Why Some Won’t Make It

[@mstowcoping9245]

How about this Ambush option: Stop wasting time, money, and energy on SHTF fantasies that will never happen. Stop watching Hollywood movies and shows and thinking this is real life. You and @GruntPtoof are just tactical range “Queens”.

[@92bm80em]

This sounds like a good reason for you to not watch the video or leave entirely. Feel free to leave, just make sure you announce to everyone that you are leaving.

[@cagneybillingsley2165]

you're projecting your shortcomings again, mstow. you know you can't even make it out of your mother's basement, so you resent people who have a plan to keep their entire family alive. the belief that shtf is a fantasy comes from ignorance of history and poor observation skills. look around and pay attention, it's inevitable at this point.

[@jhosk]

Fed?

[@owensc1982]

​@@jhoskNah. Probably just someone with normalcy bias.

[@GaryShaimas]

Personally your dead wrong it’s coming get your head out of your ass GOD Bless

[@GruntProof]

Ya don't know what ya don't know, until you go out and learn what ya don't know.

[@RosaParksWasWyt]

There’s nothing I don’t know

[@RosaParksWasWyt]

@@Bruce6001 I know what it means

[@mstowcoping9245]

At least @Stokermatic is a real man and does block accounts or delete comments , my respects to him. @GruntProof is a sensitive ❄️ and blocks accounts and removes comments.

[@cagneybillingsley2165]

@@mstowcoping9245 in case people don't know, mstow means men sent their own way. so basically mstowcoping is an inkwell who can't get wymxn. lol

[@cagneybillingsley2165]

@@mstowcoping9245 daily reminder: mstow means men sent their own way, meaning mstow is one of those people who has no wife and child and is unwanted. this should explain a lot about his behavior and why he constantly begs for attention.

[@jhosk]

It has taken me a while to understand that most other people don't think like us. For some it's hardwired in, always looking for ways to get off the X, what is plan b,c,d,e. I hope this hits home for at least one person who needs to hear it.

[@guyfreegard1157]

It has, for me. Thank you.

[@jonnycoathanger8399]

Salt lake City Utah checking in! All the Ducks and Geese at my Friends apartment complex are gone!! 🤔🤔

[@preparedcitizens]

So true. People that have no experience in this environment don’t get it. Someone can be standing 30 yards from you in bright colored clothes and it’s still difficult to spot if you’re not used to it. Good stuff brother.

[@jason_m_schmidt622]

The reality is that most wont make it and rightfully so

[@bushnut8305]

The more I think about it and try to learn the more convinced I am that I never want to be in a firefight.

[@dodsonarmsco]

A couple of thoughts. Looks like a good spot for a U-shaped ambush since you have elevation to limit hitting other elements. Could drop a tree to stop vehicles. Looks like an old photo of part of the ho chi minh trail.

[@jasonwilliams1085]

If you have a recon element, use it. Max fire power gets you out of ambush. Being smart keeps from getting ambush. Large enough element, bounding overwatch

[@Black-Heart-Actual]

I had a feeling that was North GA before you even said it Stoker. I grew and that looks like so many of the old logging roads I trained on before the Military. up in those mountains

[@markjohnis1872]

- This ambush looks bad for the recipient, and the options range from bad to more bad. - I would try to move to higher ground, and depending on the size and health of my group, determine if we were going to break contact or advance to flank the ambush team. - If our vehicle cargo is too valuable to lose, it may be an option to wait until the ambush team moves in to raid the vehicle(s), then exploit that opportunity. - If I were the ambush team, I would immediately go to higher ground and flank the vehicle team, who may also reaching for higher ground.

[@dn88s]

@@markjohnis1872 yeah especially since if you're one guy in a vehicle it doesn't even take an l shaped ambush but rather one guy with one shot to get you.

[@Old-man-of-the-forrest]

I'm a veteran of both Gulf wars, 1990 and 2004. I pay attention to that stuff all the time.

[@STOKERMATIC]

I feel ya.

