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Posted on 12/14/18 at 4:21 pm to danfraz
I'm almost 100lbs overweight. I can easily go 6 months on water, vitamins and protein powder. Will be rough, but I'd easily survive..
Posted on 12/14/18 at 4:26 pm to TDsngumbo
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but at some point ammo would run out whether it's from hunting animals or protecting property from looters. I'm talking a long period of time. A year possibly.
I reload my own. I have enough supplies to kill 200 deer using my rifle. The shotgun would run out quick but building squirrel and bird traps is cheap and easy. Fishing is where it's at at. Gardening would have to start up quickly. I would make it.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 4:30 pm to brmark70816
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I'm almost 100lbs overweight. I can easily go 6 months on water, vitamins and protein powder. Will be rough, but I'd easily survive..
Mmm
Eta: Have some more fried chicken. You'll sustain 20 of us for your own death. Thank you for your service.
This post was edited on 12/14/18 at 4:32 pm
Posted on 12/14/18 at 4:34 pm to TDsngumbo
I have a chickweed and dandylion farm with rabbits, squirrel, and deer galore. Lots of white oak acorns to make indian acrn bread. Neighborhood lake full of catfish and crappie and bluegill. I have a few weeks of fat reserves on me as well.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 4:39 pm to TDsngumbo
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but at some point ammo would run out whether it's from hunting animals or protecting property from looters. I'm talking a long period of time. A year possibly.
I should easily have a year's supply of ammo unless we are talking 50 shots per day. I'd mostly hunt small game with a 22.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 4:40 pm to danfraz
During the great depression the population density of the US was between 1/3 and 1/2 of what it is now.
Wild game was hunted to extremely low numbers during the depression.
I think all the people who think they are going to hunt and fish their way through a long period of blackout will be sadly mistaken by month 3.
Wild game was hunted to extremely low numbers during the depression.
I think all the people who think they are going to hunt and fish their way through a long period of blackout will be sadly mistaken by month 3.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 5:45 pm to TDsngumbo
MREs are probably the last thing you want to be eating for many reasons and the storage life is not that good. Rice, beans and may other vegetables can be prepared for very long term storage. The Church of Later Day Saints are the original preppers and have been preparing for this type event for centuries, download a copy of the "LDS Survival Guide" its available free in PDF form. Everything you need to know about food storage is in it and also on their website here,
LINK
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This post was edited on 12/14/18 at 5:48 pm
Posted on 12/14/18 at 5:50 pm to EA6B
This guide is the most detailed of all;
Posted on 12/14/18 at 5:55 pm to TDsngumbo
Probably start with the fats, then move on to the elderly.
Posted on 12/15/18 at 9:37 am to TDsngumbo
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No electricity, no running engines, no anything
No phone, no lights, no motor car
not a single luxury
like Robinson Crusoe,
it's primitive as can be.
Cats..the other white meat !
This post was edited on 12/15/18 at 9:43 am
Posted on 12/15/18 at 9:52 am to TDsngumbo
Vegans stacked, everyone else fricked.
Posted on 12/15/18 at 9:57 am to TDsngumbo
Louisiana is probably the worse place for a mass population to try and survive long term. The climate itself is not very condusive to preserving meat. It’s a Petri dish for bacteria and disease.
You always hear people say how great they’d be because they can hunt and fish and it’s pretty comical to me when you think just how many people there are that would be in the woods trying to do the same thing, and how they all think the same, yet wouldn’t know what to do if they didn’t have refrigeration.
You always hear people say how great they’d be because they can hunt and fish and it’s pretty comical to me when you think just how many people there are that would be in the woods trying to do the same thing, and how they all think the same, yet wouldn’t know what to do if they didn’t have refrigeration.
This post was edited on 12/15/18 at 10:00 am
Posted on 12/15/18 at 9:58 am to deeprig9
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Lots of white oak acorns to make indian acrn bread
have you ever tried to eat an acorn?...I cracked one and tried it while hunting a couple of years ago. they are just fricking terrible!
Posted on 12/15/18 at 9:58 am to TDsngumbo
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What do we eat if the grid goes down
Each Other
Posted on 12/15/18 at 10:18 am to bird35
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During the great depression the population density of the US was between 1/3 and 1/2 of what it is now.
Wild game was hunted to extremely low numbers during the depression.
I think all the people who think they are going to hunt and fish their way through a long period of blackout will be sadly mistaken by month 3.
This. I hear all the time "well my family has 300 acres and we'll just live off the wildlife." When people are starving, property lines don't mean shite. In fact, when people are starving, a whole bunch of societal rules no longer work. If your child were starving you don't think you'd kill someone for a meal? I don't think anyone realizes how fricked we are if things go south.
I don't remember what the carrying capacity of a non-agrarian United States is but its mind boggling low.
I think chickens would be one of the most valuable things to own. But protecting those chickens might cost you your life. Chickens and gardens seems like what I hear most of by the old timers who lived through the depression. A milk cow would also be huge but keeping it from being shot with a .22 in the middle of the night for its hind leg wouldn't be easy.
Oh and the ability to preserve food by canning in absence of refrigeration would be big too if you could live long enough to grow a harvest.
Posted on 12/15/18 at 10:44 am to bird35
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I think all the people who think they are going to hunt and fish their way through a long period of blackout will be sadly mistaken by month 3
There are limited ways to store food. You don't have transportation to go hunting and come home and go again in the morning. It would last much longer than 3 months.
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