Thoughts on WROL and engaging 'targets'

[Prepper1]

(7 November 2012, 13:19)Scythe13 Wrote:

(7 November 2012, 12:43)bigpaul Wrote: better to know who is in your area before they find you!

I completely agree with that. But I'm unsure HOW that is going to be possible?!?!? I'd love to have an early warning system, and stuff like that. I'd love to see them coming, so that I can watch them and work out their intentions (if possible), but that's really unlikely to happen. They'll notice you before you notice them, in at least 90% of the occurrences!

As LS said, it's a thought he hadn't looked into.

With prepping there is an element of fantasy. That's a fact, and it's very hard to stay level headed and logical. The people best at doing that (that I've met in person) are SD and Terry. Both have a very logical look on things and they see stuff I've never considered. I'm not kissing butt, but I am promoting where it's due. I've not met all the preppers on here, so I'm not knocking anyone else.

This element of fantasy is clear in all of us. Yes, even me...would you think it?!?!? haha.

The thing is, when you break things down into a logical system, that's when issues arise. The idea of being shot by an arrow....damn that's going to hurt! Anyone that says it'll kill me.....what basis is that statement on? How many people have you shot with an arrow? Have you tried shooting a moving target and getting a one shot kill? I have no doubt that it will fricking hurt like mad. But one arrow probably won't take most people down and kill them straight out. More than likely they'll be hurt, but probably not a one shot kill. I'm just as guilty with the fantasy view, so I'm not having a go at anyone.


The logical vs theoretical prepping argument is HUGE when looking at this WROL issue.

As preppers, we plan to survive, farm, harvest, and generally live an agrarian lifestyle. That lifestyle means....you're going to be f**king busy all day!!! Gathering/filtering water, hunting, butchering, farming, building, cooking, collecting/chopping fire wood, making arrows, making fire, home-brewing, and loads of other things. As a result, we're not going to have time scouting a 360 degree horizon. But who has a totally flat horizon? We'll be looking up and down as well!!!

If you're bugging out to a BOL, or your home is a BOL, it's very likely your home is going to be seen from a distance!!! Can anyone else see the issue here? You WILL be seen before you see them!!! I'm not hugely sure that'll be debatable.

Imagine it the other way round. You're wondering around, in a WROL setting. Do you think you're going to see a house in the distance? You're dressed in camo, or dark colours. You're aware that you could well get attacked, and so are probably carrying your knife/bow/gun with you. Do you think you'll see the house, hear someone chopping wood, see a f**king road or path leading somewhere? Of course you would. No point underestimating sheeple. Yes they are dumb, but then again, they can't all be dumb, because there will be people with eyes that can see a house in the distance!

With that in mind, the whole BOL situation changes, in my opinion.

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This change means that anyone approaching, is either desperate, genuinely interested in helping, carrying news, or part of a wolf-pack of hunters.

With this in mind, everything changes.

You can shoot at them, you can pretend you're not home....but they heard the chopping, they can see the smoke, they can see your farmed fields, they hear that dog/cow/sheep/baby.

You're going to have confrontations up close and personal. They might just be looking for a bit of water on their way somewhere else. Who knows. But looking over a horizon 24/7, even if it's between 3 people, is going to be hard going!!!

Do you engage? How do you know their intentions? If you let them go, will they tell others of your location? Are they bringing news of your whereabouts? What's the situation? You can't tell, until you're face to face speaking, and even that might not be enough. Maybe they're from a fellow prepping group and are looking to barter?!?!? We all have barter items. What for, if we're not going to interact with people outside of our group/team?

Yup its called battle fatigue, Its a downside of being constantly on alert and hyped up for combat.
Unless we are in a walled citadel with specialized units for guard duty and combat so the others can let there hair down and concentrate on planting or chopping wood say its going to be a fact of life until wrol is not a threat anymore.
Whens that going to happen?
Who's up for building a walled citadel now then?