{"id":3818,"date":"2010-08-18T16:20:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T21:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=3818"},"modified":"2010-08-18T16:20:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T21:20:44","slug":"bugging-out-and-the-zombiepocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=3818","title":{"rendered":"Bugging out, and the Zombiepocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tam is talking about bugging out<\/a>, partly in response to this most excellent Frank James<\/a> piece about mag bags and being an ‘Armed refugee”<\/p>\n

First: I don’t have an AR type rifle- yet. I will someday but it’s not in the cards at present. I DO have an M1 carbine, and I have it because
\na: It is fun to shoot.
\nb: I saw, and love, the Jimmy Stewart movie ‘Carbine Williams”.
\nc: The M1 carbine is, imho, the most lovely implement of war ever devised. it is light, pretty, balanced, and did I mention it is fun to shoot?<\/p>\n

I would not be afraid to carry this rifle around for a lot of reasons; it’s small, it’s light, it has a decent range and decent power, and with hollowpoints would be good on deer or, really, most north American game. I wouldn’t want to go up against a bear thus armed.<\/p>\n

So yeah, f I had to leave the house in a hurry, I might well take the Carbine, but not out of any mall-ninja motivations, it’s a practical rifle. If I had an M4gery I would probably feel the same about it, though I would most likely be less inclined to worry about nicking up the finish on an M4. <\/p>\n

I have given a lot of thought to “bugging out<\/a>“, and, at least where I live, I doubt it will be because I have to get clear of rioters or whatever. The predominant reasons I might have to bug out are:<\/p>\n

Fire
\nSevere storms (severe enough to damage my home so I can no longer live there)
\nSnow or extreme cold combined with lack of a method to heat the house<\/p>\n

These reasons will not require that I leave the house armed. I will anyway, just because, but it will not be because I feel I need to<\/p>\n

In other circumstances, LIKE the zombieapocalypse, I would much rather stay at home. THAT will be safer ANYWAY. And that’s where my firearms and ammo and long term supplies are. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tam is talking about bugging out, partly in response to this most excellent Frank James piece about mag bags and being an ‘Armed refugee” First: I don’t have an AR type rifle- yet. I will someday but it’s not in the cards at present. I DO have an M1 carbine, and I have it because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}