Greetings. i have noted that most of the people in that group are city folks who have never even tried to live outside of organized civilization where there is no electricity, no sewage, no water pumped into the home, not even any home unless you build it yourself out of what is there. The guy that runs the survivalists blog here is in Tennessee and just bought a little land with money that the members donated to him, for a survival site. First thing he did was hire a bulldozer to cut him a road in, then a paving contractor to gravel his new road. Then bought a used house trailer to replace the one the property came with- that one he had another contractor tear down for him to haul to the dump for disposal. Then found out that it will cost him over $2,000 to have it moved to his site. again with money donated by the survival group. Doing it his way would take a person with a very full bank account and no sense.
My cabin that i built out of trees on the land in Paradise Michigan ran me about $40 for some tar paper to cover it when i first built it so i could live in it while the logs the walls dried and shrank. With a log cabin you build with fresh cut logs because dried logs take years to cure so they no longer shrink and swell. When you build with round logs you have to fill in the openings between the logs with something, i used spagham moss that i had plenty of in the bog on my place. Then you plaster along over the filling between the logs with something. i used a mix of wood ashes and sand that didn't last very long and i had to buy a couple bags of cement and use that instead. Winter was coming on, so bought the cement for i believe it was $5 a 94 pound bag. Didn't need to hire anyone to do anything to my place. if I didn't do it then it simply didn't get done.
In the survivalist groups here they use huge amounts of money to get someone else doing all the work. so that puts their way totally out of the means of people who would be capable of surviving back in the wilderness - because those kinds of people rarely have deep pockets full of money. Then they advocate getting huge stocks of supplies, big arsenals of weapons and huge amounts of ammunition... buy cases of super expensive canned rations to survive with. I can go to the supermarket and get what i would eat in a week if times were hard for about $10 which would include instant coffee and foods i normally eat.
These people say you have to have freeze dried everything that comes in large cans, about 1 gallon in size. though how you are supposed to use up that amount of the contents before it spoiled is never mentioned. they also never mention how in the hell they are going to transport all of those huge stacks of supplies to their survival retreat. or what they are going to use all those thousands of rounds of ammunition on. I use about 3 bullets a year to hunt deer if i go out hunting. Box of 20 rounds would last me near 6 years with a few rounds left over- but then i don't use modern military rifles, i use simple world war 2 rifles that are simple and have next to nothing to break on them and high power. And very cheap to purchase.
But for a few years I have noticed that everything he says will happen, does happen. We email a lot, write sometimes, and he sends us pics of his Harley and his tractor !
