bce1
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Post by bce1 on Feb 13, 2017 18:59:54 GMT 10
I am embarrassed to say this is the documentary which got me into survivalism back when I was in form 2 (year 8) - i saw this and it started me on road to survivalism / paranoia !! Looking at it now - its dated, subtly racist and full of some awesome nut jobs !! I wonder if the Zaraphats are still waiting  |
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bce1
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Post by bce1 on Feb 13, 2017 19:31:08 GMT 10
Went looking for the Zaraphats - great Wikipedia page .....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Covenant,_The_Sword,_and_the_Arm_of_the_Lord
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gasman
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Post by gasman on Feb 14, 2017 6:22:40 GMT 10
Wow! Now we are all showing our age!
Once we were survivalists not preppers🙂
Kurt Saxon was my hero back then-- still have all those books he talks about
Interesting they mostly seem to be using fn s and h&k rifles
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Post by shinester on Feb 14, 2017 9:40:04 GMT 10
Many things change, some things stay the same. Interesting and entertaining. Also fairly good proof of perspective, aka most likely nothing's going to happen, prep for that also.
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grumble
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Post by grumble on Feb 15, 2017 8:09:33 GMT 10
Wow! Now we are all showing our age! Once we were survivalists not preppers🙂 Kurt Saxon was my hero back then-- still have all those books he talks about Interesting they mostly seem to be using fn s and h&k rifles I think the fact that it was preban days for imported firearms helped a lot for that once the ban came into play people went with local stuff more and the AR style become the king
I know myself back in the days when I used to do a lot of shooting for pest control very few people I knew apart from city boys with their toys had anything in .223 even pro roo shooters used .222 , .22WRM .22 hornet everyone else that I used to shoot with or was doing the same as me for the cattle stations used .30 cal mainly SMLE's , SLR's , SKS's or if they had money to burn Colt or Armalite AR 10's mind you though I used to buy 180 grain 7.62x51 round for $15 per 100 , .303 for $3.20 per box of 32 rounds and $65 per 1000 for 7.62x39 or $45 per 1200 for real nasty stuff that I was sure was loaded with black powder
for some reason post gun bans in Australia over time the .223 became overly popular I think the US helped influence this plus the types of firearms available to the average shooter
my point is though what becomes popular in the use becomes popular over here given time
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Post by grumble on Feb 15, 2017 8:11:40 GMT 10
And not a bit of molle or red dot in sight. and old school camo patterns instead of digicam and did you notice the pretty much total lack of other accessories attached on their rifles not just no red dots |
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Post by grumble on Feb 15, 2017 8:23:09 GMT 10
One thing I took from this was
Just how much the average person has changed for an example
a lot of those people actually looked like hard guys that would deal out the hurt and had been trainded to do so they also had a on average a pretty healthy body type plus the girls were kind of hot in an 80"s sort of way
now flash forward to today and so much
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Post by gasman on Feb 15, 2017 8:41:03 GMT 10
While I love red dots , eotechs and modern night vision and thermal, I always worry about batteries
Not only for daily use but in a prolonged shtf they maybe scarce and these scopes useless
I like the low powered (1-4)30 mm tubes, with illuminated reticles( so you can use night and thermal)
So even without batteries you can still have a useable reticle
My eyes are too crap for iron sights
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