Doomsday prep / Bugging out

[FuzzyM]

Oh I carry my 10/22 with 5000 rounds in a pack, have an AK47 in my car and 8000lb of dry stores in a buried shipping container in the forest...............


I do enjoy the show, mostly for laughing at the crazies though.
I am slowly working towards a small cache of basic foodstuffs in case we have another Black Saturday or one of us loses our job.
Being a camping enthusiast I would be pretty set if we did have to evacuate I suppose.

One of my mates from tafe didn't realise Black Saturday was happening until his dad looked out the kitchen window and saw flames!

[Warrigul]

My camper trailer is always set to go with a weeks food and water for four. All the bedding and some outer clothes as well.

Always keep 120 litres of diesel, 60l of unleaded and a couple of months food at hand and almost as much at each shack.

If worst happens I am off to the West coast, one road in and it's 4WD with an easily demounted bridge and easily self sufficient down there for a year or three figuring there is plenty of beef and seafood and the boat is a putt putt diesel/sail seaboat and there are horses next door.

I am not paranoid, but not unprepared either.

[on_one_wheel]

I think if anything happened it could be 2 or 3 weeks untill i noticed... with that said i have seen the show and like anyone that has, i have thought about the zombie apocalypse, For me the best place for my family is at home, it will take the zombies months to get out of areas here to my place at the speed they walk. I have everything i need here, fresh meet for a lifetime, water galore, tools and equipment, generator, fuel and so on.

I feel the chances are extremely low of having a full blown breakdown of society as we know it here in Australia.

[BRNOmod2]

I've seen the show, its quite entertaining watching the crazies and their plans/set ups, although as others have pointed out I don't really expect any full breakdown of society/anarchy/violent looters etc here in Oz - not in my lifetime anyway. But, after witnessing something in the city (Perth) some years ago - was a storm with unusual heavy and destructive hail, damaged a lot of cars, fences, windows. Knocked out power for longer than usual and there was some very small scale localized flooding in parts - I wend down the local shops at end of my street and the people were acting like Armageddon had arrived! stripping the shelves of everything in a frenzy, getting testy over bottled water and looking for all intent and purpose like they were going to go berserk when the loo paper was running low on the shelves! Since then I like to keep a small supply of stuff on hand - simple stuff, bit bottled water, canned foodstuffs, batteries, candles, etc - and now I've moved back to the country its good to have some fall-back supplies when the missus doesn't get to the shops for the weekly shop

[bigfellascott]

Nup, my plans to rob someone who has.

[brett1868]

I'll be joining bigfellascott as overwatch for his looting and plundering, lets hope any threats are at least 2 feet away just in case I'm a foot off

[bigfellascott]

I'll be joining bigfellascott as overwatch for his looting and plundering, lets hope any threats are at least 2 feet away just in case I'm a foot off

You can hold em and I'll torcher em! and the ones who want to hold out and put up a fight we can sort em with ya 50cal

[tom604]

i will run the South Aussie chapter of big fellas "rob the roobs"

[bigfellascott]

i will run the South Aussie chapter of big fellas "rob the roobs"

you can plunder all the churches down there, christ knows theres a s**t load of em.

[anthillinside]

^^^^That’s about as bad as it's going to get and enough reserves to weather a storm either natural or financial is just plain sensible.
The type of breakdown the prepers envision just isn't going to happen it doesn’t even get close to their vision of WOROL in war ravaged 3rd world countries.
Yes empires collapse but it happens over tens or hundreds of years.
How is rule of law going to break down?
You’d have to start with a citizens revolt.
Governments response, martial law, send in the home guard, military what ever.
In the unlikely event the citizens uprising doesn’t get crushed, then do they become the rulers and make the law …. I think not.
Government breakdown would result in a military takeover.
I don’t care how many AR’s AK’s or even machine guns they have or how many thousand round they have.
Control is taken by the group with the most power, and unless you’ve got 100’s of Black Hawks , 1000’s of Tanks and perhaps a NUKE or 2 it isn’t going to be you.
The prepers do give us a laugh though, I’ll bet 90% are city dwellers who wouldn’t last more than 3 days n the bush.
In the long run skills are more important than resources.
To paraphrase a well known expression, Give a man a rabbit you feed him once, teach him to hunt and you feed him forever.

[bigfellascott]

Some of em have fantastic bunkers - I wouldn't mind living in some of em!

[anthillinside]

Some of em have fantastic bunkers - I wouldn't mind living in some of em!

Yep and when TSHTF guess whos going to get evicted first
I think if I had the money I'd rather do something like , Brett??? you probably know who I mean, and enjoy it now, not build a luxury hole in the ground, boy am I jealous, but good luck to those that can.

[brett1868]

i will run the South Aussie chapter of big fellas "rob the roobs"

Ahhh...Adelaide, The city of churches....where old people go to die

Last time I was in Adelaide I was evicted from the casino for drunk and disorderly along with a senior exec from the ANZ. I don't remember much of that night except the sight of the exec on a table with his shirt off singing along to a Kiss song, it was at this point we got booted. I may have to take up drinking again so I can remember all the fun I had when I was drunk cause buggered if I can remember it sober.

