Look up the lykov family, they dipped out right before the red terror and missed Stalin, lennin, the gulags, the entire rise and fall of the USSR, they did a documentary on the last remaining daughter, in Siberia an old woman, living all alone, mostly off of potatoes I believe, and chickens etc..
I have lived off the grid beyond civilization for years at a time. it is hard work. it's a full-time job. As I write this, I am packing to do this again. I sold my farm and kept only my survival supplies. most will fail. it's a mindset and woodsman knowledge. I'm 73 and I'm free. SEMPER FI. no, you don't need society. how did your ancestors survive without walmart and a pharmacy? the woods are full of medicines. you need to look, learn, and live. I have 2 friends. my dog and pet goat.
Everyone should have a couple good milk goats in milk with their kids. The beautiful lovely goats and babies can share their milk with you and provide 60-80 of your daily calories or intake.
If the ticks and gnats and mosquitos didnt get me, the rattle snakes and copper heads will. I dont need to worry about starving in the woods, the critters would get me. bugging out to the woods wont go well for most people.
Exactly. In a true shtf event I think the hint g and fishing will get depleted very quickly. But again so will the human population so who really knows
When everyone and their mother in law go hunting, first there just might be accidental injuries, and then the animals will be depleted. Good luck. 🍀🍀🍀🍀 Better learn foraging, and grow a productive garden, giving emphasis to perennial plants that once established will faithfully feed you year after year. 🍇🍏🍎🍐🍒🫐 such plants are an investment.
Hiked the Appalachian Trail with my father as a young girl. It was a true education. I still love the woods and am still hiking at 70 years old. My go bag is a daypack with supplies needed to hike back home if some disaster hit to where I couldn’t drive home. To try to live in the woods by yourself is not wise. You are right Steve.
The sad this is; the people of today have a very different mindset than those of yesteryear. Community and self sufficiency has gone by the wayside. When I look at most people, I fear what is coming because I know most will be walking around in full panic with their heads spinning not having even the faintest idea as to what to do or where to begin.
Great video, Poplar Prepper! You really hit the nail on the head about the challenges of bugging out. Too many people think it's just a matter of heading to the woods with a backpack. Thanks for emphasizing the importance of preparation and community support
The National Forest near me was swarming with people as soon as the Covid lockdowns started. Most of those people returned home quickly. Since then, the population of homeless people living in the forest has exploded. There is no way that I am bugging out there. Besides, wildfires are the greatest threat where I live. If I need to evacuate, I can stay with relatives who live in a city about an hour away, or stay with relatives who live in the middle of nowhere. Of course, I need to be prepared to reciprocate if necessary.
I used to have small farm. At only 28 acres it was constant work. After my day job I spent 8 to 10 hours working my micro farm. Every weekend was work on the farm. No vacation and no day off. I loved it but my wife didn't. She left and I lost the farm. Such is life. I'm 69 now and live in a small city. I have family here to help so we are staying here.
Man I've been watching you for years now and I had no idea you had this channel as well. You should tell it on your other channels to promote it. I watch your videos everyday. Great job love this kinda videos. A great learning lesson man. Think you for keeping us updated and educated.
I live about 5 miles from town in upstate NY. We have an increased bear population (cubs on my front porch), a pack of coyotes (these don't seem to be solitary animals) that killed a young deer next to my front yard. We do have some poisonous snakes here which is why I mow my grass as low as it can go. So, this old lady who used to play in the woods, is not running for safety into the woods. We got 4 feet, I repeat, 4 FEET of snow a couple of years ago, just sayin".....
Another good video . Steve you are touching on what needs to be told on some videos. The facts for this like you say basically in this video. There are no handouts in the wilderness. I am an old man, in pretty bad health. The point I'm getting at is this all the videos that I have watched over the years never show the one thing that happens to everyone. They don't figure in the probability of failure. Only videos where they are successful make UA-cam! Every fire does not make flame, every fishing hole does not have fish,, ever trap does not catch and all water is not good to drink lol.. you are covering this very well. No matter how good someone is at being a survivalist they will have failures. I wish all UA-cam would show their failures in their videos too. You have touched on some very good points here. You keep making them we will keep watching them. Have a good weekend. UA-cam friend.
I have a hand dug well with a hand pump in it on my farm. A small creek crosses the property, three ponds nearby and a lake a few miles away. I have 3 spare new hand pumps for use or barter. Have some two man crosscut saws and years of hand tool collecting. Some of my neighbors are on the same page.
Very cool that you hiked the AT. That was something I always wanted to do but at 65 and bad knees that is no longer on my list. I have resigned to the fact that my BOL is my house. It is what it is.
I love your info. Steve. My property is in the woods so I’d be a fool to camp out there. Mama bear and two cubs roam our woods. When videos come out trying to sell solar panels, I laugh. This area we can’t even get cable to work on our roofs, let alone solar. Give most here good old electricity. We have creeks and wildlife to shoot from the comfort of our own decks. In an shtf situation we would. Otherwise local farmers provide us with meat, eggs and milk in the NC Smokies.
Let me add, one more thing. Some of us already live in the woods. So be polite. And watch what is behind whatever you are hunting If things get real bad. A bullet coming through my window. May not be considered an accident. And I am one of the calmer people up here.
