Anyone interested in prepping

RickN

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There is a new forum for Oklahoma preppers.


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I don't like discussing to the whole World Wide Web about what my supplies are. Robbers, tin foil hat, paranoia and such. You might say, then why do you post pics of all your guns then WorkyFrog!? Well I don't. That's only half my guns, the other half I have buried in my backyard for when SHTF.
 
If you need a place to discuss prepping just ask and we will create it on Boomershooter for you. There is no need to go to another forum for anything.

While the prepping forum has a firearms section, it is mostly for the non-firearm types that are not comfortable visiting a mostly firearms site. Got to break them in slow you know then we can lead them to shooting sites when they want more info.
 
While the prepping forum has a firearms section, it is mostly for the non-firearm types that are not comfortable visiting a mostly firearms site. Got to break them in slow you know then we can lead them to shooting sites when they want more info.

Come on man! This is Oklahoma. Prepping starts with, "How much ammo do you have for your Mosin". If you don't have guns all your really prepping for us some guy named wormydog and his family to use all your stuff. Cause we know he has lots of guns and ammo and he shoots real good too.
 
How could any prepper not be comfortable with guns? I can't imagine anybody seriously into prepping that wouldn't at least have a .22 LR pistol. How could a bug out bag not have a gun? Guns and prepping go hand in hand, at least to me.
 
A lot of them start out prepping for storms, etc. Most will advance to serious prepping and many of those who can will become involved in firearms. Of course you do get one occasionally who thinks owning guns is wrong. Those you try to find out where they live. :crazy:
 
I building a new house and I guess I'm doing my first prepping. I have a 15,000 kW (I think) Natural Gas generator installed. It will do everything including testing itself on a regular basis automatically. I am almost excited for an ice storm next spring.

I also put several connex boxes under ground that are welded together with multiple points of entry/exit. There is a geothermal heating/cooling system that runs off of solar power as well as a backup wind generator. I have over 250,000 rounds of ammunition and enough Campbell's tomato soup to last 7.6 years. I'd like to get that soup collection up past the 10 year mark but its tough as the older stuff is starting to get near its due date and we are eating 10-15 cans of soup per week right now.

Does anyone know which gas mask is best? I'm not really worried about a biological attack as much as I am concerned with my two 200 lb dogs farts while in the connex's. Those boys can clear a compound!
 
Ok I gotta admit I was kidding about that one part. The prepping stuff is hard not to poke fun at to be completely truthful. Personally I like planning for success rather than failure but to each his own. I must admit that I do love seeing what the extreme Preppers come up with as means to survive based upon their version of what the world could be like if the elephant dung hits the fan. It seems nobody can agree on what disaster is really gonna get us first which is another interesting discussion to say the least.
 
Does Tara have a connex filled up with wine? I should probably come inventory it.
 
Ok I gotta admit I was kidding about that one part. The prepping stuff is hard not to poke fun at to be completely truthful. Personally I like planning for success rather than failure but to each his own. I must admit that I do love seeing what the extreme Preppers come up with as means to survive based upon their version of what the world could be like if the elephant dung hits the fan. It seems nobody can agree on what disaster is really gonna get us first which is another interesting discussion to say the least.

Some of the people prepping will have you laughing your rear off with wild ideas, but to me it seems a lot have a pretty good handle on things. I know of one who preps because they lost power during an ice storm and it took weeks to get their power back. Some who prep because they could lose their jobs at any time, and many who prep because they feel the economy could collapse ay any time. All pretty good reasons to me.
 
Yea I been prepping bu I keeps dipping into the stash eg

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I like your Idea of prepping!!

I've put some thought into prepping in the past.
I grew up during the cold war days when entire cities were prepping, and had food/water stored in substantial buildings, or in some cases underground in old mines, etc.
My grandmother had a room inside her house with shelves for food etc, an air scrubber to filter out contaminants. It was double walled cinder block and so on.

I also grew up camping with Boy Scouts, and the family. We didn't have a lot of money so our excursions were pretty primitive, yet we still had fun meeting challenges.

Fast forward to about 7 years ago, we had an ice storm of epic proportions. Our power was out for 11 days until we could borrow a generator from some friends that finally had their power restored. We live in the country, and I always had this scenerio in the back of my mind, when we built the house.
Even before getting the generator, we had two other family's with their kids come to stay with us, as they had nothing. No extra food, No water, no heat, nothing. We have a water well, and I have a 1000 watt inverter that would run the water well pump, and some small appliances. Couldn't run them all at the same time, but had to switch back and forth. Kerosene hurricane lamps provided light at night, and they learned to get along without TV. Man, that killed those kids....

Our fireplace provided the heat, and all of the old camping gear, that I still kept from the old days came out. We had fresh coffee in the mornings, all the food we could eat from the pantry, and things in the freezer were put out at night to be kept frozen and put back in the freezer during the day when the temps would come up above freezing.

It wasn't an unpleasant experience for me. The others were whiners, but what the hell, they are city folk.

I've upgraded to a 10500KW generator now, that has pretty much sat useless since then, but its still there. One never knows when it will come back into use.
 
I building a new house and I guess I'm doing my first prepping. I have a 15,000 kW (I think) Natural Gas generator installed. It will do everything including testing itself on a regular basis automatically. I am almost excited for an ice storm next spring.

I also put several connex boxes under ground that are welded together with multiple points of entry/exit. There is a geothermal heating/cooling system that runs off of solar power as well as a backup wind generator. I have over 250,000 rounds of ammunition and enough Campbell's tomato soup to last 7.6 years. I'd like to get that soup collection up past the 10 year mark but its tough as the older stuff is starting to get near its due date and we are eating 10-15 cans of soup per week right now.

Does anyone know which gas mask is best? I'm not really worried about a biological attack as much as I am concerned with my two 200 lb dogs farts while in the connex's. Those boys can clear a compound!


You'll reap the benefits of the generator here in OK, between the ice, wind, and storms. Something to think about, and something that the installer is supposed to think about but in my area they have overlooked this. Make sure the exhaust pipe for the generator, if it rises above the generator itself, rises above the eaves of the house. I'm on a rural VFD and we've gone out several times over the last couple years, on different homes, on generators who were not exhuasted correctly, and they filled the house with CO. Everytime, the exhust pipe didn't rise above the sophet vents, and the wind would carry the exhaust thru the vents, and fill the house with CO from the top floor down. Fortunately they had CO detectors.
 
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