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Reply to: Military surplus: Favorite online sources and items Posted March 26, 2022

If you’re in the UK then there is this site which has a ton of stuff military related and it’s quite affordable too. For me, it’s the range of decent camouflaged items on there which is just more authentic than other places you can buy it – talking about tarps, tents, a range of ghillie suits. I think other stores try to ‘do’ camouflaged items, but these guys just get the colour codes developed by specialists and is not just the run of the milll camouflage.

Reply to: How to prepare with pets Posted March 26, 2022

Yes a horse has to be the ultimate survival animal and horses have helped nations explore and conquer for thousands of years. They’re just all round a good animal, and greatly allow you to travel much further without being drained, and yes they can go cross country with no issues. I suppose the only issue would be having the ability to properly shod them and administer medicine when needed. Dogs are great (if you have the right breed I suppose) and you can stock up on bags of food that will last a year fairly cheaply. If you have one or two dogs they can be an asset for survival, but if you’re trying to bug out with a pack of them you’ll run into more problems than it’s worth. Yes, they could be cut loose and fend for themselves for a while I suppose.

Reply to: How to prepare with pets Posted March 25, 2022

It’s a really good question, and I think some animals are better for prepping than others like I say in my article here. If you’re in your house, sure, you can take care of just about any animal in the normal way. However, you can’t bug out with a fish or a budgie, or a cat really to be perfectly honest. You should be focusing on your survival and you might be carrying a lot of gear, and you can’t really take a cat in a carry case on a 50 mile hike to your bug out. They can’t walk with you as they’d probably run off, and if you are having to set up camp somewhere new, there would be the same issue I think. All in all, the ony pet animal really suitable for bugging out is a dog, after thatI would say a horse, and possibly some sort of prey bird that could fly and keep up with you and possibly catch you a rabbit along the way 🙂

Reply to: “Reasonable” preparations for a nuclear conflict—picking a place to live… Posted March 25, 2022

Yeah I think you’re totally right, and it’s not so much about the long-term, it’s about being in the right place to begin with so a nuclear war doesn’t affect you so much. You have to survive the initial stages of a nuclear war first of all, but then also have the supplies and knowhow to move forward after such an attack. I created a nuclear war survival guide here trying to explain that and other aspects of what this kind of attack would actually be like in reality. It’s different for the UK, granted, but I think the world would somehow pick itself back up even after global nuclear war. A nuclear winter or ‘autumn’ in some cases, don’t think would last for decades. It just sucks that a handful of politicians aroudn the world, the 0.00001% of people on this earth, make stupid decisions to ‘protect’ us that would literally cause millions of deaths. No citizenry on earth wants nuclear war, yet the MSM and governments keep pushing for it.

Reply to: An observation on prepping in 2022 Posted March 25, 2022

You’re exactly right, I was a prepper before, but all of this has prompted me to step things up a gear and get more supplies, consider chickens, think of long term survival, and even start my own website here dedicated to British preppers, as I think the American prepper scene is totally different, from the foods and places to go to all the guns they can have. Check it out here if you’re interested in UK based prepping: https://britishprepper.com/ Having said what you’ve said though, I still think the vast majority of people are nonethewiser to what is coming and are still woefully unprepared for a major SHTF event whether it’s nuclear war or just daily life costing thousands of pounds more per year.

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Reply to: Military surplus: Favorite online sources and items Posted March 26, 2022

If you’re in the UK then there is this site which has a ton of stuff military related and it’s quite affordable too. For me, it’s the range of decent camouflaged items on there which is just more authentic than other places you can buy it – talking about tarps, tents, a range of ghillie suits. I think other stores try to ‘do’ camouflaged items, but these guys just get the colour codes developed by specialists and is not just the run of the milll camouflage.

Reply to: How to prepare with pets Posted March 26, 2022

Yes a horse has to be the ultimate survival animal and horses have helped nations explore and conquer for thousands of years. They’re just all round a good animal, and greatly allow you to travel much further without being drained, and yes they can go cross country with no issues. I suppose the only issue would be having the ability to properly shod them and administer medicine when needed. Dogs are great (if you have the right breed I suppose) and you can stock up on bags of food that will last a year fairly cheaply. If you have one or two dogs they can be an asset for survival, but if you’re trying to bug out with a pack of them you’ll run into more problems than it’s worth. Yes, they could be cut loose and fend for themselves for a while I suppose.

Reply to: How to prepare with pets Posted March 25, 2022

It’s a really good question, and I think some animals are better for prepping than others like I say in my article here. If you’re in your house, sure, you can take care of just about any animal in the normal way. However, you can’t bug out with a fish or a budgie, or a cat really to be perfectly honest. You should be focusing on your survival and you might be carrying a lot of gear, and you can’t really take a cat in a carry case on a 50 mile hike to your bug out. They can’t walk with you as they’d probably run off, and if you are having to set up camp somewhere new, there would be the same issue I think. All in all, the ony pet animal really suitable for bugging out is a dog, after thatI would say a horse, and possibly some sort of prey bird that could fly and keep up with you and possibly catch you a rabbit along the way 🙂

Reply to: “Reasonable” preparations for a nuclear conflict—picking a place to live… Posted March 25, 2022

Yeah I think you’re totally right, and it’s not so much about the long-term, it’s about being in the right place to begin with so a nuclear war doesn’t affect you so much. You have to survive the initial stages of a nuclear war first of all, but then also have the supplies and knowhow to move forward after such an attack. I created a nuclear war survival guide here trying to explain that and other aspects of what this kind of attack would actually be like in reality. It’s different for the UK, granted, but I think the world would somehow pick itself back up even after global nuclear war. A nuclear winter or ‘autumn’ in some cases, don’t think would last for decades. It just sucks that a handful of politicians aroudn the world, the 0.00001% of people on this earth, make stupid decisions to ‘protect’ us that would literally cause millions of deaths. No citizenry on earth wants nuclear war, yet the MSM and governments keep pushing for it.

Reply to: An observation on prepping in 2022 Posted March 25, 2022

You’re exactly right, I was a prepper before, but all of this has prompted me to step things up a gear and get more supplies, consider chickens, think of long term survival, and even start my own website here dedicated to British preppers, as I think the American prepper scene is totally different, from the foods and places to go to all the guns they can have. Check it out here if you’re interested in UK based prepping: https://britishprepper.com/ Having said what you’ve said though, I still think the vast majority of people are nonethewiser to what is coming and are still woefully unprepared for a major SHTF event whether it’s nuclear war or just daily life costing thousands of pounds more per year.