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Seven Key Elements Your Home Defense Plan Needs

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by David Andrew Brown

Home defense should not be taken lightly in these uncertain times. To be adequately prepared, you must have a comprehensive home defense plan that includes training, planning, and gear.

In today’s article, we will provide you with the information you need to improve your home and be certain your home defense plan is not faulty.

Recommendations to improve your home defense plan

Turning Your On-the-grid Home Into a Fortress

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By Miles Oliver

Not everyone interested in survivor prepping can live off the grid. Plenty of people want to protect themselves and their families but they still need to live near work, close to schools for their kids, and in proximity to everyday shopping for necessities, such as a grocery store. Needing a home in the city or suburbs doesn’t mean you can’t still protect yourself and prepare for the unexpected.

Even a suburban home in the middle of a populated neighborhood can be turned into a fortress with the right mindset and effort. There are many ways to secure and defend your property, preparing adequately for emergencies all without making your home look like a prison. 

How to survive after SHTF in an urban or suburban environment

You Need to Prepare for This: Home Invasion and Burglary Prevention

Strategies for Your Home Defense

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By Bill White

One of the risks we all know we face in the event of a major disaster is that of our homes being attacked by hungry people trying to steal our food and other supplies. While none of us truly know what might come, that risk is quite real and will probably become more real the more desperate people become. With that in mind, we all need a defensive plan in place so that we will be prepared to defend our homes and families from such attacks. 

The idea of being a lone gunman, holding off the approaching hoards, might look great in the movies, but it doesn’t work in reality. None of us are Rambo, and we don’t have a special effects department to help blow up those vehicles and make it look like our shots are flying true every time. Real-world combat is a whole lot different than what happens in the movies. 

That means you need to work as a team to defend your home. I realize that most men will balk at this idea, wanting to keep their family safe while they do the defending. But such action turns into making you a bullet magnet for every bullet out there, increasing the chances of you getting killed. Who will then defend your family after you’ve been shot? 

Perimeter security before the collapse and riots.

16 Ways To Protect Your Homestead From The Bad Guys

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By Greg Seebregts

Life is full of surprises and not all those surprises are of the pleasant sort. Some of those surprises can lead to some rather nasty situations, and when you’re living on a homestead off the grid those situations can escalate quickly.

This makes protecting your homestead from intruders crucial.

So, how do you protect your homestead from those intruders who may try their luck? Well, that’s what we’re going to look at now.

How to Keep The Government from Tracking Your Every Move

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By Rich Murphy

Back when George Orwell wrote his famous novel, 1984, little did anyone realize just how true it might become. Maybe it didn’t happen in 1984, as the book predicted; but we can forgive Orwell for that, considering that he wrote the book all the way back in 1948. 

The one thing that Orwell didn’t predict was people inviting the government to spy on them. For that matter, he didn’t say anything about all the corporations we invited to spy on us in one way or another.

Yet as it stands right now, if you fire up your computer, there are likely hundreds of companies following your every move, looking for opportunities to advertise their products to you; and that’s without considering what Facebook, Google, and the other tech giants are doing. 

We have to accept the fact that those tech giants are all in bed with the government, in one way or another. I’m not talking about them working with any political party to influence elections; I’m talking about the connections that exist to help law-enforcement agencies track and capture criminals, including terrorists. In doing that, they spy on our every move. 

For that matter, who can forget the revelations that Edward Snowden made about the government spying on us, after he left the employ of the NSA and became a whistle-blower. Every bit of electronic communications on the face of the Earth is captured, recorded, and analyzed for potential risks. Even seemingly innocent words can trigger an investigation, when combined together with other seemingly innocent words.

So, how do we fight back? How do we keep the government from tracking everything we say and everything we do?

10 Surefire Ways to Protect Your Home and Homestead from Intruders

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by Tom Marlowe

You work hard to make your home and homestead into a place of refuge, peace, and security. But what happens when a trespasser enters your land, or worse, an intruder breaks into your home?

Naturally, that sense of safety you’ve built up over time is going to be shattered.

It can be a frightening and traumatic experience, that’s for sure, and expensive too. Thankfully, there are steps you can take to protect yourself and your homestead from unwanted visitors.

By being proactive you can make intruders feel less sure when assessing your property, and increase the chances that you’ll catch them early if they do try to trespass or break-in.

With a little luck, they will skip your fortified property entirely for one a little less difficult to crack!

But no one ever said that protecting your home and property from intruders was going to be easy. In fact, it can be confusing and downright difficult at times.

But with the right methods and a little expert insight you can make it a lot less likely that someone will successfully trespass onto your property or break into your home for any reason.

This article will share ten ways to help keep your property safe from intruders.

Some Pointers and Picks for Home Defense

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By Jeremiah Johnson

Good Day, Readers! In this piece, we’re going to cover some recommendations on firearms for your home-defense needs. Needless to say, we’re facing some difficult current events, with the killings that occurred in Texas and New York. These senseless, wanton, reprehensible murders place an unwarranted stigma on gun owners. Aided by armies of leftists and their endlessly-fawning media machinery, Democratic and RINO politicians are calling for more gun control measures.

