Posted on 03/01/2012 10:29:42 AM PST by blam
From all the silly posts that appear here on the subject.
All the game will be gone real quick.
Your meat will come from what you can raise yourself or trade for.
I was being sarcastic, Bryan.
It’s pretty boneheaded to think somebody spends all their resources to buy a house without ever considering what they need to finish and maintain it.
Sorry.
Nevertheless, your post is spot on! The ability to produce necessities apart from modern methods would be absolutely inestimable.
Best advice on the entire thread. The cities aren’t a good place, but a small community might be. You can survive alone if no one finds you, but there is strength in numbers.
Ultimately, though, no one gets out of here alive.
IF the SHTF
1. Any gun is better than no gun as long as you have ammo. (see #2)
2. The 22LR will be the most useful weapon of all. You can buy years worth of ammo now for a small investment. They are accurate, and It will bring down all small game, wild and domestic (there won’t be much big game to bring down after a few weeks). Though they are not the best choice for home defense after the SHTF, the bad guys will have a hard time getting bullets for their guns in a short time, while you have thousands. Nuff said on that. The report does not carry far, giving away your position, and all members of the family can use it. (see #3). Oh, and you can still have your large bore defense weapons if it comes down to “them or you” situations.
3. Children need to learn how to shoot and defend themselves early on.
4. Big cities will become kill zones. Get away from them early.
5. Evil people without any fear of authority or restraint will become more evil.
6. Some medical training and knowledge would be beneficial, even if it’s just first aid.
7. Disease will become a part of life. Keep wounds clean and covered.
8. Learn how the American Indians survived in your area. The plants or roots they ate and used for medicine, how they trapped and cooked fish. Lots of books available now on the subject. Buy them now.
9. And for God’s sake learn how to obtain and sterilize water .
Grrrrrr....Walking Dead....love to hate that show! First, the "women don't need guns because they aren't a trained professional" (Season 1), and the last week's episode was "we need to be using more knives!"
FACEPALM!
This group literally walks right by military-grade weaponry perfect for zombie defense....Heck, I'd try to outfit my group with suppressed .22's anduse captured liberals as zombie bait.
Good advice.
I learned about aspirin from one of the Doomsday Preppers episodes.
"The father of modern medicine was Hippocrates, who lived sometime between 460 B.C and 377 B.C. Hippocrates was left historical records of pain relief treatments, including the use of powder made from the bark and leaves of the willow tree to help heal headaches, pains and fevers."
I have a willow tree.
The survivors will be the people on the move. Hike the Appalachian Trail for a few months, scoping the food sources. The Zombies won’t go deep into the woods. When the smoke clears, you find a safe place.
I live in a warm climate. The gator population will be a lot smaller.
The cold weather folks will just have to start cutting down trees and scrounging for burnable materials. Doors and furniture would make passable firewood, enough to last at least the first winter. Siphon gas and diesel from abandoned vehicles and gas stations etc.
Reloading components including lead casts for at least 3 calibers, one of which is blackpowder. Making new brass or primers is still beyond current capabilities, but I'm working on it.
Yeah... We've been planning all this for a while now... Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.
The big stuff, for sure. Before long, the pellet rifle will be more valuable than the .243.
ROTFLMAO!
SHTF (((ping)))
I need to buy a few more tins of .177...
I have a single shot break-barrel that shoots at over 1000 fps.
That should do in a squirrel or bunny real good... :)
You're right ...
I have an old Marlin 22lr and two 22lr pistols, but befor I use them I can kill small game with my Pellet rifles. Pellets are cheap and don’t make much noise. Cats taste like rabbits and dogs taste like beef. Yum Yum.
I have an old Marlin 22lr and two 22lr pistols, but befor I use them I can kill small game with my Pellet rifles. Pellets are cheap and don’t make much noise. Cats taste like rabbits and dogs taste like beef. Yum Yum.
LOL! I like the way you think!
Shoot, there’s too many people who think potatoes grow above the ground, like an eggplant. Or that owning a pig means getting free pork and sausage forever, without ever killing the pig. I had someone try to convince me once that gooseberries were poisonous. And another person tried to claim that you can eat any plant in the world “as long as you eat it slowly enough.”
Urbanites will eventually come looking, but I think the herd will be drastically thinned by that point. Unfortunately, it’s the most dangerous ones who will be left.
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