Over all these years I never thought I'd have to prep. Now with all this [bleep] going on I made some changes. I am buying extra food, beans, rice, bacon and dried potatoes. Not a lot, a couple weeks worth. I made sure my propane tanks are full and bought an extra one. For my camp stove. Things like that.

But because of this spreading violence I now always carry my Glock 26 with the 17 round back up mag. I have two more 17 round mags in the truck. I bought 10 AR-15 30 round mags from Brownells and then bought 100 stripper clips. I put the 10 mags in a dry box along with 300 rounds of Norma Tac 223 on strippers and with 2 spoons. The balance of the 1000 rounds is going in another dry box. These are kept locked above my safe which has my Ruger AR-556 mounted with the Meprolight M-21. In my quick safe in the bedroom I have my XD mod 2 tactical 45 acp and 3 13 round mags loaded with 230 grain Federal HST's.

I can't tell you how sad it make me to have to do this. Even in my quiet little town. It use to be when I'd go into one of the two larger towns near here I'd just carry the Glock 26 and its 11 round mag or the 40 shield with just one 8 round mag. Before I only had concern that I would run into a single person, possibly a former inmate, now I have to consider a mob.

Being slow to catch on is nothing to be ashamed of........

It’s about damn time......better late than never! memtb

If that’s prepping, I guess I was born a prepper.

Well, that was the only word I could think of. Being more ready I guess.

Sound wisdom.

There was a time when the foundation of this country was solid. No more. Being prepared is a good idea.

I run some rounds thru a AR and a deer rifle today!

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Don't overlook water and several means of
purification.
Store as much as you would as if they said
there wasn't any more indefinitely

Necessity.

Hahaha!

No schit.

He just described a normal Tuesday.

Our house looks like a supermarket/ hardware store/ armory. It’s just part of living out in the sticks.

A 5 gallon bucket (about $150.00) of powdered calcium chloride (make sure that it doesn’t have other chemicals that swimming pool chlorine treatments have), will treat a lot of water! memtb

So will a couple gallons of bleach.

Yep.

I don't have a single memory of living where there wasn't a cellar, a garden, case full of ball lids and a pressure canner in the cupboard, guns, ammo, reloading equipment, a wood pile,etc...

I think I have the wife convinced we need an in ground pool as a way of having a long term water supply in times of crisis.

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At one time way back prepping is what I did. As a carpenter I'd be off most of 3-4 months so I had to save both supplies and money for that. I bought everything I really needed and then hunted and trapped most of the winter. I paid my bills in advance.

Picked up some trim jobs, mostly under the table, didn't really peruse it that hard. Head down to southern Ohio and west Virginia for deer hunting. Rabbits and squirrels, coons off the trap line. I did well.

That ended with my first wife. Should never have gotten married. Hell, looking back at 61 years old I should have sworn off women all together.

We had problems with these same things about this time last year. I used a variety of carry pieces to deal with them.

Keeping an eye out to see if we have another infestation this year, what with them being in the news all over place right now..

Four 19 year old punks that want your pool water will just take all 4 corners of you house, out of your bb gun range, and torch it to the earth.

Plan B?

I had considered building a 100,000 gallon underground water reservoir at one time. Not as a prepping thing, but the well only produced a gallon a minute and I wanted to run that bitch 24/7 all winter for summer irrigation use. Better solution was to sell that property.

I always new I'd have to prep from the time I was a teenager. Looking at the world it seemed more than obvious as to where we were heading. I used to tell people years back what was coming and they all said I was crazy! Today many of them are asking me for advice! I don't want to tell them what's coming next


Trystan

First ....a correction! I meant Calcium Hypochlorite, “not” Calcium Chloride!
1/4 teaspoon / 55 gallons water
If my math is correct, I can treat 170000 gallons water with that 5 gallon bucket. I don’t think that a couple of gallons bleach will go that far! memtb

Sodium hypochlorite, NaOCl, common disinfecting bleach (without scents or other additives) works. If 6%, 8 drops per gallon. If 8% 6 drops per gallon.

