Your Ideal Doomsday Survival Situation/Prepper Thread

[Eichhörnchen]

^ Yes this thread caught my eye the other day but I haven't got around to back-reading it properly yet. However, Bill makes the very good point - so often missed by US cousins - that it would be so different for us lot in Europe: you guys have this 'frontier history' and all the rich knowledge that comes down to you from it

Me, well all I can think I'd do is hole up in one of the many concrete 'pill boxes' still common around here - often along rivers so I'd be able to get my protein easily from fishing. And in the corner would be my AK-47 (my weapon of choice) but failing that a Lee Enfield .303 No4, with which I was once a marksman

[Shady Bill]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

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Me, well all I can think I'd do is hole up in one of the many concrete 'pill boxes' still common around here - often along rivers so I'd be able to get my protein easily from fishing. And in the corner would be my AK-47 (my weapon of choice) but failing that a Lee Enfield .303 No4, with which I was once a marksman

Yea I often have thought about that. I don't think I'd survive well in that sort of setting. I was in the Marine Corps in the 90s and was part of Operation Urban Warrior, after the whole mess in Somalia, they felt we needed more extensive training in "city block to city block" warfare. They even built a makeshift town for us to train in. Urban warfare gets messy quick.

The .303 is a wonderful cartridge. Excellent choice for marksmanship. I used to be mostly a fan of the .338 when I resided in moose country, but as I got older I stepped down to the .308 which is more in line with deer.

I also have a .22 for small game and I have my shotguns for rabbit and home defense.

[Shady Bill]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

And in the corner would be my AK-47 (my weapon of choice)

I actually never shot one of those. Always wanted to I will admit.

Craziest thing I shot was the M47 "Dragon", what we called it. Having to drag that pos around the field was hilarious.

[Eichhörnchen]

As Army Cadets we used the .22 'cadet rifle' on indoor ranges only - 303 for outdoors (I absolutely loved our weekends at the Army ranges in Sittingbourne, Shoreham etc)

As for the AK it always seems to me to present an automatic weapon with decent single-shot accuracy. The FN FAL self-loading rifle we used, on the other hand, was not liked by target-shooters who always would choose the Lee Enfield

[ET2SN]

Originally Posted by Shady Bill

I actually never shot one of those. Always wanted to I will admit.

Craziest thing I shot was the M47 "Dragon", what we called it. Having to drag that pos around the field was hilarious.

It almost sounds like you're in Maine.

My old stomping grounds were in Aroostook county.
I had an unofficial "older brother" who was a Game Warden and I used help out when he had to dynamite culverts that the beaver dammed up.

If you're young and dumb, dynamite is a lot of fun.

This was back when the budgets weren't so hot and a lot of those sticks were well-past their "use by" date. You couldn't help but get Nitro on your fingers and we would (carefully) flick it at the ground where it would "fizzle".

[Shady Bill]

Originally Posted by ET2SN

out when he had to dynamite culverts that the beaver dammed up.

I remember doing that in the past. We would have a terrible time with beavers causing flooding when I was young. So I started trapping them.

My friend would get half sticks of dynamite and we would just blast these dams. Yea dynamite hunting is real effective. I think the crazy guy might just have bought a ton of M-80 fireworks from Mexico. He would tie those together in long strings and just blow up stuff in the woods. Crazy kids..

I am a strong proponent of alcohol's medicinal properties, but I learned early on in life that you never drink and drive, and you never set beaver traps with a couple of beers in you. People think beavers slowly die in traps, and that it is inhumane....its instant death, those things can take your leg off instantly.