Posted on 12/08/2010 7:33:31 AM PST by Doctor Prepper
1. Guns! Shotgun – most commonly a simple 12-gauge pump (20-gauge if weaker-statured people will be using it.) Pistol – If you live in a state where it’s legal to own/carry a pistol for self defense, then you should be doing it. Battle Rifle – We’re talking those mean, state-of-the art, misnamed “assault” rifles. Mine’s in .223 caliber, and I make no excuses for it. It’s accurate out to long distances, accepts a 30-round magazine, and puts out a high rate of suppressive fire. And make sure you have plenty of ammo. (We’re talking thousands of rounds. No one ever came out of a firefight saying “Darn, I wish I’d had fewer bullets!) 2. Water 3. Heat 4. Food 5. Medical supplies 6. Power and Lights 7. Communications 8. Transportation 9. Entertainment 10. God
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I'm not saying go join in the looting of a grocery store during SHTF chaos. Additionally, if you live in the country this probably won't be an issue. But for those who live in populated areas where your ant farm neighbors know your business, I'm talking about this...
Of course that is assuming the population could still be that civilized.
Ask them why they have insurance then. Survival stuff is just another form of insurance. Pay the premium, and then hope you never have to use it.
And they will be the first to come to you for survival. Decide now whether you will bring them in or shoot them if they persist. ... HINT: integrating them into a community for survival ain’t all bad.
They think its almost cartoonish.
I have read some great books by that guy Cody Lundin. He is really on point and brings a lot of reality to TSHTF scenario. His book When Hell Breaks Loose was great! It really dissauded me out of a lot of bogus nonsense I believed in.
My key now is selling my office building and setting up a home office and virtual office to get out from under the taxes and energy spikes, and allow my business to be more mobile and versatile.
I also am focusing on trying to pare down all expenses to the bare bone.
Question: In an emergency wouldn’t a metal garbage can give you heat with wood and any burnable item....I have 2 burn barrels in my back yard and they last a couple of years with burning..also gives out lots of heat.
My daddy use to call brussel sprouts Rich man’s cabbage, it tastes just like cabbage...Interesting plant to raise...
If you need heat, you probably need it indoors.
For that you need a wood stove set up with an exhaust.
Yes, but only outside. My woodstove is a nice source of regular heat (not just emergency heat). The other aspect is cooking which can be indoor or outdoor.
I’m actually looking for a community to move to where folks are doing something about preparedness, some place rather remote from large metro feral sources. I took up gunsmithing as a hobby not too long ago. I figure it will be a useful trade in my too distant future!
I’d eat your dog, but not mine...
Plastic gas cans (not milk jugs, real gas cans) are best for storage. Metal cans rust on the inside and this rust turns into debris and impurities in the gas... clog up filters.
Gas doesn't keep forever. Old gas does not work as well in mowers or generators or your car, for that matter, so keep an amount on hand, but use it and replace it every 6 months-year.
Again easy to get but mighty expensive.
The cooking tent had a pot belly stove for heat and coleman stove for fixing food....The bed tent had cardboard on the ground and mattress on the cardboard and that was how I spent many a summer.
An outhouse was dug at the farthest end of the the 200 feet frontage...It is surprising on how little you need. The only modern thing we had was that the milkman would pick up our large army surplus water cans twice a week for drinking and cooking....Of course that was only 3 months out of the year...
The large army tents had sides that you rolled up when it was hot and had the sides down when it was cold....
It is surprising how warm one small pot belly stove keeps a tent warm. Both tents had dirt floors..
I don't know if army surplus stores are still around, but after WW2 they were easy to find...
After a couple of years, dad put down a cement slab for the cooking tent...we lived high off the hog then...:O)
I live in an urban area and petrified of what this place will turn in to with the zombies we have.
Kind of a mean thing to say, isn't it?
Would be necessary for defense and if you were hunkered in a dark house.
If guns kill people, then my tax mistakes are the IRS’s fault.
Maybe she meant that you should swap dogs and eat each others' :-) Thit Cho
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