All good suggestions but lose the slingshot and add an AR15 build with night scope and bayonet (and a few 30 round mags) for when the unpreped come to relieve you of your generator and solar pannels, etc. This is Seattle after all.... actually a 9mm wouldn't be a bad addition either come to think of it!

Is the pigeon the chef or the main course? WHICH ONE IS IT?!

@1, I know, right?! It's bonkers to me how people just automatically assume gun ownership = MAGA or Conservative or Pro Mass Shootings?!?! There's a lot of responsible, liberal-minded, non-violent gun owners out there! But sure, slingshots are better than nothing, I guess. 🙄

I think bringing a slingshot to a gunfight is kind of a mistake.

There was a great episode on The Twilight Zone called ‘How to Serve Man’. Earthlings thought that the alien beings came to worship mankind and did not realize until too late that it was a cookbook.
I want to add that Iv’e had my eye on my neighbor Debra for a few years now. Come on apocalypse! 😛

And her sister, I think her name is Jenny.

Charles - I love you so much

@5, @6 -- for your
Basement or your
refrigerator?

I spite of the fantasies of incel preppers, living in a large urban area is your best bet for surviving an apocalypse.

As long as the region meets certian criteria.

It should be an industrial city, it should be a major deep water port, with an active and robust fishing industry.

The port should have break bulk, neo bulk, and standard bulk terminals. Container terminals could be converted to break bulk easily enough.

There needs to be a major research university and a series for community colleges.

It should have a renewable power supply (hydroelectric for example)

It should also be in reasonable proximity to farmland.

The I-5 corridor from Marysville to Olympia fits all of the above criteria nicely

@8, JC Penny.

Charles suggests a slingshot for hunting small fowl and people immediately reply "BUT YOU CAN'T KILL ANY PEOPLE WITH IT SO IT'S USELESS". Never change.

Fun article. However, I'm curious to see the end times where people have resorted to eating pigeons but still have processed dairy products and wine on hand to cook them in. Dare to dream.

You can kill an interdimensional thousand year old killer alien clown with a slingshot if you truly believe you can.

@11, I'm not very capable with a sling, but a bb gun works great for small game (1,000 bbs at walmart for around $8). AR15 is for those larger mammals after my perpper shit (so charles, how about a recipie for roast larger game such as deer, human, etc.)? Maybe in your next article?

"Toward a better world, I contribute my smidgen:
I eat the squab, lest it become a pigeon." -- Ogden Nash

Bravissima, @14!

A 12-gauge Remington 870 combat shotgun seems a bit more practical than a slingshot. With bird shot, you can get large fowl or small animals to eat, with slugs it becomes a micro-cannon. I don't care what kind of body armor you wear, if you get hit by a 12-gauge slug you're going down for the count.

Slingshot.
This is a joke right?
Assuming this list is real, the person with the AK or AR will have shot you before you get your slingshot out of your pocket.

Thank you Charles, you made my day! Plus, it is good info.

"This isn't the kind of fight you win, it's the kind of fight you fight."
Cory Doctorow