12 Bad Strategies That Will Get Preppers Killed

The Organic Prepper ^ | 4/11/15 | Daisy Luther

[Kartographer]

Bad Strategy #1: “I’ll just hunt and live off the land.”
Bad Strategy #2: “I’ll go into the woods and live there.”
Bad Strategy #3: “I’ll bug out on foot for 73 miles through the mountains, even though I don’t regularly exercise.”
Bad Strategy #4: “I don’t need a group. I’m going to go it alone.”
Bad Strategy #5: “I don’t need to store food, I’ll just take everyone else’s because I’m a bad-ass.”
Bad Strategy #5: “I don’t need to store food, I’ll just take everyone else’s because I’m a bad-ass.”
Bad Strategy #7: “I don’t store food. I store seeds.”
Bad Strategy #8: “I’ll just run a generator and continue on like nothing ever happened.”
Bad Strategy #9: “I’ll just use my fireplace for cooking and heating.”
Bad Strategy #10: “I’m going to hunker down in the city and scavenge what I need.”
Bad Strategy #11: “I’ve got my supplies, and now I don’t need to think about gloom and doom.”
Bad Strategy #12: We’ll set up a perimeter and shoot anyone who breaches it.

[Kartographer]

Let's talk a bit about:
Bad Strategy #5: “I don’t need to store food, I’ll just take everyone else’s because I’m a bad-ass.”
Anyone who has kept up this thread knows that there is occasionally some joke posting about how this is their strategy. Yes most of the time when pressed they well claim it is a joke or that we are too serious, but lets say the SHTF and you have a neighbor or acquaintance that has made such a claim, now maybe they are a blow hard or a big talker, but now would you trust them if the balloon has gone up? I wouldn't! They would be the among the last types I would have anything to do with and would be the first I would take action against if they did the least thing suspicious or in the least bit threatening.
Yes in all likehood its just talk, but during SHTF will you put you and your family a risk on the chance it is just talk?
Two of my very favorite quotes come in to play here the first quote from one of my favorite westerns ’Open Range’: “Most times a man will tell you his bad intentions if you listen, let yourself hear.” I’ve ‘heard’ their intentions and they aren’t good.

The second one is from the TV Show Deep Space Nine:
"Let me tell you something about humans, nephew: They're a wonderful, friendly people - as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working."
"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty Klingon."Quark from: The Siege of AR-558

The person has shown you what kind of thoughts their mind will quickly turn too under pressure, so you must consider yourself warned.

[Kartographer]

Preppers PING!!

[Star Traveler]

Oh! Wrong thread! I thought it said ... Orgasmic Prepper ... LOL ...

[MNDude]

13. Advertising to the world you are a prepper.

[JRandomFreeper]

Who wants to live like a coward? Skulking about and all of that?

/johnny

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Not if I kill you first! ;)

[PAR35]

Obviously, we aren’t cleared to hear Number 6.

[JRandomFreeper]

I have to wonder how many actually have the skill sets to live like it was the mid 1800s? And have actually practised being a mountain man over years?

/johnny

[MarkRegal05]

Stole my answer!

I don’t want grasshoppers thinking, “well, I’ll go to Mark’s house when things go downhill.”

[publius911]

Bookmark

[ez]

Well, there will be a lot of hungry people coming out of the cities so I expect cannibalism to read it’s ugly head. Don’t get caught alone in the open unless you want to become dinner.
Organize in groups, pool your resources, and fight to the death.

[PCPOET7]

I have determined if shit hits the fan I am good for about 3 months but after that I am in trouble . I just don’t have the skill set to make it in a mad max world or a zombie apocalypse.

[MediaMole]

My personal one would be, “I can survive without a community of other people.”

You can have a ton of food, but if someone needs a leg fracture set or a tooth pulled, or the truck won’t shift out of 4x4 low, you need skills. For that matter, you need to sleep and it really helps to have someone you can trust watching your back.

[MNDude]

I’m sure the government will try to share the wealth.

[cripplecreek]

That’s the nice thing about my tiny town. Its more than 10 miles off the interstate and people just a few miles away don’t seem to know we’re here.

[CPT Clay]

Love it, thankd for the ping.

[JRandomFreeper]

Yep. I've got the skill sets and lots of gear, but who knows if I'll even wake up tomorrow. That's why my #1 prep is getting right with Him.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

Very true. Everybody needs somebody sometimes. That should be a song or something. ;)

/johnny

[rabidralph]

All of you who thought the Amish were weird for living without electricity. Bwahhhhhh!!!!

[JRandomFreeper]

Heck, I just got running hot water this year. I've done without for 10 years or so. ;)

I do like 'lektrikity though. Enough to be able to make it if push comes to shove.

/johnny