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Offline JohnnyReb

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Re: My Survivalist Game Plan
« Reply #25 on: July 10, 2010, 09:28:25 AM »
If your plan is to kill other people and take their shit, yeah, otherwise there are some serious shortcomings to it.

It's kind of hard to plow and plant with a sniper rifle....but it makes harvesting easy.
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Re: My Survivalist Game Plan
« Reply #26 on: July 10, 2010, 04:18:21 PM »
It's kind of hard to plow and plant with a sniper rifle....but it makes harvesting easy.

AH the crazy French.  Growing up spending time in the summer at Grandmas camp just down the road, there was a camp made of glass bottles. 

This place fascinated us kids. We spent hours a week sitting on its porch trying to see what was inside. Grandma told us that the camp had been built when she was a kid and belonged to a Canadian family.   The place had been vacant for 30 or more years at that time but someone was paying the taxes .

How the place was built, the outside walls were made of cement with glass soda and beer bottles rammed into the cement so the bottom of the bottles faced outward, the neck of the bottles inward.   The bottles were all the same size and of different colors. Clear, green, brown , and a dark red.  We could not see inside as the shutters were closed and trying to see anything through the heavy bottoms of the bottles was impossible.    We could tell that the bottles were empty and uncapped as light from the inside from the higher windows  that had no shutters came through them, it faced west in mid afternoon.

Had this happend today in this generations we most likely would have broken in out of curiosity.   One of the biggest mystery's of my youth was that camp, the cement was after all that time in good shape, none of the bottles we could see were broken or damaged in any way.  I believe the spacing of the bottles was of great import, some master designer built that place.

This camp was 50 feet to the river, salt water and subjected to temperature shifts all year long.

The place was finally torn down 25 years later and a modern home replaced it.

So what had kept this bottle and cement camp from falling apart after all those years.?

Was the cement that stuff that is used to build bridges that hardens the wetter it gets ?  Pharaoh cement developed thousands of years ago by the Romans ??



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Re: My Survivalist Game Plan
« Reply #27 on: July 10, 2010, 05:35:58 PM »
I think that you can get far with a sniper rifle and camo.

The people with anything worth taking already have plans in place to deal with such things.

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Re: My Survivalist Game Plan
« Reply #28 on: July 10, 2010, 05:57:52 PM »
The people with anything worth taking already have plans in place to deal with such things.


Not necessarily.  A lot of those people have no plan.  They think that they will be able to buy their way out of trouble. :lmao:
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Re: My Survivalist Game Plan
« Reply #29 on: July 10, 2010, 06:01:13 PM »
The people with anything worth taking already have plans in place to deal with such things.


Disagree, the drug houses have the pit bulls but no state of the art security system.

 Most people are predictable they hide things in places anyone else would do.

Once in awhile people will set up security cameras in their homes that they can monitor from work.  These are the few that get publicity when they call the cops when they see their home broken into.



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Re: My Survivalist Game Plan
« Reply #30 on: July 10, 2010, 06:14:52 PM »
Disagree, the drug houses have the pit bulls but no state of the art security system.

 Most people are predictable they hide things in places anyone else would do.

Once in awhile people will set up security cameras in their homes that they can monitor from work.  These are the few that get publicity when they call the cops when they see their home broken into.

This assumes the status quot is maintained in a survival situation.

Once the lights go out - all the rules change and all bets are off.

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Re: My Survivalist Game Plan
« Reply #31 on: July 12, 2010, 11:24:41 PM »
Doppelganger, I don't know exactly where you were going to buy.But I will say if you have aquifers or can search out the aquifers  in your area, that would be a start. The cob house sounds great,But you might want to build it against a hill or small mountain. It would lead for protection for the weather and the enemy.

When Thor was in San Angelo,I took a trip out to see him. So as I drove out I'm thinking in survival mode. There are aquifers there and lots of game. And  there is also lots of vegetation that is edible and also medicinal.  But there again you need to know your plant and how to prepare them both way. I'd suggest some hands on course. I learned from an Army engineer and survivalist,and book and online courses. East of Abilene,to south San Angelo.There are at least 3 aquifers there. You have a good plan,Good Luck.
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Re: My Survivalist Game Plan
« Reply #32 on: July 13, 2010, 09:21:45 PM »
Doppelganger, I don't know exactly where you were going to buy.But I will say if you have aquifers or can search out the aquifers  in your area, that would be a start. The cob house sounds great,But you might want to build it against a hill or small mountain. It would lead for protection for the weather and the enemy.

