Any fellow survivalists utilize their truck?

lol at the Gerber. The Walking dead season 2 pluged that line up pretty hard.

also a bow would be a great addition. Silent but deadly. reusable ammo, as long as you can retrieve your arrows.

 

beat me to it

 

I just got this for camping, the thing will charge your iphone in 3-4 hours depending on full sun or not. 4 AA batteries in a couple of hours. I love it. Not sure on the durability of it, but it got kicked around with a rowdy camping crew for 3 days last weekend and no damage at all. 5 stars by me.

http://www.rei.com/product/827121/goal-zero-guide-10-plus-adventure-kit-solar-charger

 

http://www.knivesofalaska.com/item.asp?id=107&r=store.asp?c=40

Koa has an impeckable warranty.

 

What is your guy's opinion. Do you think it would be better to know how to raise crops or to hunt/fish/trap if shit hit the fan and you had to go "off the grid"
I understand that it would be more beneficial to do BOTH, but if you had to devote time, money and effort into learning one, what would be your choice and why?

I personally would choose hunting/fishing/trapping due to the myriad of benefits you get from animals besides food ( if you know what they are).

 

Hunting/fishing/trapping is obviously short term, crops would be long term (hope I'm not stating the "too" obvious) However, I would advise you also start learning what plants you can eat. They can be good energy and you don't have to wait for them to grow nor do you have to try and catch them before they get away. just another good option to look into

 

f ya can,add chickens. We had 78 but then down to 7. We have slowly grown to 17. Getting about 5 eggs a day,young hens.
I'd have a garden but drought has me conserving.

 

Yeah 350$ for that is a little steep. but nice to look at,

im in the process of looking into bows, i would love to be able to have one.
its a stealth weapon too, plus you can have distance between your prey

 

we try and grow a small garden every year but the droughts always kill it by early to mid june.

fruit and nut bearing trees are a good thing to have on your property. Also try and locate any that may be in your area that you could harvest from if needed

 

One thing I wish I had is what my relatives have up in Virginia,a canning shed or dairy shed. Theirs was built into a hillside only the front door was exposed. I'm sitting on rock,no can do.

 

I think a garden would be more beneficial. They not only produce food, but attract bees for honey and deer, rabbits and other stuff you can shoot for meat. Just sayin.

 

Second that on the Randall Knives.

My grandfather gave one to each of my uncles when they shipped off to Vietnam.
They both came back with them and still have them.

If anyone is interested in some of the best axes around, they are pricy but worth it. you will have it a lifetime.

http://www.gransfors.com/htm_eng/index.html

 

Are you looking into Compound or Recurve? I've recently shot my father in law's Compound bows. They are all Matthews and I didn't realize how easy it was to shoot....or how good I was naturally. I know they make it easy with the peep sight and led cross hairs but still.

 

same here. My wife and I went bow shooting at a shop here last feb and I had a blast. (I was really fucking good at it too ) Ive been looking for a good used one local for a while now.

 

I recently bought a PSE Bow Madness compact compound bow. I can't say enough good things about it. They are expensive ($600 for a field ready bow with optics, balancers, quiver, etc.), whole package with arrows, release and case was $800. It's extremely accurate, I was easily hitting 2" groups at 30 yards with it. I would advise anyone who hunts or spends time in the woods to get one, I'm going to pick up a bow-fishing kit for it, as well as several different kinds of heads for different game. You can live a long time off of one bow and a single quiver.

 

I need to get into archery...

 

If you like Matthews bows but not the price tag check out Mission Bows. They are made by Matthews with the same technology just not as expensive.

 

I love my Hoyt!



I'm pretty comfy out to 65yards or so!

 

Relatively Silent and re-usable ammunition

 

awesome thread! keep the ideas coming haha bring on the zombies haha