Dennis1209

Like many here, I don't plan on bugging out from my bug out retirement location but, should the need arise due to a radio active cloud headed my way, an asteroid predicted to land dead center on my house , an environmental disaster of some sort headed my way, it be my 3/4 ton Dodge Ram diesel 4X4 pick em up.   In many circumstances a 4X4 is not going to get you any farther than the collapsed roads, bridges, congested / broken down vehicles and infrastructure will allow during an earthquake or mass exodus anyway.   Of course if you have Big Foot as pictured above you just drive over the traffic, but I own little toe hang nail myself :rant:   Doing a 360 and get out of Dodge isn't always possible. And when you get stuck and stranded a long ways from your destination, then what?

    I'm not going to debate you on your reasoning because I agree with you, however...   Would / are you going to use your above statement for the record after a self defense shooting for the police report the DA is going to review and decide that the Grand Jury needs to hear / see it?   Is the police, District Attorney, Grand Jury and jury going to see eye to eye with your assumptions?   I'm left-handed and might not be thinking in my right mind but, just something to consider.

He is often one of the three panelists on a show I watch (Trigger Time) on the Pursuit Channel. I've read and watched a lot of his opinions, tips and videos of home and self defense.   For a long time I thought this guy was a pacifist short in the gonad department. Then I really started to think about the subject after my ADT alarm went off at 3:00 A.M. sometime back and seriously evaluated my security improvements and goals. Leaving my testosterone out of my reasoning and looking at my possessions I cherish and worked hard for as just items that can be replaced, and things that can not be replaced, it made perfect sense to me.   I realized the most important aspect of a home invasion / self defense life or death situation is... First and foremost is keep the family and you safe and alive "at any and all costs".   A secondary and very important issue to me is my quality of life and financial stability. I would not find it pleasant dealing with the aftermath of a self defense shooting. Having to clean up a biological mess, replace / repair carpeting, walls, furniture, appliances, etc. Most likely getting my favorite carry / HD handgun confiscated and held as evidence and the hassle of getting it back. Under duress having to remember the limited amount of information to give to 9-1-1 and the responding officers to be used to determine if charges will be filed against you. The likelihood for a potential lawsuit against you despite Castle Doctrine law. The emotional trauma inflicted on your self and family and dealing with it. The potential permanent hearing loss you and / or your family may receive. Now don't get me wrong, I have no problem with the BG's meeting their maker what-so-ever but... A person has to make their own decision what's in their best interest and I'm starting to lean with Rob Pincus's reasoning and way of thinking. That being retreat if at all possible and try to barricade your loved ones and defend and call 9-1-1 from there. From the stand point of your best odds, self preservation and family safety, doesn't that make the most sense?

Gee thanks!   It's always such a pleasure to unintentionally soil myself :up:

  Yea, it happened to me at our local Walmart not long ago. Wearing my heavy 1911 one of the snaps came undone on a high dollar cqc holster. I was making my way toward the front restrooms to fix the problem but entered an isle with no one there so I quickly re-snapped it.   In retrospect, maybe with all the security cameras I should have continued to the men's room.   I'm not a fan of OWB snap holsters anymore.

No expert here but, my ole grand pappy use to instill in me not to hunt or skin squirrels until after the first hard freeze of the season? Never said why but I assume it was so the fleas and ticks would mostly drop off the fur?   If that be the case, you would think the state would have a health advisory or caution?   In these temperatures it sure won't take long for the meat to rot.

    Of course, but in the interest of brevity and save a whole bunch of cyber ink, I'll skip to the very last chapter and epilogue.   You know, the tragedy of one old man not being able to adequately defend his retirement bug out location and no where else to bug out to... With a sparse country population safety in numbers was not achieved since no one wanted to leave their property and possessions and move in with their neighbor to increase security or a force multiplier.     Sparing the graphic details, suffice it to say, "it wasn't pretty what the roving gang-bangers and escaped convicts did to the people that didn't double up or assemble together for their own survival".   <the end>

