(27 April 2014, 12:36)Tartar Horde Wrote: If they are on your "patch" near your traps then you have to assume they are going to rob you of any food caught, why else would they be skulking around your woods anyway. If they're unarmed I would confront them and drive them away with the threat of deadly force, as you don't want competition for limited resources, they will take food that your family/group could use, SHTF is not polite society it is survival. If they are armed in any way I can't take the chance of being polite, hoping they won't kill me, because they might!! and we have Women and Children to protect.
So how would you respond? Play around with different scenarios.
This question, and leaving it so open, has caused me to greatly consider the different possibilities that may happen. Thoughts like scaring them off, then having someone watch them, has come to mind. Other ideas were to make your numbers look much larger than they are.
Don't forget, if they take your compound/BOL or wherever you are, if it's well stocked, they're not leaving until they have done a locust impression and eaten all of your stuff, ruined your gardening, and the alike. OR, they will move in, take over, and own/control all you've built.
How would you respond? Would you know how to attack your own location effectively?