SHTF Threat Response Index
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2024
- Today, part 2 of the prepper pyramid. Discussing overaction, and under reactions to potential SHTF scenarios.
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Being able to jog with a full backpack for more than 3 minutes before feeling like one is about to have a heart attack is not touted on our youtube community as being equally important to many other fancy shooty pants skills. Even holding a kitted up loaded rifle in the ready position for 5 minutes in the hot sun is difficult.
I saw a drill where a body builder held a rifle up for a full minute, taking an aimed shot every 10 seconds, and you could watch his groups open up as fatigue set in.
It's frightening how many people can't even go up a flight of stairs without getting winded. I'm no paragon of fitness but as least I can jog.
Weight training also really helped shrink my groups. Everyone should do some isometrics.
Physical fitness is probably the most underspoken and generally most useful part of preparedness. Having a fully kitted out plate carrier and helmet with NODs is cool, but will you be able to actually use that as often as being able to carry something heavy or travel longer distances on foot without getting winded?
This is such an underrated aspect of surviving. People think they’ll just hole and have a one man stand off. It only takes a little bit of gas to burn a normal house down in minutes. You need to be ready to move and carry your family and gear.
I mean, even aside from the influence it will have on someone's ability to defend themselves/operate effectively if they really needed to, there's an irony that people are preparing for societal collapse whilst totally neglecting their own health. They're orders of magnitude more likely (and that's putting it lightly) to be at risk of dying young or developing serious health problems because of their poor health than they are to be at risk of being killed or injured in a civil emergency.
I've seen too many people who own a rifle but not a fire extinguisher.
Yup. Keep at least one at home, and one in your vehicle.
@@mysteryman33333All right, I'll be that dude. Fire safety is kind of I'm my line of work. Keep a extinguisher in the kitchen (at least 2 1/2 lbs DC), in the bedroom (at least 5 lbs DC), and in the truck (at least 2 1/2 DC). A 10 plus pounder in the garage is a good idea, too
@@jongreen5638 CO2 or Halon system for the house. You get to test out your SCBA too.
@@railfanningpoints2.045 DC is better for household use. CO2 is great for electronics, but is not as good on the grease and oil fires that, in my experience, most household fires start as. DC, however, excels at that type of fire.. Halon, while not bad, is more expensive and has a shorter service cycle. I fail to see what it does for household fires that DC or CO2 doesn't do at least as well on, for cheaper.
in my defense i used it putting out a fire from my forfe and have been too poor to buy a new one
Imagine showing this video to someone in 2010 and them thinking "hmmm, needs more red anodizing and biohazard symbols...and zombies"
I kinda unironically miss the days of Zombies. It was more fun back then, and less constant political and social anxiety about the world falling apart. Back when the apocalypse was a fun fantasy.
@@Slivyr Yeah, people could do dumb, fun shit and not have it define them. Social media peer pressure is opressive.
@@Slivyrthis is the truth. I saw a guy get absolutely roasted for posting a Han Solo .22 AR pistol. Heaven forbid people still enjoy media from their childhood. Purchasing a PPK because Goldeneye is a mistake we should be allowed to make.
@@Slivyr I miss cheap AF Hornady Z-Max ammo.
@@Slivyrwe all have to grow up eventually. Life may get harder and that’s the way it is.
My concealed carry is an M2 covered by a tarp in a wheelbarrow. It covers all scenarios
Did we just become best friends?
I like your style
🤣🤣🤣
Tactical Wheellbarrow from GlockTalk. God, I miss the old days of the internet. All everyone needed was a FAL and a Shower Cookie.😂
I choose to interpret this as you having a select fire M1 carbine because those are just cool
Be careful to only aim at the burglars belt buckles
I’ve always had a suspicion (fear?) in the back of my head that it will be the vegan cross fit bike riders thru hikers with sustainable gardens and cars that run on used French fry oil living in solar powered biodomes who are actually best prepared.
Get to gardening and canning. One of the best preps ever is food you make.
This
lmao
@@BrassFacts lol you’re close enough to SLC to know what I’m talkin about. I went to college there for 4 years
See, but their little sustainable commune is going to need armed security. AKA, peasant farmers feed and pay taxes to knights to 'protect' them.
