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Six months after the power goes out, the bands that are still operating will be pretty effective. The stupid ones will all be dead. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out how to infiltrate a property, do recon from the woodline, and pull a sniper ambush once the key property defenders are identified and caught in the open.

This particular scenario I have given a great deal of thought to over the past few years. My property is on a ridge with a 355' driveway to a valley and rural road. I have walked my land often and identified the blind zones and early warning points. The author of the letter states 50 to 75 yards. That seems a bit reckless to me. I have purchased one of the following devices and am investigating one that is less lethal. I am curious about your experience and opinion.

For something less lethal I have been looking at a few of the Brite Strike PIISA - Perimeter Infrared Intruder Security Alert System

For lethality it is pretty obvious that the Shotgun Signal Alarm Tripwire Booby Trap will be effective.

I prefer to make reconnaissance of my home an uncomfortable venture. I like both set of devices because they are cheap and I believe effective. I also have other battery operated remote wireless alarms that layer into these devices.

What are you thoughts and suggestions? Thanks.

I think trip wires, flares etc are all great. A few more ideas off the top of my head:

Instead of making the easy route appear too hard for them, make the easy route appear even easier. What you don’t want is an obviously impregnable driveway, so that the enemy could hop the fence and come in from 360* that you cannot guard effectively. So make the ingress appear easy. OTOH, the driveway might appear “too easy,” (suggesting an ambush ahead) so also think of the 2nd and 3rd and 4th easiest infil routes. That’s where you set your dead falls, steel bear traps, pungi pits etc. With shotgun and flare warning devices, etc. Of course, somebody with their leg in a bear trap will do a lot of screaming, so the audible alarm is redundant! Bear traps are pretty cheap, require no electricity etc. Buy them now: they are much more effective than home-made “survival” type snares etc. that you will have to make once the stores are all closed.

There are some fast-growing thorn bushes that are almost as good as triple-rolled concertina, but appear totally natural. You can even take cuttings of thorny “pest plants” that nobody will miss. The thorn hedges can be arranged to channel infiltrators into your kill zones. They won’t know they’re in a kill zone, until they are.

You can even erect a razor-wire fence, and THEN plant the thorny hedge over it. The razor wire won’t even be visible. (A visible security fence can mean, “something valuable over there!” So hide it inside of natural-appearing thorny hedges.) Natural-appearing thorny hedges can be grown in Y-shaped channels, to guide the bad guys right into your traps or ambush zones. Since they appear to be natural growth, nobody will suspect they are being guided into your killing ground.

Old tech can be very effective. Pressure pads under the driveways hooked to a silent alarm are undetectable and can run on just a little solar juice. Anybody driving a vehicle up will announce his coming in advance. You probably already have something for a vehicle alarm. It’s just a question of matching it to solar power. Ditto motion-detectors, but they have a much higher false alarm rate. You don’t want one that will go off for every deer, stray dog and waving tree branch, or you will soon learn to ignore it. A pressure pad will only go off for one thing: a vehicle.

There are tons of more ideas like these, but these came right to my mind.