Wednesday, September 11, 2013.   Being retired and arising out of bed at 8:00 A.M. to a gorgeous day in the country, as my feet hit the floor I'm trying to decide the order of the day? I have chickens to tend, 3 acres of grass that really needs cutting, 2 acres of pasture that hasn't seen a bush hog in a year, and a bushel of green beans I picked yesterday that need canning but, I have to take the wife grocery shopping first, before I get all dirty, hot and sweaty working around here for the day.   After I drain my four gallon bladder that completely filled over night and make the bathroom habitable for the wife with my flatulence, I stumble down to the kitchen and start to make a pot of coffee for us and hit the on switch.   It will take about 15 minutes for the coffee to brew in our old coffee maker so I'll jump in the shower and it will be finished when I get clean and shiny. Get in the shower, adjust the temperature and hit the shower gizmo and start washing my hair first as usual. Man this feels good, hot water pouring over my body and I'm coming to life. Then...   The water pressure begins to drop rapidly as I'm trying to get the shampoo off my head and face. I don't know if Prell shampoo burns the eyes but, I don't want to find out! There was just enough water pressure to rinse the shampoo off my head and face. Great I'm thinking, what a time for the well pump or well pressure tank to take a dump!   I dried off and was getting dressed when the wife finally got up. I told her the coffee was ready by now and I'll join her as soon as I finish. I really wanted to shave but it would have to wait until I figured out if it was the well pump, pressure tank or electrical problems.   Heard the wife yell up that the coffee was not even started and she hit the switch a couple of times and nothing. Then she noticed the microwave and oven didn't have the digital time displayed, hit the light switch and nothing, then yelled up to me the power is out!   Thinking to myself, GOOD! It's not the well water pump, pressure tank or electrical, just a short power outage. For some reason around here the power has hiccups every month or two and the alarms clocks, microwave and stove start flashing midnight when it comes back on, but it's all blank now.   Well, I'll just have to occupy myself so I sit down in my recliner and grab the television remote and suddenly remember, I hope the wife didn't see that!   Sitting in my recliner thinking how stupid that was grabbing the remote with no electricity, I was looking out my front window at the road. Normally only maybe a dozen or so cars travel my country road in a day. I counted 57 cars in just a matter of ten minutes? Is this a parade or something on our little country road?   Oh well, there must be a large yard sale or liquidation sale close by and dismissed it.   I ask the wife if she is ready to go to the grocery store so I can get my day started. As usual, I get the standard I'm doing my hair and makeup crap. So I know that will be at least an hour, if not more! So I boil some water on my propane gas range and pour it in the automatic coffee maker and have a cup of patience, no two cups of patience!   Finally with little daylight remaining the wife says she's ready to go but first would like to have a cup of coffee also. I've learned many mango seasons ago that if you needed to be somewhere at noon, you told the spouse you absolutely had to be there at 10:00 A.M.   Finally, after a man's eternity we are in my old Dodge diesel truck and I fire her up and trek the ten miles to our local IGA store. On the ten mile trip things are so very abnormal, for a Wednesday morning there's twenty times the traffic on these country roads as there ought to be. Must be some special event or something I'm not aware of I'm thinking?   As we are approaching our local IGA grocery store I notice the parking lot is completely filled and people are rushing about in what looks like a panic and are tossing their stuff in their vehicles instead of the normal packing it? I'm nervous and thinking, what's going on? The wife and I begin to talk about it and if we should even try to park and attempt to go in?   We elected to not compete with the mob and started to head home. It wasn't imperative we do our grocery shopping today, it could wait until whenever? Talking we suggested that it must have been one hell of a sale or three fer and sort of laughed at it.   Upon arriving home my closest neighbors of ½ mile away were there to greet us? As we were driving up our two hundred yard driveway they appeared anxious and stressed? Not even ready to exit the vehicle they were shouting, “did you hear, did you hear”? Hear what I exclaimed...   The point being, whether it's an economic collapse, nuclear war, EMP, major solar coronal mass ejection, multiple terrorist attacks, major earthquake, or whatever...   If you wake up one morning and things are amiss, are you prepared to survive an extended period of time when you wake up and don't smell the coffee?

Good post. Thanks for the info!

  In my thirty plus years of military and civilian government service, every oath I took was to defend and support the Constitution of the United States, not the constitution of a state, county, city or municipality. I do believe the U.S. Constitution supersedes state Constitutions and infringements imposed by lesser governments?

