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Are you a prepper?

sawyerloggingon

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I am kind of a prepper I guess. My full time home would be considered a bug out location to most preppers and I do have lots of ammo stocked up. I keep enough gas, propane oil etc to run my home for 6 months at least. I have food stores to last probably a year and I have a plan to divert a stream down the road to my land that would wash it out in short order. I'm not all about being a prepper all the time but it just makes sense to me to have enough resources to take care of yourself for a year or so if s*** hits fan. Anyone else in here consider themselves a prepper of any degree?
 
If I was convinced that blacks are waging a race war (which is being covered up by the media), I suppose I'd be a prepper too.

Fortunately, I suffer from no such delusions.
 
I am kind of a prepper I guess. My full time home would be considered a bug out location to most preppers and I do have lots of ammo stocked up. I keep enough gas, propane oil etc to run my home for 6 months at least. I have food stores to last probably a year and I have a plan to divert a stream down the road to my land that would wash it out in short order. I'm not all about being a prepper all the time but it just makes sense to me to have enough resources to take care of yourself for a year or so if s*** hits fan. Anyone else in here consider themselves a prepper of any degree?


I've watched reality, prepper shows and find it fascinating but unrealistic for most people. It takes some land, resources and disposable income to invest. If I were wealthy, I'd definitely have a safe room in my residence and a "bug out" location, fully stocked and functional.

When I saw how much food/water alone for 2-3 people and 6 months, it was staggering. I'm more concerned with either a solar flare, EMP or viral attack knocking out the power grid or an economic catastrophe, which both would cause rioting and roaming mobs looking for food, water and resources- gas, TP, etc. In that case if you could wait it out, several months, till some sort of civility could be restored, it'd be worth it. But for anything that is, ending the world as we know it, perpetually, I'm simply not young enough to fight it out.

Now, I do have a firearm/ammo and a water filtering system used in the outback. Also some cash, plenty of batteries, flash lights, radios, oil lamps, Sterno for cooking and several weeks of canned goods. After that I'd be SOL.
 
If I was convinced that blacks are waging a race war (which is being covered up by the media), I suppose I'd be a prepper too.

Fortunately, I suffer from no such delusions.

What about grid failure or a biological outbreak that sets mankind back a few centuries among the many other possibilities?

We've got millions who have no extra supplies of anything that would do whatever they needed to do to survive. It could get out of hand in a matter. of days.
 
Honestly, I like having a nice life and it's a reason to live. If society went to **** and there is little to no comfort in this life, why would I want to prolong my existence?
 
What about grid failure or a biological outbreak that sets mankind back a few centuries among the many other possibilities?

We've got millions who have no extra supplies of anything that would do whatever they needed to do to survive. It could get out of hand in a matter. of days.

I'm good with guns and natural farming. I have extensive experience in combat tactics (82nd Abn, infantry) and the production of food on very limited resources (work and research in the developing world). I have close contacts throughout the world. I'm a rather strapping example of quality DNA. My intellectualism is without question. If the crap hits the fan, I will be the most valued commodity. I'm the guy you give the gun to and ask, "how do we survive".

Now that's prepping.
 
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I won't say what we have but, we can eat for several months, drink for a couple of months and put the hurt on anyone who tries to take what we have for an unspecified length of time. 8)

I wish I was related to Sawyer. :)
 
I think it could be a neat hobby... I don't really think i'm a prepper though I do have a backpack full of supplys just in case there is a natural disaster :p people think i'm silly for it but I don't want to be scrambling around in case I need to get the fudge out and only have time to grab one thing
 
I'm good with guns and natural farming. I have extensive experience in combat tactics and the production of food on very limited resources. I have close contacts throughout the world. I'm a rather strapping example of quality DNA. My intellectualism is without question. If the crap hits the fan, I will be the most valued commodity. I'm the guy you give the gun to and ask, "how do we survive".
Yeap we've got two military trained SILs and one daughter. My Wife and I are avid hunters. It's all a matter of getting everyone in the right place.
 
I think it could be a neat hobby... I don't really think i'm a prepper though I do have a backpack full of supplys just in case there is a natural disaster :p people think i'm silly for it but I don't want to be scrambling around in case I need to get the fudge out and only have time to grab one thing

You are way ahead of the majority of people in this country. Congrats.
 
Honestly, I like having a nice life and it's a reason to live. If society went to **** and there is little to no comfort in this life, why would I want to prolong my existence?

Didn't you mention having a GF and some children.? There's your reason.
 
I am to a basic degree, I have about two months worth of food, some water but probably not enough, I am prepared for short term but pretty far shy of being prepared for a full-blown SHTF.