[@rickysand1900]

Thank you for serving! 🇺🇸

[@thebear6751]

This is why I would bug in instead of out

[@RobertHamm-u7c]

Top, it also depends on the number of vehicles in the assault. I’d have an element at the tail end of the roadway to prevent any escape to the rear, along with the L-shaped ambush on the ridge line of the “kill zone”.

[@VictoryOrValhalla14]

Your left and right security can and should be your blocking force. Nobody gets in or out.

[@crusader.survivor]

Make a ballistic shield. Make a large bullet-proof shield, hold on one arm and gun in other, advance with shield and gun while firing accurately from the safety behind your shield. Make a small notch on the side of the shield where you fire for your gun or rifle to rest and give you more protection. I know I made a word salad, but I've thought of these scenarios many times, and I expect to fight with gun and shield.

[@DanielLaws-n5r]

Great info need to do another one like this part 2

[@guyfreegard1157]

Please.

[@pewymcpewerson1395]

Fall back behind the vehicle for cover then run about 25 meters the other way down the road before heading up to high ground and then coming around to ambush the ambushee's. In fact I wouldnt even stay on the high ground, I'd come around that hill up behind them. That high ground is still in their cone of view. Their focus is the truck, if you come up behind them you'll still have surprise to your advantage. Now not making a ton of noise sneaking up though the woods is another story. Everyone wants to think they're ricky recon but anyone can break a random stick and give away your position. It might work it might not. No guarantees in life. 🍻🇺🇲

[@helives2630]

Most people who watch are in church. I'm like, second comment? Lol, oh, everyone's in church. It's a Sunday. Great topic for discussion, btw. Now I've got another bunch of scenarios to run through my mind as I enter and exit my property. Worth thinking about for sure. One thing to remember is that unless you have an adversary who has any kind of experience, this would be a much less thought-out attack (on the part of the enemy). Probably very chaotic.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

if shtf, you can't use roads, even on foot, and you can't use 4 wheeled vehicles. If you're properly prepped you dont need to do either one. If your food and most gear is already buried at your BOL, which is in the woods near your local water source, you can just walk beside a laden mountain bicycle, towing a bike trailer and get to your BOL, at night, in 1-2 nights. with pre buried, empty 20 gallon drums in place, you can quickly protect and hide what you brought with you. with an empty hole on a hillside, with a drain/slit and a pile of brush over it, you can take apart the bike and trailer and hide them very well. You'll probably need them in a couple of years, so having cosmoline on the metal parts and plastic sheeting over them is a good idea. So is having treated log-splits buried in the area, for use as shoring. That will speed-up your tunneling and make it much less noisy. A couple of L shaped milsurp flashlights, with red lenses and an # of 1/8" wide black tape on the lense enables you to barely see where you're walking. If you keep such a light pointed at the ground, it wont be noticed at 100m in brush, or 1/4 mile in the open. You only need 1 ft of dirt over your tunnel, so it can never collapse and smother you and you can always just dig UP and out. Nobody's going to be so suicidal as to enter your tunnel, man. I"d dig the tunnel from both ends, starting in spiderholes that you already have created.. Then you can swiftly get out of sight/protected once you're at your BOL. this idea of walking around in daylight is stupid and traveling by car is even dumber. all it takes to stop cars is 1" thick wood and 3" long nails, which anyone can pull out of any wooden structure. You wont be going far or fast on 4 flat tires. So they will just follow you and dummy you, you wont have the gear or knowledge to move out or survive with just what you can carry.

[@RosaParksWasWyt]

*obama voice Uhhmmm…good luck with that

[@jakerichards2931]

Great vid!! How about some urban SHTF content? Ambushes in urban settings etc. Moving through populated areas etc.

[@NativeTongue]

Great video! That looks like a place I’ve driven and found an abandoned camp ground.

[@BoomerChimichanga]

You do good work, brother. It warms my heart to see that young fur missile out there with you too.

