Colony

[The Local Ned]

One does ones best

I am glad that my posts are at least sparking some debate.

Many no doubt feel that as they have mastered < insert survival challenge here > once or twice then they are ready for life without the amenities.
Newsflash - Must do better.

@ BigPaul , I agree with you mate , soldiers ARE NOT farmers , but they're good at holding the weapons to 'encourage' others to do it for them.
Do you understand what I am saying here ?

Like it or lump it , I'm not challenging anyone regarding their own personal prep skills , or their belief that they are/will be ready, just because of the mental prep being shown on forward thinking sites - such as this one.

I'm no great prepper , yes I have some kit stowed away for me and mine when the time comes...NO...I have no plans other than surviving the whole meltdown over the few weeks it will take to settle into some anarchic stand-off.

After that ? I don't know.

I understand some of the kit I might need , I also understand what I need it for and how to use it properly.

I honestly want to hand out gold stars to you guys for having the guts to prepare , but some of the ideas / methods that have been mentioned would find leading SF people scratching their heads in confusion.
I mean no personal attacks here , and my wish isn't to offend anyone , but merely to highlight where I am coming from.

On trolling the forums I read , Scythes post ( I think ) , when he and his ex had camped out in a forest for a day or two with nothing but a backpack and tent etc.

I did this before I reached my teens...
Ok , matches were used ,bread , tins of beans , cup-a-soups , bottles of water etc but the scenario was the same - dropped off in woods a few miles from home , near a good river , pitched up a tent , gathered wood and lit a fire to deter the midgies...and fished till we lost the light.
That was us for a whole weekend , we knew roughly where we were , but didnt know where the nearest phone box , shop etc was.
It's simply not an adventure...living off the land...I think I could do it if I had to.
Rabbits ? easy...sheep/cows ? Yes , I think I could do that too.

Vegetation wise ? - I'm no lofty wiseman so I cant really comment apart from I know what NOT to eat near me...brambles ?- rabbits burrows are ALWAYS near them , snaring ? just use some nets and a polecat or ferret , done that before too.
Polecat or ferret lying in ? ( eating rabbit in situ , refusing to come out ) - smoke it out !

Done all this as I grew up....country people will know all about this and will be nodding.

Where most of us will fail will be in the more technical side of things , like water purification , or health related issues.
The knowledge of how to live off the land isn't all that rare - believe me , the knowledge of how to setup water buttes , and running purification filters is what is rare.

Common sense tells you to eat the fat rabbit first , and not the skinny , ragged looking one.

Feel free to congratulate yourselves ,on your preparedness, and what you are capable of , as some of you so obviously deserve...but at the same time - don't just shrug your shoulders and assume that others with perhaps less skills won't be hunting you to take it all away.

I just want to tell you how much I admire your dedication to survive the upcoming SHTF.