This thread is for preparing (aka prepping) for emergency situations (aka SHTF).
Feel free to discuss topics relating to the 6 categories that are effected; Defense, water, food, medical, shelter, and communications.
To start the thread I'll ask some questions and post some links to useful links and PDFs.
Defense: Do you have many firearms stockpiled or just a few? Do you choose calibers based on how easy they are to stockpile? Do you even have a stock of ammunition?
Water: How much water do you have? How do you store it? If you don't have water, how do you plan to get it? And how do you plan to make it safe to drink?
Food: How much food do you have? What is your go to method of preservation (canning, mylar bags, #10 cans, etc)? Do you go straight for calories, or try to keep nutrition in mind? Do you rotate your food, and set and forget?
Medicine: Do you have medical training? Do you stock medication as well as trauma supplies? Do you have health concerns that you prepare for?
Shelter: Do you know how to build shelters in the wilderness? What preps do you have to protect you from the environment (this can be a discussion of close, shoes, milsurp jackets, tents, emergency blankets, bivys/sleeping bags, or methods to start fires)? Have you been camping in extreme temperatures? Have you actually used your preps in the wilderness?
Coms: Do you have radios? Do you know how to use your radios? Do you have other methods of coms (like whistles or flares) and have you ever tried to use them to communicate?
BONUS: Literature and precious metals. Do you have literature on being prepared for an emergency? Is it hard copy? Have you actually read it yet? Do you have a store of wealth put away in case the grid goes down or the stock market crashes? Do you use crypto to protect your wealth?
>I'll post the links in the first reply