[@Ovokor]

Fun thought experiment, I think the first thing I would try is punching it forward trying to get out of the area because backing requires slowing and then stopping in the kill zone. If the vehicle becomes disabled then I want to run downhill because I can move faster and my goal is to break contact and I first concealment because more readily available then full blown cover. I can only see this for more of a 1% chance of things where its one large organized force is in conflict with another and I am just a citizen caught in-between. For the most part theft of resources would be like a home robbery of abandoned houses or thought to be abandoned locations.

[@DesertRat.45]

The upside of your terrain is its impossible for drones to operate in it. The down side is forest fire. You can also create road blocks that are impassa ble or only appear to be.

[@markrevels4234]

Stoke are you guys ok up there ? We’ve had a nasty weather , flooding etc in southeast states ..if you guys need help please let us all know brother ..God bless

[@ellsworthcrawford2074]

Add three options are a ss my opinion would be to and the option that I would choose would be to try to escape by jumping down in the golly in running away

[@hillbillynick2000]

Good talk Top. Agreed. As for what I'd do, I'd have scouts out. Rolling through contested areas like you're back on the block is a recipe for disaster. Can you still get caught slacking? Absolutely. But man that spot raises the hair on my neck and I would stop and evaluate at the least. Maybe because I'm an old hillbilly and perfect ambush spots abound in my area

[@allen_p]

0:35 There are only small diameter trees. No 40 year old oak or pine trees to take cover behind. I would still go up. Hopefully, there's an old stump hole or erosion to take cover.

[@dietrichvarez1720]

Hondo the dog is the coolest! 🤙 thank you Brother for important lesson.

[@Detour4it]

Its all about knowledge of your environment,... your village, town....and its surrounding area.

[@arizonawest3417]

“Cause they were free-ranging’! That’s why!”😂

[@beccafromArkansas]

Idea: maybe pre-dig and fortify areas like that, especially vital routes. It may sound like overkill, but people will have nothing to do but attempt to get you and yours. ALWAYS.. be able to pop smoke. You can disguise and overwhelm the enemy especially, if they don’t know how many are you and which way ya’ll went. God Bless. BY 2030, THIS COUNTRY WILL BE 100% DIFFERENT THAN TODAY. My names Jim. I use my wife’s phone cause I dislike phones. I sold my house in Maryland and now own a place in the middle of the Ozarks. If you ever wanted exchange ideas or anything just message back. Community also.

[@tykit9230]

Thanks, Top

[@DRAGONSLAYER1220]

Me? I'm a coward, I'm gonna run like hell, screaming like a little girl, leaving a trail of shit behind me! How's that for brutal honesty?

[@guardsmanom134]

Everyone shits themselves the first couple of times. The scary part is if you lock up. Don't lock up... keep moving. If that's in the opposite direction, that's something that you'll have to live with. If you're running away to fight smarter, that's even better. But, whatever you do, Don't Freeze.

[@Z7d3nR4]

I don't have to outrun the bear, I only have to outrun you. 😉

[@improvisedsurvival5967]

The first time yes but after living on the run for a bit you will stand your ground a little more leaving yourself an escape way out and a fall back location.

[@DayTon-h9u]

Why don't you ask your family or anyone who is counting on you?

[@DayTon-h9u]

​@@Garandmasthumb Grandma didn't teach you well....I'm sorry.

[@bhoward9378]

In this scenario, assuming I wasn't killed outright or seriously wounded (a very lucky assumption) I'd opt for "d", getting the hell out of Dodge by going up the hill and retreating.

[@davedriscoll1652]

Maybe scouts out front up in likely ambush areas with drones or on foot

[@RAYANDERS-w4t]

THANKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jackcahill2383]

Thank you

[@cajunoneforchrist]

90% of crybabies won't make it. People are salavating over football 🏈

[@DayTon-h9u]

Resentments for your fellow man?

