12-03-2019, 03:28 AM
The urban areas, and those areas surrounding them, are the places to watch once you get 100 miles or so into the interior, past the borders. Northern Virginia is the worst problem area around here, loaded down to the gills with MS-13, gangs, cartels, Jihadists, and carpet-baggin' Yankees.. In addition to the urban areas, main routes between them need to be watched. Those are what I call the "game trails" where predators lurk between cities.
We have a few Mexicans around here, but the cartels have not made any great inroads into this area, because the drug trade is locked down by mean ass local hillbillies, and the cartel supply lines are stretched too far for the cartels to manage, so far. If Billy Bob Meth Dealer gets wind of a cartel shipment coming into the area, ambushes get set on their MSRs and a bad day is had by them. Cartels cannot physically send enough cartel soldiers in a single convoy to deal with the sheer mass of armed and pissed off hillbillies on the routes.
Of note and concern to me is the fact that, in the past two weeks, two mountain sides about a mile from my bunker have been scalped and the trees piled in huge burning piles. Upon investigation, it seems they are putting a major highway through at that point. I'm a little uncomfortable with an enemy MSR being built that close, but forewarned is forearmed, they say. I wouldn't be able to stop their advance from the enemy MSR there to my bunker here, but I can damned sure slow it down to a head-scratching crawl. I already scoped out the best points for road blocks and ambush sites, so if nothing else I can make it costly enough that it might not be worth their time.
I have no .50 cal weapons - too rich for my blood, at a minimum of 5 grand per rifle and 3 to 6 bucks per shot. I do have an AR, but only about 1600 rounds of ammo for it. They way I operate, however, that will likely be enough. I also have a .308 sniper rifle, but at the moment only about 200 rounds for it. My real ace in the hole is a lowly .22 rifle. laugh all you want, but I'm extremely confident that should everything else I have be seized, I can re-arm and re-supply off the enemy themselves with that one piddlin' little rifle. It's a matter of knowing how to use what you have to get what you need... and you can feed and care for a .22 for years and years for next to nothing.
The woods here are full of edible plants and critters, but as Mystic mentioned, every generation produces fewer folk capable of exploiting those resources. Luckily, my dear old dad insisted that I learn such intricacies many, many years ago. I've eaten things that younger folk swore would kill me because they were "poisonous" - which they are, if you don't know how to prepare them. Poke weed comes to mind in that regard. No one eats it here any more because they are scared to death of it... so I'll have all the poke weed to eat I can stand! Before the advent of corn in this area, one of the plants grown by Indians for consumption was goosefoot. It grows wild all over here now, but few know how to eat it - it's not just greens. The seeds are edible as well. Quinoa is a variety of it. Folks pay out the nose for quinoa at the grocery store because it has a fancy, exotic sounding name... but it's just goosefoot seed, which they weed out of their yards and ditches and throw over the hill to waste.
In addition to edible plants, I was taught medicinal ones, too. That sort of thing comes in handy when a doctor is 30 miles away and your feet only have a mile and a half left in them. I never went to see a doctor when I was growing up, because I could handle it myself. I still don't. Grace insisted that I go to a hospital a couple of years ago, and I relented... but wish I hadn't. It cost me over 5 grand for NOTHING - what they did had no effect at all, despite the price. I handled the problem myself, at home, and it's all good now... except I'm out 5 grand for nothing.
Civil war in Mexico spilling over into the US? Sure, it could happen, may even be likely to happen... but they better keep their shit outta my neck of the woods if they know what's good for 'em. We have enough problems here already, and them fancy guns they bring with 'em might draw all manner of unseemly predators!
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We have a few Mexicans around here, but the cartels have not made any great inroads into this area, because the drug trade is locked down by mean ass local hillbillies, and the cartel supply lines are stretched too far for the cartels to manage, so far. If Billy Bob Meth Dealer gets wind of a cartel shipment coming into the area, ambushes get set on their MSRs and a bad day is had by them. Cartels cannot physically send enough cartel soldiers in a single convoy to deal with the sheer mass of armed and pissed off hillbillies on the routes.
Of note and concern to me is the fact that, in the past two weeks, two mountain sides about a mile from my bunker have been scalped and the trees piled in huge burning piles. Upon investigation, it seems they are putting a major highway through at that point. I'm a little uncomfortable with an enemy MSR being built that close, but forewarned is forearmed, they say. I wouldn't be able to stop their advance from the enemy MSR there to my bunker here, but I can damned sure slow it down to a head-scratching crawl. I already scoped out the best points for road blocks and ambush sites, so if nothing else I can make it costly enough that it might not be worth their time.
I have no .50 cal weapons - too rich for my blood, at a minimum of 5 grand per rifle and 3 to 6 bucks per shot. I do have an AR, but only about 1600 rounds of ammo for it. They way I operate, however, that will likely be enough. I also have a .308 sniper rifle, but at the moment only about 200 rounds for it. My real ace in the hole is a lowly .22 rifle. laugh all you want, but I'm extremely confident that should everything else I have be seized, I can re-arm and re-supply off the enemy themselves with that one piddlin' little rifle. It's a matter of knowing how to use what you have to get what you need... and you can feed and care for a .22 for years and years for next to nothing.
The woods here are full of edible plants and critters, but as Mystic mentioned, every generation produces fewer folk capable of exploiting those resources. Luckily, my dear old dad insisted that I learn such intricacies many, many years ago. I've eaten things that younger folk swore would kill me because they were "poisonous" - which they are, if you don't know how to prepare them. Poke weed comes to mind in that regard. No one eats it here any more because they are scared to death of it... so I'll have all the poke weed to eat I can stand! Before the advent of corn in this area, one of the plants grown by Indians for consumption was goosefoot. It grows wild all over here now, but few know how to eat it - it's not just greens. The seeds are edible as well. Quinoa is a variety of it. Folks pay out the nose for quinoa at the grocery store because it has a fancy, exotic sounding name... but it's just goosefoot seed, which they weed out of their yards and ditches and throw over the hill to waste.
In addition to edible plants, I was taught medicinal ones, too. That sort of thing comes in handy when a doctor is 30 miles away and your feet only have a mile and a half left in them. I never went to see a doctor when I was growing up, because I could handle it myself. I still don't. Grace insisted that I go to a hospital a couple of years ago, and I relented... but wish I hadn't. It cost me over 5 grand for NOTHING - what they did had no effect at all, despite the price. I handled the problem myself, at home, and it's all good now... except I'm out 5 grand for nothing.
Civil war in Mexico spilling over into the US? Sure, it could happen, may even be likely to happen... but they better keep their shit outta my neck of the woods if they know what's good for 'em. We have enough problems here already, and them fancy guns they bring with 'em might draw all manner of unseemly predators!
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’