Kind of similar thought process.
I'm an ER RN, I deal with emergencies on a daily basis ranging from trauma to heart attacks etc.
Years ago I was at a training course and the instructor cadre asked if anyone had any first aid experience. I begrudgingly raised my hand as no-one else had and one of the instructors brought out a giant trauma bag. He had IV supplies, chest seals, needles for NCD, abdominal dressings, tourniquets. I was pretty impressed, so I asked the guy if he had any basic medications like aspirin if someone was having a heart attack, benadryl (allergic reaction), loperamide (diarrhea) etc.
He had no medications, which is totally fine! I just thought it was really funny how prepared he was for a catastrophic situation, but didn't have any basic medications for much more common emergencies. Especially considering the majority of the class was over the age of 55 and greatly over 30 BMI.
Just recently we had a mass casualty incident at my hospital - it was related to heat exhaustion. Had some 30-50 people that were at an outside event.
So as you so state, it's always good to be prepared for a wide variety of situations - not just the catastrophic TEOTWAWKI
I always harp on the "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" when it comes to meds: Tylenol, Benadryl, Aspirin, and Loperamide. I was just over at costco and bought probably 500g of benadryl for about $4.
Agreed. I’m a CCT medic and in my younger days was a little too obsessed with the trauma stuff, and as time went on learned to appreciate the importance of basic meds over all that stuff. It’s amazing how literally life-saving something like aspirin can be.
Gonna be honest if your problme is solvable by two asprins you can probably tough it out
@@isaac6077 Aspirin is an extremely useful drug in terms of immediate response to myocardial infarction (heart attack), stroke, angina, altitude sickness, etc. If you're an hour or more walk for someone to call to get you flown out on a chopper, that 650mg of aspirin might keep you alive long enough to get rescued.
@@isaac6077 Will chewing on four baby aspirin cure a heart attack? No. But it can greatly improve your chance for a good outcome.
Bros will literally prepare to survive in a Last of Us fictional post-apocalyptic scenario but will speed driving to work or not schedule regular doctors visits because “I’ll take my chances”
In my defense, doctors are expensive. You just wait until the asteroid strike + post viral outbreak apocalypse, then we'll see who has the last laugh.
@@MiamiVice. not you, considering most of us (regardless of how prepared we are) won't even live to see it through.
@@chrishaugh1655 Don't ruin my last man on Earth roaming the wastelands fantasy. I'm the main character here!
speeding is a way of life.
Trust me, that red I blasted through at mach jesus saved me 40minutes. Easy.
Consider that I'm built different when it comes to driving fast. Doing 95 on the freeway is light work
Teamwork Pyramid: Bottom to Top
The Country is a Cruise Ship
Your State is the Life Boat
Your County is the Life Raft
Your Community is a Life Jacket
Your Homestead is you Treading Water
This is awesome
Based
😢- People that live around the “urban population”
Except when your government is actively working against your interests and survival.
Lol my comment was removed for pointing out an obvious problematic fact of the population most people will have to deal with, what a joke
So my 75 boxes of MREs I tactically acquired from the Natty Guard dumpster after their AT is too much? I think you're just jealous of my spoils of war. Finders keepers 😂😂😂
We love tactically acquired MRE's from the guard. I also keep a few in the truck, just in case.
Nice profile pic
Even I got a box and I'm not even in the service.
Hope for the best. Plan for the worst. It's not enough, brother.
I’m just a broke line cook and the most likely situation i’m going to come across is a hurricane or some methed out guy at the gas station so my focus is on a concealed pistol and surviving through a hurricane/evacuating. I really want a nice rifle nods etc but its just not in the cards money wise right now so i focus my priorities on what i am most likely to encounter
The guntube community can be summed up as dudes who spend too much money on gear just to shit on others who don't.
Hang in there man. I lost my home to a hurricane two years ago and the home insurance is refusing to pay up. So all my savings went into training water while my home is unlivable. With that said, I had to get creative on arming myself after I had to deal with Lowe's after the storm. There are ways where you can get the fireworks to cover all phases while not breaking the bank. Like I scored a Hi-point in .45 for under $40 from GunBroker and a pump shoty for under a $100.
