> also sometimes sounds innawoods are strange, squirrels at night sound like you'd expect a bear to sound, and bears are normally very stealthy, white tail deer sound almost hesitant moving through the woods, almost like they're nervous and taking one step at a time. Try to gain experience hunting, you won't regret it, and if you are skittish about killing a living animal, you need to work past it now, if it helps, I was skittish(although a child), but so long as you don't waste the life you take, it's not so bad.
> don't over-pack, you will regret it. Learn to live more from the land; trapping hunting fishing and other forage and wild edibles(at least in your area)
> try to give up any addictions, or you'll be a very pissed strelok when shtf
> good items to stick up on to sell in shtf are canned food, bic lighters, matches and medicine(common sense and an article from /k/ will tell you the same.
> as previously stated you can cover your scent with mud, and also with smoke from some bunched dry grasses(sage works well)
> you don't have to stop completely, but distancing yourself from technology will reduce the shock of being possibly alone in a completely different situation than you're used to, it also strengthens your self reliance, since answers will no longer be at your fingertips.
> never trust water. Always boil our otherwise purify your water, life straws and other filters remove nay shit from your water, but not parasites and microbes. You can weave a dish from birch bark to boil water, but keep the flames below the water line.
> pack your bag and assorted items in a way to keep them quiet when moving(for example put cotton in pill bottles and your rag in your cup), avoid wearing shiny things that could reflect sunlight
> when stalking a whitetail deer while it's feeding, slowly and quietly walk towards it, seconds before it lifts its head, it will twitch its tail, when it does this, stand completely still, take smooth shallow baths and blink slowly while not t looking directly at it, and it won't run, when it starts to eat again, resume your approach. Also make sure you're downwind of the deer.
> when traveling, always stop early in the day, eat your food, then move on a reasonable distance and make camp for the night, get used to getting up in the gray before dawn to break camp and move out. If you're on the run, follow the same steps, but make it a well hidden cold camp(no fire faggot)
> never drain your canteen until you have purified the new water, you never know when you'll have to move unexpectedly.
> learn how to drive a manual transmission vehicle, and imo more importantly, learn to ride a horse, then learn to ride bareback(hur dur he said bareback) learn to make a makeshift saddle also.
> get several maps of your area and surrounding areas, road maps, topographical maps, and maps that show railroad lines(often the straightest route from city to city, if you'd like to go to cities)
> be versatile and always prepared for change, you may need to get up in the middle of the night, pack up and gtfo. That being said, don't ever get too comfortable in camp, and more importantly, never make your camps too extravagant.
> have a plan, and plan for different situations, then backups for your backups for those plans.
> learn some skills, cooking(learn old school recipes, preferably 1800's and back), canning, forging metal, making iron, casting things with scrap aluminium, trapping, fishing, hunting, tactics for firefights, hand to hand combat, it will take years to master even a couple of these, but become proficient.(I'm nowhere near a matter of any of these), also learn to tan hides, your tacticool clothes will not stand up to punishment nearly as well as buckskin, also, moccasins moccasins moccasins, they are amazingly tough and make stealth much easier, you can feel twigs with your foot before you put weight down and change your footing.
> I would recommend researching American Indians, such as plains tribes and eastern tribes, believe it, they had shit figured out, this was their daily lives.