Yes, they want gun control over the citizen-serfs while handing out billions of dollars worth of weaponry to Ukraine to aid in a proxy war against Russia.

They want gun control while they strike down laws denying entry to the illegal aliens crossing our southern borders, undoubtedly with terrorists hiding in their midst.

They want gun control because they understand that the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States was designed to enable the citizenry to resist any tyrannical rulers oppressing the people illegally, in opposition to our Constitution.

In the midst of that “zoo” and its “zookeepers,” let’s take in a breath and cover a selection of firearms to help protect your home and family. To deal with the “wolves at the door,” you need neither the quackery of politics nor the quagmire of issues emanating from our reverse-role, upside-down “society.” Let’s get into it.

What are the basics?

The 5 Principles of Patrolling Applied to Prepping

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by Tim Makay

When it comes to adapting military procedure, equipment, and terminology to prepping it turns out that some folks usually get riled up.

Those who aren’t preppers in their daily lives usually accuse preppers of being posers, wannabes, and other derogatory terms.

Many of those preppers feel the need to intricately explain themselves and these choices to anyone who might raise an eyebrow at them.

And then you have people in the military who roll their eyes at the whole affair because they have lived that life and know how gravely inefficient and stupid much of military procedure really is.

The point is that there is a right and a wrong way to do everything and though there might be multiple right ways you can rest assured that there are plenty of wrong ways in accord.

This is one area in particular where we can sort of crib notes from the military. If there is one thing the military has pretty much mastered it is the minimization of risk through adherence to proper planning and other procedures.

Happily, the role and responsibilities of the basic infantryman are built on a foundation of five principles, known as the principles of patrolling.

The Five Principles of Patrolling

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DIY Perimeter Defense - Area Denial Devices

Home defense and perimeter protection

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By Bob Rodgers

There are real dangers all around us, and that’s why we buy deadbolt locks, state-of-the-art security systems, and instrument neighborhood watches. Some of us practice self-defense, and we teach our kids to stay safe and build all sorts of plans for “stranger danger” scenarios.

Some folks may say that it is easy to secure our homes in these modern times when we have all sorts of home defense technology marvels. And that may be true if the tools mentioned above and methods are available and work as they should. However, if things don’t go as planned, we must always make sure we have the time to react to a treat and respond to it accordingly.

Not to mention that if we travel, may it be for recreation or survival purposes (bugging out), we must apply the same emphasis on self-defense and precaution. We must do so even if we’re in an unfamiliar environment, and it’s important we learn a thing or two about perimeter protection.

Perimeter protection is all about understanding and applying some basic principles to alert us of potential threats. Topple this with your ability to create or improvise alarm systems, and you will have provided yourself with a more effective threat response, regardless of your environment or where you find yourself when disaster strikes.

It’s all about reaction and response time

The response time is calculated by your reaction time plus the movement time. In simple words, your response time is determined by the amount of time it takes you to notice the alarm being triggered and the amount of time it takes you to take action and deal with the element that triggered said alarm.

You want to be aware of a threat as quickly as possible and always be ready to act when an alarm is triggered. Here comes into play the reactionary gap, meaning the distance between you and the danger, when the threat has the potential to cause harm before you can deal with it properly.

To understand better the reactionary gap, imagine a rabid dog is chasing you, and you need to run 50 feet to reach a building and escape with your life. Even with a 10-feet head start, chances are you are going to lose the race. However, if you have a 40-feet head start, the situation and your chances of survival will improve considerably.

If you can create a perimeter alarm, you will earn time, and the distance between you and the danger will be used to your advantage, thus creating (or increasing) a better reactionary gap. The key to your survival is a sufficient reactionary gap and a fast response time. These become mandatory because they will provide you a significant advantage against any possible threat regardless of your environment and surroundings.

When planning for perimeter protection and setting up alarms, you have to consider who will be alerted by the alarm. Will the alarm be noticed only by the person who set it? Or will it be both the owner and the element that triggered it alerted?

For noise-creating alarms, both parties will hear it. This can be both a good and a bad thing. If you want to make your presence noticed and let the intruder know you’re not an easy target, a noisy alarm will do the trick. However, if you want to keep a low profile (for example, when bugging out), you might not want to let the person who triggered the alarm know that they are in the vicinity of your camp, especially if they intend to harm. If it’s an animal, the situation changes, and the triggered alarm can send the animal fleeing and so on. As you can see, the type of alarm you install depends mainly on the defense plan you put in place, the location of your camp, and the nature of the threat you expect to encounter.

Natural barriers

For perimeter protection, you can always use natural defenses to your advantage if you understand the reactionary gap and the response time of previous work. For example, if you set up camp in a place surrounded by thorny flora, you will deter any would-be intruder from entering your campsite or at least slow them down considerably. It would help if you took advantage of your surroundings to protect your camp or home.

If you plant thorny vegetation around your home, you will create a natural barrier that will improve your overall home defense system. Topple it with some motion sensor alarms or cameras, and you will have an excellent reactionary gap. If you are camping and decide to use running water as a barrier between you and the outside world, it may help you sleep better at night, knowing that someone with malicious intentions will have to cross the river to reach you.

