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I thought that I would try to occasionally put a tidbit of info here in reference to contingency planning. I want to start with a little info that you ex-military guys will know about so feel free to add your own knowledge and experience to this so we can all learn something.
If you have not practiced defending your home or property yet you should. As far as the outside of your home goes you need to create a perimeter that you can reasonably defend. If you have many acres of land unless you and your wife have given birth to a small army you are not going to be able to defend it all. So choose what you can manage with the folks that you have around your home. The first thing that you will need is some type of perimeter alarms. There are many to be had on-line with varying degrees of technology but you really don't need the high speed stuff. There are many small versions of the military trip flare on-line that will light up the area of intrusion with enough light to see the intruder. Be aware that an animal will trip these as well and there is no way around that, you will just have to consider it practice when that happens. Cheaper yet, you can use fishing line with tin pie plates and empty cans hanging on it. If your perimeter is not too far away from the house you can set up a baby monitor transmitter, camoflaged or course, close to the fishing line with a reciever beside your bed.
Now that you have decided what you can defend with your capabilities you need to set up fire positions and fall back positions. A fire position is pretty much self explanatory, but I would add that you need to make sure that you know the difference between cover and concealment. Sometimes concealment can give you a false sense of security. What I mean by that is hiding behind or in a bush where you cannot be seen by an enemy is good but you cannot use that bush to fire from because it will not stop a bullet. So do not get the two confused. Cover is anything that you can hide behind that will stop a bullet. For example; a large tree, a rock, a mound of dirt, a thick concrete or brick wall. If you live in frame house or mobile home, the outside walls are not cover. So, you have set up your primary firing position close to your perimeter, this is the first place that you will try to stop an intruder/s bent on doing harm to you and yours. If for whatever reason you cannot stop the intruder there you need to have second position (behind you) that you can fall back to that offers cover and concealment as well as a third place. These fall back positions need to be pre-stocked with ammo and/or another gun. This whole scenario works better if there are at least two people, this way one can offer covering fire as the other falls back to the next position and vise versa. This takes care of the outside or your home. What about the inside?
Most of the above can be applied to the inside with some common sense exceptions. First, no one should be able to come into your house without making a lot of noise that wakes you up. Be it electronic alarm, or tin cans on the floor or a little yappy dog, it doesn't matter as long as it wakes you up. You need to take your unloaded firearm through the house and determine your firing positions. What can you use for cover? Does the position play to your strong side and dominant eye or is it awkward? If it is awkward and there is nothing that can be moved to change it, then you need to go to the range and practice firing from that awkward position. In your house you will also need a second and third firing position and these positions need to be prestocked just as you did for the outside ones. When figuring these positions you will need to take into consideration your children's bedrooms if that applies, we don't won't little tikes running into crossfire. To clarify, for the outside you don't need to go out and bury ammo at your various firing positions, but you should at least have your positions figured out. Then in a SHTF situation where trouble is imminent you can stock your positions. On the inside however you can have an extra mag, speedloader, shotgun shells, etc., already in place.
Sincerely hoping you will never need this info,
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If you have not practiced defending your home or property yet you should. As far as the outside of your home goes you need to create a perimeter that you can reasonably defend. If you have many acres of land unless you and your wife have given birth to a small army you are not going to be able to defend it all. So choose what you can manage with the folks that you have around your home. The first thing that you will need is some type of perimeter alarms. There are many to be had on-line with varying degrees of technology but you really don't need the high speed stuff. There are many small versions of the military trip flare on-line that will light up the area of intrusion with enough light to see the intruder. Be aware that an animal will trip these as well and there is no way around that, you will just have to consider it practice when that happens. Cheaper yet, you can use fishing line with tin pie plates and empty cans hanging on it. If your perimeter is not too far away from the house you can set up a baby monitor transmitter, camoflaged or course, close to the fishing line with a reciever beside your bed.
Now that you have decided what you can defend with your capabilities you need to set up fire positions and fall back positions. A fire position is pretty much self explanatory, but I would add that you need to make sure that you know the difference between cover and concealment. Sometimes concealment can give you a false sense of security. What I mean by that is hiding behind or in a bush where you cannot be seen by an enemy is good but you cannot use that bush to fire from because it will not stop a bullet. So do not get the two confused. Cover is anything that you can hide behind that will stop a bullet. For example; a large tree, a rock, a mound of dirt, a thick concrete or brick wall. If you live in frame house or mobile home, the outside walls are not cover. So, you have set up your primary firing position close to your perimeter, this is the first place that you will try to stop an intruder/s bent on doing harm to you and yours. If for whatever reason you cannot stop the intruder there you need to have second position (behind you) that you can fall back to that offers cover and concealment as well as a third place. These fall back positions need to be pre-stocked with ammo and/or another gun. This whole scenario works better if there are at least two people, this way one can offer covering fire as the other falls back to the next position and vise versa. This takes care of the outside or your home. What about the inside?
Most of the above can be applied to the inside with some common sense exceptions. First, no one should be able to come into your house without making a lot of noise that wakes you up. Be it electronic alarm, or tin cans on the floor or a little yappy dog, it doesn't matter as long as it wakes you up. You need to take your unloaded firearm through the house and determine your firing positions. What can you use for cover? Does the position play to your strong side and dominant eye or is it awkward? If it is awkward and there is nothing that can be moved to change it, then you need to go to the range and practice firing from that awkward position. In your house you will also need a second and third firing position and these positions need to be prestocked just as you did for the outside ones. When figuring these positions you will need to take into consideration your children's bedrooms if that applies, we don't won't little tikes running into crossfire. To clarify, for the outside you don't need to go out and bury ammo at your various firing positions, but you should at least have your positions figured out. Then in a SHTF situation where trouble is imminent you can stock your positions. On the inside however you can have an extra mag, speedloader, shotgun shells, etc., already in place.
Sincerely hoping you will never need this info,
bbc
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