powdered stuff lasts longer. shelf life of liquid bleach not that great. (both are sodium hypochlorite)

Well, as said above, there's definitely crystal calcium hypochlorite that's readily available as memtb has offered. Crystal sodium hypochlorite is not some common thing and has a melting point not useful to our needs. Interesting as I had not seen that sodium hypo solutions degrade. Our current jugs of bleach at home are too ancient. Years ago doing field work, we used bleach as a bit of extra treatment in potable water tanks which were mil surplus water buffalos.. Also used in fish culture setting to sterilize then counter it with sodium thiosulfate. All IIRC which is subject to doubt....

Big bucket of HTH

Use the HTH to make fresh bleach solution

Then use the DIY solution to add into your target water.

And the real correct answer is....

That looks like good bug out country right there!

Never really called it "prepping" but after living in places that throw hurricanes, blizzards, ice storms and other foul weather at you or the potential for violent crime due to working in or travelling around urban cesspool's here and abroad I have always kept a certain level of preparedness.
We keep a respectable amount of what I consider essentials on hand just as part of our SOP just incase of foul weather or "hard times", my spouse laughs when I refer to the stash as our "Beans, Bullets and Band-Aids".
I know a few people that have gone all in on "prepping" and may be prepared for the "end of times", societal collapse , WW III or what other scenario you wish to insert here; that works for them so be it.

We live outside a small town (pop. 700) in western NC and while I don't envision the commie horde coming up our mountain, these days you never know. This country is no longer the one I grew up in and I have no idea what the future will bring; we'll do the best we can.

StarchedCover

Lol.

Shirley you jest.

I doubt Mr. jackmountain is going to be cowering in his house from a few 19 yo punks trying to burn him and his peeps to the ground.

Suck part of not being prepared is the short time it'd take to necessitate becoming a marauding heathen.

#willtakeshitasneededtosurvive

Good on you but I'm not sure how prudent it is to announce to the world over the internet exactly what resources you have and where they are located.

I would probably do something similar to what you have done but unfortunately all my guns and ammo were lost in that terrible boating accident.

You must be the “jerk” that hit and sank my boat! I lost all of my guns also! memtb

We're canning green beans right now. We don't do this out of fear, we just don't like wasting time and gas running to the store every little bit.

Yep. That was me. I was so broken up about it, I haven’t bothered to replace them.

some years ago on a elk hunting camping trip i watched a brother in law adding a little bleach to the soapy water we were using to wash the dishes.
he was career navy and said they use to do it on the ships as a sterilazation method due to the water containers on the ships.
always thought is was a good idea.

Years ago, late 1970s when "Peanuts" Jimmuh Carter was president and things in this country were becoming seriously tenuous, a magazine came out called American Survival Guide which had many articles about being prepared for TEOTWAWKI. (The End Of This World As We Know It.) Over the years ASG became quite successful. I subscribed since nearly the first and still have almost a complete collection of the magazines. There were many articles that were well thought out, informative, and made common sense. Some were based on projected future events the authors of the article thought might occur.

Some of the articles written back then are now dated, but others still make sense and are informative. My wife and I lived in Los Angeles where violent crime was a norm and ethnic riots were not uncommon. Plus, Los Angeles was centered over serious earthquake country. We also had a cabin up in the Sierra where the winter snows could be four feet deep at our place. We were prepared both at our home in L.A., and should we be snowed in up in the Sierra while visiting our cabin.

Being prepared for adversity just made common sense to us. American Survival Guide helped a lot of people with their desire to become prepared for "hard times." Enjoyed reading it each month.

As the Boy Scouts motto stated, "Be Prepared."

L.W.

Emphasis on slow.

Hookset...... 👍 memtb

Never hurts to be prepared. I have been glad several times that I planned ahead.

LOL.

Yep, I am really worried about four 19 year olds..

My oldest kid could handle that with a duck gun.