You're absolutely right, Steve. Anyone remotely considering bugging out to a woods should try camping for a week or a month in summer and winter--not in a campground, but in the deep woods.
I have been Prepping since the late 70's. Retired, my team will be here on the farm when SHTF. The farthest member is maybe 30 miles away. Most are less than 15. We are planning to Bug In here at the farm. We do have a plan B and a plan C if needed. None of the plans consist of Bugging Out to the Wilderness. Keep Prepping my friends.
We have 42 acres. It isn’t where we live. We have a pole building with tractors backhoe etc. on the property. It has a pond. We currently rent it for farming. 10 acres aren’t farmed. Some wooded. We have a good sized garden that we do there. We started before learning about prepping etc. I camp. So we have shelter that is mobile. I pray we never need to use this like you are stating.
Surrounded by 2000 family owned farms, 33 cattle ranches, dairy farms and fishing port. That’s exactly what I am currently doing! I have trade skills and take care of horses…. I have many choices. Currently on 20 acre horse ranch in the hills above Santa Barbara. (with water well) One neighbor grows coffee, one neighbor grows avocados and the other is a beekeeper. I purchased a nice van seven years ago with this goal in mind. No debt and my only monthly bill is for phone…. it’s great!!
Great video, Steve and great to see you outdoors! Bugging out is not on our radar for various reasons. Mostly, for the ones you stated here. No shelter, no security...way too sketchy to be viable. We're staying put on our land.
Where is everybody going to bug out to? That’s my question. I have 2 acres, neighbors not very close and in the summer one can’t even see my house where it is. I think I’ll stay where I am. But I’m right off the highway. That’s the scary part. I couldn’t take everything I have stocked up.
Thank you, very informative for those of us who don’t know this stuff. Where I am, there is no place to bug out at. A bug out bag isn’t going to do much good if you have no place to go to. Plus, old people, for most it’s impossible to even consider living in the woods. Great info, Steve, thanks.
I'm in really good shape and I will only leave my dwelling if there's absolutely no other choice ,I worked my ass off for it and I'll give em hell,before I run like hell !!!
Im 55 and my husband is 62,and neither of us is in great shape. We would not be able to bug out. We will stand our ground as long as we can on our home place. We live in rural indiana
I applaud you for hiking the AT, without irony, even though it took you 10 years to do it; it is still a great accomplishment, but it is not enough to be an authority on this topic. Thru-hiking is VASTLY different. It isn't just the survival aspect, either. A unity starts to form; we support each other. During The Great Depression, hobos looking for work did the same thing. Going into towns for resupply is a different matter, unless one knows that the business/town is already hiker-friendly. People never change throughout history; the ones who have always attack the ones who have-not (or less.) Travel with the weather for safety, but also for food availability; just know that animals do the same, so try not to become food. If you want to overnight on someone else's land, or you're looking for work, be polite, and use the front entrance in broad daylight, verbally announcing your presence (which you should do when approaching someone else's camp too -- "hello the camp!)
I will be staying on my own land here in Kentucky I own several acres as does my neighbor who is also a pepper don't own a cellphone you are being tracked
people also seem to forget about the BUGS you get to enjoy being out in the woods 😃. running to the woods for safety is when a plan fails.. unless you have cashes buried in secluded locations it will help some... just don't blindly go there
Hiking with a heavy pack. I mean you need an extreme level of fitness to have any chance that way. I think one thing that gets overlooked is a simple bicycle. The bike can carry a ton of stuff on the rear rack and front basket. Much more than you could ever hope to carry in a pack. When going over rough terrain or hills, get off the bike and push it. In some ways the bike will act like a pack mule. Carry the bike and gear over obstacles. If you can stay near trails/paths and roads the bike may be a better bet. And this thing about fitness and bicycles is a bit overblown. The front chainring can be easily replaced with a smaller one. That will make the bike easier to ride and greatly improve endurance at the expense of a lower top speed.
Warren Buffet said……. “If you dropped me in the woods i would be dead in 3 days-i have no practical skills- i can wave my arms and yell ‘I can allocate capital’”
Yes do a series of what you did ,what broke, how you fixed it , problems you faced, things you learned. Even with a house , in grid down extended, basically youre gonna hav these problems too. Thankfully i am west and in the mountains. I deal with subzero and 17" snows. Summer is 5° nites and 80°-85° days. And the rain is very cold here and unpleasant mostly. In mountains many people bugging out here will unalive. Several stories online crazy woman ,her young son and her sister from colorado springs didnt even make it a month. Online story about that one from a couple years ago. EDIT: a day later a vid from you popped up from 10 mo ago when you did a story on this Colorado woman!!!!! Hope it wakes some of these people up. Its tougher than you think to live off grid in bugout.
Thank you for a great insite to bugging out. I too have hiked , camped for days on end . 4 months off grid and it not a picnic!!! Hiking the Appalachian Trail, the challenge that most will never complete. a lot of soul-searching resource searching it’s not as easy as everyone thinks
I have bug out bags for me and every member of my family. With that being said i also have home preps in place hoping not to bug out. I grew up in the woods, no electricity no running water. We grew our food, foraged and hunted. We had a outhouse. I have the skills to survive in such a situation but will avoid it as long as possible. We worked our butts off every day. Up before daybreak and started working. Im still up at 3 sometimes earlier than that. Thing is we had a house. I can build a shelter yes, but it will be very dangerous out there when the shtf. Now i have two kids to care for. Its not a easy thing to do just being on your own doing such a thing. I kinda laugh in my head when people say i want that , has never had to do it. Stay safe brother thanks for the video. Hope people listen and think.
