UK preppers

[DrHenley]

If you are looking for PC, you've stumbled into the wrong place, LOL.

 

[BillMasen]

Thick skin and an open mind is needed to be a sucessful prepper.

 

[Gracieboo]

I meant it! Your post was reassuring not anti PC.

 

[Gracieboo]

Wrong forum, I was referring to your post in the other forum.

 

[BillMasen]

Here is a starter infographic https://modernsurvivalonline.com/infographic-tips-for-emp/ you can find many more at
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/wisefoodstorage/prepper-infographics/

 

[Gracieboo]

The surge suppressor sounds good. I’ve got a wind up radio and torch but haven’t got round to putting them in a faraday cage. Didn’t know you could use a cake tin. I’ve seen some convoluted ones online but took up too much space, cake tin is ideal. Can you buy emp proof solar panels? Thinking a small one for the garden would be best rather than the roof as I couldn’t afford it and would worry it wouldn’t be protected enough.

 

[Edmunde Burke]

I am Dorset based.

 

[Gracieboo]

Hi Edmund,
This thread hasn’t been added to for a while. It came up on my email. I did this when I first started using the site, as I’m not used to using a forum. If Im looking for info I type the main word into search. Or post your question in the area you’re looking for. I don’t post questions really as most of what I’m looking for is already here.

 

[pooky2483]

Just dropping by again.
I was just wondering what everyone was doing regarding the currently reported upcoming food shortages. I don't watch the stupid box, I get what I know from trusted sources on YouTube & farcebook (facebook).

We're topping up out food stocks as we've just acquired a nice big shed which I can also put my tools and other things in. I've recently been to ALDI and it seems they don't mind you walking out with half the store as I've taken full boxes of stuff and they've not said anything, I guess they're more interested in profit, as after all, they've basically said as much in regards to getting you through the checkouts.

I've also increased my armory and ammo.

 

[BillMasen]

We have remained fully prepped and stocked up because we believe this pandemic has not yet even peaked, The Pingdemic, The screwed up shipping cvos of the evergreen, the trucker shortage, the Iso container shortage, new strains of covid, huge numbers of public sector workers refusing to return to work etc etc this is far from over.

 

[lonewolf]

I do a 4 weekly big shop and top up my food stocks that way, I have been told staff in supermarkets are not allowed(by management) to make personal remarks about your shopping, stuff will only be rationed-like we saw early in the pandemic- if the masses start panic buying again.
having our own stock piles puts us ahead of the masses.

 

[pooky2483]

A good place to get rice, cooking oil & flour is Indian supermarkets, we have (that I know of) 2 in Normanton (Derby), Sherif & Sons / Pak Foods.

 

[lonewolf]

none round our way (rural) we use Asda and Lidl on a 4 week rota.

 

[Dropship]

I'm english but tend to hang on American prepper / survivalist forums because America is about 5 times bigger than the UK (if my maths are right) therefore there's more going on.
By comparison purely UK sites tend to be less active and have the wind whistling through them a lot of the time..

 

[Illini Warrior]

I'm english but tend to hang on American prepper / survivalist forums because America is about 5 times bigger than the UK (if my maths are right) therefore there's more going on.
By comparison purely UK sites tend to be less active and have the wind whistling through them a lot of the time..

I started monitoring the UK sites for the upsurge when the EU break-off was pending - expecting some useful & unique prepping perspectives >>> didn't see much of any activity increase

 

[Dropship]

My only beef with US prep/survival websites is that they're too gun-centred and seem to think owning a gun guarantees their survival in all situations, so as a result their brains turn to mush because they never use them, and I have to keep reminding them to fight with their brain first and their weapons second.
They banned me from Survivalist Board last week for saying stuff like that, I suppose they couldn't handle the fact that a limey was trying to tell them what to do..

 

[Amish Heart]

Many US gun owners practice regularly. Not mush brains. Have to disagree with you there.

