I'm in a psych unit but when I get out I'll be staying with grandparents in a property in the woods. It has a river, dams, losts of trees. I want to do some "prepping" and learn outdoors skills, perhaps have a bug out bag and set up some outdoors shelter and fireplace. Any cool tips or advice?
>>2852919I'd start with practicing knots. In particular a sturdy slip knot that can support your body weight -- that's going to be the most useful skill you'll pick up.
>>2852919> Any cool tips or advice?My advice…..don’t kill your grandparents psycho.
>>2852919First and foremost, make Jesus your rock.Jesus said to sell your own garments to get a sword.These are absolute beginner items. Even most these items have better versions which can splinter off into more autistic things. Youre asking a really complicated question so I'll give you a beginning point that I believe most people would be happy to start with.1. a swordar15 is a great starting point. i would even suggest a glock 19 so you can conceal carry in public. follow the laws of your area. the ar15 and glock 19 are for north america. choose your weapon based on your location. if your location/laws don't permit this, try anything. apply for a shotgun if you're in the uk. if you're a felon try to get a crossbow. buy a literal sword. a large axe. a damn flint lock pistol. you need that sword that Jesus commands you to have.2. knifeesee 4 is a great size and meant to be abused. best warranty in the bushcraft world. you will turn into a knife autist if you start researching too long3. batter bankcharge your electronics. bigger is better. end game is generators4. solar panelbigger the better. don't expect to rely on this unless you drop serious cash5. water filteri use rockwell water systems to store large amounts of water. this stuff can always go deeper and cost more6. water purifieryou can use dirty water + salt + electricity to chemically clean your water. i think the h2go makes bleach7. radioham radio, baofeng7.1programming cable (check chirp settings for pre loaded channels) check your area for local repeaters. print out the local repeaters as a back up7.2 large battery for baofengthis lets you power the thing because the default charge bay needs to be plugged into a wall7.3 battery cablei guess the battery and the cable are sold seperate8. ferro rodbuy a bunch of bic lighters. i used to smoke, i have the belief the small lighters last longer. maybe its my local climate idk. fuel storage can be difficult.its endless. be wise
>>2853026here's how you store foodmylar bag set (comes with oxygen absorbers), mason jar (to store spare oxygen absorbers), sharpie, hair straightener flat iron, the description in this jewtube vid has a link for oxygen absorber recommended amountshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rC80DafNWs
The Venn diagram of people who have been in psyche wards and people who are ardent preppers is a circle.In all seriousness though, prepping is gayer than buttsex yo. Learn to hunt and garden. Those are better “prepper” skills than buying a fucking baofeng. Hunting and gardening are applicable skills no matter the status of society at large. You won’t be taking the gamble of your “prepping” being nothing more than an expensive larp by instead enriching your life with harvesting food from the land. Just borrow grandpap’s 22 and go look for some squirrels and grouse.
>>2853107To add to this. In a SHTF scenario, I’d take some bubba from the woods who knows how to hunt, fish, trap, and work on small motors over some Jesus fag >>2853026kitted out with this useless bullshit. Spend the time and money you drop on a retarded ar-15 and buy a used 30-06 with a decent scope (will take any large game in North America with no problem) and some credits for a welding, carpentry, or small 2 stroke and/or 4 stroke maintenance class at your local trade school. These skills would make you invaluable in a SHTF scenario while also adding immense value to your non fairytale fantasy life that you currently live in.
>>2852919Don't go outdoors for "prepping". Your worst worry right now is having another episode of whatever you have, not the end of the world. Ask your grandpa to go out with you, hiking, maybe camping, having barbecues. Do some gardening with your grandma. Positive family interaction and nature interaction will do you good.
>>2853107>people who have been in psyche wards and people who are ardent preppers is a circle.Mfw I'm not even ardent as a prepper
>>2853115This 100%. Please don’t delve into the prepping community. It’s a cesspool of paranoid losers that can turn even a completely neuro typical person into a freak. A solo hobby to develop for yourself is good too though. Spend lots of family time but it would be good to focus on an /out/ hobby you can do by yourself. For love of god make it something productive like hunting, fishing, or gardening and not some retarded and wasteful consooooomer “hobby” like prepping.
>>2852919What are you running from?The disease is inside you.
>>2853265Society can be stressful and overwhelming
>>2852919get a cheap 900ml pot and a brs-3000 knockoff from aliexpress or similar (or fashion yourself a diy alcohol stove). Go on walks in the woods and stop for a tea / coffee. Having 'go to place X and have a tea there' is much better as an activity than just walking there and back. Use this to map out the woods slowly. The human brain likes having a goal/reward and this is an easy one. You can get set up for like $20. I like the chinese titanium camp pots that are available now. they get very cheap on sale and are very light for carrying in a small backpack.
Consider this, the Donner party ventured into the Sierra Nevada mountains with no knowledge of the land, with not enough food to last but a month or two. Got snowbound and starved, eating the saddles from their horses and some ultimately eating their own dead. But all the while they were surrounded by Miwok Indians who were not preppers, but people who deeply understood the land and all its inhabitants in that area. They didn’t “survive” there, they simply there with the resources the land provided. Well, in one sense they were preppers in that they did, like the squirrels and other animals they prepared for the long cold months by caching food during the warmer months. They had a good store of dried fish, acorn, pinyon nut, and other foods. Like people who rely on wood heat today, they had a store of firewood and they stayed toasty warm in their small conical houses, in many cases insulated with thick tule mats and warmed by a small fire, all the while wrapped in their thick rabbit skin blankets. Consider also the story of Ishi, the last known wild Indian who stumbled out of the woods half starved because just before winter set in, a group of white trappers came upon their hidden homes, took all their food, and even took the rabbit skin blankets! I see prepping as knowing how to return to the old ways. Yes you should have some things stocked, but more importantly you should have the knowledge and the tools to live off the land in the area of the world you find yourself in. I myself live in the southern Sierra Nevada. I know the cycle of life that people once followed here; I know what was harvested when. and I count among my friends people whose ancestors lived here for ten thousand years before the Europeans came.
