Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
More domestic security considerations.
8 July 2013, 14:05,
#1
More domestic security considerations.
I have been chatting with Spandex and others about various options for improving your home security (now) and better prepping your home and property boundaries for AFTER TSHTF, stuff like metal lined doors, more bolts, fitting window shutters, making the place look abandoned, hiding your supplies behind false walls or keeping your firewood stocks in the garage and the car round the back of the house out of prying eyes way. It would be easy to develop a siege mentality or to become a hermit if we go too far. We are trying to IMPROVE our security thus INCREASING our survival chances by taking sensible steps to make our modest and humble homes more secure.
Living for ten years in an 8x4 space in your loft in total darkness is neither surviving nor worthwhile, there’s no point in surviving unless in time you can once again begin to thrive.
Anyway let’s add another bolt to our quiver and explore another simple step we can all do. First you look out of the windows of the place you call home or BOL and take a look around you, OK fencing, gorse brambles etc cover much of the area round the back and up the sides, but for some of us we are blighted by the dreaded OPEN PLAN regulations which stops you from building a wall and gates round the front of the house.
(Oddly enough in many areas if you use 4x4 fence posts and three or four runs of fencing wire as ”Temporary Supports” for supporting plants (( for plants read privet, blackthorn, hawthorn etc)) you can get past the council planners as there are few rules to say you cannot put plants round the front of your house).
So let’s move back on subject and we are peering out of the windows AFTER TSHTF OK? AFTER TSHTF and you notice that creatures that could erm….. Feed your family!!!! For example, could be hiding behind the brick gate post on the edge of your neighbours drive to your right. To your left you think that the lesser spotted Siberian hedge Buffalo could be using the post box and telecoms cable box to marks its territory. Out of your back bedroom window you wonder if the footprints that run along the back fence boundary to your property are being used by the Greater banded Snatchthief bird as a transit route each night. Anyway moving on if you hope to supplement your starvation rations after TSHTF with meat from these wild beasties it would be wise and prudent to KNOW IN ADVANCE the DISTANCE to the GATE POST, POST BOX and BACK FENCE LINE and anything else in range of your 11.5 foot pound totally legal air rifle would’nt it?
So grab a note book, long length of string (or laser measuring tool) and a chum to hold the other end of the string and from each vantage point / window work out the EXACT distance to those points of interest so so can simply dial your scope or optics to the exact range needed if you see erm…. Vermin or food AFTER TSHTF hiding near your home. Knowing the ranges in advance gives you the upper hand.
PS
Note that certain species of prey could note your position if you hang out the window with your air rifle, if you suspect the vermin could erm Bite back!! Always move back into the room and shoot from the shadows (adjust range accordingly)
Remember SSSSS
Shape, Shine, Sound, Shadow, Silhouette.

Reply
8 July 2013, 14:30,
#2
RE: More domestic security considerations.
Good points Nr but bear in mind when you are doing all this that if you house looks out of place, thorny plants around the front when everyone else has low flowers then the eye is attracted to the difference. Its wired into us and we are curious creatures.

Don't forget you don't have to implement the security measures. Having the equipment and materials may be better as you can stay off radar and when things start going to pot you can then put them in place.
Skean Dhude
-------------------------------
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. - Charles Darwin
Reply
8 July 2013, 15:27, (This post was last modified: 8 July 2013, 15:28 by NorthernRaider.)
#3
RE: More domestic security considerations.
Yup as ever its better to have the gear and not need it, than to need the gear and not have it.

But the ranges in your notebook are essentials NOW.

Reply
13 July 2013, 23:43,
#4
RE: More domestic security considerations.
Additionally to that phrase :-

Unless you've bought repeat quantities of sh**te gear like is sometimes advised! or alternatively you could have aquired the knowledge to adapt & create it yourself...Idea Regards, TL
"How far back in time do you think our future will be?"
Reply


Forum Jump:


Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)