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there will be a lot of people/sheeple who will not be able to cope with the sound of silence, they are surrounded in their normal everyday lives with so much noise and clamour I think they will go nuts once everything is quiet.

Any one noticed how sound carries up from a valley when you're on a hill? Even the smallest sound seems to carry for miles.

Legendary American backpacker, Ray Jardine, talks about the "Fox Walk" - a way of moving through the countryside light-of-foot, and with a steady side-to-side movement of the head to take in what is going on all around.

Yup a rifleman is taught to move his head side to side as he patrols because the rods and cones in your eyeballs are set up so that the sides of your eyeball detect MOVEMENT much better than the back of the eyeball which detects SHAPE better, Especially in low light or darkness the sides of your vision is more likely to detect a threat than if you looked straight at the target area.

A Biker's eyes and ears are ever watchful, his eyes never stop for a moment and his ears are attuned for any strange noise, riding alone, (not constricted by a metal cage with radio blaring, kids shrieking and wife nagging) his every sense is stretched to full capacity.

Very true BP I can testify to that

But do you know what you are looking for and where to look to find it, or what you are hearing, or not hearing?

A walk to town for the newspaper or taking out the dog and being hunted like a wild animal are different activities involving a skillset 99% of the human race has never developed.

And don't just point at the sheeple! SHTF even the people here will not know how to properly cross a street and stay alive.

It is the same with navigation skills. Recreational map and compass work and tactical map and compass work are worlds apart.

My two sons that were in Iraq had to learn to drive civilized roads all over again when they returned home. My youngest refused to get behind the wheel for a month after returning for fear his combat driving would kick in automatically.

It's a jungle out there!

(11 June 2013, 20:19)Mortblanc Wrote: [ -> ]But do you know what you are looking for and where to look to find it, or what you are hearing, or not hearing?

Yup two tours of Northern Ireland proved that, and 20 years soldiering.

(11 June 2013, 20:19)Mortblanc Wrote: [ -> ]But do you know what you are looking for and where to look to find it, or what you are hearing, or not hearing?

Yes,.. The humble British Squadie knows a few things too

I shall be sitting quietly on horseback, waiting.....

anyone who has ever lived in a city knows about "watching their back" and reading other people.