Right now I am busy paying off my retirement property at Hood Canal WA and saving money to give myself a running start to setting up an off-grid as much as possible retirement.

I plan on gleaning deadfall from the forest, catching and filtering my own water, setting up elevated planters for vegetables, and also planting in patches of the forest.

I was going to fish as well, but don't like the mercury in fish, it's worse than ever.

But I want to see how far I can whittle my expenses down, how little I can survive on and what can be provided by off-grid means.

I also bought silver in 2009 and just hold it as a hedge, but it's also to some degree for SHTF, better safe than sorry.

Thx :)
 
Didn't you mention having a GF and some children.? There's your reason.

Good point

But I know I would be amazingly depressed and I doubt it would change.

My entire life has been hard ship and I am finally where I want to be, if I were to lose it at this point ...

I don't even want to consider that

Hell I will probably have light PTSD for the rest of my life anyway already
 
I won't say what we have but, we can eat for several months, drink for a couple of months and put the hurt on anyone who tries to take what we have for an unspecified length of time. 8)

I wish I was related to Sawyer. :)

Hey! do you guys have a water purifer? I saw one that looked really need at this store called sportsman it's basically a water bottle with a filter to clean all the nastys when you get water from a stream or lake... it's a little spendy do you think it's worth it?
 
What about grid failure or a biological outbreak that sets mankind back a few centuries among the many other possibilities?

... Even in 3rd world countries like India, a grid failure can be repaired in about 2 days to a week.
 
Honestly, I like having a nice life and it's a reason to live. If society went to **** and there is little to no comfort in this life, why would I want to prolong my existence?

It could just be a short term situation. It doesn't have to be the apocalypse.
 
Hey! do you guys have a water purifer? I saw one that looked really need at this store called sportsman it's basically a water bottle with a filter to clean all the nastys when you get water from a stream or lake... it's a little spendy do you think it's worth it?

Worth the money but, those types don't last long. Good in a pinch.
 
It could just be a short term situation. It doesn't have to be the apocalypse.

If I go without my anti anxiety meds for any significant length of time it won't be pretty for me or those around me. Maybe one day I will fully heal from my childhood but lately I have been having flashbacks again.

Let's just hope that society either keeps humming along or if not I either die a quick death or I am fortunate enough to find a stable environment with the right drugs in supply.
 
Hey! do you guys have a water purifer? I saw one that looked really need at this store called sportsman it's basically a water bottle with a filter to clean all the nastys when you get water from a stream or lake... it's a little spendy do you think it's worth it?

Well worth the investment, pure water is essential and is generally the first thing to go in a crisis.
 
... Even in 3rd world countries like India, a grid failure can be repaired in about 2 days to a week.

I think the most realistic situation would be some new plague type bacteria where you would want to avoid all human contact and society would break down because of the staggering amounts of deaths.
 
... Even in 3rd world countries like India, a grid failure can be repaired in about 2 days to a week.

Our grid, uses a particular kind of transformer that they don't stock.

“If you have to order a transformer from someplace, it’s two years to do it,” said Richard J. Lordan, a senior technical expert at the Electric Power Research Institute, a nonprofit consortium based in Palo Alto, Calif.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/b...dustry-runs-transformer-replacement-test.html
 
Something I didn't mention, I was homeless on and off from 1991 to about 2003... living in the woods much of the time... so maybe I am a little more prepared for SHTF than I give myself credit for. :)

Of course, part of the thing that put me outside was not being prepared, not having any contingency plan and just taking for granted that everything would continue on as usual for me.

Now I save almost 45% of my income and live well below my means and in only ten years of this so far, I will be retired much sooner than I imagined, hopefully in two years.

It's amazing how much we waste by just never stopping to think about it.

Thx :)
 
If I go without my anti anxiety meds for any significant length of time it won't be pretty for me or those around me. Maybe one day I will fully heal from my childhood but lately I have been having flashbacks again.

Let's just hope that society either keeps humming along or if not I either die a quick death or I am fortunate enough to find a stable environment with the right drugs in supply.

Stock up on your meds. I take Allupuronol for gout and have a 6 month supply at all times.
 
Hey! do you guys have a water purifer? I saw one that looked really need at this store called sportsman it's basically a water bottle with a filter to clean all the nastys when you get water from a stream or lake... it's a little spendy do you think it's worth it?

I have more than one... they are great.. research the brands to decide.

Thom Paine
 
I like to watch those prepper shows and my all time favorite one was this woman who was looking at an underground bunker and was asking about the wifi because she wanted to make sure she could get access to Facebook. :lol: :doh
 
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