@@Saintbow i’ve been lucky to dodge most hurricanes or have them dissipate to tropical storms before landfall (SE NC) but that is my biggest and most threatening to my life concern on a grand scale at the moment so that’s were the majority of my preps go into
Same
@@railfanningpoints2.045the gun community is full of gear snobs it's weird
The rioters attacked him because he was putting out a fire.......
"Peaceful protesters"
As I recall he was putting out a dumpster fire; the flaming dumpster was being pushed towards a gas station with people sheltering inside.
@@kylesmith4173 brass facts hot take he brought it in himself
"everybody wants a plate carrier but nobody wants to carry the plates to the sink" is how I describe the most common armed preppers.
Haiti is a good example of full-blown systemic collapse, and interesting to read about. But, for a lot of failed or failing states, life goes on for the vast majority of the population. Supply chains operate 'normally', you just have a higher chance of encountering violence and corruption. They don't live life like it's Louisiana in the aftermath of Katrina, they live more like us. It's "Rule of Law", but shittier.
That seems to me to be a different dimension than the pyramid presented here, where tiers correspond to acute scenarios that occur in the aftermath of an event. In the case of slowly failing nations, there's no major singular event that causes the degradation in development, or whatever you want to call it. Preparation for that kind of living doesn't look the same as preparation for natural disasters or major unrest, so I think it's a different dimension.
Anyway, that's my incomplete thought on this topic. I am interested to hear if someone sees this another way.
Some cities in the US are nearly similar to Haiti.
Felu style
People need to stop thinking like they’re going to fight a war (as often) and more like their towns are going to quickly become third world with all the corruption and lawlessness that comes with it. Get a community first, everything else second.
What community? There's a reason the government and ruling regime are replacing the core community with foreign lumpenproles.
Best thing to have is frens, and good ones at that.
I don't believe in the concept of friends. I'm doing this lone wolf solo style
Where? lol
@@steveg2277 Uh. Y'know... Out of state. Uhm, at this place, yeah. Yeah...
Frenz who plot to steal your prepz
@@MiamiVice.when/where do you think you're gonna sleep, genius?
"...as Americans with a culture of martial preparedness..." Yes. This. If you ever feel like you're wasting your time with larping because Mad Max isn't happening yet and it looks like you're still going to be expected to show up for work for the foreseeable future, just remember that this stuff is important anyway. Maybe you never will use it, but what you will do is keep the culture of training and readiness alive for the next generation. You'll keep important producers of weaponry, gear, and ammunition preserved for the next generation. You'll keep the culture of legal civilian use of weapons and training alive for the next generation. As weak as we are compared to great warrior cultures of the past, America does have the strongest warrior culture in the modern world. That's something worth maintaining, even if it doesn't end up being useful in our lifetime.
All it takes is a libtard majority SCOTUS or Congress to wipe out 2A rights. If you don't believe they would, you haven't been paying attention to gun politics in high-population blue states where the majority of people live.
The more I watch these videos, the more I realize I need to refocus on addressing more of the basic aspects of preparedness rather than the worst case scenarios. Thanks BF!
My cryptic schizo dreams tell me that its going to be reaaaaal bad though. So ima prep for the worst, by not doing anything 😉
based. hes litterally me
I’ve heard a lot about this preparedness pyramid. Can you spend some more time on the TEOTWAWKI Trapezoid?
Talk about the alphabet mob holy shit
Then the non Euclidean WROL
I think a good parallel to this idea is the less fun and frankly unsexy aspects of preparing: Medical and hygiene and how to keep power on when the juice stops from the pole.
Electricity is less of a want than it once was and illness and infection will fuck you up long term, including stuff like waste management. Gross and unsexy, but necessary.
E coli compost
Great video. After hurricane Harvey (regional situation), we had rifles overnight while securing donation hubs, and during the day , we typically just had sidearms on us outside of niche applications. There was a lot of looting and some localized violent attacks but all in all people came together to help their communities.
