Okay everyone, what are some ideas you have for defense. These don't have to be anything deadly or abstract, but can be. They could be simple as black out curtains and reinforced locks. I am just looking for more ideas than I have already. I have an entire composition notebook filled with...

I am not talking about a bunker, rather i am talking about a room with your gear either ready to go or bug in. Mine consists of a shelf full of survival books and manuals, blue prints, binders full of notes, and projects I have done such as my solar panel project. There is a desk to work at...

Recently here on SB and on another site I peruse, I've noticed a renewed interest in the contents of the first aid supplies a person carries/stores for long term hiking/wilderness adventures and/or in their prepping. I find that the following items get overlooked rather easily and most commonly...

So I moved from key to ne pa. I am 40 min east of Scranton in a gated community in the Poconos. I was concerned only being two hours from nyc... but my hopes are the impassible roads on winter will deter a large amount of evacuees. Plus how hard it is to find my house in the summer. The people...

I'm new to this site but not new to prepping. I am a former paramedic and firefighter and my husband and I are both veterans. I have a farm and are self reliant so we are planning on bugging in. However, if is the worst case, we are bugging out to our ranch. So, I thought I was covered and then...

I grew up with a concrete cistern, 90 percent of our water came from the roof and gutters draining through a concrete filter box with sand/charcoal/screen; and was thinking hey, now I might do something like that as a supplement using the rain from the rainfall at my place now. Doing some...

I am looking for some opinions here. I have been prepping for about a year maybe. I just bought a house in the Metro Detroit area. The more I think about it the more I realize that I may have killed myself if SHTF. My problems lie in the fact that bugging in would be a bad idea. My home is...

http://sibitotique.blogspot.com/2011/07/bug-in-plan.html Having a Plan is a vital part of being prepared for Emergency and Survival Situations. Two main strategies dominate the survival strategies within the Prepper and Survivalist Movement: Bug In and Bug Out. Bugging In or Bug In refers to...

Okay so I decided to change my shtf weapons. It was DPMS LR308 with 10x42 falcon menace Ar Pistol 8.5 inch barrel with Eotech 1911 pistol With this set up i have long range, Cqb, and a side arm. I was thinking of changing it to A Keltec RFB/ or M1a loaded my Benelli M4 1911 or a Remingtion SPS...

ive seen a "master list" of preps for someone who is planning on bugging in if you have the link for this i would appreciate it......also i know that its going to vary from person to person

I didn't see this subject in other threads, so please forgive me if this is incorrectly posted or redundant. What's a BOB, you say? What's a BIB? Well, BOB and BIB are acronyms for Bug Out Bag and Bug In Bag, respectively. In case of disaster, man-made or otherwise, you need to get you and...

I've just finished reading the 'SHTF and Pregnancy' thread. There were some very good thoughts and opinions on the matter of having kids knowing the state that the world is currently in and that things are not getting any better. But, for those family's out there who already have a baby or...

Okay. This is a serious topic and should be well thought out! Prepping depends a lot on your budget and your living circumstances. There are two survival philosophies: Bug In or Bug Out. Now even though I am a bug out practitioner I do believe it is more practical for most of the crowd to bug...

Okay. This is a serious topic and should be well thought out! Prepping depends a lot on your budget and your living circumstances. There are two survival philosophies: Bug In or Bug Out. Now even though I am a bug out practitioner I do believe it is more practical for most of the crowd to bug...

Just thought I would share this how to video on the method I use to store water in case of emergency. This originally came from another forum and it's simply brilliant. Why hadn't I thought of this before?

Say it gets bad quick. My scenario is this: Feel like i am prepared with ammo and weapons. Feel like I have enough food an water for a few months. Live on a pond and have 15 acres with hundreds around me to "utilize". Problem is this....There me, avid hunter, can shoot, have some tactical...

So I read all the time on the forums that ammunition like .223 and 7.62x39 and .308 etc is going to be plentiful in an SHTF situation because they are so common. I thought about this for a while and I have to keep asking myself where exactly this ammunition is going to be coming from. To hear...