However, you always have to take into account the downsides of using various methods for perimeter defense. For example, the thorny vegetation will protect your home and provide a good response time, but if anything happens and you are forced to evacuate, you will have to face the same sharp thorns, just like any intruder would.

The same goes for the river barrier example, the water may protect your camp or provide a soothing sound to help you sleep better, but it will also hinder your ability to hear a threat coming.

There is always room for improvisation when using natural barriers for perimeter defense, and you can combine natural obstructions with manufactured perimeter obstacles. A metal fence topped with barbwire is a good obstruction, but if a thorny vine grows and spreads on that fence, it’s even better.

Modern solutions and alternatives

Nowadays, all sorts of perimeter defense systems can be used in both your neighborhood and the backcountry. You can pick electrified wire systems, alarms with incorporated solar panels for off-grid use, and simple tripwire alarms that put out enough decibels to raise the dead. They are all very effective, and it’s all a matter of covering your defense needs and the budget you have allocated for perimeter protection.

The alternative would be to improvise inexpensive alarms to alert you about any impending threats for the penny-pinching preppers out there. Some may improvise an alarm using a firearm, securely tied with the muzzle higher than head high and loaded with a cartridge without the projectile. They wire the trigger, and once someone or something trips the wire, boom! Now, everyone is alerted.

If you don’t want to use a firearm to improvise an alarm, you can use kids pulling fireworks. These are easy to use, and if you wire them correctly, they can be great noise-making devices to signal the presence of an intruder.

If you want to create a visual alarm, you can use glow sticks and rat traps. Tie the glow stick with zip-ties to the rat trap, use wire, fishing line, dental floss, or whatever you have available to string the trigger and run it across a point of interest (trail, entrance, etc.). When someone triggers the alarm, the rat trap will snap and hit the glow stick, making sure the chemicals inside mix faster.

For a more impactful alarm with both visual and acoustic effects, you can use a 12-gauge flare gun and set it up like the firearm alarm previously described. Triggering this alarm will cause a bright light, but it will also produce a sound equivalent to a low-powered round.

However, if you decide to improvise an alarm using a flare gun, ensure there is a clear fire line; otherwise, the flare might be trapped by a canopy or other inflammable obstacle. The last thing you want is to cause an accidental bush or house fire besides dealing with an intruder.

There are, of course, other, less dangerous alternatives besides the one mentioned here. You should not attempt making any of the alarm systems discussed above if you’re not trained to handle a firearm or are unaware of the dangers of handling flammable materials.

You can use cans with pebbles aligned on a wire or a bunch of soda cans bundled together, hollow tubes, and pretty much any container and suspend these between two supports. Now improvise any trigger you can think of that will move the line with containers to make noise, and that’s pretty much it.

Animals for perimeter defense

Another alternative would be to use animals for perimeter protection, but make sure your defense plan is layered when doing so. For example, many people use dogs for home defense, but if you want to use other alarm systems besides your dogs, you must make sure your dogs won’t interact with those systems.

You don’t want your dogs to trigger the alarms, and it would be wise for the first perimeter defense layer to be triggered by the intruder. In this case, the alarm will alert the dogs, and the dogs will provide you with an excellent reactionary gap.

And dogs are not the only trustworthy companions that can signal the presence of an intruder. For example, I know a few preppers that raise Guinea fowl, and they swear these birds are just as good as any dog out there at protecting their backyard, or at least, at letting their owner know that an intruder is in their vicinity.

They say these birds make a lot of noise when someone comes too close for comfort, and they provide another advantage when SHTF. They lay eggs nearly as tasty as chickens, and their meat is also delicious, similar to pheasant without the gamey flavor.

Summarizing

When building a perimeter protection plan, there are a few things you need to keep in mind. Consider the following when planning your home or camp defense:

1. The perimeter protection system you set up should provide a good response time, and your reactionary gap should provide you with enough time and distance to handle the threat appropriately.
2. Implementing natural barrier defenses is recommended since these natural deterrents can discourage even the most determined intruder, regardless if it’s a human or an animal. Figure out ways to combine these natural barriers with your manufactured obstructions.
3. Use modern or improvised alarms to signal the presence of an intruder through visual or acoustic means.
4. Layer your perimeter protection systems to have a better response and reactionary gap. This is also mandatory if there are elements (domestic animals, guard dogs, kids, etc.) that could trigger or interact with the various defense layers.
5. Understand that all the defense measures you set up for perimeter protection could also work against you. If you are being forced to evacuate your home or camp, make sure you know how to handle and bypass your layered defense system without putting yourself at risk.

These tips are considered some of the simplest ways of handling perimeter protection. Still, there may be more to it depending on your location, prepping plan (threat analysis), the number of family members and their weaknesses, training, available budget, and so on.

You can imagine that in some scenarios, high-tech gear will keep you safe, and you won’t have to worry about taking additional protection measures. On the other hand, if that tech won’t work anymore, you will have to improvise and find alternatives.

Good luck out there, and remember that there’s never too much of anything when the safety of your family is at stake.

The 10 Layers of Home Defense

Home Fortifications for SHTF, Home Invasion and Burglary prevention