This is why your first pc should be a slick pc. If you want armor but don't want to draw attention you can wear a hoodie or jacket over it but also you can easily throw a chest rig if you need to carry more especially in situations when you aren't worried about concealing your armor
The Mountain House/Venture Surplus ad was worth it just for the the analog watch timer! GJ Brass Facts! Kudos!
If you have 10k worth of rifles, plates and survival gear but you don't know where your birth certificate is you aren't prepared, you're LARPing. If you have 3 different loadouts for short range urban, long range urban and night time reconnaissance but dont have a bag in your closet witu your BC, SSN, Passport and vaccination records for Fido or Mr. Whiskers you arent prepared, you're LARPing. You are WAY more likely to need to evacuate your home on short notice due to a major storm, flash floods, forest fires or other natural disasters than you are ever to need rifle plates and a gun that can engage man sized targets out to 800 yards.
Please note there isn't anything wrong wirh LARP. Its fun to have a bunch of different stuff and take it to the range/to classes/to competitions. But dont fool yourself. You are way more likely to need a bag with a change of clothes and extra meds than end of the world combat kit. A first aid course and carrying a good first aid kit in your car or on your person is way more likely to save your life, or the life of someone else, than that Roland special stuck down your pants.
"Is that a Roland Special stuffed in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?"
Sound advice on all points, thanks for sharing. :)
This comment needs more likes ( I’m more worried about my kids going hungry because the lights go out and I can’t cook than a firefight )
I have food preps don’t worry y’all I listen 🤣
I generally agree with this, especially the parts about spare clothes, first aid, and meds, but it is more regional specific than you might realize. Up in my region of the US the only real natural disasters we have are blizzards that keep us inside for a day or two. We do have a flood season near some rivers which we preemptively sandbag for, but we don't really get flash floods. Our forests are constantly raked and have controlled burns frequently which means we haven't had a risky wildfire since decades before I was born. What we do have, is occasional mass stabbings at public events by Somali refugees, sex traffickers abducting drunk college girls, and impromptu mass rioting in urban areas which typically result in a few people being burned alive over the course of 1-4 weeks. While they are rare and it's unlikely for it to directly affect me, it's still more common than natural disasters that would require me to flee. Where I live, I'm more likely to have to take a 50 yard+ with my ccw, than use a grab bag. While everyone should keep those things on hand, a fire extinguisher in my car/house and Roland special are more likely to be used by me than a passport and pet's vaccine records. I wouldn't expect someone in the South or California (minus the mountain ski resort towns) to keep snowshoes in their car like me, but I would expect them to have a grab bag in case of a hurricane or fire.
What about those without a Birth certificate, SSN and smart enough to keep animals out of their homes 😅
Your mom grabbed my Roland Special. What's wrong with her? Lmao.
Great video. After watching your PDW videos I literally remember thinking "yeah this is what you need in a Kyle Rittenhouse situation". Spot on.
Get out of the lumpenprole cities so you avoid that situation in the first place.
The best gunfights are the ones I don't have. This topic is something I think about a lot.
60 percent of homicides in the US are committed by a specific 13 percent demographic. Learning to avoid that demographic is important.
I believe in a few things when it comes to preparedness
1. Firearms
*Have 2 rifles in the most common calibers (I chose 7.62x39 and 5.56)
*1 shotgun
*2 handguns (one for you and one for a signif other)
*Something in .22 with good reliability
*Somewhere in the 500 round area is good as a starting point for storage.
2. Armor
*This is a want not a need. If you get in a gunfight it could save your life, also the bg could be a terrible shot(most likely) and you'll get hit somewhere unarmored anyways and be in a crap situation regardless.
3. Food
*Store up dry foods, doesn't have to be hundreds of MREs, but at least a month of dry goods like rice and beans and other non-perishable foods is important.
4. Water
*Seriously get at least a month. Bottles of water are cheap. Get a water filter as well, they're cheap and can't hurt.
5. Medical
Seriously get a good first aid kit. Hell get 3 or 4. You'll be fixing holes and booboos more than making them.
