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One of my problems
When I started to think about TR's scenario in terms of specific plan suited to my area and my likely point of travel instead of just being a general idea, it quickly became clear that gear is the least of my concerns. What I am really having a problem with is the tactics/skills that I would use in a hypothetical scenario.
If it is not too off topic of the subject of guns, let me throw one of my problems out there.
The road that I live on runs between two fairly major roads by rural standards. One in a upland road, the other runs along a river. Let us say that the bad guys have a list names on my street that they want to take in. Let us say that they have a blocking force along the river and the door kicking force starts at the upland road and works its way down my road taking people in. Let us say that this all goes down at 4 AM (because that is when I would do it if I wanted bring a bunch of people in).
If I get TR's allotted 5 minutes of warning, the obvious thing for me to do in run out my back door where I have a mile straight of uninterrupted woods. The problem I have is how do I navigate in those woods?
When I was young, I did a lot of walking around in fields and light woods in the dark (I was a weird kid). I had a lot better night vision back then but even so the deep wood was too dark for me to effectively navigate. Even though I knew the woods well, there is next to no light under a reasonably heavy canopy. And with next to no light, you can get lost in a familiar setting same as if you were blindfolded.
In darkness that deep, it can be hard to line up your compass with a point far enough ahead to do you any good. If you had another person with you that you could send ahead with a glow stick, you could use the bounding method.
Would a glow stick be too much of a risk? How would you navigate if you were by yourself?
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