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If you want my opinion(no one has said so, so I presume you don't, therefore I will give it to you anyway), SHTF has nothing to do with prepping or training or anything else - and it can be either minor or major. It is, essentially, any situation you find yourself in where you are are not expecting something to happen and are not prepared to react. Now of course all the preps and training help mitigate the situation, but ultimately it is out of your control. If you get a bad cut that is bleeding heavily and you don't have a first aid kit, that counts as SHTF. It will show up when you least expect it, where you have little or no availability to equipment or communication or help from others...
The whole idea of prepping and getting training is to put yourself in a state of mind where you do not succumb to the shock of the situation and can do something meaningful to lessen the impact of whatever has happened. There will be times where there is nothing you can do except wait or run. Life is a cruel thing, but your chances are a lot better if you use your brain, and have some basic tools available. No one is expecting you to disarm a bomb or stop a nuclear reactor from going into a meltdown, but it sure helps to know something about them so you can make informed decisions instead of joining the stamped of mindlessly panicking sheep.
What is all this shtf talk? Am I missing something? I didn't hear of anything about zombies and shtf up until I got into firearms. Kinda makes me wonder now???
You know I am not really prepared, I keep a few guns around. One by the front door, a couple in the bedroom, the bathroom, the hall closet. I don't consider myself over armed and I don't have a cache of weapons. I am a collector, license and everything (and a safe to prove it). I keep enough food around so I won't go hungry, so I use the extra bedroom as a pantry, so what?(Really got to look into reinforcing the floor). Rice and beans, a few canned goods, a couple of cases of water. Glad I put in that shelving. I reload ammo to save a few bucks, so I have a few pounds of powder and a few thousand bullets, so what?
SHTF preparedness, bah, I shop at costco. Gotta buy large to save money.
If that's all you got, I guess that's a nice start
really though isn't prepping all about being prepared for whatever, so shtf can have a different meaning to many different people. But one thin I have learned when HR calls you in says your job just went away and it sure is nice to have bills paid up or off, and plenty household and food items around, so that concentrate on getting a new job and not worry about feeding your family for the next six months and paying the bills