Weapons, ammo, fresh water, coffee, all manner of dried and canned foodstuffs>>>>>>>>>>>>
All of that will be stolen along with the god YOU said would be stolen? Why would it be stolen if people would not want it?
Weapons , ammo and gold. And a boat and a chainsaw.
That’s all I would need. Then I can fish, hunt, and forage for the rest , covering the distance to a rural area.
You of lesser survival skills, go ahead and haul all that shit around with you . Good luck. Mobility is your best friend.A sail boat or a horse is your next best friend.
You don't have to worry about my mobility, or my lesser abilities, or those of my neighbors.
We live in the mountains, with forests, rivers and streams on all sides, all of us with clean deep wells. We're not running anywhere, surely not to some damned boat to flee "to the nearest relatively unpopulated place".
We're there already.
But why would a Midas like you need weapons, ammo, food or anything at all? You have piles of gold, apparently, which is "the only currency that will work," as you say.
I guess in our own ways we are both pretty well satisfied with our situations, right? I certainly wish you, your horse, your boat, your chainsaw and your gold all the best.
How long will it take for the fish and game to disappear when you and 1000s of others that didn’t keep anything back, take to the woods? 2-3 days/weeks probably and you’ll mostly be fighting each other along the way. Maybe you can buy safe passage or a hunting spot with your gold? Guns are noisy but maybe you’ll trap? Gotta carry those unless you can make them out of sticks and some wire rope you bring. Not much to trap in most of the country. Trapping is hardly instantaneous. That means staying in one spot for a day or three. Gotta cook fresh game and fish. Hopefully you’re good at making a smokeless fire.
If you kill a deer, how are you going to keep the meat from spoiling? Carrying a freezer with you? 50lbs of salt? There will be a whole lot of deer that will get 5% eaten and the rest goes bad because weapons, ammo, gold, chainsaws and boats don’t preserve meat. Squirrels? Takes a few to make a meal. Rabbits, not as plentiful as they used to be and trapping is best for those.
A sailboat, as in waterworld? Goin to Cuba? Take lots of fresh water or a desalination unit for the trip but there might not be any safe place to take to the shore. Might be a lot of modern day pirates too. A horse? Well that won’t make you stand out at all. That’s a lot of food for someone else to kill over. Chainsaw/fuel/oil? You’d be better off with the a fraction of that weight in freeeze dried food and a good water filter.
Better to find your retreat, get it set up and start living there now. By the time you get to your “rural spot”, fighting off 50 other Rambo types along the way, you might find “it’s a club, and you ain’t in it”.
Ever see the amount of weapons at the average farm or rural estate auction?