What should I prep for?

[Tigs]

(25 August 2012, 10:03)Prepaday Wrote: As a fairly new prepper and my eyes just beginning to open to everything shit in this world it is hard not to get scared and nervous, I am entering a new transition stage myself by being a prepper and it can get scary
I hope in time, if we have some, I can harden up, I think being a woman doesn't help, we are naturally soft and kind hearted, that's why the men do the hunting!
Slowly,slowly catch a monkey and all that. I will NOT wake up tomoz and be reformed into a hardened person, 40 years of being nice is hard to shrug off
I'm doing things at my own pace and yes the pace is slow but I'm building up a resistance at the same time, I don't want to be hit square bang in the face when TSHTF

when we started farming my wife could not even watch a chicken being dispatched yet would quite happily eat it after it was plucked and clean , now 7 years on she quite happily does it her self , she shoots rabbits etc and now fishes its all a matter of practice the more you do the easier it comes , its the same for every thing i found that out during 20 years of military service

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(25 August 2012, 10:13)bigpaul Wrote:

(25 August 2012, 10:09)Tigs Wrote:

(25 August 2012, 09:44)bigpaul Wrote: i dont think, if the big event happens, we will go back to a cave man type existence, more like a pre industrial age where everything is done by hand instead of machines. we may have a period where things start running out then everything levels out. we dont know exactly what will happen, so all we can do is prepare for the worst and hope it dosent get that bad.

we would not even go that far back , more likely we would end up with technology from around the 1860's or even 1880's , oil lamps steam power hand tools etc all achievable with out modern technology , depending on the the of shtf the short time after it happens would be the survive on your own or in small groups, but long term would mean small groups would join up and create some sort of new organized society with rules and laws , those who farm and make thing and those who protect , not all preppers /survivors will be gun mad shot at anything nuts in fact the vast majority of us will be the opposite just willing to go that bit further to protect ourselves and others we are with .

generally i agree with you, this country would be more placid than America where they all seem to be gun nuts...you read their prepping sites and its all guns and ammo...especially on youtube.

yeah i read one sites thread were they are prepping by stocking up on guns ,ammo, bows ,crossbows ,arrows ,knives etc but no food ?? they intend to take that by force !!!!! scary stuff