survival ping.
Got my Combloc surplus gasmasks for 2 for $15.00. they’re actually pretty darned good. Tested them, too. One thing’s for sure, you won’t be doing quarter mile sprints in ‘em.
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