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THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)
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Was browsing the interweb (it's sleeting outside, outdoor work is cancelled) and found this extensive article on prepping:
http://www.backwoodshome.com/bugging-out-in-place/
Lots of good advice from someone who's lived in remote places. It's American, so I'm not going to be able to shoot woodchuck for petfood...
PS Bob - it's a speaker thing that plays digitally-stored music but will also answer basic questions. Supposedly.0 -
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Bedsit_Bob wrote: »Get yourself an air rifle, and you can shoot squirrels .
Only shoot the grey ones. Good eating on a wood pigeon, too. Darned things raise up to 4 broods a year and do lots of damage to crops. Eating them would be an excellent help to the rural economy.
Shame it's not permitted to use air guns on the lotties, as we have plenty of pigeons up there. We also have plenty of rats, which sometimes do get shot with air rifles, if they appear somewhere with a sufficient backstop to stop the pellets going out onto the street.
It's not permitted to shoot rats up there, either, but it happens....... Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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Bedsit_Bob wrote: »What on earth is an Amazon ECHO device :huh:
Adverts for it come up pretty frequently on tv.
It's still very primitive technology at present.
Anyway - meet Alexa:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9D5_BWiL-Y0 -
Shame it's not permitted to use air guns on the lotties, as we have plenty of pigeons up there.
Don't I remember you having a bow?
A 40lb with blunts will (cleanly) take out a rabbit without causing damage to the skin/carcass (shotgun = rabbit jam
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I think even 20lb would get a pigeon, given how delicate birds are. Distance might be an issue.
Don't eat a big meal before gutting it though :lipsrsealAlmost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. Anne Lamott
It's amazing how those with a can-do attitude and willingness to 'pitch in and work' get all the luck, isn't it?
Please consider buying some pet food and giving it to your local food bank collection or animal charity. Animals aren't to blame for the cost of living crisis.0 -
You remembered right. I have an American flat-bow with a 36 lb pull and arrows with steel target-shooting points. They're pretty sharp.
However, it has been illegal to hunt animals with bows and arrows in this country for 350 years, so I'm saving this for post-Apocalyptic times.
Know someone who got into a bit of trouble with the plod for shooting arrows at rats on his own land. You can poison them, trap them or shoot them with pellets but gawdelpyou if you shoot arrows at rolands.Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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However, it has been illegal to hunt animals with bows and arrows in this country for 350 years, so I'm saving this for post-Apocalyptic times.
I didn't know that. We evidently broke the law repeatedly when I were a lass - always for the pot, never for fun.
I wonder why - given it's not illegal to do it (on private land during the right time of year) with a shotgun or riffle.Bedsit_Bob wrote: »Gutting small game has never bothered me.
Tis the smell that does it for me. Never had an issue skinning/curing the hide/jointing - just the gutting.Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. Anne Lamott
It's amazing how those with a can-do attitude and willingness to 'pitch in and work' get all the luck, isn't it?
Please consider buying some pet food and giving it to your local food bank collection or animal charity. Animals aren't to blame for the cost of living crisis.0 -
My archery instructor is of the belief that the law was changed to make bows (which were already obsolete in warfare) obsolete in civilian life, also. Yoiu can train a soldier to be effective with a gun relatively quickly, compared with training a longbow archer from aged seven and requiring constant practise. So, guns over bows. Bows couldn't be banned - how the hell could you ban a springy stick with a string on it? - but they could be made purposeless other than as a hobby.
A bow is a handy poacher's device in skilled hands, being almost silent. Most folks back in the day wouldn't have had their own land so would have been poaching on somebody else's. If someone else's game birds or game animals came onto your own land, it still didn't give you rights to shoot them. Even stuff like bunnies which are classified as vermin has been enough to get people transported to the colonies.
A snide note on a church registrar against one of my ancestor's bapisms says 'father on a prison hulk at Portsmouth awaiting transportation to the colonies'.:rotfl:
We dunno what for, if it was something serious he'd've danced the hempen tango, so it was most likely to be poaching.
The guy who kebabed the rolands would've got away with it if he hadn't mentioned in dahn the pub, because no one saw or heard him shooting.Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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