My cousin is hassling me to bury a couple of shipping containers under the slab for the shed. The only way I'd do something like that was if it could be done without anyone knowing. There's no secrets in small towns and if a local saw the containers then the whole town would know within a week and there goes the security of a secret bunker.
Admittedly I did get a few tips from the show, like vacuum packing ammo and primers though in reality it's probably not really necessary given they have massive shelf lives anyway. There's something about watching crazy people try to justify their paranoia that I find entertaining.

[Noisydad]

Nup, my plans to rob someone who has.

Dammit! Gunna have to put camo face paint on and keep watch to protect my years supply of home made tomato sauce then!

[RealNick]

Only what you'd call a camping pack ready to go.

Would provide basic shelter and heal a few scraps but that would be about it.

Not exactly a "doomsday" survival kit

[Jack V]

When that show first started there was some genuine out there type doomsday preppers but now most of them are all BS shows.

The ones that make me laugh is the people with huge vehicles and campers for bug out vehicles. In a recent storm evacuation in the USA it created a traffic jam 100 miles long that took 3 days to clear . So in the city forget cars and campers etc. as you will be stuck in traffic and be a big target.

Back packs and dirt bikes is the way to go and it's very easy to hide a bike in the bush when you go on foot . You can't carry as much with you but that's good in a way as it makes you more mobile and less of a target for bigfellascott

[bigfellascott]

Nup, my plans to rob someone who has.

Dammit! Gunna have to put camo face paint on and keep watch to protect my years supply of home made tomato sauce then!

Your'e first on the list now!!!

[greyghost]

When that show first started there was some genuine out there type doomsday preppers but now most of them are all BS shows.

Always the way with these series.

It's a cool idea but they blow all their material in the first season or two then it's just milking it for another few seasons with filler and crap.

[keen]

Dammit! Gunna have to put camo face paint on and keep watch to protect my years supply of home made tomato sauce then!

You'll be sick of it and giving it away after living on it for a week with how much you've got

[Jack V]

Ahhh...Adelaide, The city of churches....where old people go to die

Last time I was in Adelaide I was evicted from the casino for drunk and disorderly along with a senior exec from the ANZ. I don't remember much of that night except the sight of the exec on a table with his shirt off singing along to a Kiss song, it was at this point we got booted. I may have to take up drinking again so I can remember all the fun I had when I was drunk cause buggered if I can remember it sober.

My cousin is hassling me to bury a couple of shipping containers under the slab for the shed. The only way I'd do something like that was if it could be done without anyone knowing. There's no secrets in small towns and if a local saw the containers then the whole town would know within a week and there goes the security of a secret bunker.
Admittedly I did get a few tips from the show, like vacuum packing ammo and primers though in reality it's probably not really necessary given they have massive shelf lives anyway. There's something about watching crazy people try to justify their paranoia that I find entertaining.

Put in an underground concrete water tank and in the bush no body will think any thing about it then build the shed beside the tank or even over it and tunnel in later .

[hoofit]

I'll be joining bigfellascott as overwatch for his looting and plundering, lets hope any threats are at least 2 feet away just in case I'm a foot off

You can always muzzle punch them with the heavy bastard

[headspace]

Some of these people are pathetic. I don't know what they think they are going to do when one of the 1000 tanks or 500 Blackhawks bomb the crap out of the homemade bunker. If you live in the city the traffic is going to be a killer. And what happens when your dunny fills up and you're neck deep in ******? Just get on with living the life people.

[Hucka]

I don't know what they think they are going to do when one of the 1000 tanks or 500 Blackhawks bomb the crap out of the homemade bunker.

When the nukes fall I'm just climbing inside a fridge.

Works every time

[headspace]

Just make sure you leave enough room for beer in there Hucka.
JD

[buster]

Stick two cases in the bottom for a nice little seat while you hide in there

[Jessie]

And one on the lap, perfect

[jake84]

I love the episode where this guy has this full fangdangle bug out hidden away in the mountains in the snow .
And he lives all the way back in town his choice of transportation was a horse drawn cart without the horse he was going to hoist his family all the way to his bug out .
Now thats one smart kid

[Gwion]

Better set up some alarm traps and pit falls for Bigfella and Brett.... can't have them looting all my brew. Luckily Bass Strait is in the the way!!!

[The Brass]

Better set up some alarm traps and pit falls for Bigfella and Brett.... can't have them looting all my brew. Luckily Bass Strait is in the the way!!!

Watching Castaway now for inspiration on building a raft

[brett1868]

Better set up some alarm traps and pit falls for Bigfella and Brett.... can't have them looting all my brew. Luckily Bass Strait is in the the way!!!

Watching Castaway now for inspiration on building a raft

A kayak with a rear facing 50BMG and a couple hundred rounds should get me across to Tassie on recoil alone, could probably get there and back on 50 rounds if I remove the brake