Survival Group
Freesteading group focused on the discussion of survival.
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Introduce Yourself Here!
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Introduce Yourself Here!
Hello everyone! I’m excited to see that this group has been created, and I look forward to learning from all of you!
I’m Chris and I currently live in Cumberland County, NC with my wife, a few kids, and a couple Malinois.
I’m here to learn new survival skills and to share what I already know.
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Bobby Spags here. I have been a very active “prepper” for 25 years. Was Ay for 16 years, a private security contractor for 4 years.
I was the VP of Full Spectrum Preparedness and the Kansas Prepper Expo from 2011 to 2015. Now I am on the council of the Midwest Preparedness Project, and a founding Community Leader for Freesteading.
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23 “members” and one response….likeminded grey folks? I hope I get to meet up with yall one day.
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That’s one of the most appealing things things to me about survival skills and permaculture. I don’t need to be paranoid about guarding a lifetime supply of ramen and powdered eggs because the vast majority of my food will be outside and invisible to those who belive that food comes in boxes and cans.
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Awesome answer
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I’m in agreement with you; however in my area one has to plan on 18 inches of white stuff. Harvest and storage is necessary.
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Boom! Exactly. I’m all for putting things back. Prepper to the end and all. But moving past stacking beans is vital not only survival, but surviving well. A diet of Ramen and 23 year old beans will absolutely kill you.
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Truth. My diet has primarily been rice, tuna, oatmeal, and eggs for the last few months. 1 of 5 stars, would not recommend. The bright side is that I have absoutely shifted my focus from filling more 5 gallon buckets with dry goods to seriously studying permaculture design.
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I did that a few years ago. It was self inflicted deprivation that enabled me to spend my grocery budget on building my garden. It worked, I learned a lot and learned to appreciate the things that I hadnt liked before, like oats. I now know that if SHTF I will be ok. Its pretty amazing what you can talk yourself into. I learned a long time ago that mindset is the most important aspect of being able to endure.
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Started in 1994, graduated to homesteader in 2018, graduated to freesteader in 2022. I hope these new groups help
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I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m pretty stoked about them, thank you!
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David here, Oklahoma. First post. Excited about the platform, not excited about trying to figure it all out! Nice to see a survival group here.
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Greetings Everyone …
I’m just an old fart that’s been a student of survival and preparedness basically all my life. I was taught by Mentors because there were no computers. I learned the skills that people in the past based their existence on and not some regurgitated crap passed around online. So, you’ll have to pardon me if I show a little bias from time to time. 🙂
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Life is the best teacher after that some of my military training has been of benefit. Yes and the old timers had a great out look.
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While technology/new products has made it extremely easy … What happens to that person that loses or just doesn’t have access to those items? Don’t get me wrong, I probably always have four to five ways to start a fire with just what I carry on me every day. I don’t mind products to make it easy but I feel there’s too much focus on ‘things’ rather than knowledge and skills.
I can’t help but laugh when I see the list of “required items” that one of the leading survival schools has for their ‘Advanced Survival’ training. My advanced training only ‘allowed’ one item, a knife. The final and true test for my Mentors was surviving with nothing but the clothes I had on. Not even a knife. Those days of information exchange and teaching may be gone but they still live in my memories. 🙂
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Quite often people have not a clue of what to do, when they are in the thick of things. I think we may see the flock getting thin in the future. A bob of 55lbs is fine for a 30 something year old male; however less than 3 percent of that group will manage.
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30-something year old male here, 55lbs hurts really bad after about 40 miles.
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Mom raised five of us by herself and for as long as I can remember we had a garden.. No matter how small it was we.always had something. And even when times got tough we had food.. My problem was I like a lot of folks fell into the just go and buy it mindset. Now in my older age I am dusting off the cobwebs of my mind and beginning to clear some of our 7 acres to reclaim my freedom. AND, yes I can defend my food, I am the biggest of the five. Thanks for the site, I have been brought memories and learned some new things already.
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My daughter went up to Amish country today to stock up, she routinely goes to Jamesport MO to do that. Not one store up there had canned goods. Every single Amish and Menonite store she went to was completely out of canned goods. Whose the crazy one now? Its gettin real.
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The Mormons aren’t going to run out of food any time soon, but if things get real they might stop selling to the public. Their online store webpage seems to be down, but maybe check and see if they have a public store in your area.
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In 2020 I asked my daughter, s-i-l mom who is Mormon said it’s not open to the public. But I think if they were in need they would be able to turn to her for help.
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The LDS stores are definitely open to the public unless something changed very recently. What is not open to the public is their version of a food pantry, called the Bishop’s Storehouse or something like that.
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I’ve never thought about it until I seen this post. I have been shopping at an Amish store for years now. It’s a little house in the middle of nowhere. I’ve never seen canned goods in their store before. Everything seems to be in bags or little plastic containers. They do have somethings that are in mason jars though.
