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Re: Is this your bugout camp?

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Wed 25 Oct 2006, 17:56:44

OK cool, now I know what "bug-in" means. Don't forget the earthworms!
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Re: Is this your bugout camp?

Unread postby evilmonkeyspanker » Wed 25 Oct 2006, 17:58:13

Uhm turtle, I think I would rather starve or fight a bloody war than live off insects. I am not a big supporter of fear factor dining
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Re: Is this your bugout camp?

Unread postby Zardoz » Wed 25 Oct 2006, 18:38:23

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '.')..its this world as it changes into something else that has to be adapted to, not some hippie commune opt-out bugout pipe-dream camp that hasn't got a chance in hell...

That's for sure. Amateur survivalists won't last more than a few months. The whole "retreat to the woods" idea is a joke. Almost none of those who advocate it have any idea of how difficult it would be to survive.

That's why the global population was essentially static right up until the Industrial Revolution. It was so hard to stay alive the population was automatically held in check.
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Re: Is this your bugout camp?

Unread postby seldom_seen » Wed 25 Oct 2006, 18:54:18

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Laughs_Last', 'I')t is rather spartan looking. I'd help out by adding some domestic touches, such as curtains, some potted plants...

OMG! Totally. I spent the whole morning at Bed Bath & Beyond coming up a design motif for this camp. I'm off to Ikea now...

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('holmes', 'I') think they just built a camp.

Yeah could just be "a camp" with no bug out or bug in factor to it. I still have a few more chances to try and find the elusive Columbia Blacktail. So when I'm out there I'll have to check in on the camp and see what sort of progress there is or loot that I can pillage.
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Re: Is this your bugout camp?

Unread postby smallpoxgirl » Wed 25 Oct 2006, 19:04:34

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheTurtle', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'h')ow would you feed yourself if the grocery stores go empty?

Apart from my plan to take the Turtle tribe up to Montana and team up with smallpoxgirl? :lol:


Just give me a little forewarning. You're always welcome. I'll be in the woods building a new bug-out spot since seldom just posted pictures of mine all over the internet. :P

Actually the part he photographed is just a trap. If TSHTF, my plan is to let hapless visitors get caught up in their photography, and then kill them and eat them. The square dug out hole is to throw the bones. :twisted:
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Re: Is this your bugout camp?

Unread postby TheTurtle » Wed 25 Oct 2006, 19:23:19

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('evilmonkeyspanker', 'U')hm turtle, I think I would rather starve or fight a bloody war than live off insects.


Which is EXACTLY why I think most people (particularly Americans) will starve to death in the midst of plenty. :cry:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('evilmonkeyspanker', ' ') I am not a big supporter of fear factor dining


The key is to cook it before eating it. Big difference. :)

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', 'J')ust give me a little forewarning. You're always welcome. I'll be in the woods building a new bug-out spot since seldom just posted pictures of mine all over the internet. :P


We'll be the nomadic tribe wandering over the plains singing drunken Turtle songs. Don't worry, you'll hear us coming. :lol:
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Re: Is this your bugout camp?

Unread postby Wednesday » Wed 25 Oct 2006, 19:27:27

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheTurtle', ' ')Read the "Little House on the Prairie" series of books. Their lives were brutal ... hard work and a tenuous food supply at best.


Pa Ingalls was a talented hunter and trapper, he was not a very good farmer. They should have stayed in the woods.
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Re: Is this your bugout camp?

Unread postby smallpoxgirl » Wed 25 Oct 2006, 19:32:19

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheTurtle', 'D')on't worry, you'll hear us coming.

Not if you're wandering on the plains I won't. I live at least a hundred miles from the nearest plain.
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Re: Is this your bugout camp?

Unread postby TheTurtle » Wed 25 Oct 2006, 19:33:29

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Wednesday', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheTurtle', ' ')Read the "Little House on the Prairie" series of books. Their lives were brutal ... hard work and a tenuous food supply at best.


