Zombie Squad

Speaking as somebody who (when I lived in Anchorage AK) used to routinely go out and hunt small game on snowshoes I can tell you that you're not going to make 25 miles in anything less than 3 days, if you're lucky. Yes they enable you to stay above the snow, and yes they're better than just boots. B...

Ref my earlier post on turning an UPS into a inverter: https://www.zombiehunters.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=109171 I've recently discovered that APCs line of SURTA UPSs are full online double conversion machines, which means that it has two sections in it; a battery charger and a inverter. The in...

CRI index is 80s to low 90s, which is better than incandescent lights. And these lights have been out commercially for a decade or more. They're just not common, mainly due to price and because they're usually so big and bright they're used for high bay lights. The self-ballasted screw-in incandesce...

This might be old news to many, but it was new to me. Induction lamps are fluorescents that use an external coil to excite the mercury vapor, which avoids the use of the part that fails; the electrodes. The ones with an external ballast last an average of 100 thousand hours (11.4 years of continuous...

If you're going to make a server, make a server - one than can run for a couple decades without hardware maintenance other than the occasional dust bunny removal. Especially if it's for long term storage and playback of critical data. Anything less will just fail within a year or 4. In a long term S...

If you want communications beyond shouting distance you're going to have to use radio. However if you don't want anybody to be able to listen in or even know that you're transmitting you will need a radio that uses something called "spread spectrum". Spread spectrum is where the transmission is spre...

It's a classic tale of a great idea being misapplied. I read about it a several years ago and always thought it'd be cool to do. Well it is cool, just not what I should have used. Don't get me wrong, its an absolutely functional pad that's probably way stronger than I needed. But it's not pretty, an...

Most of this summer I've been busy making a 20' x 40' parking pad along the side of the house to park the boat on. To save some dough and experiment with the technique I used soil cement for the top slab over all the gravel I used to level it out. Soil-cement is dirt thats been mixed in-place with p...

Ill point you here: http://www.zombiehunters.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=104306 I HIGHLY reccomend you look at Calorie content, and pick up some B&M bread in a can (1000 calories per can, full of win). After your post I got curious and looked at the canned bread, its true it has a lot of calories...

Unless you're storing things in metal, metal-lined (like mylar bags) or glass, oxygen water vapor and other small molecules (including ones that carry taste/smell) will seep right through almost any plastic. PET is the best but even that seeps. For an experiment, place a mothball in any plastic cont...

Is there a chance you can post a picture of what a stealth garden look like? Does it look like a proper English garden, the typical American backyard or wilderness? Thanks! Typical American back, side and front yard landscaping. It's just that the plants in them are edible in one way or another. Th...

Oh well, in spite of the lack of response I bought some from a health food store and cooked it up. It was pretty good, kind of nutty-sweet. Made a great breakfast porridge. I'm going to add it to the edible landscaping. The sheer numbers of seeds one flower puts out would let me drastically increase...

I'm considering adding the Amaranth variety called Amaranthus Cruentus (aka Mexican grain) to my stealth garden (a garden that doesn't look like a garden) as a wheat substitute/supplement. It's supposed to be tasty, high calorie, high protein, very nutritious and the leaves are edible as well. It's ...

Actually I like most of the MREs, there are a couple I don't care for but I'd eat them if it was the last one in the box and I was hungry enough. For that matter I've lived off them for 8 months starting in the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, we convoyed north from Kuwait and set up shop at BI...

Dear Sir, I have a APC UPS SUA 2200 / 3000 tower type (probable manufactured in 1999), now that the UPS is not working that is to say that despite the battery changes, the UPS shuts down, all line voltage and battery is fine... Can someone help me with the schematic diagram of the same... for which...

Heh, you could always go with my favorite calorie-dense canned good: Roast beef hash. 780 calories in a can in roughly 1/3rd each of fat/protein/carbos and in a pinch you can eat it right out of the can without heating.

At 2000 calories a day for 8 months thats only 616 standard cans!

Sounds like you need a day/night IR Digital Video Recorder (DVR) system so you can playback to when you hear something. Found this 4 camera system for $199 with a quick Google, reviews seem to like it. http://www.lorextechnology.com/Surveillance-dvr-system-with-4-night-vision-cameras/1976.p?gclid=CO...

Regarding your space problem; you've got a couple places that'll hold a ton of food that you probably don't realize - under your bed and inside your sofa. If you load up on #10 cans of long-term (freeze dried, dehydrated or other stable) storables with an eye to calorie density you could build up se...

I'm surprised that nobody has disagreed with any of the projected events or added ones of their own that I missed. I tried to think of all the major ones that would have a impact on a prepper.

I'm drafting another thread to ask opinions on what a prepper can do to facilitate the eventual rebuilding and get the nation back on our feet a bit quicker.

I've had this thread in draft for months while I did my research, the "Raider" thread prompted me to finish it and post.

IMO the number,duration and timing of any and all phases will be wholly dependent upon the event, the timing of the event and the duration of the event that causes the STHTF. An extinction event like an asteroid hit will play out quite differently from say a nuclear attack. Absolutely the timing is...

I think there'll be roughly 6 phases to a national or worldwide SHTF; North America is lucky as it's relatively sparsely settled, Europe and Asia will be even worse off. I dont know enough to speculate on South America or Africa but I dont imagine it'll be any better. There are just too many people ...

Thinking like a raider when checking out an area/home in rough order of importance: I'm going to evaluate cost/benefit; "Can I take this place, how well is it guarded, is what's in there worth the risk." Then I'm going to examine how secure their perimeter is and how easy it is to get through quietl...

Rather than a single safe unit, how about several mounted along a metal countertop that's securely fastened to the wall. Using this picture only as an example (crappy harbor freight safe) http://www.harborfreight.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/small_image/160x/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/i/m...