Bugging in some uncomfortable truths.

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7 ай бұрын

By popular request today we look at some uncomfortable truths around bugging in. #prepare #prepping # bugout #bugoutbag #prepper #shtf #teotwaki #wrol #shtfgear #bugin

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@fredlevesque1864 7 ай бұрын

Sir, your content just gets better and better!! I’m an old guy who considers himself to be WAY ahead of the curve….. Yet your advice has really humbled me and made me rethink my sitrep! Thanks for sharing your experience with us!! And maybe we may make it out alive.👍🏼🇺🇸🙏

@tomyoung8563 7 ай бұрын

It’s hard to hide a garden, people notice when I am canning, they see me go to the range etc and my nearest neighbor is 300 yards away

@swatson1190 7 ай бұрын

I made it through the 2000 ice storm. We were without power for 38 days. We live in the woods so the trees were exploding all around us. That was the worst part. We live back from the road. Our neighbors are people we have known for our whole life. We lived with out a generator or solar for more than a month. We have a well and a wood stove. Apart from a siege we are good. We go to bed at dark and get up when it gets light. It gets very dark out here because there are no lights out here. Adaptation is the most important survival thing. It goes beyond stuff. I have been through lots of natural disasters as well. I am NOT leaving! Because I do live in a fortress so it will be fine. They can't get through the curtain wall. Maybe if they have a siege engine. A very large tornado could take us out. Yes, fire too but it still will be ok.

@theylivepart2 7 ай бұрын

My friend bought a house with a whole house generator. The power went out for about an hour or two, the next day three different neighbors knocked and mentioned he had power when no one else did.

@unclefreedom213 7 ай бұрын

oh yeah people will hunt you down for sure

@jackieow 7 ай бұрын

It is possible to put a muffler on your generator and then moochers bother you less.

@InternetUser-lj7um 7 ай бұрын

@jackieow as far as I know house generators are pretty much as quiet as they can be: muffler and sealed case A big consideration is also how you use your power even if you can be silent

@jackieow 7 ай бұрын

That's true. In this case the tip-off may have been lights on in the house when nobody else had them. There are videos out about installing mufflers for people who need them, and some whole house generators need them while others do not.@@InternetUser-lj7um

@99cobra2881 3 ай бұрын

Bury it

@Goldenwithaleash 7 ай бұрын

When I was first getting into this, it was so overwhelming. I had the guns/ammo/gear but was sorely lacking in basically everything else. I started simply by making sure we had 1-2 extra of the everyday items we consume. For example, rather than having to go to the store when the toothpaste tube you’re using runs out, always have another one. It’s a simple mind hack that i used to get started.

@texasjoe3261 7 ай бұрын

I Appreciate You Sharing The TRUTH About Bugout And Survival !

@unclefreedom213 7 ай бұрын

I do my best these are fun to make. It's all stuff I've argued with others in the preparation community over the years

@Spock910 7 ай бұрын

My wife is Asian, we eat rice a couple of times every day and before that I eat beans at least one a day for as long as i remember. Yes we have other things alongside them as well.

@mikeu9770 7 ай бұрын

Unc another great video I’ve been with you since the beginning, keep up the great work and amazing content. It’s been nice to see your no shit attitude has connected with other life minded people.

@ExtremelyAverageMan 7 ай бұрын

Found your channel recently and respect that you're being honest and not romanticizing preparedness. Easy sub!

@jeremywilson8334 7 ай бұрын

Great! Love these videos. One I was thinking that maybe you want to add to your next one is this. The people in your community that you’re prepared to get together with under SHTF, there’s a good chance there will be infighting because of the very stressful situation and someone you think now is a friend may be the one that kill’s you in your sleep while they’re on firewatch

@brotherbrovet1881 2 ай бұрын

We strategically relocated to a very remote part of the US with very low population density some years ago. Our everyday is "bugging in". Folks who think they'll bug out to the wilderness after a cataclysm, folks who live in these places aren't going to take kindly to your uninvited presence. They're already accustomed to not calling police to handle their business and many are better armed and trained than police.

@117rebel 6 ай бұрын

A prep a lot of preppers overlook I’ve found is hygiene and what to do about their feces when the toilet isn’t working anymore. If you don’t keep your body clean your chances of getting sick are higher. Not to mention the body odor. Major cities will probably break out with plagues with all the feces people will have piling up in their apartments.

@larryjanson4011 Ай бұрын

the bigger the city the faster people will die.

