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[maliki]

You forgot duck tape every kit i have has a roll. Its good for everything from taping closed a gaping heavy bleading wound or splint to making temporary shelters repeairing broken belts on cars coolant hose and many more things.... Must have Duck tape or duct tape or grey vinal canvis back tape theres as many names as uses...

[banjojo]

stock up on bike tires. If we have a serious oil crisis there will not be enough bike tires.

[maliki]

Weve had many a long thread abought matters involving our ultimate survival.
Everything From water, shelter, food, weapons, combat, power, and medicine have been touched upon. I propose a thread dedicated to these things. We all have our own ways to survive whats yours ?
Ive got a Ton of information Some Cut and paste some links
Some personall information of ways to survive .
Skills and Mindset are your two greteast assets.
Lets Develop them..

On Topic Discusion.....!

[maliki]

When your talking modern day survival it is generaly geard to surving
Confrontaions with your fellow man.
For the pupose of this discussion lets asume the shit has hit the fan
And our society has fallen appart around us.

In a survival situation we need to prioritize our list of things to do.
First question how prepared am I ?
How long will the situation last.
What is the situation?
What do we have stocked up? Water food amunition?
How was it all stored?
Do we have the skills needed to bug out to a secluded
Semi secure Location where we can avoid detection?
How many other peoploe have thought of the same place as we did?
Did we stash food water weapons out in this area ahead of time?
Do we remeber where we put them ??? :)
Shelter What time of year is it for weather?
Do we have maps and a compas WITH the knowledge reguried to use them?
Do we know the skills neede for an extended stay?
Can we tie knots make cordage from plants and animals
Do we know how to design traps and snares for animal huntig?
How about for personal defense?

These are some of the things were going to answer on this one
Put your thinking caps on guys and ladies.....

[Hippie3]

it all starts with mental preparation,
recognizing the threat potential.

[maliki]

WATER PROCUREMENT

Water is one of your most urgent needs in a survival situation. You can' t live long without it, especially in hot areas where you lose water rapidly through perspiration. Even in cold areas, you need a minimum of 2 liters of water each day to maintain efficiency.

More than three-fourths of your body is composed of fluids. Your body loses fluid as a result of heat, cold, stress, and exertion. To function effectively, you must replace the fluid your body loses. So, one of your first goals is to obtain an adequate supply of water.
There are multipile ways to get watter.
Depending on your situation will decide which method you use.
First in your survival kit do you have 3 or 4 dry cleanrs plastic bags ?
I like these because there super light and pack encreadably small.
Can be used to catch rain watter or to shelter you from water.
You can make a soloar still with them which is what ill outline here.
A solar still is esentialy a cold finger extrator.
Dig a shallow depresion in the ground 10 inches deep 2 feet around .
Put your collection cup bowl tin can in the center of the pit .
Stretch a single layer of plastic over the hole in the ground.
Place rocks sticks etc around the edges of the plastic and try to seal it down to the ground well even cover the outer edges with dirt , ya got plenty dug up allready. Place a small stone in the middle of the plastic so it sags down in the midle over your cup. As the sun heats the ground under the plastic the water in the soil evaporates honenses on the plastic and runs down into your cup . If you see you have very litle water forming put abought 2 inches of fresh green leaves in the bootom.
The water that you get from this is pure 100% distiled water.
You could make water from posion ivy leaves and be fine.

Any one else got ideas and or skills to add ?

Maliki:)

[maliki]

know your enemy. Know your needs. Know what you must be prpaired to do.
Know If and when it is time to bug out to your backup location.
Know what you need to be prepaired.
Now mind you guys im not right wing or left for that matter.
Just a guy with a stong desire to survive
FREE OF A PRISON
No matter what form of prison it is
Be it Martial law Terror Or economic collapse
The Latter being of my most serious concern
As it will more then likely precurse the other two.

[maliki]

The list is great to have in a pack ready to go but how many of us would know how to use all of whats in the list.?
Its an old thread but still a good one hip..
lets revive it..

[Hippie3]

turning real world practical,
let's say we were in new oreans right before katrina hit.
what steps would one need to take ?

[Hippie3]

i don't discriminate against old threads like some sites do,
if it's open
then post to it
add to it
comment on it, etc.

[maliki]

How I sit for prepaired right now I would have been all set for katrina.
provided my house wasnt washed away. But for conversations sake lets say my home was washed away. And I was stranded in orleans .
First on a list if things to do would be procure a small boat of some type. Then Proced to loot everything I needed to survive. Light bulbs batteries from cars a car stereo for news , If I could find some tools and a lawn mower steal an alternator from a car and make a small 12 volt generator for power . plenty of gas around to aquire. Loot food move from shelter to shelter loot a scanner to keep an ear on the athoritys. And weight it out for a few weeks.
Simply put what ever it took for me to survive in an urban enviroment.

[shedthemonkey]

How about one of those wind-up radio/flashlight combos?
water purification tablets
one of those little fire starting kits which is some flint on a block of magnesium
anti-bacterial handywipes
roll of TP or paper towels (or both if you got the room)
$20 bill folded up small.

emergency stash of herb to get you through the emergency? :D

[Hippie3]

let's assume you cannot loot for supplies.
too dangerous, police and gangsters shooting anyone on the streets.
or perhaps it's un-safe outside due to toxins, radiation.
or your house is surrounded by deep water and you cannot swim,
etc.

[Hippie3]

a radio transmitter would be good, a generator is a necessity.

even heard of a corn-burning stove,
burns feed corn for heat
and you can still use the 'ash' as animal feed,
burns about a bushel a day