I like survivor man eating bugs chipmunks snails pine needles depending on the location. I don't mind being out and having to return on foot but I always had spam. I can go pretty good in winter on two cans of spam for 3 days in -25⁰ weather. I slept in my insulated coveralls and dug into drifts for shelter. It's possible to survive a break down out in the weeds. I was plowing out a road when I lost my fuel pump 30 miles from pavement
This is a great video. So many put forth videos saying get your stuff together to bugout w/o going into detail of how hard it will be to live off the land and not even mentioning you will still need to resupply, etc. I have bush directly behind my house but I also live in a village with plenty of hunters. They will not take kindly to anyone deciding to hunt and set up camp there.
There’s several places with caves also. Just make sure you’re packin with lots of ammo & the things you need. And yes this takes work. But it can be done.
Excellent words I feel a bug out place pre set six months food stuff no one wants to live forever in the woodskies coming out in 6 months hopefully the survivors are working on good things. remote is good with stuff plan ..........
Put back 1 metric ton (2000 pounds) of dry goods food. Rice, beans, pasta, freeze dried coffee and other freeze dried and canned foods. Then get to work on the garden. $50 fruit tree or 100lbs of rice? I say rice. Unless you have a ton of food put back
This fool doesn’t understand the concepts of planning locations ahead of time and caches.. He is going to get people who watch and believe his stupidity killed..
Even when you have permission to be on private property, you might be harassed by people who do not have permission to be on that same property. It's common in the rural south during hunting season most often with people who run dogs.....
@@shelleypilcher3812 Talk to people, those who align with your values, spend time with them, have them round for dinner; go to their homes for dinner, help each other with small DIY projects, have BBQ but use local wood, learn to light a fire without matches and show others, God bless.
@@shelleypilcher3812 Speak to people, those who align with your values spend time with them, have them over for dinner, go over for dinner. Help in small DIY projects; share tools. Have a BBQ use local wood, light a fire but do not use matches; show others, God bless.
I have several 16 by 20 Harbor Freight camo tarps . I also have Bug Out Barrels . Fifty gallon metal drums with handles . They are watertight and weigh in at 300 pounds each . They can be moved short distances by two men . I will set up a Bug Out Base Camp.
I've been studying for The Times we're moving into for a while now. And what he's saying it's true, very, very true. I'm living off grade in the ozarks. Pretty decently set up. But I need my neighbors to start prepping so I don't have to feed more people than i'm ready to.
Over here in SW Colorado shocked at the amount of food. Gamble oak acorns are easy in September,berries, shrooms and greens in summer. Lots of game year round. But nothing is easy. All lots of work. But it is obvious the natives did it here very recently.
Definitely would be better to have land, space between, etc., but again that is not the option for many. We can pray and prep the best we can, form relationships, and practice to the best of our abilities.
I know someone that is working at a grocery chain in Knoxville Tn, they have an allergy to Chicken meat both raw and cooked and even a slight exposure cause them to break out. They have had other employees start breaking out due to only slight exposure to handling raw Tyson Chicken. They reported that none of the other people had any type of reaction to Chicken until a few weeks ago and have no known allergies to chicken.
You have it right Steve. The people who say they will bugout are ignoring the fact that the people who own the land are already there. I ask one person if they think the hunters are willing to share the deer? The country people know where the fruit, the greens and so forth grow. They know what is good or poison to eat. Lived with my grandparents for several summers, off and on. Never realized I was in survival training. Up at dawn, pump water from a cistern, three hole johnny house, made lye and then made soap, when the cabbage was ready we made sourkraout, 100 new chicks from mail order catalogue, yes delivered by mail, catalogue saved and used as toilet paper, while we sat in the 3 holer outhouse we wadded up a couple of catalogue pages and the straightened them out to only wad them up until it was soft. Worked in the garden, fed the chickens, fed the pig and ate the most delicious apricots from a tree they tell us now was a bit to close to the outhouse. I learned about family where we lived and about people and relationships. It was tough but wonderful in many ways. My grandfather was a very skilled blacksmith. I had many uncles, great uncles and their families as well as great grandparents. Lots of Aunts, cousins and amazing sunday dinners. There were no bad cooks. hahhha.
The best bug out plan in my opinion is an rv stocked with food, clothes, bedding, and other essentials. Unless things go instantly full blown mad max the likeliest scenario is you lose your home because of finances or a natural disaster. With the rv you are all set up to go and have shelter for your family. I hope someday soon I can afford one since I live in a rural area prone to wildfires and earthquakes. If a fire swept through my town all of the hotel rooms in the neighboring towns will be instantly filled.
people need to spend time in the woods, for a week. with food and water for a couple days... before even talking about bugging out long term. it's not a pleasure cruise. buiding a shelter, one that will keep you dry, and warm... constantly looking for firewood, foraging for anything, and everything . I was made for this, but most people aren't in the summer time - I spent A LOT of in the woods of northern West Virginia. Wheeling... I loved this way of life growing up... still do... then again, I loved Kennwood park too. it was just a 1 hour drive.
