Can we have just ONE useful SURVIVAL THREAD?

The wisdom is: that most Preppers already know you must break in your shoes and gear and that you are foolish in not knowing that.

Anyone who plans to travel 500 to 1,000 miles a month, has no workable plan and no understanding of what SHTF will be like.
Being Nomadic is only suitable for Lone wolves and they will die off quickly or join up with another group.

If you can not find a suitable BOL within 100 miles, you better move to a new location right now. It better have all the basics for life; good water supply, game, shelter building materials, semi secure area, etc.

Well in my case it's complicated. I am most of the time alone, but I do have my family who is living elsewhere. Every location we have available is suitable for "bugging in", and we are actively working towards that as we speak.

The thing is, if something happens and someone in our family has to leave their location - or worst case - all of us have to. Could be even something relatively simple like radiation levels starting to increase sharply all of a sudden. Can't stick around - have to move.

Also in case of a permanent SHTF - we'd probably want to eventually get together - whichever location seems the best for survival.

There is only one thing you need to prep with, knowledge. Spend your time learning than prepping. What happens if you are away from your home when something happens? Your basement and prep stuff won't help you. Your neighbors may know you have supplies and your home may not be safe.I have several phones with gigs worth of books but it's best to memorize all of it and practice it. You also really need to know what to grab from a pharmacy or store when the shtf and you need essential supplies. You have to put that list into memory.

Good idea....myself I am starting "Zombieland skills" and as I refresh my skills this spring and summer, video record the lessons to share with my kids, and whoever else wants to watch.

There is no substitute for experience. Get out the and do what you think your going to do and see how it goes. Just like if people see you then, if people see you now...might be conspicuous.

I've been camping since the beginning of summer last year. I've learned alot, but alot of it is not relatable because what I do you might not do. In western NY, it's still kinda winter at times. We camped in a 3m. Bell tent, but we had a carport we put up without the bottom legs so it's shorter, we still got reported to the sheriff and we we afr out on state land. They were cool, just gave us a permit. But we still had to move camp around every few days, now that it's springish and the woods are full of busy bodies. Keeping things manageable is the best thing I can tell you. You are the best prep you can have because it can't be taken away. Knowledge before items. It's easy to go nuts outfitting. I found a good stainless steel wood stove. It's the only way to be sure you are going to have heat in the winter. We used propane too...but the heaters can gum up, tanks freeze and run out. We live the bug out so we know how much good and water we use and have, fresh water is feet away, but can be contaminated. Anything short of nuclear winter...I'm good year round. Food water shelter. If I need anything else, I've made friends with alot of Amish folk close by. Cheers, hope that helps your preps some. I have 58 days left in my year camping goal, I can't wait for a hotel room! Cheers mate.

I was fortunate to be able to move to my bug out location five years ago. Since that time I have continued to collect more prep items that are suitable for my climate and location.

But before I moved up north, I lived in southern California and was in a constant state of low grade anxiety over how I would get out of Dodge if there were any kind of civilization-ending event. I mentally role-played the thousand+ mile journey. I had a plan for how to travel the 17 miles from work to home in the event my car was unusable (EMP, major earthquake). I thought about keeping a lightweight folding bike in my trunk, but never got around to buying one. I had (have) paper maps of all the western states (they are free, if you belong to AAA). I kept (still have) a bug out bag always in the car, with food, water, hiking boots, coat, cap, ferro rod and lighter, knife, Sawyer water filter, handgun/ammo, etc. I thought about getting a dirt bike for the trip north in case of road blocks or EMP rendering my car useless.

I know that there is always a lull between a catastrophic event and the panic reaction of the masses, and I was determined to make good use of that one day lull to get out of town as quickly as possible. I planned to have several caches of food, defensive 'items', fuel, cash, along the way. My route would be either north on the mostly deserted 395 up the eastern side of the Sierra Nevadas, or over to Utah, and then north to Montana. Of course, winter would have created a whole new set of problems.

My ultimate solution to the big problem of fleeing the city was to just move to my BOL. Best decision ever!

