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In case you didn't have enuf 2 worry about...
Jim Davis:
This is hypothetical/fantasy, but bow hunting, strategy.
Suppose you lived where I do, in the Mississippi valley. You go to visit friends in western Oregon and, while you are there, there is a massive solar coronal mass ejection that kills the entire electrical system for the western hemisphere. Cars don't work. No food or fuel distribution is possible. No road kill.
Your family needs you to get home. It's August, so time is limited before cold comes to the Rockies.
You have a bicycle, bike tools, a takedown bow, a spare string, blunt and broadhead arrows. You also have a rain parka, space blanket, water filtration set, good pocket knife and sharpening stone, a lighter, spare folding bike tire, extra tube and patches.
Just riding time will take you 40 to sixty days. You can't carry more than a few days worth of food. There may be those who want what you have.
What would be your strategy to get food to get you through eastern Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska and down through Missouri?
I have some ideas, let's hear yours:)
sleek:
Id be more worried about avoiding the masses of people who dont have the gear i have, which is literally everything i could need and want. And there will still be cars. I will always have a carborated pickup truck because i do believe something like this is possible.
Id have to travel at night especially on moonless nights. I will travel only roads that have the least amount of previous traffic on them to avoid all gas stations and places other people would flock to first. A ride that far will wear out yoir tires so i would be inclined to hit a store up first thing as soon as a plan has been realized and get spare tires. Money will do no good so unfortunately looting may be required. Also, i would be a hunter of opportunity, and only shoot what i see as i ride, and small game only to reduce down time and processing food time. I would probably take opportunity to fish rather than hunt because im a better fisherman than hunter. Besides 40-60 daus isnt long enough to really worry about massive amounts of food to make it my priority.
DC:
--- Quote from: sleek on July 12, 2016, 12:33:43 pm --- I will always have a carborated pickup truck because i do believe something like this is possible.
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Does it have electronic ignition? ;) ;)
Josh B:
Good point DC! If you don't have a points/condenser distributor, the carburetor doesn't help. Also alternators from the 80's on up have electronic voltage regulators. They'd get fried too.
This is actually something that's never far from the front of my mind. Maybe not that exact scenario, but any major calamity that would leave me stranded anywhere in the nation. With my job it could be anywhere. In my way of thinking, a bicycle or anything that restricted my route of travel to any roads would be suboptimal. Roads are for people that like to get ambushed. I would prefer a horse or mule. That's probably not going to be an option, so the next best thing is LPC's(leather personnel carriers). I have two pairs of lightly broke in jungle boots and a pair of insulated boots in my large A.L.I.C.E pack along with various other needful things stowed away in my truck. I have a takedown bow and arrows in a quiver that straps to my pack. However I will be carrying a couple things that will be much more persuasive in convincing ol Sleek that there are easier targets to loot and rob than me. ;) Yes, those are stowed away with my other gear. Fortunately, I have a very good working knowledge of the terrain and water sources across most of this country. That will help should the unthinkable happen. Josh
sleek:
--- Quote from: DC on July 12, 2016, 03:36:17 pm ---
--- Quote from: sleek on July 12, 2016, 12:33:43 pm --- I will always have a carborated pickup truck because i do believe something like this is possible.
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Does it have electronic ignition? ;) ;)
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Good old points and coil.
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