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T.I.G.E.R. Valley Bug Out Drill
When: Saturday, Oct 4, 2014
Where: Joe Russell Rd & Hwy 84, Prairie Hill, TX
Description/Course Description/Equipment Requirements
It's here again, the 2014 Bug Out Drill, the challenge unlike any other.
You’re driving home from work and an EMP strikes, the Russians have
detonated several nukes over the United States. The pulse has destroyed
all electronics and chaos has ensued. No signal lights, bank alarms,
stores are being robbed for anything of value. You move to your trunk
and get you Bug Out bag and start heading home, the best way you know.
This means you must trek over wooded and public roads, hiding from
possible thugs that might want to strip you of anything of value.
Expect 17 or 18 miles of cross country movement, lots of shooting
situations and test of your thinking ability and preparedness. You must
get home as quickly as possible, good luck.
Time: Sign-in at 7:00am; Drill begins at 8:00am
Equipment: No calibers above .308. No armor piercing ammunition or
tracer rounds allowed. All shooters will be required to carry a pistol
at all times during the match. This will be a high round count event,
both shooter should bring 150 rounds of rifle and 100 rounds of pistol,
if you don’t miss. There is no weapon or equipment limits, but if you
use it you must carry it. There can be no switching of gear or dropping
of gear during the match, you start with it you finish with it. This
year you must carry all your water, or filter it from the stock pond.
Cost: $150 (This event is limited to 50 competitors)
http://www.tigervalley.com/index.php
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October 4th...You've got almost three months to prepare. Maybe.
-h_h
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My Philosophy is Keep the Bug Out Bag, a Little on the Heavy Side. and I have a good Practical one, fish hooks & line needle and thread tons of Small Nylon cord. about day 3 of Shit hits the Fan, you can sort and re-prioritize based on the current Situation and Location, remembering scrounging on the trail is part of the Equation
The Russians? I thought Dick Cheney is the one planning a nuclear event in the US????
Dick Cheney was born in a nuclear missile complex at Kodlos, Siberia.
He's red right down to his underwear.
Im sorry but a high round count event? If you are having to engage that many targets, you are doing a poor job of EE. Objective should be for zero contact. Ok have a contact scenario and work on breaking off contact. Movement, cover concealment, self care, etc..
Thank you.
FERFAL - Surviving the Coming Economic Collapse - blend in and learn to zag when everyone else is zigging.
That's the horse I'm betting on.
I'll wait for the video game.
Hey HH.
Sounds like this novel exerpt on SHTF
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/aftermath-bugging-out-after-an-emp...
Let's hope it never happens, but be prepared nonetheless.
Why does it have to be “the Russians”? What if it’s a neo-con, false flag inside job like the last one?
The bankerz and Fed.gov already beat them to it
The Russians have had the capability for a very long time. Iran and North Korea are working on it. IRBMs packaged as.shipping containers are on the market already. ISIS has 2 billion to spend and they are certified lunatics. The AK Khan network spread nuke tech around the world. The Russians had ungodly quantities of plutonium at the end of Cold War I.
At least it will be the end of the Matrix!
Certified lunatics? I here you can order internet "certificates" based out of Waco....
If an effective EMP could indeed result in the melt-down of numerous reactors - then it might actually end up being an effective deterrant (Think Dr. Strangelove).
Now a major CME on the other hand. . .
Why the automatic assumption that everyone is going to start shooting at eachother right off the bat?
It's called food and water...
The vast majority, who have never even considered such an eventuality, will likely just stand around with their mouths open, waiting for the government to come along and rescue them.
Those that have considered the possibilities will probably have a decent head start.
"A Distant Eden" by Lloyd Tackett starts out with one guy's story of extracting himself from his office downtown to his rural setup when an EMP has struck. He has spare electronics for his older vehicle, and does have to.shoot someone in.order to keep it. A cop who wanted to.commandeer it.
Try also "Lightning Fall" by Bill Quick.
Same reason I punch old ladies at the grocery store for milk and bread when I hear of snow in the forecast. Its just what one does in that situation.
Sheesh.
I was shooting a match there this year and heard one guy mention a boating accident, almost asked if he was a ZH guy. Nice place to shoot, constant wind from one direction when we were there.
And I wouldn't feel good at all with anything less than 10mm and .30 cal.
Will there be extra credit points for GLBT participants?
You simply must buy old fashion generators as used to be in cars. Put this with a radio in a faraday cage. Thow in a cheap laptop, enough solar cells, rechargeable batteries. Be prepared to drive the generator via water, air, pedal power. Include inverters, transformers, a camera, a phone, shortwave or pair of walkie talkies. Include a small TV, a blender for Margueritas, some corn chips, canned beans, Rooster sauce, canned beef, a port-a-pottie, a handheld solar charged personal shower, 1000 gallons of water and facilities to purify more, a small tactical nuclear warhead, LED flashlights, beer, a TIVO with a ton of football games, Tequila, toilet paper and magazine, vienna sausages, cheeze wiz, Velvita, candy bars, Preparation H. Bug spray, shovel, blanket, hard tack, tin of Saltines, some more toilet paper, work shoes, camp shoes, matches, a Go Pro with Quad Copter. Old videos, 8 tracks, cassettes, Where's Waldo puzzle. Trimline Touchtone Telephone in Rust. A motorcycle with trailer. Metal Plates, and land minds.
Shoot! A fella could have a pretty good time in Vegas with those!
....a fleshlight - or two - the complete set of Playboys 1970 to 1990, lube, Liberaces Greatest Hits on CD, 2,700 cans of pork, a tweezers and a turkey baster....
