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.

[BobL]

Good to hear on your radio...I’ve just run into so much junk out there that I question just about anything with moving parts...but come to think of it, didn’t the military use them in the past? And they can have value where batteries may not be practical (such as if you’re on foot) or even available. But for most of us with a stash, batteries are still likely to do very well.

To me the only good option is an extended family. Short of that it’s just different degrees of bad, with a group still being better than alone, but when the pressure is on, it’s very likely people in a group will butt heads - but it still beats trying to protect a house with one or two people when gangs of Amish are roaming LaHood.

[BobL]

Yea, it can be pretty rough, particularly if you plan to set it up after things go south. Forget a shovel, and it’s over. Break a shovel, and it’s over. I can see a lot of people trying and failing.

[MomwithHope]

Ping to myself for reading later. I was planning on a Menards run at 8am.

[Old Sarge]

1st Rule Of Prep Club: you do not talk about Prep Club;

2nd Rule Of Prep Club: you DO NOT talk about Prep Club;

3rd Rule Of Prep Club: Someone says “SHTF”, do a shot;

4th Rule Of Prep Club: No more than two people to a retreat - one must be a buxom blonde co-ed for repopulating the human race;

5th Rule Of Prep Club: No more than one BOL at a time;

6th Rule Of Prep Club: No tie-dye shirts, no Birkenstocks, no drum circles;

7th Rule Of Prep Club: Prepping will go on for as long as it has to;

8th Rule Of Prep Club: If this is your first post at Prep Club, you HAVE to buy all other preppers a shot;

[Mich Patriot]

The road that leads to my property had a sign that said Dead End but it didn’t make any difference. They still drove down it and had to turn around when they got to the dead end.

[eastforker]

Yes, Fish. There is an over abundance of them. Always include fishing line with small hooks and small jigs. Even the tiniest creeks hold chubs and other small but edible fish that can be easily caught.

[Farmer Dean]

I tell my wife,if things get desperate we can always eat our horses.That's after our 2 year supply of food runs out.

[Sir Napsalot]

What I don’t normally see in these threads is this -

Even if you have prepped, have enough supplies for over a year (more than a year), if somebody(or plural) else control your source of water, you pretty much have to include them in your group.

Not very many people have their own well(s).

Even if you have a stream/creek near or on your property, someone else upstream could have done something.

/ok, fire away, where do I get it wrong

[mad_as_he$$]

I am spend a great deal of time in the mountains and am perfectly at home there. Every trip I offer myself a challenge such as primitive fire making, obtaining safe water or avoiding detection by others. I do realize I am the exception.

[Excellence]

Civil War reenactors do.

[jaydee770]

“...Well the idea is you train yourself so you won’t have to do that...”

I guess my point is that as far as I’m concerned, that’s for younger folks than me. I’d like to see some more grandkids, but other than that, I’ve accomplished all the things that are *extremely* important to me in life; maybe more than my share.

And I wouldn’t tolerate the ‘jack-booted-thugs’ either. My only goal then would be to see how many I could tag before they got me. If I just got one of the bastards, I’d die satisfied.

And you are right, our parents & grandparents generations make us all look like pathetic whiners. They were certainly made of heartier stock! But even when they were older, they reached a point where they knew they had done their part and it was time to slow down and let the next generation take over. I’m rapidly approaching that stage and I’ll welcome it.

[JRandomFreeper]

You certainly have a lot of romantic ideas about what is required.

I'll rely on my 2 years of experience, living without running water and without electricity, on the side of a mountain from summer through winter.

Experience beats theorizing any day.

/johnny

[Blogatron]

6. I will barter my wife for goods and services.

[trebb]

13. Advertising to the world you are a prepper.

Only bad if you forget to append "Moon labe" to the end of the notice.....

[JRandomFreeper]

2000 calories is not a subsistance ration

One size does NOT fit all. Every person will have their subsistence ration, and no-one else can tell them what it is. Anyone trying to draw hard and fast rules is just kidding themselves.

/johnny

[stellaluna]

I’m okay for normal emergencies but in a SHTF event most of us are doomed. And people have forgotten that Americans won’t be totally on our own. What are you going to do against 40 Chinese soldiers whom our government invited in.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

:)

At this point, I’m kind of hoping I’m one of the first to go. I’ve had a good life. Not sure I want to lead a hard-scrabble existence after TSHTF! :)

[Ax]

Several of the heart meds are critical and it's really not possible to store them up because of their availability.

I think the time has come for someone (me) to talk to some of my fellow gym rats to talk up organizing some type of militia.

Our community backs up to FL turnpike. I can see bumper-to-bumper traffic just outside my wall and with people getting stuck there for days, scaling our wall and looking for food.

Let's hope the "S" doesn't "HTF" for some time.

[Kartographer]

You must have miss a thread of two on water where to get it and how to treat it. I will make a special effort to alert you to such threads if you wish.

[Resolute Conservative]

The best rule.