How much do you really need?

[steve4102]

Depends on who you plan on doing battle with.
Defending your home and family against the low life scum that will initiate rioting, looting and burning after the elections is one thing. Defending your Country against the Obama Brown Shirts, LEO and US Military is something else entirely.

Being from Michigan ammo should be high on your list, but HEAT should be on the TOP of your list. When the SHTF and the power goes down, all the ammo in the world ain't gunna keep your a$$ warm in those Michigan winters.

Water=no problem
Food=minor problem
Ammo=no problem if you prepare and stock up
Heat=MAJOR PROBLEM

[carver]

Originally Posted by ShawnDow

I guess what I really meant to ask.. is can one depend on or convince ones small community to become a small defended "civilized" compound. Or will it become one small group watching their own back from another?

If you start now with just one of your neighbors, you can prepare for just about anything. Never show them what you have, but show them what they can have. There really is safety in numbers! If I were you, and I wanted to see if I could get this going. I would start by just talking to the folks that live around me. Find out if they think there is a catastrophe coming, or not. Don't waste your time on those that think there is nothing that's going to happen. Work with like minded people.

Have a cook out, invite a neighbor, or two, just to get things started. Have some one else host the next meeting. Any excuse to get together is a valuable tactic for recruiting volunteers and building a team. Home meetings allow community members to come together to share their concerns, and join together, to work for progress. Within the room, on in your yard, you already have all the tools you need to enact ideas on a local level. Every attendee can contribute time, resources, or leadership abilities.

Your house/yard meeting will help you identify your leadership team. The people that are committed enough to come to your house meeting should be considered potential leaders of the initiatives being implemented.

As a house/yard meeting host, invite people from your neighborhood to participate in a discussion about your community, pressing needs for a SHTF seniro, and the potential solutions.

[targetacqmgt]

Originally Posted by Jerryboy

no one man can stand against the world. but 30-50 people, well armed and dug in, can stand against a good sized portion of it. consider networking with your friends, neighbors, and family. if you only have a very small piece of property, or it can't be built up and fortified, consider organizing with the people you're on good terms with to bug out to their location.

True fix fortifications are good with enough people if the opposing does NOT have the capability to put HE on your positions. Of course you could go 50 or so feet underground to protect yourself from artillery and mortars.

Interlocking two person Depuy fighting postions are the way to go they should have grenade sumps.

[Petergunn]

How much do you really need?

I buy as much as I can because I don't believe it will ever be cheaper and I don't want to quit shooting.

It's not the zombies that scare me it's the Bernank