Sounds like you are way ahead of most over there. Good for you! Make sure you know of a few locations to pick up some meat rabbits if things really go down the tube.
What's your 2020 prepping plans and goals?
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Sounds like you are way ahead of most over there. Good for you! Make sure you know of a few locations to pick up some meat rabbits if things really go down the tube.
We also got some lil peepers to join our older chickens. They just started laying eggs. Super cute and curious chickens!
we want to get set up with a wind turbine and also dig a large root cellar on the side of the hill. Big plans before frost.
This month we are both practicing with all guns on our rural BOL property. Last week and this week it's hand guns. Then we move on to long guns. 
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It was very cool this morning so I took four rifles to the range and made a day of it. All but one were shooting spot on. Gotta figure out what's up with the one that was misbehaving.
I also took some 45 Colt plinking loads and shot steel plates with them...one handed of course. I even did some weak side one handed practice. I use 230 grain cast bullets that are designed for the 45 ACP, but they are .454" in diameter so they work fine with no leading in the 45 Colt. The shoot minute-of-plate anyhow, LOL. If I ever get started in Cowboy Action shooting, they should be perfect.
I also took some 45 Colt plinking loads and shot steel plates with them...one handed of course. I even did some weak side one handed practice. I use 230 grain cast bullets that are designed for the 45 ACP, but they are .454" in diameter so they work fine with no leading in the 45 Colt. The shoot minute-of-plate anyhow, LOL. If I ever get started in Cowboy Action shooting, they should be perfect.
Bought some 303 ammo because there was plenty of it. I used to be a big advocate for standard NATO calibers like 308, 5.56 and 9mm. Good luck finding any unless you are so hard up you are willing to stalk the sporting good stores or pay ridiculous prices. Luckily I have some unpopular rifle calibers that I can still go find ammo for no problem like 30-06 and 303. Draw back is that they are not cheap either, but I don’t shoot that many deer in a year anyhow. I may have made a mistake in standardizing my calibers, but got lucky because I keep the old guns around. Best advice I ever got “There are two things you never sell, land and guns.”
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This has been a bad summer for us to get any of our construction plans completed. If we get any moisture before the ground freezes up or the snow falls (doubtfull) I may get a couple projects started. I had plans to add a couple miles of new cross fencing but the ground is too hard to dig any post holes right now. Same for the new (16×16) storage building that I planed to build.
I've decided to build a new wood shed closer to the house. Its possible that I may get it built before winter. The wood shed I built last year will be used to store the snow blowers, wood spliter and one of the ATV's.
I'll be lucky just to get the rest of our hay in and split 8 cord of firewood before snowfall.
I've decided to build a new wood shed closer to the house. Its possible that I may get it built before winter. The wood shed I built last year will be used to store the snow blowers, wood spliter and one of the ATV's.
I'll be lucky just to get the rest of our hay in and split 8 cord of firewood before snowfall.
with all the UK shell restrictions on 00Buck and slugs - I'd have a MEC loader and doing some lead casting if necessary .....
I’d like to double the number of Claymore mines surrounding my property, but I guess I just settle for buying some more bullets and butter.
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I guess its time to start planning on 2021 building projects now. Starting as soon as the snow melts I'm going to add a 16×24 addition on to the barn, build a meat chicken coop, build a 16×36 cover over our rear deck, build a garden shed for the wife, expand the corral (feed lot) by the barn, add a couple miles of new fencing and apply for 40 acres of water rights and put in an irrigation system. I'm also thinking about putting in a new pond in one of our draws. It could hold several acres of water plus I'd like to dig out our current pond to hold more water.
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Don't forget the greenhouse @Arcticdude . You will make lots of Wifey points there.
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Oh yeah. How could I forget that.Don't forget the greenhouse @Arcticdude . You will make lots of Wifey points there.
Leaning to prep in a suburban environment where we're moving to soon in Indiana. Obscurity, heightened security, and conservation of space and room are what I'm focusing on. That, and having a much more robust bug out plan if-needed.
Dont forget when you go out ( visiting your dad etc) always come home different routes and at different times. Never exit your vehicle in a built up area OR return to your vehicle without scanning the area for any potential threats. Always approach your vehicle keys ready and to hand without blocking access to your PDW. Always park nose out so if trouble occurs you dont have to reverse before you can drive off. Never leave bags or valuables where they can be seen, they go in the boot (trunk)
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When I worked in the middle east, parts of Asia, Africa etc I always took different routes and times whenever I drove anywhere. When I'd come to a roadblock at night I'd just hit the gas and plow trough it. Most were phony stops anyway looking for kidnap victims. But here in the US I've never been to an area yet that I felt in danger while driving around. Even in Gary Indiana at night. Of course I was always armed anyway, just in case.