6. Misc stores
*batteries
*hygiene items
*lighters and other firemaking aids
Etc
All that but no fitness 😂
All but food and water are covered under plate carriers if they are kitted appropriately. One thing everyone seems to sleep on is a good knife as well, I keep an esee 6 molled to my plate carrier for quick retrieval
@@SolarGenerallooks like a list of things to buy. General health is more than fitness, it's diet, doctor, sleep, etc.
That is nowhere near sufficient for the top two tiers of the pyramid. For those, your rural homestead that you have been sharpening your subsistence farming/living skills at for several years now should have also several years worth of supplies, especially food and medicine but also multiple ways to draw water from your well. You may not be able to safely farm or leave for the first year or two. Almost every "gun prepper" I know in my area thinks that they will be able to hunt and scavenge for what they need. I will be quite afraid of those folks once they figure out that they and their families are going to starve if not die of thirst first.
One thing to note is that you should use your consumables as they do rot or fall into disrepair.
Doing big things brass boy. So many people need to hear this.
Thank you for making this video. I find that I pretty often get “funny” looks when I show up to matches with gear proportional to the type of preparedness I am looking to simulate. Everyone always wants to wear all the gear all the time; have all the gun all the time. I get “plan for the worst” - but you should also plan for everything between here and there and be able to identify what types of situation you find yourself in, and appropriately respond.
I really wish you would make an hour+ dive into your thoughts on this stuff. You have an incredibly level headed approach and viewpoint that I really appreciate and enjoy. Thank you for making these!
Some of ze BEST B-roll footage in the business.. thanks BF 😎👍🏼
I do think rifles and overt equipment have a place in a localized civil unrest scenario, but that place is from a static defensive position/deterrent, absolutely not for maneuvering through a crowd with.
Something SHTF tubers always forget are literal tools and gadgets. Just like in normal life, you’re probably going to need a toolbox before you need a gun, even in a SHTF situation.
Dudes be assembling a cache of poverty ARs but lack the basic tools to fix stuff around the house lol
Hard pills to swallow. These are great videos. Some of your best content is these discussions about what is realistic.
This hints at the problem of people who focus on their rights vs what is wise
Raider 365 review when?
Don’t underestimate the value of over reaction.
People, just like nations, tend to avoid the unpredictable elements.
“Don’t go down that road, those people are wackos. But they mind their own business, just keep your distance.”
While watching the commercial for Mountain House, I was a little worried that Brass Facts would consider the brief Nova cameo to be sufficient. Thank you for not letting us down, Mr. Facts.
I didn't know that L skipped forward like that and I have watched a *LOT* of YT. Thanks for that!
Got my elcan delivered today Brassfacts 😎 7.62 recicle version. Elcan gang checking in
Agree, too many people think they are prepared and can handle any situation because they have the "stuff". Be able to turn the response dial up and down will save you a buttload of heartache
Thanks for the presentation BrassMan
With Rottenhouse, they didnt converge on him because of his rifle, its because he put out their litteral dumpster fire with a fire extenguisher to keep them from blowing up a gas station.
^^^^^ Exactly.
Love the international relations introductory breakdowns, brings me back to the Poly Sci days at uni. Would enjoy seeing you do more videos on national security/defense topics though they'd likely not do as well on view count.
The West has become quite incompetent.
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Some guy called joshjosh575 is in the comments here claiming you called out BrassFacts for Stolen Valor. Any truth to that or is he just a troll/schizo?
The "Ahhahh" at the end was in fact a proportional response to the fire burning a hole in your pants. Well done.
We had a severe thunderstorm watch in my area so I started my community patrols in full kit.
The most expensive piece of gear any civilian should own should be a thermal scope under $6k. If it’s more expensive then that like you said your better off putting your money towards more food, water, solar panels and generators, etc. Night vision, helmets for night vision, thermal drones, rifles/ammo larger then 300wm or 300norma etc are simply for most to costly for most people and will butt into finances that could be better spent elsewhere.
QRD for lonely poor single bros out there:
1. Get a job-ass job that pays the bills. Keep working it even if it sucks. Save. SAVE. Grit your teeth and look at upward mobility if it's really shitty. Can't buy shit without money, can't expect to survive off charity. You don't own a mode of transport and your apartment pantry is empty, but you have a DD rifle and LBT gear and can definitely fight a multiple mag engagement against superior numbers? Yeah ok bro. Meantime, take care of your shit. Something is out of wack if you've spent more on gear than a beater car or bicycle.