[@mikerobinson3672]

Bread and circus

[@Southernguitar74]

If you are lone wolf’ing it, then I see your dilemma, but with a community you have options. If you have 10-20 men moving, they can always move on the high ground from the ridge tops, making sure no one is camped out for you…. I always believe in going for the high ground, so if you have multiple vehicles moving along, spaced out strategically, then everyone should focus on a 50 yard wide point at the top, around the middle of their convoy, and work inwards towards it without being obvious…Just like Napoleon. Once a piece of high ground is secured the flanks can be folded. This situation is very hypothetical, and much depends on man power, comms, etc…Definitely much to think about and consider. I, too, am in north GA. Thanks for all you do.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

if it's shtf, WHY would you take the risk of being out and about in daylight? dont make noise and dont use a normal light at night. There are ways to proceed, with the risks of being shot GREATLY reduced. If you've duc a tunnel to hide in and a year's supply of food scatter-buried at your BOL,, you only need to emerge for an hour per night, to access a food bucket and cook a meal. A year after shtf, 99+% of the population will be dead. That will make it a lot safer (at night,) to tend your crops., In another year, (at night) it will be much safer yet to go scrounge whatever you need. For the first few months of shtf, it's going to be suicidal to be up and at em in daylight.

[@STOKERMATIC]

I guess that depends on what SHTF means - but I’m sure there’s a scenario before mad max.

[@improvisedsurvival5967]

The people who are on the offensive will always find a way to prevail. Takes balls but those with em will see victory in the end

[@commonsense7787]

You won’t last a week. Living in a dug out tunnel? Lol

[@improvisedsurvival5967]

@@commonsense7787 Hamas does.

[@VictoryOrValhalla14]

@@commonsense7787I live underground now in an earthen home, it’s literally a concrete and steel bunker.

[@rdaugherty52]

Hey Stoker did you get another dog I must have missed a few videos What would I do pop some smoke drop down from the road just enough to stay out of sight don’t go to the bottom and move like hell in reverse.

[@ricksilver7398]

I would think if the SHTF, the last thing would be worrying about is ambushing someone and concentration on looking out for my family and defending the home stead in a defensive op. There are too many guns in America for a Red Dawn situation. Japan didn't invade us during WW2 for that reason.

[@18D088]

Your right but remember all these “battle hardened” hero’s in their “color coordinated matching kit” that have been listening to GT and similar bs sights will have to find out the hard way what combat looks and feels like…to me this is the unknown factor

[@andrewheynig2721]

Here is a question. Every one seams to have a get home bag, or a bug out bag. But few seam to mention a survival bag. What would you put in your bag for long term bug out/survival.

[@STOKERMATIC]

If the bag is my truck, I’m in. Otherwise “long term” living is just what you described: survival. And odds are; you’re not going to make it. But - map, fishing kit, 10-22, fire kit, shelter, sleeping bag, axe, knife, 550 cord, snares and traps. Theres a start.

[@andrewheynig2721]

@@STOKERMATIC Not to be nosey. But know one seams to mention a Bible in their list of things. Even the ones that say that they are followers of Jesus Christ. They don't seam to have read the Book of Revelation and it's reprocusion on living. They also don't seam to have read theOld or New Testament and the things that GOD can do when we find our Mustard Seeds and do what is written for us to do when we get in a bind.,🙏 Here is wishing you the best for you and your family. Won't be long before the shit wagons are rolling across this country.

[@talpollard975]

I would imagine you do all 3, in that order....

[@rexdadpapa]

Vehicle disabled by small arms fire, I have no idea how many are in the woods waiting ahead of me. If there is nothing worth defending in the vehicle I’m probably going to retreat and live to fight another day, hopefully. Some thing in the vehicle that I can’t afford to lose, I’m probably looking for higher ground if possible and try to flank. If im alone I’m probably dead. That’s a tough spot.

[@cripplers8]

Good vid Stoke!

[@markalford5406]

Makes you think, if you could go up that would be best I think, if you could make it you could flank the attack if you were lucky. SITF would be hell . Hopefully it never happens by trained individuals.

[@Mr_A_Observations]

How did you fare in the storm?

[@STOKERMATIC]

Good here. Not good 40 miles east.

