i just couldn't live with myself if i couldn't hit something past 100m. im an accuracy nut and if the rifle won't hold 1 MOA or less then i don't like it and it drives me nuts.
but speaking of SHTF situations that a lot have probably not considered and that would tell how bad it would get real fast. how many here remember when the EBT card system went down?
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/nat...591.html?amp=y
it was in 17 states and was only about a day or two but the welfare garbage who depends on the cards for everything didn't take any time to start their looting and robbing. muggings in that short span skyrocketed and a lot of stores were looted and robbed.. that was only about a 48hr period. now multiply that by a total collapse where the things stop working completely, which could easily happen if we got EMP attacked or something else happened to the power grid. the inner city would turn into a meat grinder real fast. those wastes of skin who depend on the system would immediately revert to their jungle tribal warfare mentality and start looting and mugging people on a massive scale. anyone caught in the middle would be in a bad way. which brings me to my other points..
how many here have food storage? can you effectively protect that storage? if there are a lot of looters and muggers then you will most likely have to defend your stuff from them, this is especially true if you live in city limits. the problem with this is that if you start killing the attackers then others will know that you have something to protect and will most likely hit you from a distance when you come outside one day and then just walk in and take your stuff. you cannot just scare them off either as they would know you have something worth protecting. also where are you going to put the bodies of the attackers? you could go back to the old castle days where they would be under siege from an opposing force.. bodies laying around have a bad tendency to draw flies and pollute the ground water and ground around them. not going to get to the smell. the flies can also spread disease. they would either lob them out of the castle with a catapult or trebuchet or pile them up and burn them. being most people do not have the means to fling them out of their AO, burning or burying would be the only way. too many bodies buried will poison the ground and water table. burning makes smoke and can been seen for miles and will most likely draw in more idiots. it will be a never ending cycle. sure you can burn them at night, but then you run into light from the fire and the smell itself.. that is one thing to consider.
the other things to consider is this.. how many here have generators for a emergency situation? i know a lot of people who say they will just use their generator in a SHTF situation. there is several problems with this idea. one is the smell of exhaust and gasoline. the smell would not really present itself as too big a problem as most generators are noisy. they are dam loud.. most of the standard generators that most people have run at 3,600rpm and can be heard for several miles on a cool quiet night. this itself would tell every baddie in the AO that there is someone out there with a generator so maybe they have food and other supplies too. so that there will bring in the looters and muggers there. and with several days of starving belly you best friend and family can turn onto your worst enemy too. so that there must be taken into consideration when picking those who you tell what you have. but back to the generator and electricity backup systems..
a lot of people will get it in their head that being the generator is noisy and needs fuel, ill just use solar power.. that would actually be a lot better but also has its problems.. lets say the power grid is out. no lights anywhere. you have your trusty solar or other backup systems so that you can run your lights and freezer/fridge.. how is that house going to look to a bad guy who is hungry? they will be drawn to the lights of your house like a moth... then you have idiots to contend with.
and how many here think they are going to just disappear and live off the land? sure you can hunt and fish, but how many other people have this same idea? you will be lucky to not get shot by someone else wanting that deer or fish you just bagged. and think how small the animal populations will get as soon as people start hunting them..within a month or less there will be no critters to hunt. this is why the old Native American tribes were nomadic, they would move where the food was. but then you risk running across others in your travels, as which was very common in the old hunter gather days, and those lead to looting other tribes and possibly becoming food yourself.
and how many here think they are just going to plow up their land and grow their own food? talk to some of the older folks who lived in the depression about what happens to crops unattended.. they magically pick themselves and you are left with nothing. it also will tell people that there are people living in the area that might have things they can take..
but "what caliber i have" is the least of your worries in a true SHTF collapse of society. that is why you do not live in city limits if at all possible, as those will be the first places to burn to the ground. think back to the LA Riots and multiply that x1000 for a good idea of the violence in the streets when the idiots start getting hungry. but the part where you will still have most of your load is a load of malarkey. when things collapse (not a matter of if, but when) most people will have to defend their stuff at least once. there is no way around this.. starvation has a tendency to destroy any resemblance of civilization. after 2-3 days a lot of people would kill their own grandmother for food. i have went 3-4 days without food and ill tell you now, things you would normally not consider start to look like a real good idea, including cannibalism. so man will hunt man for food.
but do not think you will get out of this because you are harmless or because you are prepared. most people will have to leave their houses and a lot of their stash behind. it does not matter how prepared you are or how much ammo and food you have, you cannot fend against hundreds or thousands of starving people wanting a piece of the pie, and there will be millions across the country.. i found out a long time ago that most of us will not survive a real collapse. there are just too many idiots who are not prepared and who rely on the system for their survival. these are the entitlement idiots, and they will think they are entitled to your stuff. there is no way around this fact, they will come for your stuff if they know you are there. if there is a house there then they will be there eventually. and they will go door to door in most places and if they feel they can get away with it then they will kick in the door and take your stuff.. i laugh at most people who think they will not have to get their hands dirty in a SHTF situation. that is only wishful thinking. you have not seen desperate till they start starving.
but b4 anyone ask me about what im planning on doing. i do not know. every trigger is different and causes a different chain of events. if the situation is fluid then you become fluid. it moves you move. we will just have to burn that bridge when it happens.