My grandfather was a share crop’r in the Mississippi Delta, starting as a worker with nothing. He worked his entire life to save up to buy land and build his home, which was worth around $130k when he died. This is simply the way it was, unless you were one of the few wealthy people, and there weren’t any wealthy people in MS then, nor many anywhere in the US for that matter. Many times he hired workers and paid them with 2 all the garden we had (they could pick what they could eat without waste) and 2 shotgun shells (they never missed, 2 rabbits). When times get hard, only hard people survive. We never had trespassers, but I know what would have happened to them if that ever happened, and the police would never have been bothered. I grew up camping, hunting, and fishing. Living in the woods is hard work, much harder than any other civilized living. It’s a constant battle to maintain calories so you don’t go into a downward spiral. I would guess that maybe .0002% of US citizens could survive in the woods longer than 1 winter. Water is #1 priority; learn who to make char and filter water. Food is #2, with shelter only barely behind in priority. U need to do multiple things each day to acquire water; don’t rely on only one potential source of water. U need to do multiple things each day for food…no single source. etc.
"Surviving wilderness", spot on ideas buddy! Been an avid hunter/backpacker since 1960's, elderly now so options are limited believe me, but even w best equipment/skills living in wilds is very very difficult under best conditions! After a collapse survival = nightmare! You won't be alone, trailheads and few miles up trails crowded w squatters hungry/ornery/most nasty, wild game be very scarce, re-supplies near impossible to obtain making it necessary to survive ultimately by being a "predator" no "game" excluded, plus willing to live hungry miserable dirty most the time ~~ watch TV series "Alone" to see firsthand and wo a firearm/bow your greatly disadvantaged, consider a stainless collapsable 22 auto scoped rifle, ammo is light/lethal/cheap, then practice accuracy ~
Most beach towns say you can/t camp on beach exc. at night if you got a fishing pole & look like your fishing & got a lawn chair well thats not camping is it ? well yes forgot fishing license might be needed , you might even catch a fish once in a blue moon
Bugging out only works for a few days for something short to blow over. Or if you have somewhere specific and really good to bug out to for a few weeks where you can get some easy food, such as really good fishing or a strong population of game animals. But other people tend to know about such good luck also, so you won't be alone. Maybe to a place where you have a large food cache. Months? No way. For me, it would most likely be getting back home for a manageable and defensible position. It's hard to even come up with believable reasons to bug out, but I suppose it could happen.
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Look up the lykov family, they dipped out right before the red terror and missed Stalin, lennin, the gulags, the entire rise and fall of the USSR, they did a documentary on the last remaining daughter, in Siberia an old woman, living all alone, mostly off of potatoes I believe, and chickens etc..
@@foxmulder7616iIn today’s days where you are thinking you can escape?!
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I have lived off the grid beyond civilization for years at a time. it is hard work. it's a full-time job. As I write this, I am packing to do this again. I sold my farm and kept only my survival supplies. most will fail. it's a mindset and woodsman knowledge. I'm 73 and I'm free. SEMPER FI. no, you don't need society. how did your ancestors survive without walmart and a pharmacy? the woods are full of medicines. you need to look, learn, and live. I have 2 friends. my dog and pet goat.
So, it’s possible.
Best to you, your dog and goat.
Godspeed friend.
No you haven’t
Everyone should have a couple good milk goats in milk with their kids. The beautiful lovely goats and babies can share their milk with you and provide 60-80 of your daily calories or intake.
I love your talks about this stuff. Please make more like these😊
If the ticks and gnats and mosquitos didnt get me, the rattle snakes and copper heads will. I dont need to worry about starving in the woods, the critters would get me. bugging out to the woods wont go well for most people.
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Remember, you are not the only one hunting. There will be hundreds that don't really know what they are doing.
Exactly. In a true shtf event I think the hint g and fishing will get depleted very quickly. But again so will the human population so who really knows
When everyone and their mother in law go hunting, first there just might be accidental injuries, and then the animals will be depleted. Good luck.
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You may get a deer but someone else while you are harvesting your food may end up with your deer and your gear. Be wise as serpents.
Inexperienced hunter will mistake people for deer and people will get killed !!Thats the problem or you kill a deer and someone else claims it !! 😖😖😬
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Hiked the Appalachian Trail with my father as a young girl. It was a true education. I still love the woods and am still hiking at 70 years old. My go bag is a daypack with supplies needed to hike back home if some disaster hit to where I couldn’t drive home. To try to live in the woods by yourself is not wise. You are right Steve.
GREAT VIDEO STEVE! people need to remember ONCE you leave your home (for whatever reason) The security is gone!!
The sad this is; the people of today have a very different mindset than those of yesteryear. Community and self sufficiency has gone by the wayside. When I look at most people, I fear what is coming because I know most will be walking around in full panic with their heads spinning not having even the faintest idea as to what to do or where to begin.
Great video, Poplar Prepper! You really hit the nail on the head about the challenges of bugging out. Too many people think it's just a matter of heading to the woods with a backpack. Thanks for emphasizing the importance of preparation and community support
We have a plan A, B and C. None have anything to do with bugging out in the woods.
God bless everyone.
Ditto here. I have heard about bugging out for decades. I'm going nowhere.
bugging out only works if you have some where to go.