You simply must buy old fashion generators as used to be in cars. Put this with a radio in a faraday cage. Thow in a cheap laptop, enough solar cells, rechargeable batteries. Be prepared to drive the generator via water, air, pedal power. Include inverters, transformers, a camera, a phone, shortwave or pair of walkie talkies. Include a small TV, a blender for Margueritas, some corn chips, canned beans, Rooster sauce, canned beef, a port-a-pottie, a handheld solar charged personal shower, 1000 gallons of water and facilities to purify more, a small tactical nuclear warhead, LED flashlights, beer, a TIVO with a ton of football games, Tequila, toilet paper and magazine, vienna sausages, cheeze wiz, Velvita, candy bars, Preparation H. Bug spray, shovel, blanket, hard tack, tin of Saltines, some more toilet paper, work shoes, camp shoes, matches, a Go Pro with Quad Copter. Old videos, 8 tracks, cassettes, Where's Waldo puzzle. Trimline Touchtone Telephone in Rust. A motorcycle with trailer. Metal Plates, and land minds.
..........and a baby's arm holding an apple
Don't forget the Monza.
Don't forget the Monza.
well played sir
Hell's Yeah! Include a Chevy Monza. A Vega or Chevette would be acceptable substitutes. You should fill the tires with Slime from Harbor Freight for punctures, but, in the mean time, wrap the tires with tin foil and stretchy plastic as this will cut down on both ozone and sudden nuclear flash damage. If you can download some Jack Parr videos while that is still possible. Don't forget toilet paper, oh! and a vintage set of Rock-em-Sock-em Robots.
WTF? No condoms + lube, gold, silver or matches.
Old fashioned 8mm and lot's of film to restart the porn industry....
You can't have that but you can have this......
Don't forget the winnebago and about 40,000 gallons of gasoline and a drum of Sta-bil about the size of detroit.
Oh and cocktail weenies and a can opener and don't forget spare glasses or you'll wind up like the dude in the twilight zone.
Yep, keep it in your heated, kidney-shaped pool...
Cheese wiz?!!!
You planning on starting a cheesesteak zombie stand after the EMP?
Something tells me any clowns walking 18 miles home looking like an SWAT entry team member on a raid is going to bring down more shit on himself than if he just went "grey man" and laid low.
During an EMP event, how exactly do you call the cops... Who packs swat type gear to get home in a SHTF event, you have a serious inability to think clearly, your great at reacting though, must support bamster.. Fail, I mean seriously...
The cars won't die in an EMP. Some will stop if running but can be restarted. Conserve your gas though, it's the the last tank you'll ever get. The novel One Second After is a good read about the post EMP world but it overestimates the effects of the blast on equipment. In reality the grid will likely be repaired enough to come back up after a year or two. 50-90% of Americans wll be dead by then but it will light up a massively changed workl. Good part is the Fed won't likely be there in Amerika 2.0.
http://www.empcommission.org/docs/empc_exec_rpt.pdf
It's a government report but is largely in line with others I've read. Plus their goal, if any, was to scare people so they're unlikely to be underestimating the effects.
Seal up your gadgets and throw them in a lake. EMP's can't travel through water.
Neutron bombs are bad though. And a weird idea too.
Fred in that book it never addressed how an EMP would affect the nuke plants. Would they go offline and melt down? If so I am just going to get drunk.
When the power goes you're on backup generators for the spent fuel pools -- when those quit and the water boils off it's game over for humanity and most higher life forms--doesn't matter where you are.
One would think some smart guy would think of this scenario and design a backup power system that ran off the nuke plant itself (assuming all is hardened against an EMP).
I spoke to an engineer at the nuke plant 9 miles from my home. This year, they installed a "long duration outage" largely passive cooling water solution to their storage ponds. That will at least give us more time locally, but I suppose you are right globally. Sad. I blame Harry Reed for killing Yucca Mountain.
Lets talk for a second about Yucca Mountain. The government builds a secure underground storage facility for nuclear waste, but then never puts nuclear waste there. What do you think the real reason they built it was? What's really in there?
"X-Files..."
Thats where they are going to put Liza Manelli's body when she dies.
thanks, so a few stupid follow ups...1) how long do the backup generators last. 2) if our nuke plants start melting down and it's game over for humanity, does that include Russia...and if so...would someone in Russia make them aware of that so they possibly decide to maybe not do that?
The backup generators have fuel for about three days. But that is MOOT as the EMP attack will fry the Backup generators unless they are hardened against such an event...like being surrounded by a Faraday Cage.
So it is three days at the best.
America thinks it can win a Nuclear War.
And Russian Nuke Plants are just as subject to the affects of an EMP as American Nuke Plants.
Perhaps someone needs to tell the War Planners that inconvenient fact here in America FIRST.
Enjoy your drinking.
FYI, diesels have no ignition systems - as long as they're equipped with mechanical injection units, or computer controlled units that fail to mechanical control - they won't even know an EMP happened. Refueling cooling generators, however, would become, literally, the most important job on Earth. Hopefully, that is a military priority around the globe.
Just reread the earlier post. The diesel engines are only one part of the system. I assume the pumps are electric. If the wires are long and unshielded, they could fry, or either the generator or pump motors could fry. That would be instantly bad. Potentially, no automatic shut-down either (not that that would help much with no cooling).
Here's hopeing they are EMP hardened. . .
I'm sure that after Fukashima they have a backup plan for the extra fuel. There's probably an an automatic order for more fuel ready to be sent from those one of their computers, the ones that will get fried. I've not seen a good answer to this question. I've done a fair bit of work investigating ways to put the 500,000 grid tied solar systems back on line and it's not simple or cheap. If the zombies don't eat all the power company workers with the biggest brains there will be localized grids popping up in a few months