@telesniper2 Ай бұрын

I'm familiar with that as a trucker haha. Empty bottles for #1, grocery bags for #2 (tie and toss)

@SeparateSpectre 7 ай бұрын

Good, solemn, no-nonsense reminders in this video. We all have holes in our preps. And it's important to think clearly and remedy them instead of panicking and going broke thinking we'll just buy up all the holes (like some YT preppers would have us do). Appreciate you taking the time to give us all that gentle nudge we need to keep moving in the right direction!

@markgoggin2014 6 ай бұрын

I have 2 locations that I have invitations to join because I bring knowledge and an anvil and forge to the table.

@reddirtwalker8041 5 ай бұрын

One thing I find many people don't consider is other people's fire. If you live in a neighborhood someone else's house fire will likely spread.

@newscoulomb3705 2 ай бұрын

I definitely recommend updating your information on batteries; the technology has improved significantly for home power and off-grid use. Modern LFP chemistries are now dense enough that a 200 lb. battery pack (topped up each day with solar or wind) could power the average U.S. home for the entire day, which is far more energy than someone should use when conserving, and the new LFP cells are rated for 6,000 to 10,000 cycles before losing the first 20% of their capacity. Even when charged/discharged full to empty to full every day (which shouldn't happen unless you undersized your system), they would last ~30 years before they lost the first 20% of their capability. For most people, a modern off-grid power system will easily outlive them in a SHTF/WROL scenario. These aren't your grandpa's 230 grain FMJ 18650s anymore (insert "Two World Wars!" meme here).

@olderiverhardgoods 7 ай бұрын

Another great video. One of my favorite saying is "Murphy was an optimist"..and that's been proven time and time again.

@jackieow 7 ай бұрын

Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone "The Shelter" about those who want to push their way in when they find out you were right to be a prepper.

@dothedewinme 3 ай бұрын

I have a decent amount of food and some tools, the 2 biggest thing I need to work on are back up solar power, even if it’s a tilt up kit that powers a small generator you can plug thjngs into at night and water storage. a few solar ovens are a MUST. I live on an acre and it’s not much but I have been able to run a very successful garden started from seed for 6-7 years now. What’s funny is right now the thing I consider pests to my garden (turkeys and deer) would just become food in a big in situation. That’s is when a Compound bow and broad heads or turkey hunting heads come in real handy. It would be real easy to clap 3-4 turkeys fast when they are in my yard. OR the pick off a few of those geese from the flock that pass 50 feet over my house literally every night on their way to the river to bed down for the night. Stuff is out there for the getting, just pay attention

@jmmartin7766 7 ай бұрын

In prepping for "bugging out" over ten years ago, I realized (for a host of reasons), it's just not practical for "me and mine." We're better off staying home, riding it out as long as possible, and organizing with friends and neighbors to fight the "govt troops, blue helmets, ANTIFA, whatever" from our neighborhoods/town, if necessary...

@jefftabor595 7 ай бұрын

Great content as always. Tough pill to swallow but I am listening.

@ROE675 7 ай бұрын

I think that us in the west will have a harder time in a complete break down than a lot of people from the so called "third world" countries. Most of us here have never been truly hungry, or so thirsty the mud puddle looks inviting, there has always been a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for us. Most of us specialize in something, but how many of us know how to can food like our grand parents did? It is always easer to invest in that which interests us, so of course that part of prepping is where we focus our energy, that's why videos like this are so important to jar us out of our complacency and get us to look critically at our situation. Great video, thanks for all you do to help this community.

@telesniper2 Ай бұрын

I know a guy that put up a lightly secured shed on his property that he stocked with lots of food that has been deliberately poisoned. He said that during SHTF, he fully expects that to be raided by miscreants. I told him "Billy you're a genius". Think of all the ammo and risk he would be saving during SHTF with this brilliant move. Also there's other things to consider during SHTF and hypothetical scenarios. Maybe having equipment on hand to set up a still would be a good thing to have. If you're talking about discontinuity of government or WROL situation, I doubt authorities would be concerned about collecting taxes for it. Being able to create the best motor fuel known from easy to grow corn would be very valuable. Most people don't think about stuff like that. I could go over most of your other points about people raiding you or targeting you but you get my point. People that are assaulting a place are at a disadvantage, and can be baited into ambush really easily.

@dosbox2010 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

@Esper320 7 ай бұрын

Good stuff unc, "you is aight for being the popo" 😂

@markfox7135 7 ай бұрын

Some great common sense advice. Few things I just haven't put into practice I need to!

@Ovokor 7 ай бұрын

For a community, the most important thing is to become useful and gain skills that others want to have and your alright to be with. Plant knowledge and gardening is the biggest under rated skills, its a high level skill and a very dangerous threat. For every acre of land if you max out the land not just garden boxes then you can get 8-15 million calories per acre and each person is going to need 730,000 calories in a year so aim for a million calories for every person. Consider Jerusalem artichoke, sweet potato's, normal potato's, berries, filberts or some other nut. Fruits, veggies that grow back every year etc. To find a community you got to be active, farmer markets, three gun shoots, church, work etc. Good luck and become valuable.