Yep!   Next time you glad hand someone, think of where that hand has been?

  I caught a really bad case of the "chirpies" from our pet bird and it was really hard to tweet? The wife was madder than a wet hen and wouldn't stop clucking about it...

I seen something similar on TV the other day? What ever I was watching they put a few inches of bleach in the bucket. What would that be for, quicker death, kill parasites?

  I don't know either but, I just wish they would give me a bowl of that dementia they keep talking about, it sounds delicious. The wife recently, or was it a decade ago? Anyway she turned me on to the latest summer fashions from Tommy Hilfiger, adult pampers.

  Remember? I was pumping it at a Clark station at 16 years old and my 1962 Rambler's tank stayed full. Twenty-four cents a gallon is the lowest I remember during the gas wars in my area. Daily my boss would send me a few blocks up the road to check what the Site station was selling gas for and match it. If a customer purchased more than "a dolla's worf" of gas, I had to wash the windshield, back glass and offer to check under the hood.   I can't remember if we gave away Eagle or S&H stamps with purchases and frequently gave away mugs / glass's etc. with ten gallons or more.   I still have a couple of boxes of (50 round) .22LR I purchased myself at 12-13 years old from Western Auto.     I won't go into changing out a bad horse shoe when a horse and buggy pulled in :ugh:

I like the show myself and have seen every episode.   Willie running for public office? Don't know much of their political views for sure but, the clan sure seems to be down to earth and conservative. It would be a safe bet they are pro Second Amendment though.   Behind the beard, Jase seems like he's a very intelligent and educated individual. In fact, they all do.

Humm... What makes me feel old? Let's see...   It all starts trying to get out of bed in the afternoon and heading to the kitchen to make some coffee. Getting to the kitchen and forgetting what I was in the kitchen for. Return to the bedroom to get my thought back. Get back to bedroom and  realize I must be there to take an afternoon snooze :snore:    And having to take a Viagra just to take a whiz.

Me too! I like them guys... Wish they were my neighbors, other than the beards, they're a lot like me.

Evidently this "Burg's" genealogical lineage didn't experience the death camps or know their history very well?

Unfortunately, there's zero repercussions a judge can receive based on their decisions, unless they're elected and removed at the ballot box. Just look at the ninth circus court of appeals for an appointed example.   On a related abuse of power that happens more than not. My brother-in-law is 60 years old and has worked all his life. His previous wife died of an illness a decade ago and he remarried three years ago and recently got divorced. Married to this gold digger for only "three years", the judge granted her the house, 50% of what the brother-in-laws assets, and a percentage of his retirement when he draws it shortly.   How any why does a "judge" figure their decisions. Certainly it's not based on any laws that I'm aware of as far as court law?   And as despicable as it is to me for a parent to intentionally subject their children to future ridicule, embarrassment and emotional pain, the government and judges have no Constitutional authority or moral business in a families personal life. Domestic abuse of children being the possible exception. Now with that just said, I contradicted myself. Wouldn't a name like Lucifer or Satan, etc. be domestic abuse?

  ... to be self evident, life...

I guess I'm old fashioned. I have a new 556/223 but if I take to the woods this fall, it's a one ounce 12 ga. rifled slug. Around here a person could take a shot at deer out in the fields at 800+ yards if they wanted to but, that no fun and a great risk of just wounding it.   I like to get in bed with them in the woods on the ground and take a 60-100 lb. eater at less than 50 yards. I've made good shots on deer with a 12 ga. slug and still had them run 100 yards before piling up.   Listen closely and you'll hear those back straps sizzling on my Webber grill this fall :up:

  ^^^  Remember it well   ^^^

There's more wild vegetation now on my three acres than SE Asia that I'm desperate to cut. It's either raining, about to rain or too wet from the rain to cut it. I'll need to bush hog it before my riding lawn mower will be able to handle it. In my 39 years of putting out a garden, I've never seen this much mold on the soil for so long and the crops did terrible.   For a limited time only, build your own ARK plans, $29.95 each, get em while their dry. I accept check, M.O., cash and personal I.O.U.'s...