Just look for green and no nothing more than green as far as you can see. That's should be good.
The National Forest near me was swarming with people as soon as the Covid lockdowns started. Most of those people returned home quickly. Since then, the population of homeless people living in the forest has exploded. There is no way that I am bugging out there. Besides, wildfires are the greatest threat where I live. If I need to evacuate, I can stay with relatives who live in a city about an hour away, or stay with relatives who live in the middle of nowhere. Of course, I need to be prepared to reciprocate if necessary.
My husband and I live off grid. Living in the city was hard for me. I couldn't do it, I would chose this any day before going back to the city.
I used to have small farm. At only 28 acres it was constant work. After my day job I spent 8 to 10 hours working my micro farm. Every weekend was work on the farm. No vacation and no day off. I loved it but my wife didn't. She left and I lost the farm. Such is life. I'm 69 now and live in a small city. I have family here to help so we are staying here.
Daily is a good purpose when you have it!
Man I've been watching you for years now and I had no idea you had this channel as well. You should tell it on your other channels to promote it. I watch your videos everyday. Great job love this kinda videos. A great learning lesson man. Think you for keeping us updated and educated.
I live about 5 miles from town in upstate NY. We have an increased bear population (cubs on my front porch), a pack of coyotes (these don't seem to be solitary animals) that killed a young deer next to my front yard. We do have some poisonous snakes here which is why I mow my grass as low as it can go. So, this old lady who used to play in the woods, is not running for safety into the woods. We got 4 feet, I repeat, 4 FEET of snow a couple of years ago, just sayin".....
They have no idea .... the woods in my area will eat you if your not aware of things.
Same here, I wish more people.understood that. We have large wild cats, rattlesnakes, wolves, scorpions, the list goes on!
I've had a close call with a cougar
🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻 bears, and cougars for that matter, are very hungry. They have a huge appetite.
🐊 gators will show up where you least expect it.
@@N.C.SSN-777 if an alligator shows up in Saskatchewan I'm going to have a new pair of boots
It is always a blessing to hear from you Steve
Another good video . Steve you are touching on what needs to be told on some videos. The facts for this like you say basically in this video. There are no handouts in the wilderness. I am an old man, in pretty bad health. The point I'm getting at is this all the videos that I have watched over the years never show the one thing that happens to everyone. They don't figure in the probability of failure. Only videos where they are successful make UA-cam! Every fire does not make flame, every fishing hole does not have fish,, ever trap does not catch and all water is not good to drink lol.. you are covering this very well. No matter how good someone is at being a survivalist they will have failures. I wish all UA-cam would show their failures in their videos too. You have touched on some very good points here. You keep making them we will keep watching them. Have a good weekend. UA-cam friend.
Patara just showed her garden saying winners and losers in the garden. But I can only come up with one video.
I have a hand dug well with a hand pump in it on my farm. A small creek crosses the property, three ponds nearby and a lake a few miles away. I have 3 spare new hand pumps for use or barter. Have some two man crosscut saws and years of hand tool collecting. Some of my neighbors are on the same page.
My well in the mountains is 360' deep!!!!!
Very cool that you hiked the AT. That was something I always wanted to do but at 65 and bad knees that is no longer on my list. I have resigned to the fact that my BOL is my house. It is what it is.
I’ve slept on the ground plenty. No way am I throwing a pack on and going off to live in the woods for the rest of my life.
I love your info. Steve. My property is in the woods so I’d be a fool to camp out there. Mama bear and two cubs roam our woods. When videos come out trying to sell solar panels, I laugh. This area we can’t even get cable to work on our roofs, let alone solar. Give most here good old electricity. We have creeks and wildlife to shoot from the comfort of our own decks. In an shtf situation we would. Otherwise local farmers provide us with meat, eggs and milk in the NC Smokies.
Steve you’re a good dude..I appreciate you
Let me add, one more thing. Some of us already live in the woods. So be polite. And watch what is behind whatever you are hunting If things get real bad. A bullet coming through my window. May not be considered an accident. And I am one of the calmer people up here.
Not clear which one are you , camping, or a house? Also need to know where you are or start practicing my bow and arrow.
@@shelleypilcher3812 House. As to where I am. That would be telling.
You're absolutely right, Steve. Anyone remotely considering bugging out to a woods should try camping for a week or a month in summer and winter--not in a campground, but in the deep woods.
I have been Prepping since the late 70's. Retired, my team will be here on the farm when SHTF. The farthest member is maybe 30 miles away. Most are less than 15. We are planning to Bug In here at the farm. We do have a plan B and a plan C if needed. None of the plans consist of Bugging Out to the Wilderness. Keep Prepping my friends.
Goats are essential
Get you some
Get rid of them cellphones people are being tracked
You need a RFI bag, puts a cellphone asleep and not tracked . Us one everyday!! Only pull out to charge or use !!
We have 42 acres. It isn’t where we live. We have a pole building with tractors backhoe etc. on the property. It has a pond. We currently rent it for farming. 10 acres aren’t farmed. Some wooded. We have a good sized garden that we do there. We started before learning about prepping etc. I camp. So we have shelter that is mobile. I pray we never need to use this like you are stating.
It pays to have a few good friends that are ranchers that would be willing to take you in in exchange for work and keeping the ranch safe.
