VenomJockey
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Aside from wireless trail cams and motion detectors, does anyone have experience with other defensive applications?
There are no best defense. The priority here are multiple option to evac and a secondary and a backup to the secondary place you can evac to. There more than one type of threat to the primary than just marauders over running the primary locations. Perhaps the best plan is the OODA loop (observe, orient, decide, act)
So you'd have to have at least two BOL locations? Adds a lot of expense, but if that is what it takes, would just have to bite the bullet.
I guess the key is not to let them hear and not to let them see. I guess I am thinking castle walls or something. But, geez, not like a castle is inconspicuous.Security patrols.
It's hard to beat someone out there, watching and listening.
Dogs are pretty great. Hate to lose a friend if it ran into some bad guys, but better the dog than the kids.
I'm not really into some of the out there defenses, no pits or anything. If at all possible, I want a brain behind a gun out there. Another reason for a good group.
What I do wouldn't work in an urban environment but IMO, can work on a rural homestead. Remember, this thread is about defending a homestead... not a house in the city. As a prepper with a plan, I would never feed others from my own food stores. That is suicide. As a prepper, my stores are designed to feed others. Plus many homesteads are run where they already provide lots of food and are located where there are additional resources close. The goal on a homestead should be to ramp up food production and protect resources.the trick in trying to feed others, whilst very laudable and commendable, is having enough food to go around, fairly obvious but some forget that, trying to feed others from ones own food stores just makes you the ones starving too-eventually, if you have a ranch or a large homestead with land then its possible....maybe. if you can get others to work for their food that is.
I agree the best way to survive a long term crisis is by being prepared & 100% away from others. Problem is, very few live in such a world. Few homesteads are in such an environment. So that being said, one who does not live an isolated life has to deal with reality. That means dealing with roaming gangs of dangerous folks and dealing with folks you know & live along with... neighbors. To me, holing up & trying to defend your homestead alone from all is not realistic. My plan is designed to work for me in my environment. IMO, it is a viable plan for many homesteads... the nature of this discussion.I do laugh though when people trot out the old "chestnut" about humans being "social animals"...especially in a city, once SHTF comes along you'll find out just how "social" people are when they haven't prepared, me, i'm not social at all, low key, isolation and remoteness will be my survival tactics .
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