I had six chicks once. Now I just have six child support payments to make.
My plan for 2021 is to finish paying off all debt. Credit cards are completely done (2020 goal, which I managed despite the pandemic, or one could say because of because I used that last "stimulus" check to pay off the last little bit???). Now I have one loan left and it's coming along. I was working on some calculations and it should be complete by the end of the year.
Paying off debt has helped to increase my credit score as well, so this eventually works toward my long term goal of saving up and then buying some land.
Paying off debt has helped to increase my credit score as well, so this eventually works toward my long term goal of saving up and then buying some land.
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You are on your way. One step at a time is what it takes. Hoping your dreams reality soon.
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As of right now I am doing and living my dream world but by late 2022 to early 2023 I will be adding into that dream with another milk cow. If hunny and I can eliminate our house/land note would be the best! We are slowly reducing by paying over every month. That and insurance are my biggest expenses.
My plan is to replace my remote location cabin which burnt down in California fires. I have learned some things from that so I am not going back to that place and rebuild or even try to replicate it in any way. I am trying to go to the far eastern Sierras in a little community and buy a manufactured house for a bug out house. I want to live there at least three months of the year also. The property I want to buy has its own well and a propane generator. I hope to add solar. It has some sort of funky fire place and a wood stove. Nothing outside. So, awnings, one for cars, one for us, storage structures-one for us, one for wood storage, fence off area for dogs and garden, greenhouse, clear a big space for fire protection, get short wave radio--a SW antenna is already there. Get some more gold equipment as the local river has gold in it. Right now I am in a mountain community but no real land, has pubic utilities, not survivable in my opinion.
AD , My wife who is very well travelled says though she has travelled globally the only times she really felt for their groups safety was in San Francisco and LA. She said she would return to Algeria, Morroco, Egypt etc and of course America, theres no way on earth she would go to LA or SF ever again, Agressive beggars, drug pushers, filthy sh** covered streets , drug materiels everywhere, homeless under every flyover and park, Cops ignoring crime. In LA all they could hear on an evening was sirens and shots. She envies you in AK
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Just noticed this morning canning jars and equipment are back in stock at the local hardware store, I bought a ton as they were so hard to find last season.
Tossing around trying bees this summer- may be a dud, but probably a good thing to get familiar with. Good bartering item, long shelf life.
Do more foraging/fishing/hunting this year, and figure out how to make the most of what I gather and kill.
Tossing around trying bees this summer- may be a dud, but probably a good thing to get familiar with. Good bartering item, long shelf life.
Do more foraging/fishing/hunting this year, and figure out how to make the most of what I gather and kill.
My goals in 2021 are to adapt better to the current situation and to equip myself mentally as well as tactically, I have the bad feeling we won't get away with a (mere) black eye. For this reason, I am now preparing myself for the ultimate disaster, even if I hate this scenario, if you come for me, you will not manage it lightly.
In the further one I will still amuse myself at the idiot Sleeping Jo, even if the type is for you what very unpleasant, which I regret very much, one can laugh at the fool and its incompetence nevertheless now and then a menge.
Have T-shirts or toilet paper printed in the USA with funny pictures of Jo and Kamala and sell them cheaply, if many people walk around with them it is humiliating for both of them.
In the further one I will still amuse myself at the idiot Sleeping Jo, even if the type is for you what very unpleasant, which I regret very much, one can laugh at the fool and its incompetence nevertheless now and then a menge.
Have T-shirts or toilet paper printed in the USA with funny pictures of Jo and Kamala and sell them cheaply, if many people walk around with them it is humiliating for both of them.
People mock Sleepy Joe Biden as though he is some sort of benign gentle grandfather character, I think he could be as dangerous as Uncle Joe Stalin as he also appeared kind and affable whilst those behind him killed millions. Underestimate this guy at your peril.
2021 prepping goals? I'll extended my food and equipment stock last year to the maximum, running out of space. I'll keep it on this high level until i know which direction the ways are going. For 2021 i will look for additional secure location and checking out different escaping ways.
Of course i will go ahead to observe the worldwide and local situations and enjoy my life as much as possible, never knows when things changing to worse.
Of course i will go ahead to observe the worldwide and local situations and enjoy my life as much as possible, never knows when things changing to worse.
