Time for my second Q&A post. I had a hard time getting enough questions in this week. Well it actually took two weeks to get enough with most coming in at the last minute. Thanks to all the readers that asked a question this week. Remember if you want your question answered on the blog get it sent in to me James@survivalpunk.com. At this time I’m not getting many questions so your chance of getting you question answered is very high. This week I have some great ones to answer so lets get down to it.
Cheryl From Crooked Tree Farm: Describe your ideal homestead/ bug out location/ survival retreat?
This question comes from my friend Cheryl from Crooked Tree Farm. This is probably worth of a whole blog post or even several. It’s one that I’ve thought about a lot this past year while saving for some land. We will tackle this from the homestead perspective. I will leave BOL for another time and I’m not a fan of the survival retreat concept. I used to think I wanted a small piece of land with a tiny house and a food forest on it with some small livestock. Basically something just big enough for me to survive. My new train of thought is much bigger. The idea of holding up alone on a retreat seems like a terrible existence. I want to be able to have close friends and family come during tough times. I’m not sure how much land would be needed, with permaculture techniques I could get a lot from a small area. Originally I wanted a huge food forest. After thinking about it longer I realized that I don’t really eat much to any fruit. So I’ve decided to back on and maybe have a small one with an emphasis on nuts and berries and food to bring in wild animals. I want the majority of my land devoted to protein, meat, production. I’m a carnivore and want to maximize meat production. I’m thinking chickens for eggs and meat, rabbits and small pigs. I’ve never had goat before so probably no goats and I’m not a fish fan at all. I would use enough land to feed the animals to avoid bringing in food. Other than that I would have several raised be gardens for veggies. I want to build some alternative housing structures on the land. It amazes me that mankind would build his own homes for thousands of years and now it’s the biggest purchase many will make in their whole lives. I’m most interested in Paul Wheatons WOFATI designs. I would probably make a few cheap houses like this on the land for visitors. I would also have a permanent camp for bush crafting and what not. That’s the short answer for now I’ll end up doing a whole post on it later. Thanks Cheryl
Charlie: I’ve been thinking that more medical knowledge is one of the keys to survival of myself and my family if bad things happen. Either injuries in daily life or worse. I don’t have time to go through an EMT course, but I’ve done the AHA Basic First Aid and need to find better. I was a combat lifesaver (not a medic, but a supplementary/part-time assistant) years ago, and that was a great course. What’s the best way to get more medical training and skills either online or in-person classes? Thanks! Charlie
Thanks for the question Charlie! Medical prep is one of the topics I can nerd out on. I’ve helped set up medical training classes for myself and friends with Patriot Nurse and later with the late Paul Gomez. Patriot Nurse is now doing longer format medical prep classes. I highly give my endorsement to her classes. If she has one near you definitely try to make it. Up next I recommend the DR.Bones and Nurse Amy survival medicine book. The book is incredibly packed with great information explained in layman terms. The book covers a lot of information good for a long term collapse situation. If its a time constraint there are many schools that offer emergency medical training classes over weekends. Tactical response gets endorsement from me If you can travel there you should. If not I’m sure there is a good school near you. YouTube is a great resource as well for learning medical training.
Stephen :Question… What would you recommend for a newly married couple that plan on having a baby that concerns prepping for natural disasters in Wisconsin?
Ron: When the gun ban goes through, what are the options on hiding a weapon?
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The problem with gun bans/registration and hiding weapons is that it creates lots of problems (intended by the legislation).
Say you buried your AR and your Glock and turned in your Hi-Point. Then something happened to cause you to need to use one of your hidden weapons- well, congratulations, you have now just committed assault with an unlicensed/unregistered/illegal weapon and no matter what the bad guy did to cause you to come after him, you are AT LEAST a felon and have a gun crime on your record.
Now, I’m not saying I wouldn’t rather use an unlicensed weapon than either die or lose a loved one. Let’s just say that Mr. Bad guy would end up buried where the guns used to be and that sound you heard? I think some kids down the street were playing with fireworks, why?
But you would have to think like that if you plan to hide or hoard weapons away. Bad stuff has happened to people who tried that in England.
Not really posible to have firearms in New Zealand that are not on a register….. but one suggestion i have is to dismantle them into a size that is not obviously a weapon, stocks come off rifles easily and make them much easier to tuck away somewhere where a rifle ‘won’t fit’
Thanks James for answering my question. Your probably right about the ban but I wouldn’t put it past Obama to come up with some crazy shit to pull in executive order. We will see tommorrow (wed, 1-16). New York just past some crazy crap especially on ammo…..