2. Fooooood (and (potable) water). You need to eat. Eating's good. Maybe make it something a 17yo wasn't forced to make for $11 an hour? Maybe something that'll last outside the fridge for more than a few months? Keep stacking and rotating, because you don't always need to shoot, but you definitely deserve to always eat. Oh, and exercise too. Fatties will die first, unironically.
3. Pistol that works. Holster that works. "WORKS". End of. Stop arguing brands if you've pulled your pickle more than you've gone to the range this month. Practice practice practice. Drawing from all positions, proper grip and trigger pull, target transitions, slow and fast strings of fire. Do that till it's like tying your shoes and you can do it in the dark. You're not a boot or badge, they WILL haul you to court for bad misses-- make it count. Oh, and don't just buy FMJs and call it good, for the love of GOD. You're in poverty, not stupidity. Have water for breakfast and sleep for dinner for a week if you need to squeeze for quality defensive ammo.
4. Rifle. Sling. Light and mount. Optic/irons. Enough mags for whatever. A mag carrier of some sort, made somewhere where they have worker's rights. If you're buying plates, don't buy steel. Yes it's all expensive. Yes that's actually for a reason. That's what the job is for. Confused? See Step 1. Practice with the rifle like you practice with the pistol in Step 3. You should be stacking ammo by now but if you haven't before then now's the time.
5. Lunch break? Idk man it's your life not mine I'm not your dad. Go talk to women outside of work and read some books, maybe learn to fix that busted door hinge that's been driving you nuts. Be An Person™. Also stop worrying about the news, it's all spun as demoralization/fear/anger propaganda anyway.
Fairly solid advice. Like garandthumb once said, if youre not fit, youre gonna die.
First tiem I've seen someone give actually good advice in a video like this.
@@btr-70 Everyone wants to larp in their head that things will be Tarkov when they collapse and they'll get a green light to zap their neighbors for voting differently or whatever. It won't be, and they won't. It's a horrifically popular notion, given the absolute state of the West as a whole, but we need each other and we need to be capable and sane together. Imagine someone who's practiced nothing but soldier shit their whole life, vs someone who can build, heal, organize, and is on the side mediocre with a gun. Which man would you want to rebuild a community in turmoil? The answer is easy, but finding the answer as a disconnected young man is not. I'm not one of those thin-wristed [Demographic] Against All Guns Ever hippies, but sometimes you come across shit you DON'T need to shoot. That's where the rest of the skills come into play. If things are worth fighting and killing for, then things are worth striving for with your hands and heart. Neglect neither set of skills, and you'll want for nothing and fear none.
A lot of us airsoft nerds also have a venn diagram that overlaps with the over preparedness quite a lot. High grade chest rigs and plate carriers loaded down with pouches can be super helpful in the sport, especially when you start playing around with grenades or finding you need tools for stuff.
Great video; you covered a good amount and was very META towards the culture.
Brassfacts Friday 🎉🎉🎉🎉
I finally watched Generation Kill.. I think I earned to resubscribe now. Great series!
good job, welcome back.
@@BrassFacts Appreciate the recommendation. Don't know how I hadn't seen it before. 🤙🏼
Physical fitness and health are also good, and fairly inexpensive, core preparedness must haves. Great subject and talk Mr. Facts.
Good video as always BF. I think water storage is a huge thing more people need to do.
The main thing I’m lacking is being part of a like minded community. I watch the videos your group of friends share and I wish I was able to find a group like yours.
Maybe someone in the community could help point me in the right direction. Is there any cool, not over the top, clubs or militia I could join? I’m in Southern Oregon.
Same. My would be team is separated by 100 miles.
Only a few neighbors are reliable
I would start by doing the things that you’re hoping to do with said group. If it’s shooting guns, start going to different ranges regularly. If it’s hiking in the wilderness, start doing that. As you acquire the things needed to do those things and use them your tribe will find you. Most M-word groups are leery of outsiders so if you start off posting on the internet that you’re looking, you’ll probably get pegged as a Fed and avoided.