Pa Ingalls was a talented hunter and trapper, he was not a very good farmer. They should have stayed in the woods.


I wholeheartedly agree. Their life seemed happy when they lived in the Big Woods.
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Re: Is this your bugout camp?

Unread postby Schneider » Wed 25 Oct 2006, 19:39:42

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheTurtle', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'h')ow would you feed yourself if the grocery stores go empty?

Apart from my plan to take the Turtle tribe up to Montana and team up with smallpoxgirl? :lol:

As gego suggested, I would start by bugging-in, where, as Ludi suggested, I have lots of dry beans and rice sitting around. When that is gone, the fact that I view things such as insects and dandelions as potential food and medicine, while my suburban neighbors view them as pests and weeds, should go a ways toward keeping me from starving.

In other words, prepare for possible shortages by storing some food and educating yourself on the fact that there is a great deal to eat in the world besides Twinkies and Big Macs. Study some of Ludi's links. I have found them enlightening.


Woohoo ! Another open minded one ..Go down the food chain and you have plenty of food :lol: !

In fact,you can even farm insects..hell,you can find most of the usual eated insects at your local petshop 8O !

I think that Turtle have found the way to go..eating things that most people don't think it's food :wink:..

Now..let's find Tyler and begin talking about eating bugs :-D !

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Re: Is this your bugout camp?

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Wed 25 Oct 2006, 19:42:26

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '.')..its this world as it changes into something else that has to be adapted to, not some hippie commune opt-out bugout pipe-dream camp that hasn't got a chance in hell...

That's for sure. Amateur survivalists won't last more than a few months. The whole "retreat to the woods" idea is a joke. Almost none of those who advocate it have any idea of how difficult it would be to survive.

That's why the global population was essentially static right up until the Industrial Revolution. It was so hard to stay alive the population was automatically held in check.
I wonder how many would actually be able to carry out the "bug-in" plan. Peolple with kids, etc. They're going to feed the kids bugs and worms? As enlightened as the turtle clan may be or others, it's going to take for a tight clan indeed to see this out if it means eating cockroaches.
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Re: Is this your bugout camp?

Unread postby Wednesday » Wed 25 Oct 2006, 19:49:16

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheTurtle', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Wednesday', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheTurtle', ' ')Read the "Little House on the Prairie" series of books. Their lives were brutal ... hard work and a tenuous food supply at best.


Pa Ingalls was a talented hunter and trapper, he was not a very good farmer. They should have stayed in the woods.


I wholeheartedly agree. Their life seemed happy when they lived in the Big Woods.


His biggest handicap as a farmer was that he had daughters instead of sons. When Laura married Almanzo Wilder they were much more successful. Almanzo was a great farmer.
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Re: Is this your bugout camp?

Unread postby TheTurtle » Thu 26 Oct 2006, 16:08:16

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheTurtle', 'D')on't worry, you'll hear us coming.

Not if you're wandering on the plains I won't. I live at least a hundred miles from the nearest plain.


We'll sing as we march across the plains and we'll keep on singing when we reach the woods ... to scare the cougars and bears away, don't you know, and to let you know that we are near ... :P

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Wednesday', ' ')Almanzo was a great farmer.


Yes, he certainly was and his family before him.
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Re: Is this your bugout camp?

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Thu 26 Oct 2006, 20:21:56

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheTurtle', '
')We'll sing as we march across the plains and we'll keep on singing when we reach the woods ... to scare the cougars and bears away, don't you know, and to let you know that we are near ... :P
the singing turtle clan, eating all the bugs and earthworms in their path as they sing like the Von Trapps. One thing, why wouldn't you want to kill the bears and cougars and roast them on a spit under the prairie sky, dappled with flickering stars? sing the songs of the bears in praise as you eat them, it beats bugs and worms and is good for self-esteem. Humans feel shitty when they have to eat bugs.
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Re: Is this your bugout camp?

