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sesi329 |
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Duton1 |
1. RE: Food & water
Aug 27 2010, 11:08 AM EDT
Welcome to the site sesi! PLease take a minute to read this guide made by Maricely, before making any new posts,http://www.zombiesurvivalwiki.com/page/The+Ultimate+Newbie+Guide Please also take the time to make detailed posts, as small ones like the ons you have posted are usually skipped over. Do you find this valuable? |
HeadShotsOnly |
2. RE: Food & water
Oct 7 2010, 6:14 PM EDT
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Chances are, if you are thinking about it, many other people are. Expect many other people to try and go out and kill as much deer as possible. Are you totally sure you will make it there first? If so, can you make it back? If the other people are desperate, they may just decide to use their firearms on you just to get at your food. Have you taken into consideration all the things that can go wrong and prepared for them? What about the unexpected things? Is the creek water pure? And will the doctor decide to stick around? Is there a chance he could be looted, killed, could he decide to pack everything and bug out? Make sure.I'm not flaming you or your plan. Just make sure you have all the variables considered and planned for. Do you find this valuable? |
Rocketman52 |
3. RE: Food & water
Nov 8 2010, 11:23 AM EST
The only problem with hunting for sustenance is that the wildlife population with eventually be effected, even without other people hunting for foor, without the undead scaring off or killing all the deer, without the damaged and unbalanced ecosystem, etc, etc. As HSO said very well, there are too many variables.Something I feel should deffinitely be included in this page is a stockpile of seeds, with a link to some of the pages on growing. If you are in control of your food source, and it is not running around through the woods, you remove most of those variables. The main threat then is the threat of other humans finding out and wanting your food, in which case its time to defend and fight back. But that is for another page. Do you find this valuable? |
White76Knight |
4. RE: Food & water
Nov 20 2010, 1:13 AM EST
"Chances are, if you are thinking about it, many other people are. Expect many other people to try and go out and kill as much deer as possible. Are you totally sure you will make it there first? If so, can you make it back? If the other people are desperate, they may just decide to use their firearms on you just to get at your food."To be truthful, this shouldn't be as much of an issue as you might think. If you live in, or are planning on bugging out to, any area that is rural enough that you are considering hunting as a viable means of gathering food, then it should be just as viable after the SHTF as before. Why? Because in a rural-ish area there are less people, ergo, less demand on wildlife. Places that support a large hunting population now have likely done so for generations, there will probably be lots to go around. This will be compounded by the fact that after the Fall many of these other hunters may well be dead or Zed, reducing competition still further. Do you find this valuable? |
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White76Knight |
5. RE: Food & water
Nov 20 2010, 1:21 AM EST
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"The only problem with hunting for sustenance is that the wildlife population with eventually be effected, even without other people hunting for foor, without the undead scaring off or killing all the deer, without the damaged and unbalanced ecosystem, etc, etc. As HSO said very well, there are too many variables."Call me crazy, but I don't actually think the undead will have much effect on local wildlife populations. Sure a Zed might chase a deer just as readily as he might chase you or me, but he isn't likely to catch it. Even a rager would be able to run no faster than the human he once was, and humans simply don't have enough raw speed to chase down a deer on foot, or most any other animal for that matter. Shamblers, at least as far as wildlife are concerned, would be sh!t out of luck altogether. Once the animals realized that the Zeds couldn't catch them on their best day, they'd stop being afraid of them. Wildlife isn't going to be driven off or scared away by something that really isn't a threat. For example, hunters with firearms kill hundreds, if not thousands, of deer annually in any given state, and yet there is no panicked exodus of deer fleeing these places. So if they don't evacuate an area on account of something that CAN kill them, why would they do so on account of something that can't? Do you find this valuable? |
