We’ve already got everything on that list at our house.
Be careful if you’re ordering online though.
Larry the Cable Guy tried to order Guns & Ammo, but ended up getting Nuns in Camo instead.
How ‘bout hoarding some junk silver (pre-64 coinage)?
Hard to buy groceries with Kruggerands and Maple Leafs, IMO.
7. Communications
This is a weak spot for me. I do have a land-line phone that ties into a fiber optic cable a mile or so away. Not sure how reliable that is.
What I would really like to do is get an HF HAM rig set up.
Night vision gear could be very helpful
I had a SKS, a .38 Taurus, and a .22 rifle for food.
But all those gun and their ammo fell in a lake during a canoe accident.
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1. Guns!
We have two adults and a 15 y/o teen here and all are armed and well versed in the use of firearms. Everyone has a rifle for hunting and a pistol for...other purposes.
Need to get a shotgun though.
We’re talking thousands of rounds. No one ever came out of a firefight saying “Darn, I wish I’d had fewer bullets!If it comes to a firefight with my .223 and I do my job right with the first hundred rounds, there will be plenty of surplus ordinance laying around. If I don't do my job right, it won't matter.
#4 buckshot for the shotgun.
Thanks for the list.
I’m thinking about buying one of the semi silenced break action/high power air rifle for killing the local critters for food versus the 22 rifle. We have a combo 22/22 mag pistol. Without a sight, I’m accurate up to 30-35 yards. With the sight up to 50 yards. A friend has one the Gamos 22 caliber pellet guns, and it is deadly on small game up to 100 yards. You hear the noise but the critters you are aiming at don’t. I will probably get with the laser and night lights as well as telescopic lights.
We have our shotguns, and I may get a lighter 20 gauge for my wife.
I got to get a couple of smaller solar panels to charge our marine 12 volt batteries for emergencies.
Combo water/germ killing filters are great.
I have a .30 carbine, an M1 will that do?
Not very helpful. How far you going to get in your SUV or run your genny after an EMP blast takes out the internet and phone lines needed to run the gas pumps, not to mention get tankers to refill the tanks that will be emptied in a day or two? Communications? CB/FRS is a joke and the cell phone network will be the first thing to go. A bicycle would be far more practical, as would getting a ham radio license and battery/solar power supply that would be capable of communication over essentially unlimited distance. But you’d better not count on communications getting you out of trouble if you have a “medical emergency”. Medical training and suppliers would serve better.
Most anyone who doesn’t have chronic medical conditions that require electricity or other special needs can make it thru a 3 day event without any of this preparation. It’s the longer term that will be problematic. And an EMP attack would take us back to the mid-19th century in a few milliseconds.
Might be best to just save your money and let #10 take care of things.
I’m good except for a generator.
Looking for a diesel that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.
Move God to number one if he’s going to be on the list at all.
One correction I would make to your list. Put God FIRST.
What about gas and oil?
I want to store gasoline. Metal or plastic cans make a difference? Also, is an insulated garage an ok place for it?
if God is to be on that list, He should be the lead-off, not #10 IMHO...
around here, He isnt on the list, He MADE the list...8^}