Reddit reviews Improvised Munitions Black Book Vol. 1

The best thing you can be is self-sufficient and self-contained, regardless of the event.


Get these or similar, and something along these lines.


Read them, practice with them, memorize them, get the minimum equipment recommended but focus on learning to improvise, since there may never be replacement parts. If you have the time and money, become very good at a defensive martial arts style, such as Aikido. This will also help you get into fairly good shape along with minimizing the risk of injury.


Identify and/or own a place you can readily get to in an emergency that no one else is aware of and stash things like food and water and/or have preserved water stashed in durable containers, but remember water is very heavy, so you only want enough to last until you get to or 1/2 way to your final location, similarly with book, bring only those that you are certain will be useful to your survival.. Seeds are optional but may not be useful depending on the event, since the climate may shift significantly. Become very well practiced with various simple tools/weapons, preferably non-mechanical, and basic field-medicine.


Have a plan for traveling from your initial safe-area to an isolated place, plan your movement in small hops and have a reliable plan/method for moving your cache of food/equipment. Practice doing it, very discretely a few times a year, so that it's rote and you don't forget anything. You need to be in an isolated area for the the first few years, with only a few others, to ensure you don't get overrun by the animals most people will turn in to.



If you want to include others, I would advise simply having a rendezvous point for them to meet you on the way to your cache-area. Do not tell them what is there or what the plan/destination would be, simply tell them you have a plan. Then you minimize the risk of large numbers of people showing up and overwhelming you/your supplies. If too many tag along, you can act lost until you have a chance to sneak away with the select few you choose and can trust. Again, keep your numbers relatively small, about fifteen, ~2/3 female if you plan on eventually growing your population without genetic issues, should be the initial limit. You may want to encourage your companions to follow similar studying and training.


Best advise for a location would be an isolated, heavily forested area, with some hills, in a temperate or sub-tropical climate. These have the best potential for the local flora & fauna to survive climate shift, provide wood for construction, generally accessible water, and relatively soft earth to dig-into for permanent housing. Don't build above ground and build fires under overhangs so that smoke can be used to dry meats and be dispersed through leaves so as to not give away your position.
There's much more one could do or plan for, but this would be a fair start.


Good luck.

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No, they are published books that you can get in a library in the USA. For instance :https://www.amazon.com/Improvised-Munitions-Black-Book-Vol/dp/0879472049
Its a book anyone can buy, but conducting the information in it in illegal fashion will get you arrested.