Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Are you prepared for SHTF scenarios

I will be in charge of the treasury, and will damn well make sure a picture of Candice Swanepoel is on the new currency. Bitch bucks are finally gonna have a hot bitch on them.

Thought he already was. He and SYSOP!

All this talk makes me think. If a person wants to really prepare for an unknown catastropic event, they should probably simulate one, although I doubt most would.

It could be as easy as shutting off thier utilities and motorized equipment for while or loading up their family and driving into the counrty until the vehicle runs out of gas. It doesn't take long before things begin to prioritize themselves.

I have enough to last a winter without utilities.

As with a few others, I'm already "in the hills." And I can tell you this: The topic comes up sometimes about many people saying they'd run for the hills. The typical response from hill people is that it wouldn't be a great idea. We wouldn't want hordes of idiots adding to our local idiots.

Aside from all that, living in the hills, especially in winter, ain't all that easy without utilities. Especially if you're used to suburban living.

So good luck with that plan if that's what it is. If you own a piece of land in the hills already, then by all means, come on up.

I keep a list of people that I know will have food, and are unarmed.

About every 10 years or so, Mother nature does that for us here in Arkansas, with a major ice storm. Longest that I have been without electric is 18 days, and then I bought a generator as my freezers were starting to thaw. miles

That's what those TV prepper's do. Funniest one was when they all got into a raft and then stabbed it with a knife. The dog made it to shore.

SHTF and I'm going to the beach.

I'll be fine.

Just two generations ago, my grandparents, they survived and prospered. Are we so pussified it can't be done again.

My grandmother drove mule teams, a model A across railroad ties laid in the sand dunes for a road and later a Cadillac.

There will always be some that can tough it out.

Kent

reading that story about the guy surviving in the city for 2 years during the Slovenia war was enlightening.

Buy a few cases of liquor to barter, stock up on ammo and have a bunch of medical supplies, soap and cleaning supplies is what I took away from his experience.

Yep, and a skill that puts you in demand making you worth more alive than dead.

The DEA burned a large stash of recently seized mota upwind of my place some time back, inducing a terminal case of the munchies.
I'm glad this thread reminded me to go check my SHTF supplies.
Sure enough, the Miss Debbie Chocolate Cupcake bunker looks like it could stand a re-stock.
Other than that,all is in good order.

GTC

also - live in a burned out shell of a house because if people think you have something to protect, they're going to come after you

+1.




Travis

Praise the Lord and pass the 22-250.

Yep.

If you let people know you have something they might want, don't be surprised when someone comes to try to take it.

That goes double in these SHTF fantasies. I especially love the ones where old, sick, worn-out, or constantly traveling dudes with pretty wives and/or daughters think that they are going to hole up and "defend the Alamo" if SHTF. Yeah, right. You've got something "wanted", and if it's just you, then someone is going to come take it. The ones where they'll have the wife/daughters engaged in daily outside the house chores fetching stuff, or where they'll bundle everything up and set out with them into the wilderness alone is even more hilarious.

It's not so much are you prepared enough, it's are you you mean enough to survive?

I love the "head for the hills" plan.

I've never had easier living than when I lived next to the ocean.

Kent,

I agree knowledge is the most important. I doubt if Arizona could support 1 million people these days, 1/2 million was ok when your grand dad (and mine) were running around.

think about the deer hunting around globe and superior and morenci....when there was a strike. not so good.

the number of people that go hunting now is higher than ever, the gear is better than ever, and a lot of these folks are pretty good hunters.

I'm figuring most game is going to be cleaned out pretty quick.

Sycamore