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Originally posted by dr_strangecraft
Hunting.
Originally posted by dr_strangecraft
Fishing.
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Firestarting
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Medic.
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Survival food prep
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Survival gardening.
Originally posted by dr_strangecraft
I also am watering from captured rainwater. Thing is, I'm doing it in a record-rainfall year here in Texas, so it hasn't exactly taught me much.
Originally posted by dr_strangecraft
BTW, I'm in the process of getting some chickens, to raise my own eggs and fryers . . . I'll let you know about the survival implications in a future thread.
Originally posted by dr_strangecraft
We need more threads about people investigating survival topics, and less about what people have seen on cable TV.
Originally posted by dr_strangecraft
Why will "most of us" be "heading out into the wild?"
and part being prepared is having that survival equipment ready to go at a monets notice.
There is an incredible amount of survival equipment, ready-made in suburbia.
I dont think anyone is planning on cultivating acres of mountain land.
How many shovels, hoes, and roto-tillers are there, lying around in the woods.
Again, you seem to be applying your situation to all of us. There are areas of the country where people will be scarce. Where my land is (1000 miles away from me, though) most people own a house with a barn and a well on 10 or 15 acres. They don’t plan on buggin out, and no one is buggin in. It is easy to stay away from areas that everyone will be heading to. Take a look at a map, see where the large wilderness areas are around your city, and avoid them like the plague. The idea is to get far away. This aint no camping trip. Most people think of the wilderness that can be found within 1 hours drive of most Western American cities, and this is where your "Rambos" will go.
Oh, and hungry survivalists, with no food but plenty of ammo.
And you know that you cannot burn green wood, right.
Most of the accessible wilderness will be hunted and fished out in a couple of weeks, by all the rambo types.
And what about when our sit. x is plague? Around people is where you don’t want to be. When FEMA comes around to put people in cams, around other people is again where you don’t want to be.
Most importantly, the suburbs have people.
Only when the law is looking. You said in your post that you would loot or protect from looters. Who is going to hire you as protection when you are surrounded by good law abiding folk?
Most of them law-biding.
Nurses, doctors, dentists, pipefitters, scientists, gardeners, and musicians.
No one wants to share their skills with you any real disaster except the cops and maybe a handful of medical professionals. And the milk man wont start making deliveries again either.
All kinds of people, and most of them looking to share their skills with you.
In short, the wilderness will turn a tense situation into a life-threatening one. Why, why, why would you leave all your resources and your social safety network, in the middle of a catastrophe, to go live in the woods.
Originally posted by vox2442
Oh, and talk to the geezers who remember how to do all of this stuff.
Originally posted by D4rk Kn1ght
None of you folks pack a lifestraw in your kit ?
With a 2 litre a day limit, your good for 12 months of filtered water, good down to 2 microns....
Hand held, very light and effective, and unless you know you have beaver fever in your area (1 micron across, defeats the filter), in my humble opinion the best you can get.
Originally posted by vox2442
American beer kegs are stainless steel?
That can`t be right. They`re all aluminium out here. Stainless would weigh a ton.