Surrounded by 2000 family owned farms, 33 cattle ranches, dairy farms and fishing port.
That’s exactly what I am currently doing!
I have trade skills and take care of horses…. I have many choices.
Currently on 20 acre horse ranch in the hills above Santa Barbara.
(with water well)
One neighbor grows coffee, one neighbor grows avocados and the other is a beekeeper.
I purchased a nice van seven years ago with this goal in mind.
No debt and my only monthly bill is for phone…. it’s great!!
Been hunting, fishing, and camping for over 60 years in the great state of Kentucky!
Great video, Steve and great to see you outdoors! Bugging out is not on our radar for various reasons. Mostly, for the ones you stated here. No shelter, no security...way too sketchy to be viable. We're staying put on our land.
Where is everybody going to bug out to? That’s my question. I have 2 acres, neighbors not very close and in the summer one can’t even see my house where it is. I think I’ll stay where I am. But I’m right off the highway. That’s the scary part. I couldn’t take everything I have stocked up.
Thank you, very informative for those of us who don’t know this stuff. Where I am, there is no place to bug out at. A bug out bag isn’t going to do much good if you have no place to go to. Plus, old people, for most it’s impossible to even consider living in the woods. Great info, Steve, thanks.
I'm in really good shape and I will only leave my dwelling if there's absolutely no other choice ,I worked my ass off for it and I'll give em hell,before I run like hell !!!
Im 55 and my husband is 62,and neither of us is in great shape. We would not be able to bug out. We will stand our ground as long as we can on our home place. We live in rural indiana
Read Euell Gibbon's books for foraging tips & what to do with the stuff.
He’d probably just tell you to eat Grape Nuts…which included neither grapes nor nuts!🤔😂
He was awesome! He hasza recipe for honey, whiskey n pinebark cough medicine...best ever!!
It's tough that's why the Indians lived in tribes.
And traded with other tribes.
Thank you Steve for sharing your experience with us. Love these videos and hearing about your experiences and travels. Blessings Everyone ❤
During the depression there was a sizeable " Hobo community!! Riding the rails and hobo camps. Kinda like California only without the drugs 😮
I never planned on bugging out. There are already a lot of people that are homeless in the woods.
I applaud you for hiking the AT, without irony, even though it took you 10 years to do it; it is still a great accomplishment, but it is not enough to be an authority on this topic. Thru-hiking is VASTLY different. It isn't just the survival aspect, either. A unity starts to form; we support each other. During The Great Depression, hobos looking for work did the same thing. Going into towns for resupply is a different matter, unless one knows that the business/town is already hiker-friendly. People never change throughout history; the ones who have always attack the ones who have-not (or less.) Travel with the weather for safety, but also for food availability; just know that animals do the same, so try not to become food. If you want to overnight on someone else's land, or you're looking for work, be polite, and use the front entrance in broad daylight, verbally announcing your presence (which you should do when approaching someone else's camp too -- "hello the camp!)
You are INVALUABLE to us all!! Thank you!! Love you all the time!!!
People under estimate insects, many infections and death
I will be staying on my own land here in Kentucky I own several acres as does my neighbor who is also a pepper don't own a cellphone you are being tracked
I like this video, back to basics.
people also seem to forget about the BUGS you get to enjoy being out in the woods 😃. running to the woods for safety is when a plan fails.. unless you have cashes buried in secluded locations it will help some... just don't blindly go there
Hiking with a heavy pack. I mean you need an extreme level of fitness to have any chance that way.
I think one thing that gets overlooked is a simple bicycle. The bike can carry a ton of stuff on the rear rack and front basket. Much more than you could ever hope to carry in a pack. When going over rough terrain or hills, get off the bike and push it. In some ways the bike will act like a pack mule. Carry the bike and gear over obstacles. If you can stay near trails/paths and roads the bike may be a better bet.
And this thing about fitness and bicycles is a bit overblown. The front chainring can be easily replaced with a smaller one. That will make the bike easier to ride and greatly improve endurance at the expense of a lower top speed.
Warren Buffet said……. “If you dropped me in the woods i would be dead in 3 days-i have no practical skills- i can wave my arms and yell ‘I can allocate capital’”
Thank you and God bless you in Jesus name!
Yes do a series of what you did ,what broke, how you fixed it , problems you faced, things you learned. Even with a house , in grid down extended, basically youre gonna hav these problems too. Thankfully i am west and in the mountains. I deal with subzero and 17" snows. Summer is 5° nites and 80°-85° days. And the rain is very cold here and unpleasant mostly. In mountains many people bugging out here will unalive. Several stories online crazy woman ,her young son and her sister from colorado springs didnt even make it a month. Online story about that one from a couple years ago. EDIT: a day later a vid from you popped up from 10 mo ago when you did a story on this Colorado woman!!!!! Hope it wakes some of these people up. Its tougher than you think to live off grid in bugout.
What a wonderful episode! Thank you!
The Dale Carnegie reference, "How to win frinds and influace people," made me laugh 😃.
Thank you for a great insite to bugging out. I too have hiked , camped for days on end . 4 months off grid and it not a picnic!!! Hiking the Appalachian Trail, the challenge that most will never complete. a lot of soul-searching resource searching it’s not as easy as everyone thinks
I just got a black Nissan Sentra 2014 so I get to build a new kit for it. I'm excited. Thanks for sharing with us Steve 🙏 God Bless
Congratulations my friend. May God bless you beyond your wildest imagination.
