Posted on 03/28/2013 10:24:08 AM PDT by blam
I’m not all too sure about SHTF Prepper stuff. Some of it seems good to have. Other aspects of the labored preparation and scenario reduction seem strained or just too optimistic. The more elaborate the preparation, it seems to me, the more ways all that can go wrong.
I only know this. If the SHTF does happen, preppers and reasonably prudent people had better damned well be armed in the first place, and damned well better be able to use deadly force in the first instance of trouble. IOW, if you don’t know it, kill it - quickly.
I think a regime of quiet preparation, no advertising, heavily armed and stocked on essentials coupled with a deadly attitude towards intruders or happenstancers would be the order of the day.
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Prepping & survival is more about gardening and canning than it is about guns and ammo.
So this is the guy I have been cleaning up after. I can’t measure the broken beer bottles & cans I have cleaned up at informal shooting locations in the woods.
Bingo. All the prep in the world does you no good if it's destroyed, or if you're forced away from it.
I'm ready for the "most likely disaster where I stay put" - in my case, a weather event - and I've also given some thought to a backup plan if something really awful like the author experienced happens.
Because Mr. SHTF doesn't care about what you've prepped for, or your good intentions, or even if you have a stomach bug that day. It's cliche, but your best prep happens between your ears.
“Prepping & survival is more about gardening and canning than it is about guns and ammo.”
Not if you have to deal with TWD (the walking dead)..
“Get good at suffering while still being able to work towards a goal.”
Too many of our fellow citizens, even those that are not 47%ers, cannot do either. Most of the rest of us can do at least one of those.
TWD, or EBT?
Not if you have to deal with TWD (the walking dead)..
PSALM 91
It’s all in the mind set. Keeping a clear mind and knowing that the job must be done will get you through a lot.
So blam, what’s going to happen to the Obama Phone Lady with the SHTF?
This is a very interesting glimpse of what life could be like when SHTF. If SHTF. One tip that I am going to follow up on is to order some disposable lighters. Only about $13 for 50 on eBay. And of course, I need more food.
Could she end up in someones stew pot?
Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be broken....
If the lighters are for you skip them and get a magnesium fire starting block. Much better as long as you are not to cold to use it as it is lite with a flint strip on the side.
“Training is the key...”
Where the heck you get the bullets to train with?!?
I have a gross of those stored in the refigerator I have in the shed.(Bought at Sam's)
I also have the fire starting sticks too.
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