Posted on 08/12/2012 1:24:42 PM PDT by Kartographer
1. Don’t believe every wild conspiracy you read on the internet or receive via forwarded email
2. Firearms and ammo are part of a well thought out survival and preparedness plan but shouldn’t take the top spot
3. Don’t model your, “preps” after those of some person
4. Don’t stash a few #10 cans of Mountain House, buy a Glock and a few boxes of ammo, a bottle of bleach, and call it good.
5. Don’t think that purchasing power equals preparedness.
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Preppers’ PING!!
Bump and thanks!!
(Of course, I get flamed, occasionally, for making some of these points on Prepper threads... ;))
This has turned out to be a great ping for me. Thank you.
Want to trade scars? ;-)
” Want to trade scars? ;-) “
Not a chance - you are the undisputed champ when it comes to flame scars...
(Keep up the good work... ;))
How much and where did you get it? Thanks.
>> 2. Firearms and ammo are part of a well thought out survival and preparedness plan but shouldn’t take the top spot
Of course not!
Firearms and Ammo — two different things, so they take the top TWO spots. :-)
I want one of those. Where did you get it?
I got mine from Amazon with free shipping. You can go under Google shopping search SOG’s F01T-N Tactical Tomahawk, but with shipping Amazon had the best deal I found.
Joe, I'm in NJ as well. Read your page. We have similar views.
Been prepping for a couple of years. I’ve learned a lot from your threads and the people on them and have been upgrading my storage methods. I’m getting ready to retire within a year and have enough provisions to carry my wife, children and grandchildren at least a year. If SHTF doesn’t occur at least I won’t be eating cat food in my retirement.
1. Don’t believe every wild conspiracy you read on the internet or receive via forwarded email
Only the wild conservative conspiracy theories are true. All the liberal ones are lies.
2. Firearms and ammo are part of a well thought out survival and preparedness plan but shouldn’t take the top spot
There’s (1) firearms, (2) ammo, (3) archery equipment, (4) tactical tomahawks, hatchets, and battle axes, (5) tactical knives, (6) quarterstaff, nunchucks, and tactical baton, (7) tactical ballpoint pens, and so many more things to include before you bother with food, water, sanitation, entertainment, communications, light, fuel, and similar trivia.
3. Don’t model your, “preps” after those of some person
But don’t make it up completely from scratch either. I’m modeling mostly after Kartographer - not after the woman from Dilbert.
4. Don’t stash a few #10 cans of Mountain House, buy a Glock and a few boxes of ammo, a bottle of bleach, and call it good.
You at least need trade goods: coffee, cigarettes, alcohol, and napalm.
5. Don’t think that purchasing power equals preparedness.
That’s why in addition to credit cards, my preps include cash, coins, gold, silver, diamonds, cigarettes, and whiskey.
Many manufacturers available and thse get water so hot it is capable of pasteurization. Good for hygene and even disinfecting water in sunny weather.
Nice model. I prefer the wooden handle myself. If the shaft breaks, which CAN happen when bonking the hard head of some commie pig, you can always fashion a new one from good hickory.
I think, (but I’m pretty sure) the tomahawk was an English or Irish import to the country. American nations knew a good thing when they saw it and adopted it as their own.
Now, some one of you who has for real knowledge of the history of this marvelous tool, pleas educate me.
(BTW, a folding entrenching tool is a good stand in any day.)
As for gunz and bulletz. Single shot fold away camping .22 with stinger or hyper velocity rounds. Fit in your pocket. Or, better yet, one of those old over-under 20 gauge/.22 combos. Break down to small carry, can kill birds and beasts, and ammo is cheap and plentiful. Especially in a barter situation.
While we’re on the subject, don’t EVEN forget about peroxide, bandages, quinine pills, iodine pills, and a consideration for any maintenance meds you may be jacked up on.
Much of the need for those meds may go away if you are FORCED onto a more healthy diet.
But think it through, if you are a type 1 diabetic, and you don’t have a supply of insulin, you are pretty royally effed and your days are numbered.
A good med supply kit, sutchers (sp?) sutcher needles, syringes, (yea, a box of diabetic syringes are really useful when you need to administer some emergency antibiotic.)
I could go on and on. Each person’s needs are different. But don’t wait till you are down to your last blood pressure pill to realize that “sh!t, what was I thinking?”
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