At the end of a week long hike some in our group were chanting flush toilet flush toilet…..
I love and trust your wisdom. Thank you.
Thank you for your time Steve
I have bug out bags for me and every member of my family. With that being said i also have home preps in place hoping not to bug out. I grew up in the woods, no electricity no running water. We grew our food, foraged and hunted. We had a outhouse. I have the skills to survive in such a situation but will avoid it as long as possible. We worked our butts off every day. Up before daybreak and started working. Im still up at 3 sometimes earlier than that. Thing is we had a house. I can build a shelter yes, but it will be very dangerous out there when the shtf. Now i have two kids to care for. Its not a easy thing to do just being on your own doing such a thing. I kinda laugh in my head when people say i want that , has never had to do it.
Stay safe brother thanks for the video. Hope people listen and think.
I like survivor man eating bugs chipmunks snails pine needles depending on the location. I don't mind being out and having to return on foot but I always had spam. I can go pretty good in winter on two cans of spam for 3 days in -25⁰ weather. I slept in my insulated coveralls and dug into drifts for shelter. It's possible to survive a break down out in the weeds. I was plowing out a road when I lost my fuel pump 30 miles from pavement
This is a great video. So many put forth videos saying get your stuff together to bugout w/o going into detail of how hard it will be to live off the land and not even mentioning you will still need to resupply, etc.
I have bush directly behind my house but I also live in a village with plenty of hunters. They will not take kindly to anyone deciding to hunt and set up camp there.
There’s several places with caves also. Just make sure you’re packin with lots of ammo & the things you need. And yes this takes work. But it can be done.
Thank God we have a realistic prepper, very good publication, with feet on the ground
Loved this episode. I grew up in the country, telling it like it really is.
That’s incredible man! I hiked the AT in 2012, if you did multiple 30 mile days, that’s absolutely amazing.
Excellent words I feel a bug out place pre set six months food stuff no one wants to live forever in the woodskies coming out in 6 months hopefully the survivors are working on good things. remote is good with stuff plan ..........
In case of an emergency maybe start a small garden for growing an some fruit trees in the wilderness in advances for possible use
Put back 1 metric ton (2000 pounds) of dry goods food. Rice, beans, pasta, freeze dried coffee and other freeze dried and canned foods. Then get to work on the garden. $50 fruit tree or 100lbs of rice? I say rice. Unless you have a ton of food put back
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I’d prefer to have some fresh fruits and vegetables, in addition to long term foods, however to each their own.
It's definitely a last resort. But you never know if you must do it sooner or later.
Depends on the atmosphere of your area.
This fool doesn’t understand the concepts of planning locations ahead of time and caches.. He is going to get people who watch and believe his stupidity killed..
God bless you Steve! I thoroughly am challenged, educated and enjoying this channel.
I didn't realize how hard It is to bury $500 worth of freeze dried food For a rainy day
Even when you have permission to be on private property, you might be harassed by people who do not have permission to be on that same property. It's common in the rural south during hunting season most often with people who run dogs.....
That's one of many reasons we banned hunting with dogs in Texas. Its banned for all game animals, invasive species are fair game!
It is amazing how many "weeds" in the suburbs are edible.
Shelter in place with family, surrounded by like minded community of neighbours, watch out for kin in sheep clothing, God bless.
How do you know who are them?
@@shelleypilcher3812 Talk to people, those who align with your values, spend time with them, have them round for dinner; go to their homes for dinner, help each other with small DIY projects, have BBQ but use local wood, learn to light a fire without matches and show others, God bless.
@@shelleypilcher3812 Speak to people, those who align with your values spend time with them, have them over for dinner, go over for dinner. Help in small DIY projects; share tools. Have a BBQ use local wood, light a fire but do not use matches; show others, God bless.
@@shelleypilcher3812 Speak to people those who align with your values have them over for dinner, go over for dinner; build a bond of trust.
Speak to people; align yourself with those who share your values, have them over for dinner, go over for dinner, spend time with them, God bless.
I have several 16 by 20 Harbor Freight camo tarps . I also have Bug Out Barrels . Fifty gallon metal drums with handles . They are watertight and weigh in at 300 pounds each . They can be moved short distances by two men . I will set up a Bug Out Base Camp.
When that time comes you want to go to the exact opposite way of the entire crowd no matter what the f*** they're doing
Thanks for your knowledge. This is a really good wake up. Call.
Not many guys speak reality as you just did. Thank you and keep breaathin'.
I enjoy this channel much more than your Poplar Report channel. That's just me. Thanks for posting your prepper videos here.
I've been studying for The Times we're moving into for a while now. And what he's saying it's true, very, very true. I'm living off grade in the ozarks. Pretty decently set up. But I need my neighbors to start prepping so I don't have to feed more people than i'm ready to.
Over here in SW Colorado shocked at the amount of food. Gamble oak acorns are easy in September,berries, shrooms and greens in summer. Lots of game year round. But nothing is easy. All lots of work. But it is obvious the natives did it here very recently.
Definitely would be better to have land, space between, etc., but again that is not the option for many.
We can pray and prep the best we can, form relationships, and practice to the best of our abilities.
