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Originally Posted by The Reaper
Another scenario to play with.
You are at home and have five minutes notice that you are about to be raided by a vastly superior force. You need to execute your personal E&E plan.
The streets and roads are already covered for vehicle movement, so you will have to move out on foot to a safe area 100 miles away.
You already have a bug out bag prepared with 45 pounds of food, water, shelter, med gear, survival tools, etc. We can discuss the contents of the bag if you like.
You need to hit the woods on foot and may need to harvest game, defend yourself against predators, and engage small hostile teams. Try not to beat this scenario to death.
Your safe is open and you may grab as many weapons, mags, and as much ammo as you wish to carry.
What do you take and why?
TR
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With the above scenario, personally, I would stay put and walk the family to the "hide" site, or E+E to a close friend's residence. If you have adequate home security, with a very good hide, you and your family can survive for at least a month without breaking the seal (so to speak...). This force that is raiding you... I suppose they are 3-11 or 7-3 government type shift workers, so them staying at my house looking for me for days or months... I doubt it. I'd last longer as I have all the Star Trek series on DVD, so I could stay in my recliner, in the hide, for a month straight, without need for much more than an occasional back rub and some steaks on the portable grill. Come out now and again to kill off a small cow or deer, and back to the hide. With a secure hide site, you have the advantage of a large, pre-planned and placed weapon, ammo, and supply source. Also, you are not expending energy walking about, risking injury and detection by this force. You determine when you come out, and you place your "hide" or enable it so you can monitor it from your location. Force goes, you sleep in your own bed. Force stays, you sleep in the hide.
Personally, I have a wife, and 9 year old daughter I'd have to E+E with, and there is no way in hell I would be able to support the two of them, with all their electronic and bathroom needs, let alone how much those two eat... I'd end up shooting myself. So, E+E for some of us, is a thing of the past. But, if I did E+E, I guess for weapon, I'd need my 357 with one round.
Perhaps I'd take more, depending on how I felt. The wife and daughter can't hump for shit, let alone carry anything while doing it. I, on the other hand, am a pack mule. Always have been, that's why I have a bad back. 100 miles? We did more than that in Benning in a week.... Hell yes, back in the 80s perhaps, with two canteens an AR and 6 mags and a pair of jungle boots... I could go anywhere, and do anything. Maybe in the 90s, but now? Once my pain patch starts to wear off and the back acts up, I am one mean caveman... but I do have a farm, with plenty of food on it, so I might have an advantage. Fruit and nut trees, water source, land to put a nice hide site in and on...
... If your hide has access to transportation routes, clean air, secure commo, power, food and a water source, you could easily maintain yourself and your family's needs for a month or possibly more. Longer, you might need a "support network" such as friends, family, and other Republicans.
I have a retired co-worker with plenty of weapons and ammo, as well as food and another "hide" just a mile from me as the crow flies... so if one hide is compromised, you pack up and move to another. Not that we have thought this out over a few beers or anything... It's good to have close friends. They mean support, so if you live somewhere and need to E+E... just something to keep in mind. GROG
I guess us FOGs look at E+E in an entirely different light.
