Posted on 03/01/2012 10:29:42 AM PST by blam
And my dad knows how to make improvised landmines and all sorts of other fun obstacles that funnel you right toward the barrels......of high powered rifles.
The "SAS Survival Handbook" has some good deadfall depictions. There's also a few good things in "The Poor Man's Munitions Handbook."
A wrist rocket type slingshot is pretty good also. With shot it is very accurate and absolutely lethal. When you run out of shot - rocks work pretty well, and you may well NEVER run out of rocks (although your rubber bands will eventually fray - especially if you leave it out in the sun).
Good for taking out guard dogs and sentries silently - also for small game.
Or just pissing them off..........
He fell like a deflated balloon, and blood came running out his nose.
A lead shot would have been more accurate and more effective.
If you don't think a rock or lead shot fired from a sling is dangerous - you should speak with Goliath - or the Rhodians.
I never said I didn’t think a wrist rocket wasn’t deadly....in practiced hands.
Well there might well be plenty of time for practice - and plenty of rock ‘ammunition’ to practice with.
I know at 17 I was a pretty good shot with that thing - and it was absolutely LETHAL. I also had a compound bow and was well practiced with it also - ever hear a deer scream when hit with an arrow?
An arrow to the head may or may not kill and silence your foe, and if it doesn’t kill - they will be quite loud about getting hit with an arrow.
A high velocity rock to the head, I think, would be more likely to silently fell your foe.
Mileage may vary.
Where I live there is a whole lot of space without a whole lot of people. Our place is just under 500 acres. Over 2000 acres just north of me is completely vacant and overgrown with brush. East of me is about 1500 acres only two people there. South of me is a piece about 360 acres open land maybe 4-5 people. West of me a piece about 200 acres, 1 person there.
The only people close to me are 4 houses on the road in, and each is sitting on over 15 acres. They all have a few cows.
Meat for the table is the least of my worries.
My sister has cows on our property. About 150 head cows and calves together.
I've heard rabbits scream..after shooting them with a shotgun though........Very scary the first time I heard it. I was 10 or a 11....
I've a wrist rocket...and don't shoot it as much as I'd like. Fun to shoot though!!
I bow hunt every year...as well as black powder and rifle. I like to get out and hunt....whether or not I shoot something. Had some good encounters this last season....but never could get it done for the buck I was "looking for in my mind".
Best to you....
See #167
My closest neighbor lives about a mile away as the crow flies.
There’s less than 25 people in a 2 mile circle around me. Maybe 100 in a 5 mile circle.
Be a long time before anyone gets down to where I am.
“Big Rock Candy Mountain - Burl Ives:”
I remember the song. I had the 45 and played it a million times along with the Barry Sadler’s “Green Berets”.
Here’s back at you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y5GDvN9_OE
Nuh Uh! ;o)
Can the snipers be prepared 24/7?
One or two ‘snipers’ are not going to be able to protect a farm 24/7 and at the same time maintain all the stuff that needs to be done to survive.
Uh huh.
I live alone and unarmed in a condo. If a “full-blown collapse” of civilization occurs, a lack of food won’t be what kills me. It will be murdering hooligans roving in marauding packs. They would loot my place and kill me or leave me for dead.
I've heard that from old folks down here in the South all my life.
FReeper The Duke has started a prepper group in the Tampa area. He may offer some insight on how to meet like minded people in your area.
Here is a link to his blog.
Sounds like easy pickins to me
I know you are, but what am I?
All kidding aside: this thread has gone seriously off the rails. There's not going to be any Mad Max apocalypse.
Look to Argentina for our future.
I'll be helping my neighbors feed their kids, and help defend them from predators....
Try it and find out how easy the pickings are.
I think you’re kinda missing the point. One or two people cannot provide adequate security over an extended period of time. Dogs or no dogs.
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