@silverbrass6711 7 ай бұрын

Another awesome video. Keep them coming.👍👍

@unclefreedom213 7 ай бұрын

thank you

@jamesosborne5950 7 ай бұрын

I went from able to bug out to having to bug in due to illness but I live in the middle of a national forest which isn’t full proof but I have advantages that others in a city don’t have . Main reason I let the big city and bought a home in the woods 6 years ago

@Tobi1_Kenobi 7 ай бұрын

I wish more people would understand that generators make noise. I can hear my asshole neighbor's over the airplanes, trains, and my too-loud TV. thanks for putting out the great content!

@jackieow 7 ай бұрын

He needs a muffler on it.

@csummers07 7 ай бұрын

I can’t wait for vol 2

@mikerichardson7767 7 ай бұрын

Started building up a nice library

@garygreen3183 6 ай бұрын

I got a question, What are us old folks going to do!!!!!!! We can't run and gun no more!!

@deplorablebilly1066 7 ай бұрын

Absolutely right!Great video!

@stephanmeloche869 7 ай бұрын

I love these videos. Especially bugging in. That is my family's plan for now, and for the foreseeable future. In part 2, could you please go over ways to stay warm in extreme cold, and cool(ish) in extreme heat? This is a huge lack of knowledge for me and I would appreciate input

@woodsghost9088 7 ай бұрын

Staying warm is relatively easy. Get a properly sized wood stove or 2 and some wood stove fans which are run by heat. No electricity needed. For staying cool, my experience is you need shade trees and a pool or pond.

@woodsghost9088 7 ай бұрын

Let me know if that answers your questions or if you need more details.

@stephanmeloche869 7 ай бұрын

I am more concerned about staying cool. Where I live, it *usually* doesn't get cold. There are a couple exceptions. (We reached -10 last year). However summers can be about 2 months straight of 90-100+ degrees with 70+percent humidity. I'm much more worried about keeping my family cool in the summer. The nearest "natural" water source is a mile away and its out in the wide open at a state park. A pool (outside of a kiddy pool) just isn't feasible right now.

@woodsghost9088 7 ай бұрын

@@stephanmeloche869 that is a tough situation. It sounds like you are in the south east of the US. Though parts of Missouri get like that too, if I remember right. I've had a lot of hot weather injuries. If possible, use shade. Cook outside. Open windows at night and shut them in the day. Use white sheets to reflect heat away from windows. Your South/East/West windows. I hope you have a white roof. If you don't, consider white for your next roof. I hope you have trees in your yard. If not, some hybrid willows may be a good choice. They should grow like mad. Putting them on the south side will be especially useful. You may want to put in a small fish pond or a pool. Don't do work between 11am and probably 3pm on hot days. Just rest. Or do small handi-crafts work. Sit in the shade. If possible, put ice in a bandanna and wrap it around your neck. Dress in cotton and use light colors. Especially white or light tan. Be aware of the bugs in your area during the hot months. Dress for them too. Just current thoughts and experience. Let me know if you want more or maybe someone with better info will chime in.

@woodsghost9088 7 ай бұрын

@@stephanmeloche869 I am travelling and don't have access to my copy of the book, but Cody Londin's "98.6 Degrees" has good info on hot weather living and survival. I HUGELY recommend that book. He has an urban disaster book too. That probably has equally good info. He is the hippie guy on Dual Survival.

@appleiphone69 15 күн бұрын

I’m so close to a major city with military assets around. If it’s nuclear war, I am not surviving.

@jackdundon2261 2 ай бұрын

I live out in Oregon in a pretty quiet area. There's three types of people live in this rural area with me. Type one or the freeze-dried old hippies. They usually have a gun or two couple hundred rounds of ammo. They have nice gardens, just old retired people with a little bit of preps. Then there's some people like me that have enough guns, ammo, food, canning jars, canning supplies, fuel to last a while and then there's a third prepper and this is the one that scares the s*** out of me. Those are the wolf preppers they're playing is to rob people and come from the city to bug out to our location.... Of all the crap I have I thought night vision was great until I got a thermal scope. Oh my f****** God if you're serious about prepping and survival get a f****** thermal scope. It's in f****** sane... (At least until the rechargeable batteries end up dying).

@unclefreedom213 2 ай бұрын

yep thermal changes the game I thought u was high speed with 31s then I got thermals and holy shit uts a super power albeit a very expensive one............worth it