SemperFiUSMC
Master
- Jun 23, 2009
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What is your best weapon? Camoflauge.
Forget about hunting. Everyone else is thinking the same thing. If SHTF the land will be hunted out in months if not weeks. No more meat.
Plant your garden in a remote location, preferably surrounded by a stand of trees on all sides. If possible locate a hand pump to get water nearby. The better concealed your garden and water source are the less likely someone that can shoot 300 yards will kill you for it.
This is not an agist statement. You're 60+. While you may be in good physical condition for being 60+, you're in horrible shape for someone in their 20s or 30s. Physical reality. You need to be smarter than the 20 or 30 year old that would do you harm. That is easy. Reduce your known presence to nothing. Hiding is much better than engaging in a fight you won't win.
Think force multipliers. You want to set up entrapments and other devices that will make it undesirable to seek out your location.
If you really feel compelled to get a weapon, consider a suppressed 22 bolt gun. Quiet. Accurate. With practice you can hit mansize targets to 200+ yards (Gamez235 hits steel at 235 yards shooting offhand with his suppressed CZ).
If I was a pirate I would welcome the sound of gunfire. It tells me where I would need to concentrate my efforts.
Forget about hunting. Everyone else is thinking the same thing. If SHTF the land will be hunted out in months if not weeks. No more meat.
Plant your garden in a remote location, preferably surrounded by a stand of trees on all sides. If possible locate a hand pump to get water nearby. The better concealed your garden and water source are the less likely someone that can shoot 300 yards will kill you for it.
This is not an agist statement. You're 60+. While you may be in good physical condition for being 60+, you're in horrible shape for someone in their 20s or 30s. Physical reality. You need to be smarter than the 20 or 30 year old that would do you harm. That is easy. Reduce your known presence to nothing. Hiding is much better than engaging in a fight you won't win.
Think force multipliers. You want to set up entrapments and other devices that will make it undesirable to seek out your location.
If you really feel compelled to get a weapon, consider a suppressed 22 bolt gun. Quiet. Accurate. With practice you can hit mansize targets to 200+ yards (Gamez235 hits steel at 235 yards shooting offhand with his suppressed CZ).
If I was a pirate I would welcome the sound of gunfire. It tells me where I would need to concentrate my efforts.