Originally posted by: [-NM-] -SS- samuwell: Anyone this fuckin' paranoid will actually be a survivor.
do i really come off as that paranoid?
i have an extensive camping, fishing and hunting background. hell, i just got back from camping at Clarks Fork, Ca for 5 days.
my moms dad taught me how to live off the land when i was really young. he taught me almost everything i know about outdoor survival from camping, fishing, hunting with guns and, when i was finally strong enough, hunting with a compound bow. i have also taken a few years of Shōrin-ryū and a years worth of private lessons in Wing Chun.
ive camped in every climate in Cali; snow peaks, beach, desert, city, big trees, you name it. i also used to go camping in Mexico and Oregon every year. while my friends went to vacation places when we were kids, i went camping and lived under the stars.
combine my knowledge of outdoor survival from my gramps to my insane, vitenam vet step dad, being outdoors was more than just camping for me- i had to learn to live alone outside.
and like DRF, i have over 20 years of construction experience. i can build a house from foundation to roof from just about anything and my trouble shooting skills are second to none. my sales experience plus reading a lot on Neuro-linguistic programming has taught me how to read people really well.
i think my downside will be my lack of trust in other people. because i think someone is trying to one up me or take something i want/need, i might pass up the opportunity to build or join with a bigger and better group.
Originally posted by: [-NM-] -SS- hackshot: Your education will serve you well as long as you are taken into a community. Thats why I give you good odds.
Anything can happen and desperate times call for desperate measures, so I am sure there would be pleasant surprises and equally shocking demises. Lastly, given my narcissistic nature, I have excluded myself. You are free to give your appraisal of my chances. I live in the Deep South, armed, combat veteran with extensive field experience.
I'm a bag of tricks SS.
Luckily if shit were to hit the fan, our group of friends already have ideas of what to do and where to go. Maybe we could meet up halfway between Blacksburg, VA and Backwaters, Mississippi. Appalachia is a hellhole to have to assault, lots of woods to make use of my .30-06 Winchester.
Originally posted by: IrishRebel I live in a small city, but have experience doing a multitude of "off the grid" activities.
What it boils down to is knowing people. If you can trust enough people who all have certain skills/abilities, then your chances for survival increase. If you are all alone, you are starting off in pretty rough shape. Fortunately for me, I of various said people; however, getting all of those people together in one piece would be the tricky part.
It would be neat to run some sort of simulation.
I see you dying quickly. Because you trust all sorts of people that have certain skills and abilities. That is your first and last mistake. People are pussies, and at the first sign of trouble they will throw you in front of the bus to save their own skin.
Aint that shit the truth.......
Trusting family can be hard enough.......trusting "friends and associates" to do the right thing, when push comes to shove, can be even more of a let down.
Some people are already living this life......away from society and completely off the grid.
If they can fend off refugees from LA......which I think way way way outnumber them. They wouldn't even notice anything happened if society collapsed tomorrow.
I also take it back about the slab city people being ok.......
I forget that they are dependent on a lot of outside food and resources to survive. While they are great at being a camp of virtually homeless people, with no material possessions, they are like a lot of Appalachian and Ozark people, in that they are not all self sufficient and are heavily reliant on outside money/food subsidization assistance.
When those nets collapse, so will their ability to live out there.
Originally posted by: (SF) DirtyRatFink We should all make a plan for survivors to band together and take over. We will make it here, for the benefit of the people who are watching/tracking Chuck Stones, then we will make a real plan covertly.
Originally posted by: (SF) DirtyRatFink We should all make a plan for survivors to band together and take over. We will make it here, for the benefit of the people who are watching/tracking Chuck Stones, then we will make a real plan covertly.
That's nice of ya
You are the decoy. We thank you for your sacrifice.
Originally posted by: (SF) DirtyRatFink We should all make a plan for survivors to band together and take over. We will make it here, for the benefit of the people who are watching/tracking Chuck Stones, then we will make a real plan covertly.
That's nice of ya
You are the decoy. We thank you for your sacrifice.
That's not cool. Poor little goat, he about had a heart attack.
Lets see how funny she think's it is the next time that goat decides to run one of his horns into her ass.
& you nor anybody in here could ever lure me into anything or scare me. Post edited by Stoneymontana at 8/23/2012 7:25:05 PM
Originally posted by: (SF) DirtyRatFink We should all make a plan for survivors to band together and take over. We will make it here, for the benefit of the people who are watching/tracking Chuck Stones, then we will make a real plan covertly.
That's nice of ya
You are the decoy. We thank you for your sacrifice.
You're a fucking Canadian, nobodies coming after your dumb ass.
I love playing decoy. They are the ones that attract the idiots & the idiots end up dead. The decoy always lives on.
Decoys aren't sacrificed. Only the idiots Post edited by Stoneymontana at 8/23/2012 7:28:41 PM
Originally posted by: Stoneymontana That's not cool. Poor little goat, he about had a heart attack.
Lets see how funny she think's it is the next time that goat decides to run one of his horns into her ass.
& you nor anybody in here could ever lure me into anything or scare me.
They really scared that poor little one.......
But they actually lock up like that on just about anything that startles them.
They have been bred for this purpose.
Hence the term escape goat. Post edited by Mockery at 8/23/2012 7:31:05 PM
Originally posted by: (SF) DirtyRatFink We should all make a plan for survivors to band together and take over. We will make it here, for the benefit of the people who are watching/tracking Chuck Stones, then we will make a real plan covertly.
That's nice of ya
You are the decoy. We thank you for your sacrifice.
Poor stones is our resident fainting goat........
I love those goats! Post edited by IrishRebel at 8/23/2012 7:32:21 PM
Originally posted by: Stoneymontana That's not cool. Poor little goat, he about had a heart attack.
Lets see how funny she think's it is the next time that goat decides to run one of his horns into her ass.
& you nor anybody in here could ever lure me into anything or scare me.
They really scared that poor little one.......
But they actually lock up like that on just about anything that startles them.
They have been bred for this purpose.
Hence the term escape goat.
Ok, bizarre but still kind of shitty to be scaring the shit out the poor little guy. Especially getting him to come out & eat just for the purpose to do that.
