Rural Canadian here. Retired police officer....35 years service. Police tactics instructor/Emergency Response Team (ERT) sniper qualified (My lead instructor was a retired British SAS sniper instructor)
Served in Amman Jordan in 2004 instructing Iraq Police Recruits in police tactics and firearms tactics. Served 11 years in the Canadian Armed Forces Reserves Military Police Platoon. Awarded 'Forces 50', 1982, top 50 Marksmen, British Commonwealth Combat Firearms Competition, Connaught Range, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada as well as Top Candidate Combat Leaders Course CAF Reserves, Trade Level 3 Military Police. Military trained in Winter Warfare Combat/Survival I know tactics, I know threat assessment, I know survival techniques. I have been 'prepping' for the past 44 years and really serious for the last year. Freeze drying/pressure canning/vaccum sealing food. Stockpiling diesel/gasoline//kerosene/vehicle and equipment parts. I have 3 head of beef cattle in the pasture and 1/2 side of moose and beef each in the freezer. I live on a 150 acre farm. I used to have horses but now raise beef livestock. I am a hunter, fisherman, trapper, woodsman, carpenter, logger, sawmiller, welder, metal fabricator, basic electricity/plumbing/crop producer/animal husbandry knowledge. I live where there is an abundance of game/fish/blueberries/cranberries/blackberries 1/4 mile from my house. I am blessed to be surrounded by great neighbours who possess the skills and knowledge I don't have and who supply me with all the eggs and help when I need. I have several generators, two wells (one with a hand pump) sawmill, tractor, etc. In the spring I am bulding a root cellar. I have a two year supply of food packaged and stored for my wife and I. I am now doing up '2 week emergency rations packs' for all of my neighbours (should they require it) on our 20 family dead end road. Some of my family and friends think that I am paranoid. But I am OK with that as I have spent my life doing 'threat assessment' (I retired from the RCMP Criminal Intelligence Unit) and I recognize the threat that we are facing. Our small rural community help and watch out for one another. (people have messed with us on occassion and after a 'community intervention' there has never been a repeat offender. I am now too old to run (64yrs) therefore I am staying put. I will do what is neccessary to protect myself, my family and my neighbours......or die trying. And folks....marksmanship is a perishible skill. Keep training. Remember what happened during Covid 2020-22? If you are not preparing for what is coming in the very near future then you deserve what you will receive. But your family won't deserve that. Please...think of them.
Rural Canadian here. Retired police officer....35 years service.
Police tactics instructor/Emergency Response Team (ERT) sniper qualified (My lead instructor was a retired British SAS sniper instructor)
Served in Amman Jordan in 2004 instructing Iraq Police Recruits in police tactics and firearms tactics. Served 11 years in the Canadian Armed Forces Reserves Military Police Platoon. Awarded 'Forces 50', 1982, top 50 Marksmen, British Commonwealth Combat Firearms Competition, Connaught Range, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada as well as Top Candidate Combat Leaders Course CAF Reserves, Trade Level 3 Military Police.
Military trained in Winter Warfare Combat/Survival
I know tactics, I know threat assessment, I know survival techniques.
I have been 'prepping' for the past 44 years and really serious for the last year. Freeze drying/pressure canning/vaccum sealing food. Stockpiling diesel/gasoline//kerosene/vehicle and equipment parts. I have 3 head of beef cattle in the pasture and 1/2 side of moose and beef each in the freezer.
I live on a 150 acre farm. I used to have horses but now raise beef livestock. I am a hunter, fisherman, trapper, woodsman, carpenter, logger, sawmiller, welder, metal fabricator, basic electricity/plumbing/crop producer/animal husbandry knowledge.
I live where there is an abundance of game/fish/blueberries/cranberries/blackberries 1/4 mile from my house. I am blessed to be surrounded by great neighbours who possess the skills and knowledge I don't have and who supply me with all the eggs and help when I need. I have several generators, two wells (one with a hand pump) sawmill, tractor, etc. In the spring I am bulding a root cellar. I have a two year supply of food packaged and stored for my wife and I. I am now doing up '2 week emergency rations packs' for all of my neighbours (should they require it) on our 20 family dead end road.
Some of my family and friends think that I am paranoid. But I am OK with that as I have spent my life doing 'threat assessment' (I retired from the RCMP Criminal Intelligence Unit) and I recognize the threat that we are facing.
Our small rural community help and watch out for one another. (people have messed with us on occassion and after a 'community intervention' there has never been a repeat offender.
I am now too old to run (64yrs) therefore I am staying put. I will do what is neccessary to protect myself, my family and my neighbours......or die trying.
And folks....marksmanship is a perishible skill. Keep training.
Remember what happened during Covid 2020-22? If you are not preparing for what is coming in the very near future then you deserve what you will receive. But your family won't deserve that. Please...think of them.
Bug in! food, water, ammo!
More Information about how to do this would be nice. Hope you're still doing okay and have a good week. Mrs. K.