Even with just the boy scout training, you'll last longer than any Urbanite 🤣

Bush craft and basic survival wise I learned a bit from Zachery Fowlers 30 day survival challenge and Corporals Corner on YouTube. They do survival series and teach you tips and tricks.

I'll have to check them out and practice some of their stuff

I live in a subdivision but I'm close enough to some places that I can go practice on weekends

I plan on doing some dry fire/ indoor rifle training, too. No tactical rifle courses out here either but there's still plenty of drills

can we talk about the tacticle shovel?

It's just a Walmart knock off of the Army shovel. I REALLY want this one...

Cant ever go wrong with a standard issue etool. Every military surplus store has them

Indeed, got one that I think might be old German, it's still got the wood handle and the like, but it feels like it could probably stop some pistol calibers.

@PASSIVE DEAD CAT BOUNCER SMH

You guys have any tips for a young, greenhorn prepper currently living with their folks (as much as I hate to admit it) in a suburban area?

Skills to learn and practice, food and water storage/ procurement, maybe communications?

It kind of depends on region, but I suppose let's start with what do you already know?

I know some basics, like how to start a fire. I have some idea as to what kind of food I should buy, I know a little bit about water purification and filtration but not much

I know the layout of the area that I'm in very well

Like ham radios, gas masks,filters, and nbc gear

?

I'm not at that point yet. I guess I'm trying to figure out how to solidify my foundation

The situations I envision potentially having to contend with are civil war and economic collapse

Ammo, guns, MREs, water purifiers, and bam

Everything basic 😅

I need to save up to buy some survival stuff

I need a tarp because it doubles as a cover and water collecter

Shit, tarps are a good idea

Make rainwater catchment with that

Yeah even a small one is good really. Make a lean-to and place a tarp on with some rocks on top for shelter

For water catching digging a hole and placing it in is the most basic as long as it's in an open area

I got enough yard back here to put up several tarps

Nice! As long as it rains 🤣

We get some rain, but only in winter and spring

Ah

I've also seen people use tarps to distill water

So I would need to engineer a way to store it

Fortunately I have a hot tub

Nice

That's about 300 gallons

Nice!

I bought a countertop water filter with a ceramic and carbon element in it, so it should take the chemicals out of the hot tub water if I need to drink out of that

Yeah that's cool

Oh I would also recommend a bowie knife lol. I've gotten a pretty nice Elk Ridge one from Big 5 for 10 dollars when it was on sale

Normally $30 ?