I was watching a video and she mentioned that “Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints” has bulk foods that they will sell to the public. I don’t have one where I live, but they list their locations.
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I live near Amish and Mennonite communities and go to area Amish bent and dents. Normally one or two other cars there. Last time I went the parking lot was full about a dozen vehicles and it was a Friday afternoon –
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The LDS store and online are open to non- church members. I am not a member and I have bought from them for years. The last 2 times I was there I was shocked at the number of people and the amounts of food being bought many items were out of stock until harvest time.
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Hello, all … I’m a “late bloomer” survivalist/prepper and I’m in the process of navigating my way through uncharted waters – in my predominantly blue state – quietly and carefully for the moment.
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Better late than too late, welcome!
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Thank you!
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Just FYI: the LDS given foos supply priority to overseas. Food is sed to gain church-support. Years ago, there was a rice shortage. I bought food there for 30+ yrs but there was very little rice available.
So if there becomes a food shortage, you can be sure that the US LDS stores will be sacrificed.
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About 7-10 years ago, I did a survey of 40,000 LDS households. Very few of them had more than a two week supply.
I had to laugh when one young couple said that they just drive to their parents house in Utah (from TX) if things got bad! Good luck with that!
And now, the church has removed Food Storage from it’s Self-Reliance classes.
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I’m pretty sure that it was one of Dr. Peter Vincent Pry’s books that tipped me off about the LDS stores. Your post reminded me of him so I looked him up to see what he’s up to. Turns out, he just passed away 8/19/2022. It’s a shame, he was one of the loudest voices in DC calling for better protection of critical infrastructure from EMPs and cyber attacks.
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Yes he was a tremendous asset, nobody has the experience and wisdom, let alone the credibility that he had. A real loss.
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It is very nice to see that Dr Pry continues to be an influence. I had the honor to meet him at a conference for work and then we invited him to our community for a discussion of the EMP threat. I got to talk with him for a few hours about EMP and the short comings of some of the EMP testing. He will be sadly missed.
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Wisconsin. Started preparing in ’07. LVT by trade (Food Animal/Large Animal specialist).
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I am a long time prepper, having just turned 70. I am retired military and have a lot to offer in the form of ideas and methods. My main expertise is ammunition reloading, firearms and weaponry. I am a gun collector, and a class 3 FFL holder. I am also a coin collector, gardener, and woodworking amateur. I live in a small town in Colorado, so know a thing or two about hunting. Would like to hear from anyone needing help in the firearms world or that has similar interests.
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Welcome! Please start a reloading thread. I’m very interested in learning, and I’m sure that I’m not the only one.
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You might look up BA on Step One Survival on youtube. He’s done a LOT on reloading. He is in NE Tenn. I think he has a live tonight around 7 or 7:30. He’s a disabled vet and his wife is an ER nurse. They are a funny couple. I usually try and watch the first part of their live right before Deep South. After Deep South I go watch the rest on the replay. I bet if you check his channel he has a playlist on reloading.
Having said all that, I sure hope you were talking about Ammo. LOL
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BA on Step One Survival on YT, I’ll check it out. Much appreciated!
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Their stream is really bad tonight. I will just watch the reply later. It was buffering so bad. They were all blurry too.
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Pinball Preparedness has a live chat on YT on Saturday night also – same time as Danny and Wanda’s (DSH) live stream. Pretty hard to watch them all at the same time…
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Retired from State service (highway electrician) at 47, left that life behind. Been preparing for most of my life but didn’t know it. Over the years I switched hobbies constantly from firearms/reloading etc, to leatherwork, blacksmithing, knife making, bushcraft, hunting/fishing, gardening, canning, husbandry, construction, welding. All have brought something to the table now that we homestead off grid. Glad to be here.
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3ADscout Here. Pretty much started prepping when I was a teen in the 1980’s. At that t time I would read magazines like “Survive”, “American Survival Guide” and “SOF”. After high school I joined the army. I was an 11H, anti-armor, and went to Jump school, Air Assault school and got my Combat Infantry Man’s badge in Desert Storm. Units I was in were the 101st Airborne (Air Assault), 3rd Armored Division, 24th Mechanized and the PA national guard. When I left active duty I started to volunteer with the Red Cross and a few other local disaster response organizations. In 2015 the wife and I purchased what we thought would be our retirement/BOL but moved there full time in the summer of 2019. Today we have 2 heifer calves, one steer, a pregnant pig (due in 4 days) and currently 24 chickens. We try to make our place disaster resilient as possible projects include a large 2,000 gallon rain catchment system, outdoor pizza/bread oven, much of our haying equipment is ground drive so if need be it can be pulled by animals. We have apples trees, peach tree, elderberries and well blue berries but those were a disaster. Look forward to learning from you all. Thanks
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