Another thing is it takes time and consistent effort to build a group of friends that are similarly skilled and equipped. Lots of people like to buy things but will never show up to learn how to use it. Speaking of that, it’s hard to get people to show up. Life happens, most of us aren’t trust fund babies and have families and obligations so it can take years for a group to gel. Speaking from experience I have a small group of like-minded friends that regularly go out and “do the things” but it took the better part of a decade to form and is never more than the 4-5 core people even as others come and go.
Best advice I can give is start with what you have, start now, and if you’re looking for eggs go where the birds are.
Chill fed
@@Derrick_Evans hey my friend. I’m not a fed. I believe the second amendment grants me the right to bear arms and be a part of a well regulated militia. I’m sure there are feds on here but I hope they’re looking for the crazy cult types, and kudos to them for doing it. I’m an arborist and father of five. Just doing my part as a responsible American.
@@Myrmidon26 thanks for the detailed reply my friend. Good advice. I just moved back to Oregon after living on Maui for the past 18 years. Moved on an airplane and lived in a strict state. Been trying to rebuild my preparedness plan over here…. Found brass facts while researching gear. Thanks again.
Good video, all great points. There's a lot more (or less, depending on you look at it) to prepping intelligently than just stockpiling firearms and tactical gear.
I think i saw a similar video about proportional response and it really highlighted how unbalanced i was in proactive thinking.
Very helpful information! Thank you!
If the worst case scenario occurred, nuclear war, for instance, there is a good chance that I would have to give up some luxuries like cell phones and youtube, but that local government would continue to exist in some fashion. Even in the Mad Max movies, there was a local government, and the average joe could just get on with life.
I'm not saying don't be prepared at all. But I try to be very realistic in my expectations of how bad things could *actually* get. And the most likely thing I will have to deal with is a few days of hurricane/tornado/blizard/ice storm/earthquake/volcano, where having some food and water set aside will be the amount of preparedness that will get me through it.
I do have my battle kit and rifle and such. But I'm fully aware that those are never going to actually be put to practical use. I also dream of winning the lottery and marrying a supermodel.
You sure have quite a bit of confidence in your fellow humans at the regional disaster level.
I saw Katrina every time I looked at that part of your pyramid.
Cool idea behind this vid!
Al Gore Rhythm Must Be Fed
It occurred to me while watching this video and lovingly caressing my SCAR 17😝, that as you move up the disaster pyramid, you’re basically increasing the distance at which you may need to engage targets. So you could say that the base of the pyramid is a 9mm kind of emergency and the very tip is a .338 Lap Mag kind of emergency, with the “in between” levels being 12 gauge, and 5.56 in that order.
Thanks for sharing.
It is important to prepare for the minor to the max
The most important part is to be able to adapt to the environment and weather not all bad stuff happens in the spring or fall and being able to not be winded while moving is important .
Being prepared is important remember about who is with you and what animals you will care for
Can’t wait for your Trex arms interview that will happen one day !!! 🎉
In an episode of the longhouse podcast. They had a guest who was in Kentucky during the tornadoes last year. Him and his friends went around clearing streets and driveways. His neighborhood was the first to have power restored, simply because they could get there with the streets cleared.
However, they also had their fair share of people trying to loot. They went around in kit with rifles as a show of force. They were the only neighborhood that didn't get looted
There was an old (2008?), but very good forum post by a mod on a zombie survival site about hurricane Katrina and what long term means.
Getting ready for that T-Rex interview I see!
Really good points man. I’ve been thinking and arguing with people about this. All this kit and gear and stuff is a rabbit hole. And what do people think is gonna happen? Kill every person round you? Like guys ….you need food and water WAY MORE than fucking nods
I just realized this is kind of why WV is the way it is: we live our daily lives in a sustained mid-levels of the pyramid already anywhere outside a city of at least 10k. 😅
Disaster prep for my area is a chainsaw, water and food for like 3 days.
Ive satisfied that so comical disaster scenarios is just a hobby i train for with friends.
Remember that the "nothing ever happens" crowd will come to your house when something happens looking for security.