When Thor was in San Angelo,I took a trip out to see him. So as I drove out I'm thinking in survival mode. There are aquifers there and lots of game. And  there is also lots of vegetation that is edible and also medicinal.  But there again you need to know your plant and how to prepare them both way. I'd suggest some hands on course. I learned from an Army engineer and survivalist,and book and online courses. East of Abilene,to south San Angelo.There are at least 3 aquifers there. You have a good plan,Good Luck.

Inga, I could not find an aquifer if my live were at stake.--However---

I became very interested in Dousing as a child.  When Dad built our home he had friends in the military that knew a thing or two about water tables and underground water supply.  On a few occasions they came to the building site and found a couple of sites they suggested he drill for a well.  After both sites turned up dry Dad was at witts end.  He complained to the owner of the only gas and snack store in town about his problem, the owner gave Dad a phone number to call for help.

Dad made the call and a few days later this rattle trap truck showed up and to me at 10 years old, the driver looked ancient--he was about 60 years old-- and he took from his truck a Y forked Witch Hazel stick and a stick with a red ribbon on it and went off alone to look for water.

My MOM with a bit of eye rolling and sarcastic voice told me this man was a so called diviner and trying to help us.  Dad said nothing but I could see he was, after the experts could not find water a bit dubious himself.

The old man was out there with that Y stick for 2 hours at least and I went off to to watch tv or what ever when he came back.

I went outside in time to hear him tell my dad that he had gotten one Hell of a pull, very strong and less then 50 feet down.  He had put the stick with the ribbon on it at the sight to dig and was smilling ear to ear.

He left after charging Dad $5.00 for his time and gas money and then the conversations between my parents and their parents began.  Money was tight, Dad had put out a pretty penny for the first  2 holes to be dug, should he call his friends back for another look or trust some old man, a complete stranger  with a stick and give this a try.

Mom was still rolling her eyes but her father my Pepe said what did Dad have to loose.

Out came the drillers and at 50 feet ran into an artisan well. 

Mom stopped rolling her eyes just mentioned off the cuff that Dad could have dug that well himself and saved some money.

So Inga, How is this done, I have read up on it and some people say anyone with a coat hanger can get some results.

Ah the great mysterys of life and how some of the OLD ways work better then our new fangled ways today.

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Re: My Survivalist Game Plan
« Reply #33 on: July 13, 2010, 09:49:14 PM »
Inga, I could not find an aquifer if my live were at stake.--However---

I became very interested in Dousing as a child.  When Dad built our home he had friends in the military that knew a thing or two about water tables and underground water supply.  On a few occasions they came to the building site and found a couple of sites they suggested he drill for a well.  After both sites turned up dry Dad was at witts end.  He complained to the owner of the only gas and snack store in town about his problem, the owner gave Dad a phone number to call for help.

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Ah the great mysterys of life and how some of the OLD ways work better then our new fangled ways today.

I've met people who claimed to be able to divine various things using two pieces of wire, and otherwise rational and level headed people that subscribe to the idea. None of the people that claimed proficiency were prepared to demonstrate their skills.

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Re: My Survivalist Game Plan
« Reply #34 on: July 13, 2010, 10:34:17 PM »
I've met people who claimed to be able to divine various things using two pieces of wire, and otherwise rational and level headed people that subscribe to the idea. None of the people that claimed proficiency were prepared to demonstrate their skills.

You need to do a bit of research on this.  There are clubs for this sort of thing that welcome all.  They have twice a year demonstrations and contests for the members.


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Re: My Survivalist Game Plan
« Reply #35 on: July 13, 2010, 11:03:04 PM »
Vesta, This would be the time to research your aquifers in your area.
But in the desert:
look in valleys and low area
at foot of concave banks of dry river beds
at foot of cliffs
look for green vegetation,as as cottonwood along dried beds. cottonwoods drink a lot of water
Or look for agave plants and barrel catus

An about the dowsing, my dad use to dows for water on a farm we had in Denton. Also that's what he use to find water on the farm he has now.I myself have used dowsing to find water and septic lines.I also want dowsing for health.

I have used the willows,but at present I have the steel rods.As to how they work,I not sure. Some say electromagnetic or Vortex possibilities.

But I do know they work.I found some links on "you tube" but my computer is acting flaky.Thor has the parts ordered.Just a matter of time.The one I liked was through monkeysee.com video.

To me plant knowledge is vital for survival. That way you don't have to depend on man less. You can dip farther in.
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