You won't thrive one week longer than the government is willing to allow. Not in this day of drones and satellites.
@sneakypete The entire might of the US military could not shag a bunch of ragheads out of them bald-assed mountains in Afghanistan, and still can't today... I've got deep forests for cover and to forage food and large ungulates and fish to provide meat... And six months of winter where no machine moves... They'd play hell trying. Besides, they wouldn't be worried about little ol me. I ain't a threat. They'll be busy as hell herding people onto trains and reacting to guerilla fighters around the cities... By the time they worry about me, I'll be dug in like a tick on a dog.
If you want to be a truly effective sniper,the place to be is in a large metropolitan city. Seriously. You can survive a LOT longer and do a LOT more damage to the system from within, where you can disappear into the crowds, than you could ever hope to do in the wilderness. Especially in this day of armed drones.
I understand you will not like the idea of living in a big city. I even agree with you on that,but what you and I like is irrelevant when it comes to being effective. If you are going to die,die hard. Make them work for it.
NOPE. Not the city. I don't know urban warfare and would stick out like a turd in a punch bowl. I'm a big dude. I don't blend into a crowd. That ain't to say I know warfare in the mountains, or any way... But I am one helluva hunter with anything from a knife to a rifle, and if I get ten feet into these woods, you won't see me any damn more.
Told you before, I was raised up in the woods by two LRRP scouts from Nam... What they learned from Charlie, they adapted and brought home... So it ain't like I am green to it if it comes to that...
But my big, big advantage is if you put me in these woods, I'm friggin sasquatch. I will vanish. And I can hunt, and I can track, and I am quiet enough to sneak up on a buck and spank his ass. I have done that for giggles a thousand times.
So no, that don't play in the city. I need to be where I can stretch out.
They would have been true 20+ years ago,but these days isolating yourself in a wilderness area only makes it easier for the government to take you out.
I don't see them committing assets to that - Funny thing... I got drunk with a bunch of Russians from Siberia, and they said that even in the darkest days of the USSR, life in the deep woods went on unchanged... They laughed at how their brethren got rounded up in the cities and hauled out to Siberia... The ones that were FROM there just bided their time and walked off from the camps, Straight off into the woods they knew so well.
Yeah, they got bare supplies from the government... everything got pretty hard, but just like hillbillies here, they knew how and largely remained unaffected.
Seriously. BTW,I don't like it,either. If I thought for an instant your plan was effective,I would adopt it myself. Like I wrote above,20+ years ago that WAS the plan. Times change,and plans must change to adapt to the changing times.
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I heartily agree with the idea,but it is out of date and the equivalent of committing suicide with even having a chance to fire back once.
Yeah... and I know that. I feel it, believe me. But I have three clan houses of family to mind too... It ain't just me. That's why the holler is there... It's for me, but it's also a fallback position for the family, and a place to hunker down... and we can stay there indefinitely if left alone. And if we can't, we can walk off from there into the deep woods.
All I can say to sum this all up is that I HOPE you are right and I am wrong. I don't think so,though,and this,if/when it happens,won't be "my first rodeo". I do know a thing or two about living in the woods as well as going after people who live in the woods.
BUT....,as i wrote above,I hope for nothing less than a colossal success for you and yours if this sort of thing comes to pass.
Same your way - I get what you said. I understand it.