I have a small bug out for just in case... Tent, MRE for 3 days, blankets and clothes for 48 hours... Bare necessities
It takes 15 minutes or so to walk 1 mile without a bag on a flat road.
I brought a ghille suit last year for future use of living in the forest
If shtf the edible wildlife is gone in three months
I know someone that is working at a grocery chain in Knoxville Tn, they have an allergy to Chicken meat both raw and cooked and even a slight exposure cause them to break out. They have had other employees start breaking out due to only slight exposure to handling raw Tyson Chicken. They reported that none of the other people had any type of reaction to Chicken until a few weeks ago and have no known allergies to chicken.
You have it right Steve. The people who say they will bugout are ignoring the fact that the people who own the land are already there. I ask one person if they think the hunters are willing to share the deer? The country people know where the fruit, the greens and so forth grow. They know what is good or poison to eat. Lived with my grandparents for several summers, off and on. Never realized I was in survival training. Up at dawn, pump water from a cistern, three hole johnny house, made lye and then made soap, when the cabbage was ready we made sourkraout, 100 new chicks from mail order catalogue, yes delivered by mail, catalogue saved and used as toilet paper, while we sat in the 3 holer outhouse we wadded up a couple of catalogue pages and the straightened them out to only wad them up until it was soft. Worked in the garden, fed the chickens, fed the pig and ate the most delicious apricots from a tree they tell us now was a bit to close to the outhouse. I learned about family where we lived and about people and relationships. It was tough but wonderful in many ways. My grandfather was a very skilled blacksmith. I had many uncles, great uncles and their families as well as great grandparents. Lots of Aunts, cousins and amazing sunday dinners. There were no bad cooks. hahhha.
The best bug out plan in my opinion is an rv stocked with food, clothes, bedding, and other essentials. Unless things go instantly full blown mad max the likeliest scenario is you lose your home because of finances or a natural disaster. With the rv you are all set up to go and have shelter for your family. I hope someday soon I can afford one since I live in a rural area prone to wildfires and earthquakes. If a fire swept through my town all of the hotel rooms in the neighboring towns will be instantly filled.
Thanks Steve that was very informative I'm sure most people learn something at least good job good video take care buddy
people need to spend time in the woods, for a week. with food and water for a couple days... before even talking about bugging out long term.
it's not a pleasure cruise. buiding a shelter, one that will keep you dry, and warm... constantly looking for firewood,
foraging for anything, and everything . I was made for this, but most people aren't
in the summer time - I spent A LOT of in the woods of northern West Virginia. Wheeling... I loved this way of life growing up... still do...
then again, I loved Kennwood park too. it was just a 1 hour drive.
My grandfather was a share crop’r in the Mississippi Delta, starting as a worker with nothing. He worked his entire life to save up to buy land and build his home, which was worth around $130k when he died. This is simply the way it was, unless you were one of the few wealthy people, and there weren’t any wealthy people in MS then, nor many anywhere in the US for that matter. Many times he hired workers and paid them with 2 all the garden we had (they could pick what they could eat without waste) and 2 shotgun shells (they never missed, 2 rabbits). When times get hard, only hard people survive. We never had trespassers, but I know what would have happened to them if that ever happened, and the police would never have been bothered.
I grew up camping, hunting, and fishing. Living in the woods is hard work, much harder than any other civilized living. It’s a constant battle to maintain calories so you don’t go into a downward spiral. I would guess that maybe .0002% of US citizens could survive in the woods longer than 1 winter. Water is #1 priority; learn who to make char and filter water. Food is #2, with shelter only barely behind in priority. U need to do multiple things each day to acquire water; don’t rely on only one potential source of water. U need to do multiple things each day for food…no single source. etc.
"Surviving wilderness", spot on ideas buddy! Been an avid hunter/backpacker since 1960's, elderly now so options are limited believe me, but even w best equipment/skills living in wilds is very very difficult under best conditions! After a collapse survival = nightmare! You won't be alone, trailheads and few miles up trails crowded w squatters hungry/ornery/most nasty, wild game be very scarce, re-supplies near impossible to obtain making it necessary to survive ultimately by being a "predator" no "game" excluded, plus willing to live hungry miserable dirty most the time ~~ watch TV series "Alone" to see firsthand and wo a firearm/bow your greatly disadvantaged, consider a stainless collapsable 22 auto scoped rifle, ammo is light/lethal/cheap, then practice accuracy ~
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Watch out for ticks.
Most beach towns say you can/t camp on beach exc. at night if you got a fishing pole & look like your fishing & got a lawn chair well thats not camping is it ? well yes forgot fishing license might be needed , you might even catch a fish once in a blue moon
I did 7 years in a small rv. I know what roughing it is. If civilization falls we probably won’t want to be around.. we will see.
Glad I watched
Bugging out only works for a few days for something short to blow over. Or if you have somewhere specific and really good to bug out to for a few weeks where you can get some easy food, such as really good fishing or a strong population of game animals. But other people tend to know about such good luck also, so you won't be alone. Maybe to a place where you have a large food cache. Months? No way.
For me, it would most likely be getting back home for a manageable and defensible position. It's hard to even come up with believable reasons to bug out, but I suppose it could happen.
Very good content! Do you have a hiking backpack that you recommend?What are some of your suggestions for bug out/ get home bag supplies?
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Good point s to share bro 👍