Sunday, 4 November 2012

Is Doug Huffman on Doomsday Preppers Right?

By Terrance Franklin


Doug Huffman realizes a great deal regarding security from economic perspective. As stated by him, he's a raider's biggest threat and right after viewing his compound on the program, I am willing to agree. His plan is the most thorough seen on doomsday preppers.

1. Root cellar

The concept of a root cellar should be crucial to any prepper looking to keep food with no electrical energy. Keeping the stores in the basement won't have a similar outcome as a true root cellar, that has the benefits of keeping a lower temperature and constant amount of moisture. For the bug out place or homestead, the maximum level of temperature and humidity stability could be achieved at a depth of around 10 feet. It may be hard to do this by hand so consider building while the infrastructure is still around.

2. Sustaining food production

Apart from keeping food long term, Doug has sensibly considered renewable food resources. Doug is planning on garrisoning his homestead with a few younger recruits. Having stored foodstuff would put him in the dilemma of deciding on how much time he planned to eat vs . just how safe he wanted to be. Renewable food resources enables him to feed his team and accept newbies if he has to.

The idea of rabbits being a food source is quite amazing. On the list of facts outlined on the program is that a single breeding female can develop 320 pounds of meat a year through offspring! Looking into this a little more deeply I discovered that rabbits will produce six pounds of meat on exactly the same amount of feed and water required for a cow to produce one pound of meat. Hence rabbit meat is a very ecologically sound source of protein and definitely one to consider for the aspiring homesteader.

One more significant use of rabbits is as generators of warmth

3. Protection strategy

Doug has got an extremely comprehensive safety program that makes lots of sense when it comes to his particular combination of food supplies. Instead of simply taking on all comers, he is aiming to let any trespassers on to his region, while using his army forces training to pick them off one by one. Doug outlined that he is an invader's most awful nightmare, and by choosing intruders one by one anyone on his terrain might feel as if they were in a horror movie.

With many recruits by his side, Doug is well equipped against the less savory human factor that might arise right after the collapse of the food system. With the amount of teaching he is taking them through there's no doubt each of them will be able to assume an identical strategy, hiding in plain sight or maybe in a spider hole and returning at nighttime to pick off the burglars. While the show criticized the potential lack of resources on hand, this is neglecting the fact that much of the food available is indeed renewable.




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