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Message Subject How Horrific Will It Be For The Non-Prepper? - An Eye Opening Preview
Poster Handle Anonymous Coward
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Survival requires smarts, good instincts, and an ability to improvise. No matter how well prepared an individual or community is food will run out, sources of clean water will run out, ammunition will run out, and you won't be able to hold off the rest of the world forever. The best prep is to prepare your head and your heart. Nothing else will get you through.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 14713854

The food will not run out if you run a smart farm/ranch, and don't have unfortunate personal catastrophes come your way. Heirloom vegetables' & trees' seeds are harvest-able for replanting, and livestock reproduce. So if you build it right, your farm can be sustainable.

Clean water doesn't necessarily run out if you have access to renewable water sources. Hand-pump or solar wells are useful if you can perform maintenance on them. Rivers and lakes are useful if you can boil or pasteurize the water.

Ammo will run out, but you can extend it's life with judicial re-use of expended brass casings for re-loading (with the proper equipment), and recycling lead from car batteries, lead boot flashings from home roof plumbing vents, and tire balance weights. But you'll have to keep a large stock of primers as they are rather complicated, and most people will not know how to re-load them. And I'm not sure how feasible it is to make smokeless powder at home. Black powder would have to be re-formulated I imagine to be able to be created and used in reloading, as it's normally not at all used for that.

You don't have to hold off the world if you are well hidden in a rural location. If you attempt to hide out and hole up in an urban or suburban environment, then all bets are off.
 
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