Thank you for keeping my 30min lunch in mind 😘
Where are you guys? Looks awesome!!
Kyle would absolutely be behind bars if he had used a handgun. He was 17. I know that isn't the argument. He should of been able to carry a pistol. Gun laws are stupid. ATF is GHEY!
He should have used an NFA PDW brah lol.
I do a 4 mile ruck ... Two there and two back, with thirty pounds on my back in Tennessee right now and it's like 90°+... And I feel I'm out of shape
Millenial Nutnfancy, back at it. 💪 Dig the logic here.
Nah, Nutnfancy liked some garbage guns such as Kel Tec, Rock River, and Ruger. Assfacts doesn't run garbage rods.
I feel lucky with where I’m at with regard to preparedness. We live off grid and have a good water well that has a solar pump, cistern to have a reserve if the pump fails, and the whole house and AC/heating is self contained by solar. Backup generator supplied by a large propane tank.
Wife and I are both in medicine so we have good supplies and training there, we have a decent stock of food, and have land with no one in sight. Which allows for a nice little range.
It would be fun to do an episode on all the infrastructure needed just at a simple home like ours to keep it running. It’s not bad, but it does keep you mindful of how fragile all your amenities are.
All well and good until either the hordes show up or the regime government decides to redistribute your assets and property to the "newcomers" in exchange for votes.
Side note: the food supply will collapse as we know it. Irreversible measures have already been taken destruction of livestock/agricultural land/natural gas and fertilizer restrictions etc. it’s well documented at this point. What will it lead to exactly? I don’t know but buy rice and long term storable food
Why brass facts is my favorite guntuber
Well said
Carrying a rifle during Katrina was not possible in most of the hard hit areas. The national guard and local police were confiscating any firearm that they saw. Thus a pistol or concealed pdw would have been better options.
I have said similar for years. But a lot of the other training and equipment is just fun
Make friends, go hiking with said friends, have a gas tank's worth of fuel in cans, find a reason why you even want to survive in the first place.
And go to church, pretty much only community that still exists.
Nice watch choice🤘
How many of yall right now own a plate carrier but not a good conceal carry pistol, holster, and belt?
I owned three rifles before one belt 🤦♂️
>owns a plate carrier
>dosent owen plates
>billions could die
Or... I have all of those things, but am penniless.
what do you mean by belt?
I've concealed carried a pistol for a number of years. I work to keep my skills sharp but I never got crazy about a good carry belt until a few years ago. It's night and day.
A good reliable pistol, a good holster and a good firm well fitting belt matters a lot for a gun you're supposed to have on you any time you're wearing pants.
@@Saltpork305 does this apply to AIWB holsters?
If ya’ll are coming for muh biscuits, ya gon get that oven heat!
🎶…taste the goodness of the biscuit… 😅
Brock have you read the book Black Autumn? If not, you should. I am just after the part where the unprepared guy shows up to Costco and when Costco doesnt open (because of supply chain disruption) this guy realizes the situation is serious. Its kind of just fun SHTF fiction but it is also food for thought, like your videos.
And they are making Black Autumn in to a movie/TV series so it will be interesting to see how that goes.
I've been seeing a lot of cz po7 on here, is there a review coming?
Great video. Can you do one on tips and tricks for shooting passively with a top dot on an Elcan????
Ha, preparedness is like driving. Anyone faster than you is crazy and dangerous while anyone slower is dangerous and crazy. We are always going the correct speed....in our own minds.
That pyramid tho... I might use it to get good, as a training/equipment/supply matrix and to work up to the top.
Got a lot of stuff, training and plans, but I should really have plans draw up with individual check & packing lists to ease decision making processes if/when.
It's too easy to 'miss' something in a rush, and being able to hand the wife a laminated card and a sharpie so I can free up my labor... _priceless(?)._
Lunch break 3rd wall break!!!
I'm a simple man, I see a Brass Facts video, I watch a Brass Facts video.
The algorithm requires engagement
Hey brass facts, for the primary arms plxc. Which reticle do you recommend would be better, the acss raptor or acss griffin?
Pressed the L key 4 times, and it didnt get me anywhere. Buying more ammo because of that
Just here for the nova and the algorithm