For a short term event, I plan to hunker down at home. If a long term event is happening, I'll bug out. I have a place, miles off the main highway plenty of water resources, lots of hidey holes and as I learned last year, quick sand pits in the woods around my place.
We have a few friends and family who are like minded, who are invited to join us. Of those, only one family has pre-teen children and all of the adults have useful skills.
Those who are unwilling to defend freedom, will become unfree.
To me it's as many like minded prepared folk with their families and recruits with special skills. It's wishful thinking but if everyone does their part a larger group will survive longer.
We need at least 7 months of food to survive winter. During that time Ppl will trap and hunt, growing plants for planting. Scavenging is not possible unless it gets really bad in my area.
What is the Optimal Number of People in a Survival Group?
The effective number of people that will maximize your chances of survival and which you are satisfied to share your resources. Not necessarily does each person in a group of 10 satisfy every individual in that group, that they deserve their fair share.
Sometimes an individual will require more/less. That individual may/may not contribute (little or anything). They should be included in the number if everyone can accept that unto death. Otherwise they should leave. That's what's required in a group survival scenario imo.
None you improvise, one (or more) is luxury.
Oh my favorite topic... bugging out : AKA becoming a refugee!
Unless you have a place already pre-arranged and well stocked (ideally, more than one place), leaving your house with just your family in tow, especially a young child, is hardly survival, it would be more like drawn out suicide.
Sorry for my negative-sounding, yet honest and likely very realistic comment.
Yep tend to agree with your approach. I know what cutting wood to heat a house means, know cold, wet days and weeks. Diareaha, flu etc etc. Bugging out is not my plan. I plan on remaining where I am. I live in a pretty good spot for growing, hunting, fishing, wood,water and decent network of friends. Have access to my career security network and immediate family. If I have to leave, I will do so pretty well equipped and I know the horror that will await me. it won’t be a picnic or western type adventure as some believe. Cold snowy winters and soggy springs and summers with bugs and being sick is as you say, in. Most cases, a slow suicide
To me it's as many like minded prepared folk with their families and recruits with special skills. It's wishful thinking but if everyone does their part a larger group will survive longer.
We need at least 7 months of food to survive winter. During that time Ppl will trap and hunt, growing plants for planting. Scavenging is not possible unless it gets really bad in my area.
I certainly agree with your seven month requirement. Pretty minimum requirement. Numbers are subjective because it boils down to who the people are and threats around you or resources avaible to you. Everyone believes hunting will fill the larder but there are only so many deer, moose, squirrels in any given area. Access to fishing is something I would deem as a real nice to have! I have a few rivers not far from my place so would tap them from the shore at night. Frogs, ground hogs, martins, clams are all nice spinoffs as well.