***Thread for survivalists, preparedness, G.O.O.D., SHTF, TEOTWAWKI***

[TheAntiMonitor]

Inn.

[Aesthetical]

Where should I build my bunker?

[Farley1324]

Where should I build my bunker?

Under the workshop next to your house.

[Vayne]

Been watching some videos on the bow drill, going to have to give it a try sometime.

[Nainoa]

Been watching some videos on the bow drill, going to have to give it a try sometime.

Make sure you have a good divot in the hammer (Hand hold) if that thing slips or is too weak it will be the place where things fail.

The other point of concern is foot placement. Especially if you're like me and go barefoot 7-8 months out of the year.

On a wilderness retreat we did a few years back I totally nailed the bow drill fire starter... Then the sweat from my foot stuck the platform stick to my foot, so when I got up I spilled some of the hot coal onto my foot.

[HankScorp1o]

So my SHTF bug-out-bag currently consists of:

1 9mm Beretta handgun w/ 50 hollow point bullets
1 leatherman multi-tool
1 firestarter
3 packs of ramen noodles
1 jar of organic peanut butter (smooth)
1 glass bottle of Mountain Spring Water
1 -40F North Face sleeping bag


Am I gonna make it brahs?





























I'm pretty much fukking dead, right?

[Farley1324]

So my SHTF bug-out-bag currently consists of:

1 9mm Beretta handgun w/ 50 hollow point bullets
1 leatherman multi-tool
1 firestarter
3 packs of ramen noodles
1 jar of organic peanut butter (smooth)
1 glass bottle of Mountain Spring Water
1 -40F North Face sleeping bag


Am I gonna make it brahs?

notsheriff

[lando57]

The furthest I've gone to prepare for Armageddon is to buy about 30 cans of tinned soup, and that was just so I qualified for free home delivery. I guess I need to step it up

[jason_bh]

The furthest I've gone to prepare for Armageddon is to buy about 30 cans of tinned soup, and that was just so I qualified for free home delivery. I guess I need to step it up

Just a bit.

[Nainoa]

So my SHTF bug-out-bag currently consists of:

1 9mm Beretta handgun w/ 50 hollow point bullets
1 leatherman multi-tool
1 firestarter
3 packs of ramen noodles
1 jar of organic peanut butter (smooth)
1 glass bottle of Mountain Spring Water
1 -40F North Face sleeping bag


Am I gonna make it brahs?




I'm pretty much fukking dead, right?

I think that even more important than having resources on hand is to continually build skills.

In a situation where you have to bug out, it means a lot of other people are bugging out and the main roads will be jammed. Assuming you're smart enough to have an obscure less traveled way out of dodge, you will be able to scavenge a lot of stuff along the way.

If you don't have the skills to use it or recognize what's worth grabbing, then it doesn't matter... Then you're just another body dead on the side of the interstate clutching an armload of Cosmo magazines and minestrone soup with a unloaded bb gun in your hand.

[HankScorp1o]

I think that even more important than having resources on hand is to continually build skills.

In a situation where you have to bug out, it means a lot of other people are bugging out and the main roads will be jammed. Assuming you're smart enough to have an obscure less traveled way out of dodge, you will be able to scavenge a lot of stuff along the way.

If you don't have the skills to use it or recognize what's worth grabbing, then it doesn't matter... Then you're just another body dead on the side of the interstate clutching an armload of Cosmo magazines and minestrone soup with a unloaded bb gun in your hand.

Even in the apocalypse that sight would make me lol so hard..

Being srs tho I'm actually a bit more prepared supply-wise and I've got a dual sport bike that could be a great bug-out-vehicle... the problem is I'm working in the West TX oilfields and my bike and supplies are in storage in Las Vegas... so yeah I'm pretty much fukked.

If any miscers want to rescue me in the event of a disaster that would be appreciated, thanks

[Nainoa]

Even in the apocalypse that sight would make me lol so hard..

Being srs tho I'm actually a bit more prepared supply-wise and I've got a dual sport bike that could be a great bug-out-vehicle... the problem is I'm working in the West TX oilfields and my bike and supplies are in storage in Las Vegas... so yeah I'm pretty much fukked.

If any miscers want to rescue me in the event of a disaster that would be appreciated, thanks

Oh yeah that's part of my plans if the grid goes down my plan is

Step 1: Max out my water and double check the medical and root cellar supplies.
Step 2: Round up the chicken feed and fuel oil
Step 3: Seal the driveway and start the watch from the deer stands.
Step 4: Pose my neighbor's dead corpse with a bunch of cosmo magazines and a can of (poisoned) spam.
Step 5: Install the wood stove into the already prepared jacks
Step 6: Move the wood pile

[blumpkin415]

Checking in...

[GDPONE]

lol, preppers. I got caught up in this a few years back, still waiting for the end of days I see.

[Vayne]

Got some 40lb limbs for my take down recurve bow, practicing my archery skills. Just need some explosive tips to take out the zombies more easily. Compounds are so dam expensive but feel they might be more easy to shoot.

[Nainoa]

Got some 40lb limbs for my take down recurve bow, practicing my archery skills. Just need some explosive tips to take out the zombies more easily. Compounds are so dam expensive but feel they might be more easy to shoot.

