preapre to hunker down for months by JWR

[Large Sarge]

http://www.shtfplan.com/emergency-preparedness/james-rawles-warns-be-prepared-to-hunker-down-for-months_09222013

[Uncle Salty]

Good article.

The gray man wins.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn gray.

[milehi]

After prepping for close to a decade, I'm not so sure I want go live in that world. Read "The Road" or "The Dog Stars" by Peter Heller. The last thing on my bucket list is to die, but not lonley as the last man on on the land. I plan on using as much lead as I can.

[Uncle Salty]

After prepping for close to a decade, I'm not so sure I want go live in that world. Read "The Road" or "The Dog Stars" by Peter Heller. The last thing on my bucket list is to die, but not lonley as the last man on on the land. I plan on using as much lead as I can.

I am all into doom, but the Road was depressing. That was a fucked up world for sure.

[Shami-Amourae]

Same discussion, same people, but in audio:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELHBANfywYM

[chad]

i could barely finish reading the road. i kept thinking of me and my 7 year old son. it was disturbing.

[Shami-Amourae]

Watch the Last of Us in movie form:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzmXbHHefMY

[Twisted Titan]

Dam......

That looks like a dam movie

Cgi is absolutely incredible

[Jewboo]

Throughout their journey, Joel and Ellie use multiple ranged and melee weapons to help them defeat their enemies and continue through the levels. These include long weapons like a bolt action (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_action) rifle, shotgun, bow, flamethrower, and assault rifle, as well as short-barreled guns like the pistol, revolver, scoped revolver-like handgun called the "El Diablo", and a sawed-off one handed shotgun called the "Shorty". There are also many different degradable melee weapons that can be scavenged from the environment like metal pipes, planks, baseball bats, machetes, and hatchets. Items like empty bottles and bricks can be picked up and thrown to distract or stun enemies, as well as be used as simple melee weapons.[3]
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_Us#cite_note-3)
Commercially, The Last of Us scored one of the biggest video game launches of 2013 (second to Grand Theft Auto V (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_V)), selling over 1.3 million units in its first week. As of July 2013, the game has sold 3.4 million units, making it the fastest-selling PlayStation 3 game after 3 weeks.

Synopsis The Last of Us takes place in the United States, twenty years after a spore-based infection rapidly spread across the globe, wiping out a vast majority of the population by warping its hosts’ brains and turning them into deadly predators capable of killing with a single bite. The majority of the world’s population has been reduced to either struggling survivors or ravenous infected mutants. The game features several locations across the United States, including Boston (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston) and Lincoln, Massachusetts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln,_Massachusetts), Pittsburgh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh), and Salt Lake City, Utah (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Lake_City,_Utah).

:) Play this video game to get prior experience in our Real World Near Future

[Shami-Amourae]

:) Play this video game to get prior experience in our Real World Near Future

Video games are better experience than books/movies/TV. You at least get to make your own choices and learn from failure. Things like sound, on the fly tactics, using your environment, stealth, and so on all come into play so it's the closest medium to the real experience. I learned most of my gun knowledge from video games for instance. Some of it transferred over into real life smoothly and some didn't (like recoil and aim.)

I post a lot of stuff with video games on this forum. Sometimes I wonder if people just overlook it and think I'm just an idiot/nerd. I don't know. I share what I feel is relevant and useful based on my own experiences.

My favorite post-SHTF video game is Fallout: New Vegas. You have to worry about food, water, sleep, ammo, guns, and so on. You may find a box of 22LR, and be out of other ammo calibers so you may have to use a 22LR pistol. You may have a 12 gauge shotgun, be out of shells (but have the casings), and find some fresh 20 gauge shells. So you can remove the contents from the 20 gauge shells and reload your own new 12 gauge shells. It's that detailed. You may find some water with radiation in it, and to survive be forced to drink it. You can have a camp or "home" to stash your excess gear, or just hide it in a hollowed out tree trunk on some random road or valley and come back for it later. The game is open world without any linear direction. You spend most of the time traveling and foraging for supplies in vacant buildings and settlements from the Old World. You have to worry about disease, poison, radiation, and so on. It's something you can't experience in real life without it actually happening. Hell you can even become a cannibal if you get desperate (or fucked up) enough, which makes the game a lot easier since food is scarce, but if people in villages find out you'll be shunned or targeted for being put down.

[EE_]

Realistically, no one can prepare for every scenario, but one can increase their odds even living near cities where they have to work.

I've recently moved to the east coast from the west and I'm very happy I did.

I was able to find a property that has a good amount of land that is off the beaten path, surrounded by forest and farms.
I'm still near conveniences, 4 to 5 miles away.

A big plus for me, is that I live at the end of a cul de sac on a long road, so there is no traffic, or pedestrians.
The neighbors are very nice friendly people and so are locals I've met in this area. I do have neighbors, they are on good sized properties and are all set back in the woods.

Some other plusses in this area, a large population of dear and lots of squirrel. Also, I have an almost endless source of fuel from the forest, everything grows here, plenty of rain and I own the mineral rights of the property. There is a spring on my property too, that maybe I'll tap one day.

These are maybe some things to consider if you're in the market for a home and can't live in a desolate area in seclusion.
I personally don't want to live in seclusion, where there's nothing to do, no where to go, or where I'd have to drive an hour to a grocery store.

I've begun to plant things, blueberries, figs, and I'm preparing a garden for next spring. I'm also looking at forest gardening in an area where I have a good stand of elderberry bushes/trees...maybe some wild yams and other berry plants that won't have to be replanted every year.

[Jewboo]

You may find a box of 22LR, and be out of other ammo calibers so you may have to use a 22LR pistol. You may have a 12 gauge shotgun, be out of shells (but have the casings), and find some fresh 20 gauge shells. So you can remove the contents from the 20 gauge shells and reload your own new 12 gauge shells. It's that detailed.





https://www.komplett.no/mlf/produkt/bilder/604182/controller.JPG

Ahem. In the real world where will you insert the .22 and shot shells?

:D you also practice shooting the real thing...right?

[Shami-Amourae]

https://www.komplett.no/mlf/produkt/bilder/604182/controller.JPG

Ahem. In the real world where will you insert the .22 and shot shells?

:D you also practice shooting the real thing...right?

Yes. I do practice. I get professional training too. Both compliment another in my view.

Professional military use video games to train soldiers these days. It's meant to compliment training. It helps you get in the right mindset and do things in a safe environment. The best thing is you get to learn how other humans react when being shot attack. You learn tactics to outsmart them, to use fear elements, ambushes, traps, and so on.



Apparently you can learn to do hunting in GTA5 (LOL.) Stuff you can't do in real life!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4xx_kPKQpA

[EE_]

I'm hunkering down right now with a beer in front of a fire. Beer always tastes better around a fire. :)
The weather has cooled down a bit, it's a nice time of year!