Persuasive Essay On Defending The Homestead

Defending the Homestead

Many of the survival websites, blogs, and forums spend a lot of time talking about firearms. What's the best one, how many you need and types of ammunition. No one can agree, because everyone has a personal preference.

Granddad or dad handed down a rifle or shotgun or maybe even a pistol to a family member, so there is an immediate bias built in. They may not be the best firearms, but what determines the best. Is it price, name recognition, caliber, or is the best firearm the one you have with you, because that is what it boils down to. You work with what you have, and can afford to have.

You can of course, stop listening to the so-called experts on what handgun, shotgun, or rifle you need to run out and buy now before

The gun and pawn shops will be raided almost immediately, so you do have to think about long-term serviceability with any firearm.

On the homestead you will be hunting in heavily wooded areas possibly, so you would need a certain firearm for hunting. If you have clear cut the area around your home for clear fields of fire then yes a semi-automatic longer range firearm will be the better choice.

Most when they homestead do not level the woods 100 yards in every direction and establish fields of fire, because if you have, you do not have a homestead you have a castle. You will spend your days on the parapet looking for marauders instead of getting the vegetables in the ground or working the compost heap and making clothing. A bigger threat for those on a homestead would be drought, floods, pests such as locust and lack of drinkable water, so choose your weapons accordingly.

Of course the augments have already started about what ifs. The Golden Hoards, the refugees from the cities will overtake your property. The rogue Prepper groups, the Jade Helm troops are waiting in the shadows, and the list of possible threats is