What is all this SHTF?

[timshufflin]

I keep seeing SHTF posts an references. What is it with everyone and this insistence that S is going to Hit The Fan? Do you all really believe that S is going to HTF? :confused:

[paid4c4]

Shuff, I give maybe they're suffering from paranoia?
Bill

[howie]

Uhh.....YEAH!

[timshufflin]

I need me a good SHTF photo, stay tuned.

[timshufflin]

:SHTF:

Okay, mission accomplished.

[canes7]

Yeah.. I've been seeing a bit of it too. I think it has to do with it being zombie awareness month. There was a thread over on Jouster about an upcoming civil war. I like asking those types who they are going to shoot, they can never answer.

[Punch The Clown]

I like the "Go To Gun". Let me tell you something. If I ever woke up in the middle of the night with some prowler standing over my bed I can guarantee you that even if I didn't soil myself I would probably-if I ever got the night table drawer open-end up shooting myself in the leg. These people are delusional thinking they'll wake up from a sound sleep, jump out of bed like a ninja and empty the magazine into the perp.

[BRUTUS]

I like the "Go To Gun". Let me tell you something. If I ever woke up in the middle of the night with some prowler standing over my bed I can guarantee you that even if I didn't soil myself I would probably-if I ever got the night table drawer open-end up shooting myself in the leg. These people are delusional thinking they'll wake up from a sound sleep, jump out of bed like a ninja and empty the magazine into the perp.

That's why you have DOGS to give you a heads up......

[Punch The Clown]

That's why you have DOGS to give you a heads up......

Jeff, my Dog went 4 years ago. I miss him. He was incredibly intelligent-more than most people. Anyway, I slept like a baby with him around. I haven't gotten another because I know I'll only be disappointed. Stu

http://i369.photobucket.com/albums/oo140/Stumedic/039.jpg

[BRUTUS]

Not to be crass, but ya gotta get back on the horse.....I've cried 15-20 times over my lifetime over hounds lost........

My two current "deterrers".......
http://i457.photobucket.com/albums/qq298/brutus_9/DSC_01102.jpg

[redheep]

I have a mastiff, an alarm system and a gun beside the bed. You can't stop everything, but I suppose if a ninja is standing over me when I wake up, my time is up.

There is a zombie sub forum here, so I kind of figured BT people were preparing for that sort of thing.

[timshufflin]

I'm preparing for real undead zombies, you know, like the CDC warned us about.

[captain_bob_badfish]

Prime example of SHTB

S - hit the beach. :SHTF:

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j258/bobcrisman/Maverick/haystack.jpg

[canes7]

Damn Bob.. what you been eating? That ain't Taco Bell!

[sandsnow]

I think some guys who talk a good game the loudest have no idea what it means to pull the trigger on a person. I know I don't. One time I was faced with the possibility of a burgalar in our house when we came home. Sign of forced entry and lights were on. Called the cops and waited outside. I had the chance to think to myself what am I going to do if someone comes out? I was armed. I certainly wasn't going inside looking for trouble all ninja like. It was sobering.

As far as SHTF, I'm a little too old and broken to go sprinting off into the hills with my go to gun. Short of a huge natural disaster and I mean big, I just don't see us degenerating into anarchy in my lifetime. Look at Katrina. Everything got back in order fairly quickly. I think this SHTF mentality thinks you are on your own for years fighting roving gangs.

[Punch The Clown]

I have a mastiff, an alarm system and a gun beside the bed. You can't stop everything, but I suppose if a ninja is standing over me when I wake up, my time is up.

There is a zombie sub forum here, so I kind of figured BT people were preparing for that sort of thing.

We were very serious about this zombie problem a couple of years ago. The normal debates like double-tap or no double-tap. Things have been quiet on the zombie front of late.

[captain_bob_badfish]

$clapper$

Courtesy of my Springer, Maverick.

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j258/bobcrisman/Maverick/atthebeach.jpg

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j258/bobcrisman/Maverick/100_0448.jpg



Damn Bob.. what you been eating? That ain't Taco Bell!

[BRUTUS]

:)My kind of dog house.....SPECIAL beds for them on the floor.....but they assume their throne on the couch.......

[llurpirate]

After spending almost 30 years reading about SHTF scenarios, I see that it is unlikely an individual has much of a chance alone. The best preparations require a group to form togather. The group can be family or friends. I watched the show yesterday called CONTACT. It was a what would happen if aliens invaded earth. It acutally is a computer simulation used by the military to study asymetrical response like what is happening in Iraq and Afganistan. Pretty interesting the bottom line is none of the modern war machines really have much of a chance but guerilla tactics will cause enough small damage in the longrun that the ivaders will leave.

[Orlando]

I would like to beleive I would be prepared but in all actuallity I would probably curl up in the fetal position

[seaninmich]

Yeah.. I like asking those types who they are going to shoot, they can never answer.


Ask me. I'll give you a list, maybe even some pictures

[canes7]

The idea of that question is to get people thinking about it before they start talking about it. All too many times you get people that have "romanticized" the idea of fighting for one thing or another but have never thought about if it's worth killing/dying over. When you ask someone who they are going to shoot, usually get get this blank stare that means they've never thought of any type of fight past talking.....

[Cal30M1]

Yaaaaaaawn.

[tljames]

My idea of “when SHTF” is when government strips us of the 2nd Amendment! I’ve given this subject a great deal of thought throughout the years. I can remember the first time I ever heard of such a notion. I’ve had a “love affair” with firearms as long as I can remember. I grew up in a little town of about 3500 people and as a kid of 9 or 10 years I’d go to the local OTASCO store. (Oklahoma Tire and Supply Company) and ogle all the rifles and shotguns in the rack. I’d daydream of owning these guns and going quail hunting etc. Finally when the manager had enough of my presence and TELL me to leave I’d go around the corner to a locally owned furniture / junk / pawn store and do the same.
One day while I was at the old junk store I noticed a sign that read “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns!”
I was terrified! I just KNEW that before I was old enough to get my first “single shot 22 rifle or break over .410 shotgun” that guns would be outlawed! Thankfully this hasn’t been the case!
Over the years though we’ve seen our firearm rights whittled away at and I’ve worried about them just the same. Gun control has a history and what I’ve seen of it frightens me! 1930’s Germany is the example I think of the most! People thought it was a good idea (I guess), but I venture to say if you were to ask a Jewish holocaust survivor they may disagree. What people don’t think about is that type of thing can and DOES happen and with the wrong crowd in power and the people unable to defend themselves……..I shudder to think of the consequences!
20 + years ago, when I had two little kids and a wife to provide for, if they’d demanded surrender of my guns or face felony charges, I would have complied. Today….well I’m not saying that I WOULD NOT comply, but what I AM saying is they run a much greater risk of not receiving a friendly reception. So that’s my definition of when SHTF.
I still love my 2nd Amendment Rights as much as ever and the older I get the more “set in my ways” I become.
I suppose I said all this in order to say, when SHTF, I MAY WELL REPLY
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