Doomsday Preppers - Nat Geo Channel

[Kentucky Fried Panda]

I bet everything you own has Tactical on it.

PCPs have too many delicate parts for long term survival, a good springer with iron sights is what you need.

Nup its the name BSA gave it

Stop trolling theres a nice chap i'm sure your mummy is looking for you.

No, my parents are long dead, but thanks for going to that level... Do I get to make fat jokes about your family now in retaliation?

BSA might have given it the name, but Walts like you just eat that stuff up.
I just wish I had thought up a user name that is sooo tough guy image. Northern Raider indeed. Sounds like some sort of MZB wet dream.

[adam2]

Please try to avoid insults.
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[Tarrel]

Does anyone know if this series is available online yet? We don't have Nat Geo on our TV.

[Catweazle]

I know I've written this before, but for those recently converted I will recommend some airguns.

Weihrauch HW80 - very solid break barrel spring rifle. Easy to maintain, but will probably outlive you anyway.

Weihrauch HW97 - solid, reliable spring rifle. Easier to shoot accurately than the HW80 but mechanically slightly more complex.

Air Arms TX200 - my personal choice springer. Very accurate and solid, but a bit heavy to carry around.

I would fit a telescopic sight to all these rifles, their accuracy will allow them to kill at ranges a lot longer than you can aim at clearly with open sights. A good quality fixed 6x40 or zoom 3-9x50 scope will allow you to bag rabbits at up to 50yds with practice.

Calibre choice is debateable, I prefer 0.177 over 0.22 as it shoots flatter and is generally easier to hit the target with. Some people will argue that 0.22 hits harder, but with the puny power of airguns it's shot placement that counts not power, and 0.177 is easier to hit the right spot with. Bonus is the ammunition is lighter, smaller and cheaper.

[Catweazle]

I get over 85 full power shots from one fill

Not ideal as a long term post-crash solution though, sooner or later that rifle is going to leak or your pump is going to wear out.

A springer gives you one full power shot each time you cock it, for many many thousands of shots.

[northernraider]

I get over 85 full power shots from one fill

Not ideal as a long term post-crash solution though, sooner or later that rifle is going to leak or your pump is going to wear out.

A springer gives you one full power shot each time you cock it, for many many thousands of shots.

Couldnt agree more , the Ultra was a prezzie , I love its compact size though, wish I still had my old Airsporter that just went on and on, but I sold it when I was skint just after leaving the army.

[northernraider]

Does anyone know if this series is available online yet? We don't have Nat Geo on our TV.

TBH your not missing much, I've only seen one family on the show who was not barking.

[clv101]

I've only seen clips online, maybe enough to get the gist. I did like the guy growing tilapia fish in an old swimming pool. He seemed to have the right idea.

Interestingly enough, one of the old boys at our amateur radio club was talking about the series last week. There are a lot of folk worried about 'collapse' of one form or another.

[northernraider]

I've only seen clips online, maybe enough to get the gist. I did like the guy growing tilapia fish in an old swimming pool. He seemed to have the right idea.

Interestingly enough, one of the old boys at our amateur radio club was talking about the series last week. There are a lot of folk worried about 'collapse' of one form or another.

IIRC the chap keeping the Tilapia in his swimming pool was in Las Vegas a desert town utterly reliant on pumped water supplies from the rockies, I honestly could not imagine a worse place to be if TSHTF cept perhaps London . City preppers are either super men with remarkable skills or mad as a box of frogs , We gave up trying to live in a lrge urban connurbation, cost us most of our savings but at least we got out of dodge.

The only gentleman I saw who I thought was not off his trolly was the first item on episide 4, he wasnt waiting for pole shifts, mega quakes, or any of the more barmy scenarios, he just believed that a helluva economic disaster was the most likely.

Each to their own of course.

[Tarrel]

I've only seen clips online, maybe enough to get the gist. I did like the guy growing tilapia fish in an old swimming pool. He seemed to have the right idea.

Interestingly enough, one of the old boys at our amateur radio club was talking about the series last week. There are a lot of folk worried about 'collapse' of one form or another.

What's your callsign CLV? I'll listen out for you. Any particular HF bands you frequent?

Tarrel (2M0BBS)

[Kentucky Fried Panda]

Does anyone know if this series is available online yet? We don't have Nat Geo on our TV.

they're all here.
If you have a fast enough connection to watch them. Install adblocker plus to stop all the pesky advertising pop ups. It will even stop youtube, 4oD and itvplayer adverts.

[Tarrel]

Does anyone know if this series is available online yet? We don't have Nat Geo on our TV.

they're all here.
If you have a fast enough connection to watch them. Install adblocker plus to stop all the pesky advertising pop ups. It will even stop youtube, 4oD and itvplayer adverts.

Cheers!

[clv101]

What's your callsign CLV? I'll listen out for you. Any particular HF bands you frequent?

M6VER We're doing our intermediate licence next month and the advanced in May. Haven't got an HF antenna up yet... it'll be a few weeks 'til we're on air.

[Kentucky Fried Panda]

I'm just leaving this here.




Also this is required reading, prepper backlash

[Tarrel]

What's your callsign CLV? I'll listen out for you. Any particular HF bands you frequent?

M6VER We're doing our intermediate licence next month and the advanced in May. Haven't got an HF antenna up yet... it'll be a few weeks 'til we're on air.

Congratulations on the M6. The 857 is a nice piece of kit. Amazing that something that size can pump out 100 Watts. I went for the 817, as we already have a 100W HF base station. The 817 is only 10W, but it is very versatile on power supply. It even comes with a holder for some AA's. Have managed to talk to Sweden on it though.

Have you got an antenna-tuner? If so, you could get yourself up and running on HF with a simple long-wire antenna. Get a ball of string or some paracord, tie a golf ball to one end. Chuck it over as high a branch on a tree as possible (say at the end of your garden). Tie a length of single core wire to the string and haul it up to the branch. You can run the other end of the wire through an upstairs window and straight into the antenna tuner. Run an earth lead from the tuner down to earth, and hook the tuner up to the radio with a bit of coax. Adjust the controls on the tuner to minimise your SWR and you're away! Can of course do variations on this with two trees, a mast, etc., so long as the wire is insulated from what you're suspending it from by a length of rope. You MUST have a tuner though, otherwise you'll need a proper tuned antenna. Don't be tempted to connect the long wire straight into the back of the radio and start banging out 100Watts, otherwise bye-bye FT857!

Failing that, you could create a home made tuned dipole that will go sta.right into the radio, but this will be band-specific. The long wire will work on any band - just need to adjust for it on the tuner.

(Sorry to hijack the thread folks - got a bit carried away! )