Unread postby OneLoneClone » Fri 27 Oct 2006, 12:08:41

I think a few areas in the US could support life at a 'bug out camp', for a limited time anyway.

The Appalachians have a lot of food and critters (mmm lots of bugs) and water available. Thats why folks were/are able to live there in 'abject poverty'. Even without money, the area can support life via hunting and gathering.

That said, I'll be 'bugging in', not out. I'm gonna have as much fun as I can in the big city with the electric lights as long as I have work that pays well enough to live here.

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Re: Is this your bugout camp?

Unread postby holmes » Fri 27 Oct 2006, 12:24:28

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('seldom_seen', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Laughs_Last', 'I')t is rather spartan looking. I'd help out by adding some domestic touches, such as curtains, some potted plants...

OMG! Totally. I spent the whole morning at Bed Bath & Beyond coming up a design motif for this camp. I'm off to Ikea now...

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('holmes', 'I') think they just built a camp.

Yeah could just be "a camp" with no bug out or bug in factor to it. I still have a few more chances to try and find the elusive Columbia Blacktail. So when I'm out there I'll have to check in on the camp and see what sort of progress there is or loot that I can pillage.


Most definately, bro! Keep and eye out and get some venison. Lots of them in those thickets It seems. Not many industrial sportsman going to go into thick forests. Different out here. They like to drive right up to the potholes and shoot. Plow away the sage. Rather disgusting. But huge racks out here.
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Re: Is this your bugout camp?

Unread postby Revi » Fri 27 Oct 2006, 12:35:43

I think that your bugout place should be some place not too far from where you are living now, where you can have a garden, some stored food and live in a simpler manner if need be. It's always good to be prepared. Like the idea of a bugout bag. You might never need it, but you'll be very glad to have it if you end up having to leave the place you are living in.
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Re: Is this your bugout camp?

Unread postby TheTurtle » Fri 27 Oct 2006, 16:32:14

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 't')he singing turtle clan, eating all the bugs and earthworms in their path as they sing like the Von Trapps. One thing, why wouldn't you want to kill the bears and cougars and roast them on a spit under the prairie sky, dappled with flickering stars?


It was a joke, PMS. :P In the event of empty grocery stores, the Turtle Tribe will not really take a 1500 + mile journey in search of smallpoxgirl. So there will be no singing of drunken turtle tunes on the plains of Montana or in the forests of Montana. I am sorry to disappoint you. :razz:

Rest assured, however, if the grocery stores are one day empty, then mammals will join insects in the turtle tribe stewpot. And if a bear just happens to waltz into my garden, it will be one of those mammals.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', ' ')it beats bugs and worms and is good for self-esteem. Humans feel shitty when they have to eat bugs.
FWIW, I have lived among two different cultures for whom eating insects was as natural as eating French fries is to an American. And I know lots of people here in the US who view insects as a valid source of protein.

Don't let your own inhibitions shut you off from a viable food source when the need arises, my friend.
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Re: Is this your bugout camp?

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Fri 27 Oct 2006, 16:44:24

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheTurtle', '
')Don't let your own inhibitions shut you off from a viable food source when the need arises, my friend.
pretty strong inhibitions on that. how do they show, in the movies, that someone has gone totally raging nuts? the deranged person looks weird and crouches in the corner and picks up a passing bug and eats it! aaaarrrrgh!
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Re: Is this your bugout camp?

Unread postby TheTurtle » Fri 27 Oct 2006, 17:34:38

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheTurtle', '
')Don't let your own inhibitions shut you off from a viable food source when the need arises, my friend.
pretty strong inhibitions on that. how do they show, in the movies, that someone has gone totally raging nuts? the deranged person looks weird and crouches in the corner and picks up a passing bug and eats it! aaaarrrrgh!


Here's an old National Geographic article on the subject for you:
For Most People, Eating Bugs Is Only Natural

Yummmm ... enjoy! :razz:
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