Hoss
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Well go ahead and send the 10 of us a PM and lets get the details hashed out before it's too late.
The Prepper Thread
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Well go ahead and send the 10 of us a PM and lets get the details hashed out before it's too late.
Titan_Atlas
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Most people never think about currency and its value. Just fill a storage with salt, pepper, hot sauce and soy. Your barter would make you a Fallout 1%er.
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Titan_Atlas
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Neglecting his oath, someone just has to read Behold a Pale Horse and the basics are clear.
Lanx
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ok i'mma stop looking at canning blogs and youtubes now, i don't even want to can for shit, but at least now i found out my elevation
What is my elevation?
Find the elevation of your current location, or any point on Earth.
www.whatismyelevation.com
probably not a bad option to throw in a outdoor temp/altimeter watch. currently the smartwatch i have will tell all that, but in my bugout bag i just have a casio solar powered watch, just in case.
canned meat!
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Kiroy
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the best way to prep is to be fairly rural and be close friends with multiple neighbors, keep in touch with them often and have get togethers. bring up sort of half serious what "we'd all do" if shit went down and people will actually get into it and put thought into it - you'll find that between 5-10 rural families you'll have just about all your bases covered when it comes to a great survival knowledge base
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Rime
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Only reason I go to the local church is for this. All the old-timers and the newer people who are not idiots stick around and chat over coffee for an hour or two after services.
A healthy community (in terms of skills, knowledge, and materials) is an absolute requirement for any situation to go from simple survival to thriving/rebuilding/lasting.
Kiroy
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if shit hit the fan and wife and I had to be on the move our dogs are all getting bullets before we leave lol, they would be the opposite of invaluable with the amount of dumbfuckery they get into
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Kirun
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They're only valuable if they are highly/professionally trained. Your typical "house" dog/cat would be fucking useless outside of a potential source of protein.
Lanx
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to expand on this if anyone cares since i did some researchcdc is against instapot canning it seems
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Trends and advertising claims don't mean countertop cookers are safe
If you’re considering picking up some of those electric pressure cookers at early summer garage sales thinking they’d be a handy, easy way to put up smallwww.foodsafetynews.com
penn state
Canning in Electric Multi-Cookers
There has been no research by the USDA or a university to show that electric multi-cookers can safely process low-acid food.extension.psu.edu
it seems the reason instapots (aside from instapotmax more on this later) and other electric pressure cookers are not recommended is cuz they usually goto 10-11psi.
which is great for 0-1000ft
however 1000+ft you need 15psi and regular instapots do NOT achieve that (higher elevation requires more pressure to reach a certain tempurature, yada, yada known info)
so if you are going to look for electronic canners, make sure they are for canning exclusively or instapotmax, and make doubly sure that it can reach 15psi (sure if you live under 1,000ft elevation, it'll work fine, but you never know, for instance, i've live in ny/pa/va/nj and they were all 0ft to 333ft, i was actually surprised that currently in ks i'm at 981ft, the limit for regular electric pressure cookers)
so double check and make sure it's says 15psi, like this
Lanx
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if your dogo can't do the basic function of barking at a stranger... doggie burgers huh?
get this pied piper, he probably gets this rats to steal him food
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McQueen
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Get something useless like a tortoise. A standard 25 pound bag of Mazuri is basically a years supply anyway.
Cybsled
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Most dogs will still bark when something gets close. In a post apocalyptic setting, having a biological alarm system would still be useful. Plus virtually all dogs have an amazing sense of smell. If your dog suddenly starts to freak the fuck out and doesn't want to go towards a certain area (that isn't the vet), it could be a sign they are sensing something dangerous or uncomfortable ahead as well.
This as well. Keeping sane is an often overlooked component of long term survival situations.