One of the most useful survival techniques I have found is to read the works of James Wesley Rawles. Yes, there are other authors of SHTF novels, but Rawles actually knows what he is talking about, and other authors present scenarios which would quickly get you killed if you followed their plans. Rawles has written a series of end times novels which are all related to one another, and which educate you to possible scenarios and ways to handle situations and events. Written as novels, they are enjoyable to read and it's not until afterward that you realize you have also been educated in the process. Another recommend is the One Second After series by William R. Forstchen. It is an eye-opener to how thin the veneer of civilization actually is, and how quickly things can devolve to brutal survival situation. Normalcy bias is a killer.

Fantastic advices....

Most of this bug out shit is fantasy. Figure out the logistics. If you have a place you know is your destination, then yes, you have a chance. Bury food and WATER along the way. Hopefully it won't be on private property, the owners of which will be watching their property if some sort of catastrophe displaces people. Also, major roads may be blocked.

Good luck.

I recently bought an old child tow buggy thing that hooks on your bike. Repurposed and stabilized to haul whatever I need. If you’ve ever carried a 5 gallon bucket any distance you know how valuable a cart can be. I also got a few of the same pellet gun and thousands of pellets for small game. Also been working on my ghillie suit for stealth.

No, we can't because who knows what you're going to be trying to survive?

Where can you go with your bug out bag? Do you know? Will you need to avoid detection by people who can legit find you, have equipment, and are looking? Or can you just openly stroll off? Or is a hard lockdown when peeking your nose out your front door is forbidden?

I am not saying don't prepare, but they are thinking out of the box.

You can drink your own piss when nothing else helps.

How are you going to prep and cook your food? Campfire? That will draw in zombies, who will want to share the sparse amount tree rat you shot.

He's in the southwest.

Pity those that end up in the West Texas desert.

I agree - Selco Begovic is a must-read/listen to/watch. This man when trough it in the Bosnia war in the 1990s-2000s. His stuff is gold.

Lets see.....I was a prepper since the early 80's, back then we were called survivalists or "right wing gun nuts".....lol....I attended classes in many prepper related field after military service.....food, BOBs, weaponry, NBC, commo, medical, primitive skills, etc etc etc....


Now with more behind me than in front of me, I no longer have a BUGOUT scenario.....I'm bugged in....

I never regret being a prepper.....I used my stuff and training in many "normal" emergencies.....many of the skills are translatable to activities like camping, hiking, and hunting anyway.....

Prepping doesn't guarantee survival but it sure gives me better odds.....

Not a single one of you would make it a week on your own.

I was born in the 70s, and pretty much as early as I can remember, I was always subconsciously prepping. If I went out to randomly play with friends in the nature, I always had my pockets full of small pocketknives, screwdrivers, lighters, magnifying glass, whatever - just in case I'd need them.

Then in early 2000s for the first time we started really stocking up certain items, but gave up after a few years since nothing seemed to be happening. But like you said, we consumed it all ourselves, no harm done.

Now it's clear that shit will get real soon - hence I'm now full in prep-mode again. Which is also not bad. And over the years we have anyway collected A LOT of good tools and skills even without actually consciously preppring.

All in all, I think some of us were really born this way - we didn't get brainwashed by somebody online, we just were told in the beginning of our lives what is going to happen - sooner or later.

And I'm convinced the time is now - like many of us feel.

Your problem is that you are citing fictional movies, most of which are place in a time frame of many YEARS, after a collapse.

Where do you think the "marauding hordes of degenerates" started out from? The Cities. Many will remain in that area. That is Human nature.

So staying put is not an option! especially if in or near a city.
Besides that, White people are far more violent, when they are incited to violence than the other races.
So you really need to rethink your concepts of what SHTF would be like.

Cardio.

That is a gigantic, "IF."
The most probability is that there will not be a Nuclear war.
So you better plan accordingly!

I have a vegetable garden, stored food and water, a small off-grid solar power system, an electric bicycle, guns and ammo. One of my guns is a nitro-piston .22 rifle for stealth small game hunting.

The desert is a fine place to be, if you are used to it and prepared to deal with it's inherent survival related problems.

Most people will not survive there, so you won't have to worry much about over population, over hunting or most marauders.
To me, it might just be a Paradise come SHTF.

I'm just viewing a much bigger picture here.

This guy is legit! All of his videos are informative with no BS at all in them.

True, there is no 'overpopulation', just a lack of love and empathy.

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