Traps

[Wildman]

(2 December 2012, 18:07)Tibbs735 Wrote: Having strong, defensible boundaries on you land will always be a good idea (Fences, hawthorn hedges etc), but until know of a definite threat, I wouldn't put in active traps, but passive obstacles, like large rocks, dips and obscured obstacles in hedges to stop vehicles etc, as well as making it easy to defend, but hard to approach.
If I knew people we coming, like a raiding party some time after SHTF, only then would I consider the Viet cong stuff

thats the reason i'm posting, if there anyone out there who feels they must make a target of them selfs then its their foot in a trap u might say. but the question was shtf and you need to protect your goods,farm/family. in this situation its fight or flight. there ist to many traps in this instance whitch arent made to hurt,kill,threaten,frighten,intimidate the nme. theres no middle ground, its eiter fight or flight. my self, i feel that one man guarding at night and another in the day with a 243-or high powered crossbow is enough. the only other traps i would set would be alarm traps on the boarders, i would incourage birds to live on my land coz their the best early warning signal, and a couple of jerry cans filled with petrol with co2 gas capsules, jars of screws,steel bb's ect tapped to the out side and placed at shootable intervals in the distance.