[@Mr_A_Observations]

@@STOKERMATIC I’m glad you fared well sir. I hope those impacted can get what they need fast. This event has me doing some serious analysis of my plans. Godspeed in the days ahead!

[@snurb48]

That straight away is the ultimate kill zone. The more vehicles the better! Stop the first and last and it's a day at the carnival. The lower ditch gully is the only squirt out option but a large team would have a third element based to intercept any squirters. I'd hate to be on that road. As the Indian's used to say, "today is a good day to die".

[@acerrubrum5749]

Smoke device? Not just for gender reveals🎉

[@tungeitt3066]

Though using one would bring some comedy to the ambush.

[@STOKERMATIC]

😂🤣

[@PNWBackwoods]

In the end. Its all. Call it what you want. No onee knows what one will do. When this or that may or may not happen. Its all guess work. Yes training will give one an advantage but thats all it is. On a side note hows the pup coming alomg. Keep on keepen on

[@larryh3267]

Always making you think keep it up sir

[@dn88s]

Being alone in a contested environment driving in an unarmored vehicle and your story won't last long.

[@DayTon-h9u]

His story could be someone else's potential reality. If you're referring to yourself, I would encourage you to stay positive and utilize what you do have and don't give up. 👍

[@dn88s]

@@DayTon-h9u if someone shoots you then you won't give up rather you will be dead. There is also no lives or respawn in this scenario.

[@NWOSurvivalGuy]

MY CHANNEL GETS INTO STUFF LIKE THIS, DO YOU WANT TO DO A SHOW?

[@DieWellTomorrow]

I’m toast without improvement. Thank you for what you do with your info and time. LiveRightToday

[@MarkJones-sk6vk]

There are probably a million places to be ambushed out there. Its kind of luck of the drawl?

[@geoffreybowen4788]

Right

[@highchamp1]

Stay safe Security is expensive.

[@brad6054]

Downhill for Speed I think up hill would be slower, and you would be more of a sitting Target per say

[@mihailvormittag6211]

👍

[@paint1016]

Looks like Smith's gap

[@youtubesux6361]

Numbers. If your by yourself and let's say there's 4 of them. Odds are your fubar

[@Kq4hcuDan]

I just wished my job wasn't in the city, i know im gonna have a hard time fighting my way back home since i live in a rural area myself in Alabama

[@STOKERMATIC]

RTR!

[@Kq4hcuDan]

@@STOKERMATIC I really need to take your land nav course

[@Kq4hcuDan]

@@STOKERMATIC in my 11 years living in Alabama I'm neither Auburn or Alabama fan, lol. I'm originally from comiefornia.

[@stevesweeney5173]

I have been watching this channel for a few months now. I have also been watching your older videos and all I see is Military Tactics. NOTHING about TRUE Survival. Can you hunt? Do you know where to go to find food? Do you know what wild plants are edible? Do you know how to farm? Do you know what medicinal advantages come from certain plants? Do you know how to make waterproofing from certain resins from certain trees? These skills are just as important, if not more, than Military Tactics.

[@DanielBelliveau-y5x]

You could be like Brave Sir Robin , and run away ; while his squire smacks coconuts together , which were brought across the ocean by African Swallows . Run away , Brave Sir Robin , run away ! ! !

[@DayTon-h9u]

Wow....

[@dw6090]

Pts of things, didu see 1 or 10x, there are and will always b ambushes, if u live in fear it will b you,, u always take chances and mke choices some is quick some u have no time.. a

[@josephg.3370]

Thumbs up

[@thebear6751]

To many choke points

[@ouachita_okie]

Are you carrying during this vidio.. have a truck gun and gear Grunt?

[@STOKERMATIC]

Always packing something.

[@RedForman22]

@ouachita_okie he wasn’t a grunt? Dude was signal his whole career and a security guard in the marine corps for 4. Why does everybody think he was in a combat mos, far from it haha..

[@ultramagapimpernel7992]

Top, how did you make out in the storm. This is the most recent video drop of yours I could find.

[@STOKERMATIC]

All good here amigo.