Granted when it comes to archery, Robin Hood ain't calling me up asking for any pointers.

However even my poor shot is better with a compound bow. Especially when you consider in a real situation you're drawing back and holding for potentially a minute or more. The last thing you want to do is start shaking under exertion.

That being said, I think I'd rather practice an atlatl than a bow.

[Vayne]

I might get a compound later on but didn't want to drop that kind of coin just for target shooting.

[seanb1979]

lol, preppers. I got caught up in this a few years back, still waiting for the end of days I see.

you can say the same thing about anyone who buys insurance

[Sinan09400]

I'm not really into that stuff but if some apocalypse happened tomorrow and left me thr only survivor on earth; I'll never be bored. Seriously there are tons of stuff to do.

I'd burn building just for fun and trash ferraris and lamborghinis

[blumpkin415]

The joys of having a private well. Don't have to worry about fresh water

[jason_bh]

The joys of having a private well. Don't have to worry about fresh water

My parents have a well. We have for the longest time put off getting a hand pump.

[blumpkin415]

My parents have a well. We have for the longest time put off getting a hand pump.

I don't have a hand pump, well pump feeds water to the house

[jason_bh]

I don't have a hand pump, well pump feeds water to the house

What about no electricity?

[blumpkin415]

What about no electricity?

I have a generator, and had a giant transfer switch wired into my home electrical system. Generator can power the entire house with all appliances on.

As a backup, There is a brook that runs through my property with a fairly fast flow rate so I can collect water from there.

[XinApoK]

Does anyone have more of these? Any topic will work but id like to start a collection of survival/wilderness info picks.

[Nainoa]

Well with the egg shortage problem getting worse and worse, I sure am happy that I have a dozen hens in the coop/pen and garden.

My Dad said that he paid $3.85 for a dozen eggs the other day...

My birds, in summer time when they can range the garden in the tractor and eat scratch only cost me 4.3 cents per egg...

I was selling the surplus eggs at $3 a dozen. With egg prices going up I suddenly can't keep up with demand. Thinking about expanding to 24 hens and breeding meat birds next year.

Funny how a few self-sufficient birds is slowly turning into me getting into the poultry industry!

I hope everyone is doing well?

[RyouBakua]

long time no see


got some chicken pics?


hope everyone is well too

[Nainoa]

long time no see


got some chicken pics?


hope everyone is well too

No pics of the chickens on this device...

Chickens are a blast to raise. Turns out I'm some kind of chicken whisperer or something... My buddy and I split a new flock... Then I actually had people asking me to raise up their chicks for them.

I've got three very large Isa Brown pullets right now (Among white leghorns) that I'm very seriously thinking about breeding for meat birds next year.

To do it I'd need a rooster from a breed known as Jersey Giant. At the turn of the 20th century it looked like Turkeys were going to go extinct, so they created a huge breed of chicken to take it's place. Some of the roosters can get up to 13 pounds!

Only problem is they don't have a great feed conversion rate... So instead of taking 8 to 12 weeks (The age of birds in your grocery store) they take 5 months. Makes them nice flavorful roasters etc... But not a highly efficient meat breed.

That and they're not very savvy foragers, meaning you need to keep them on feed, instead of putting them in a tractor/cage in the garden.

Well my big Isa's do have a good feed conversion... They're not 2:1(Meaning 2 pounds of feed becomes 1 pound of bird) like the Cornish X you get in the grocery store, but they are somewhere between 2.5 or 3 :1... So if I can breed them successfully to a Jersey Giant rooster.... Then watch for pullets that have good feed conversion and savvy forager traits... I should be able to breed those again and get a fast growing giant breed of chicken, that doesn't require a ton of feed to get there.

Right now I have to settle for 6 hens pumping out a dozen large to extra large eggs every 2 days... With 6 more pullets that should start laying in the next few weeks.

When you consider the surplus eggs I sell, the birds completely pay for themselves... And then I get tons of manure for fertilizer.

6 months worth of chicken manure, composted feeds my entire 5,000 square foot garden, all my fruit trees and berry bushes.

I had 5 apple trees that were just lingering in poor soil, only grew 2 feet in 3 years... Mulched them with 20 gallons of chicken manure compost and so far they have grown 2 feet in 3 months!

Best garden season yet!

Ultimately eggs are the second most valuable thing to come out of a chicken's butt!

[Nainoa]

I recently got my hands on two elderberry bushes.

They're thriving in the modified soil I gave them. At the time I picked them up because they were on a good sale and in the old days they were known to have a lot of medicinal value.

Then I did some research on them for a piece I wrote with a nutritionist.

You can use the flowers to make a medicinal tea high in vitamin C... You can also make the berries into a syrup. Contains all kinds of medicinal compounds, Vitamin's A, C and powerful antioxidants as well as some cancer fighting compounds.

They also have a compound which improves the body's ability to absorb other vitamins and nutrients.

I remember my grandmother had elderberry syrup that she sweetened up for me, and I thought it just tasted like grapes.

Curious to see how these turn out.

I guess there's a 50/50 chance they'll flower and produce berries this year.

[RyouBakua]

lucky man with the chickens!


i will have chickens one day...

but today is not the day



maybe some goats too