Land is nice ill admit but not essential. Hey Penny Prepper a thread after your own heart im guessing? Just a special thanks for Pooka's personal invite as well. This thread how ever should actually be essential reading. Love when scripture is mixed in why? Your essential spiritual food for a spiritual battle. Your source of everything good.

Another keystone element to prepping is what it is your prepping for, and duration.
I have tons of gun nut friends with every kind of assault weapon known to man with the most fire power and ten thousand rounds of ammo for every weapon. The ol cowboys didn't have 8 guns and a 100 pounds of ammo. They had a side arm and a rifle. My personal rifle of choice is a simple ruger 22. You can pick one up for about $200 to $750 depending on how fancy ya wanna get, I have a couple of 25 round banana style magazines. The ammo is cheap and it is easy to carry 500 to a thousand rounds easily.

Of course my rifle is more for meat to eat than anything else, im not looking to engage, just fade away somewhere between 8k to 10k feet and rugged terrain. High ground.