 

[DrHenley]

My only beef with US prep/survival websites is that they're too gun-centred and seem to think owning a gun guarantees their survival in all situations, so as a result their brains turn to mush because they never use them, and I have to keep reminding them to fight with their brain first and their weapons second.
They banned me from Survivalist Board last week for saying stuff like that, I suppose they couldn't handle the fact that a limey was trying to tell them what to do..

The Revolutionary War was started because of Limeys trying to take our guns away. So yeah, we're a bit touchy about that.

 

[Dropship]

The Revolutionary War was started because of Limeys trying to take our guns away. So yeah, we're a bit touchy about that.

Mad King Georgy was to blame for that, and now you've got a Mad King Joe who's trying to do the same thing..-

 

[Dropship]

Many US gun owners practice regularly. Not mush brains. Have to disagree with you there.

I'm talking tactical planning and organisation, not just trigger pulling..
I've been regularly beating firearms owners of all nations on the online computer wargaming circuit for the past 19 years..

Below: me leading my squad in Armed Assault, I tell them "Stick with me if you want to live"

 

[Dropship]

I started monitoring the UK sites for the upsurge when the EU break-off was pending - expecting some useful & unique prepping perspectives >>> didn't see much of any activity increase

i voted for Brexit, we simply sat sipping our tea and let Brexit happen without bothering to bat an eye..

 

[Dropship]

Hey guys I've been meaning to ask-
If anybody's interested- Is there a forum section where I can create a "Doomsday Hall" thread where we can discuss how to get a survival group going in a starving hardcore post-apoc world where 99% of the worlds population has been killed by plague or asteroid?
For example I envisage taking over an abandoned country house like this one, then we can have fun talking about defending it, growing food, animal husbandry etc.

 

[DrHenley]

I've been regularly beating American firearms owners on the online computer wargaming circuit for the past 19 years..

There is a reason the military teaches markmanship at the range not on simulators...

 

[DrHenley]

Kaiser Wilhelm to a Swiss militiaman: "You are 500,000 and you shoot well, but if we attack with 1,000,000 men what will you do?"
Militiaman: "We will shoot twice and go home."

 

[Dropship]

There is a reason the military teaches markmanship at the range not on simulators...

Yes, i've never fired a real gun in my life but I hope to muddle through in an apocalypse, for example I think heard that the pointed end of the cartridge has to go into the breech first..
PS- the world's military use simulators (below) probably when it's raining so they won't have to go outside and get wet-

 

[tmttactical]

I am a Range Master at our local gun range. I can assure you, from my weekly encounters, that there is a major learning curve to being an adequate shooter from being a video game warrior. Every week I encounter shooters that cannot hit a 12 x 12 inch target at 100 yards and don't even know where their bullets are hitting. I don't play video games but I can put 5 shots into a 1 inch group at 100 yards and I am not considered a great shooter. When was the last time a video game required the player to understand ballistic drop, wind deflection and angle to target?

 

[DrHenley]

Trigger control, flinching, breathing, clearing jams, target acquisition, reacquisition after firing, changing mags...just some of the things you can't learn about on a computer game.

 

[Dracos]

I did not realize that the anti-gun brainwashing in the UK was so successful. The Native Americans learned a long time ago that a pure sprit and a bow and arrows were no match for a mean spirit and firearms. If it wasn't for The United States and their nasty guns the English would be speaking German now.

 

[Dropship]

...If it wasn't for The United States and their nasty guns the English would be speaking German now.

And if not for the Brits you'd still be speaking Crow or Blackfoot..

GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY: the Pilgrim Fathers land in the New World!
"Thank God that voyage is over, I was puking my guts up all the way across the Atlantic.
Okay people, break out the guns and let's go bust Hiawatha's ass, we'll be running the place inside a week if he's the best they've got around here"

 

[Acdoctor]

Trigger control, flinching, breathing, clearing jams, target acquisition, reacquisition after firing, changing mags...just some of the things you can't learn about on a computer game.

Let’s not forget about recoil and report for the first time shooter. Video games don’t have either by comparison. Lol