Hi all you good people who are preparing for the worst to come. I have a question that is a blanket question and am hopeful that you can help a newbie out here. As my profile shows I am 52 and have accumulated what one would think a person of my age would acquire over the course of 5 decades of living in the country. My two oldest Children are out of the house or soon will be and I and wife have two small children at home at this time. Their ages are 10 and 6 and both boys.
We were given 450 #10 cans of various food stores two years ago now and sadly we have lost about 5% of it due to rusting of the cans. The food storage had been submersed for a few hours during a flood but they were all in cardboard boxes. Some are rusting and the others are still fine.
So my question is, where would any of you recommend that I start in getting prepared to meet the challenging times that are surely coming? I have a few firearms with the bulk of what I have being Shotguns of .410, 20ga. and 12ga. I have 1 Ruger 10/22 in excellent condition, 1 SKS in excellent/pristine condition and 1 .40 Sigma, 1 .25 Baby Browning and two .50 Cal. Smoke Poles of the original design. One of those is a Pistol and the other is a Rifle. I have ammunition for the shotgun in the number of 250 rounds and 200 for for the Sigma, 1 canister of powder and 100 round balls for the .50s. I have a Shotshell reloader that is still in the box new but NO components to reload.
That is about the base of my defensive weaponry and food stores. I live on 3.5 acres of good Georgia land but instead of the infamous Red Clay, I have rich dark earth with which to work with. So that in a nutshell is what I have with which to work with. So I am open and most grateful for all your thoughts and ideas.
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