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Prepping for Doomsday
Cal Sportsman ^ | 10/30/2015 | C Cocoles

Posted on 10/30/2015 8:15:52 AM PDT by w1n1

Scott Hunt has no interest in building a bomb out of a paper clip, but as a survivalist prepper, Hunt savors the idea of being somewhat of a MacGyver-type. Thats what I do, says Hunt a professional prepper who is a mentor to the survivalists preparing for the worst on the National Geographic Channel series, Doomsday Preppers.

Hunt is among the growing number of Americans who want to thrive when the unexpected happens. We've seen recent natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast, Super Storm Sandy along the Atlantic Seaboard and devastating tornadoes throughout the Central Plains. What happens when you could possibly lose everything, and individually that could be a job, a family member or your life savings?

That's where Hunt's company he started three years ago, Practical Preppers, hopes to get people started on having a plan in place in the event of a calamity like, and Alaskans know these are very possible,earth quakes or fires. Many of his how-to videos available on his website or YouTube channel (youtube.com/user/engineer775) show him working with enough gadgets to keep James Bond comfortable if one of the villains he's battling actually does succeed with world destruction. Read the rest of the story here.


TOPICS: Outdoors; Society
KEYWORDS: doomsday; prepping; shtf; survivalist
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1 posted on 10/30/2015 8:15:52 AM PDT by w1n1
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2 posted on 10/30/2015 8:17:14 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Kartographer

Ping.


3 posted on 10/30/2015 8:18:10 AM PDT by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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Ping.


4 posted on 10/30/2015 8:18:33 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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5 posted on 10/30/2015 8:23:47 AM PDT by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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Obama’s last year as President(maybe) will be very close to Doomsday


6 posted on 10/30/2015 8:27:06 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: TADSLOS; DuncanWaring; appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...

Preppers’ PING!!

Hat tip to TADSLOS and DuncanWaring for the heads up.

I hate the term Doomsday! I know I don’t prep for Doomsday, but there are plenty of things to prep for that are much farther down the list. We get so many anti-preppers on these threads declaring it isn’t going to happen, because it never has or it only happens in third world countries. Well unfortunately I believe we are watch a slow motion SHTF even right now though many don’t see it. 1st World western Europe is being invaded as I write this and sooner or later there will be carnage in the streets there that hasn’t been seen since WW II.


7 posted on 10/30/2015 9:25:27 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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It seems that no one mentions a pair of reading glasses and a Bible.


8 posted on 10/30/2015 9:32:24 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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Wait. I thought Doomsday was when Donald Trump got elected?


9 posted on 10/30/2015 9:34:14 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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"Wait. I thought Doomsday was when Donald Trump got elected?"

Now you done it Laz! I will have to light a candle for you!

10 posted on 10/30/2015 9:37:33 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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I was never convinced that submission in all cases is a good thing.

There are always exceptions where the passive act of submission is a long-term mistake that probably cannot be rectified........ever..

It does not matter much as to how you express passivity, be it a Bible or the campfire song kumbaya, the end result is submission.


11 posted on 10/30/2015 9:39:09 AM PDT by Cold Heat
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We get so many anti-preppers on these threads declaring it isnt going to happen, because it never has or it only happens in third world countries.

Well, unfortunately I believe we are watching a slow-motion SHTF even right now though many dont see it.

1st World western Europe is being invaded as I write this and sooner or later there will be carnage in the streets there that hasnt been seen since WW II.


12 posted on 10/30/2015 9:40:18 AM PDT by Old Sarge
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MacGyver-type...

Stopped reading there. Richard Dean Anderson, is a gun grabbing, global climate change, candy bottom Socialist. He should choke to death in a tidal pool filled with crude oil from the Exxon Valdez.

13 posted on 10/30/2015 9:42:57 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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You gotta come up with something new brah.


14 posted on 10/30/2015 9:52:45 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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MacGyver-type...

Stopped reading there.

Makes no sense. The MacGuyver character is not RD Anderson. Are you against Reagan because some Hollywood lefty played him?

15 posted on 10/30/2015 9:55:52 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
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To: Cold Heat

the end result is submission.

Submission to God not man.


16 posted on 10/30/2015 9:56:29 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: higgmeister
Stopped reading there. Richard Dean Anderson, is a gun grabbing, global climate change, candy bottom Socialist. He should choke to death in a tidal pool filled with crude oil from the Exxon Valdez.

The author is using "MacGyver" as an example in the opening of the article. Scott Hunt is hardly a gun grabber. You should check out his YouTube videos. I have been following him for years.

Practical Preppers

Scott Hunt is the real deal. Sad you closed your mind before getting to the story about Mr. Hunt.
17 posted on 10/30/2015 9:57:35 AM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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Prepping doesn’t have to be just about a least likely sudden zombie apocalypse made for the movies. Just ask any hurricane/tornado/earthquake survivor. Prepping is a state of mind taken into action. You are either prepared at some level or you aren’t. It’s the totally unprepared and clueless who peak out the bell curve of victims and/or the looting horde (see Katrina).


18 posted on 10/30/2015 10:07:04 AM PDT by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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I believe we are watch a slow motion SHTF even right now though many don’t see it.

The water is going round and round, and it picks up speed once it gets toward the bottom of the drain. Especially if the handle gets cranked on again.

19 posted on 10/30/2015 10:21:36 AM PDT by archy
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I was never convinced that submission in all cases is a good thing.

Yes it is. Now get back in the cattle car; there'll be a nice hot shower waiting for you when you arrive at the relocation camp.

20 posted on 10/30/2015 10:23:08 AM PDT by archy
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