Posted on 04/14/2015 7:28:54 PM PDT by 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.
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Lots of answers, depending on what you need. There isn't any one right answer.
/johnny
Now you really have me missing Georgia! I could harvest Kudzu root for ever! Of course I have to spend every waking moment eating it and harvesting it, but I would never run out. In fact the danger is if you stand still to long while harvesting you will get smothered to death by the Kudzu as it grows.
In fact in my Prepper’s binder I have a great article on:
HOW TO GROW KUDZU
http://www.walterreeves.com/how-to-archive/how-to-grow-kudzu/
Enjoy!
Just a personal observation, but to me the willingness of Americans to pay to surrender their rights and dignity for the mere convenience of hopping on a plane is proof of the control the Government will have over many in a SHTF event.
Ricin can be manufactured on a farm pretty easily. It’s just castor beans.
It’s more trouble than its worth. As soon as you deploy it, you’ve essentially killed yourself too.
A few years back there was a lady proposing for people to create “hay bale” gardens.
Meaning one lays hay bales on top of the ground, as the boundaries/borders in what ever size desired, filled with potting soil, or dirt, located in a sunny spot, then plant and water as needed. Everyone can have a garden area. GOOD IDEA! It Works.
Heritage seeds are usually available at a local farmers Coop. Which is also important ... good seeds. Of course all that know about it would come to take advantage of it in the time of need. so in time of need it might get you through it or get you killed for it.
Correct. But as a *dead hand* [perimeter] or *dead man's switch* that may be a useful postmortem payback *gotcha* option.
Do not forget the possibility of preparing kudzu jelly from the blossoms during their fairly short blooming session.
If you have a draw leading up to your place, and the wind goes down the draw, then you have a pretty nice booby trap.
Problem is that it doesn’t kill like Chlorine does. It takes too long.
In the end, this is why most biological and chemical weapons work gets abandoned. It’s too difficult to handle in the field, doesn’t kill quick enough, and if you invent something that does, there’s a strong possibility it ends up killing your forces rather than the enemy’s first.
‘Forest fire’ biological weapons require a can’t miss vaccine, plus an antidote. Inoculation let’s the cat out of the bag.
If the elites could manage it, they’d invent a disease that drove people to digging giant holes and throwing yourself into them.
Most of these guys are more than happy to drive their D-8’s around covering the holes back up for you.
Not to worry; they'll also have slave labour companies for that detail. And remember: they wouldn't bother, but for the public health problem that large numbers of dead bodies pose.
In some locales, fewer mouths. MANY fewer mouths.
In other areas, they'll have The Golden Horde
They better have some can’t miss weapons, because the slaves end up being the masters in those situations.
The push here is to get the numbers down. Less people, less problems. Slave labor is a headache. The resources it takes to maintain a single person in captivity is staggering. Eternal vigilance is not practical.
There was an X-files episode where Mulder was infected with a nanobot that thickened the blood in the bloodstream at the touch of a switch. You could thicken or unthicken as you pleased.
THAT’s what you’d need.
Yes. Continuity of Government and Continuity of governmental Operations are the PRIMARY duties of FEMA, NOT Civil Defense of the civil population.
Elections? Surely you're joking.
Actually I would like to know about the other things.
I won’t be able to sleep not knowing:)
Freepmail me if you don’t want to post it.
And for very small game, a pumped air rifle seems like a good thing to have: cheap, quiet, cheap pellets, won't overly damage the meat. And no government records that you have one. Small crossbow also seems like a good idea, for the same reasons.
Better: carved up, sliced thin, and dried for dog food (pre-SHTF dog food will be needed as people food).
THEN the remaining carcass is dumped in the street as a message.
Canned olive oil will last 2-3 years, and contains vitamins E and K. Tuna, sardines, and anchovies packed in olive oil added to the frying pan with other meats would be a good meal.
My daughter and I have spent the last two years stockpiling bands for the rainbow loom, though we’re still pretty thin on easy-bake mixes.
Our nerf dart supply is fair, while our washable markers are plentiful.
She assures me by her next birthday she is confident she’ll no longer need pull-ups at night.
Feeding her “babies” is not an issue since I bought her a bottle that refills whenever it is turned right-side up again.
That's why they keep the salve labour groups down to around 100 or so. A few guards with weapons with 30-round magazines have not a big problem. Particularly given the likelihood of turncoats and informers.
The Russians had no major problems with just such groups of former German soldiers, with two or three guards with bolt-action rifles and a couple more with PPSh submachineguns with 71-round drums. But the prisoners were slowly starving to death, had the attitude of the defeated, and were a long, long way from home. It worked for Ivan, as it had earlier for the SS, and has it has for at least a hundred others, from Zimbabwe to Cuba to Mexico.
Below are links to a 5 book series of a man, a community and a government that deal with the same conditions in a much different way.
This series is one of my favorite - it is a good yarn and chock full of good information and advice presented in narrative form.
My favorite of the series is the first book - "Going Home"
The author is A. American
Going Home: A Novel of Survival (The Survivalist Series)
Surviving Home: A Novel (The Survivalist Series)
Escaping Home: A Novel (The Survivalist Series)
LOL!
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