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1 posted on 03/28/2013 10:24:09 AM PDT by blam
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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.


2 posted on 03/28/2013 10:32:15 AM PDT by Gaffer
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Very great percentage of shooting is done without aiming, just spraying bullets.

ok

3 posted on 03/28/2013 10:34:10 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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Prepping & survival is more about gardening and canning than it is about guns and ammo.


4 posted on 03/28/2013 10:38:35 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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6 posted on 03/28/2013 10:42:23 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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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.


7 posted on 03/28/2013 10:47:40 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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“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.


10 posted on 03/28/2013 10:54:08 AM PDT by L,TOWM (No one in the US is free of the spirit of entitlement)
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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.


13 posted on 03/28/2013 10:58:31 AM PDT by bgill
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So blam, what’s going to happen to the Obama Phone Lady with the SHTF?


14 posted on 03/28/2013 11:06:29 AM PDT by MNDude (I survived the sequester!)
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“Training is the key...”

Where the heck you get the bullets to train with?!?


19 posted on 03/28/2013 11:37:00 AM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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I don’t have time to read the whole article. What does SHTF
stand for?


26 posted on 03/28/2013 11:57:19 AM PDT by murron (Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
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Sooooo much people can buy now to prep both for long term hunker down and for being on the move. Look on amazon for instance, they sell medical “backpacks” akin to what field medics take with them on patrol (minus the pain killers) for a very reasonable price. I picked one up along with a staple gun for quick suture.
As someone else said, butt load of bic lighters. Why waste energy and time when you can have something so small at the ready? Lots of ammo but a good portion “ready to go”, i.e., get on the move with you..Pre-staging in case you have to bug out or knowing how to read the times and fortfying if you have to. Purchasing anti-biotics now (even if it’s from the local fish shop). Dried foods, compound bows. Shoe laces, aspirin...things that you will need for a year or so if you are on the move.


30 posted on 03/28/2013 12:35:52 PM PDT by Michael Barnes (Obamaa+ Downgrade)
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Excellent article from a guy that has the T-shirt.


31 posted on 03/28/2013 1:03:44 PM PDT by upchuck (Free Republic: faster than a speeding bullet!)
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