I'd love to see ETS big enough for that to be possible, but it while it has been tried, I'm only aware of a few times it has been pulled off. *high five to Blast* ETS started as a some what impersonal and highly intellectual forum, who's members do a LOT, but mostly on their own. ZS started off the other way, as a service and socializing group that started a forum.

Not saying it isn't possible, it just seems like ETS is more "rugged individualists", while ZS is more "yeh, how ya' doin'".

Dumb question: what's the correct address for ZS?

I've looked at www.zombiehunters.org/forum/ (love their logo).

But there's also zombiesquad.net and zombiesquad.org -- are these from the same outfit?

Just trying to avoid kooks and clones, spammers and jammers, etc.

Yes, that is the right place.

-Blast

I just joined there as well...yet another forum to surf. Same username as here (and everywhere else)

Im a ZS member and there is ALOT of great info there. I really like reading Gunny, NRA, Woodswalker and several other reviews on products in the bug out area.

As long as we are talking ZS, there is a posting on the Personal Experiences part of the forum (on the 1st page if I recall) by a guy who went through Katrina. He posts under the name "Raptor". It is an excellent read. He discusses what works and what doesn't, things that happened while bugging out, just all sorts of things in great detail. Definitely worth looking at.

I don't know if making the reference to another site like that will get me in any kind of trouble with the moderators. If so, please forgive me and let me know.

LW

Well, I confess I enjoyed the humour surrounding the whole zombie schtick. It makes the whole survival business a lot more approachable to people, especially the younger crowd.

And I do love the logo etc. LMAO! I need to get some of their gear for my nephews.

But it seems I have to wade through a lot of stuff to get to anything solid, in terms of information. So I may lurk there on a slow day.

If someone comes across a thread with some real meat to it, maybe they'd care to share the link here.

This is the posting that I was referring to. I mean it is chock full of really good information from someone who lived through it, what worked and what didn't. I don't know if this will work as a link or not. Sorry if it doesn't. It is a very good, although long read.

LW


http://zombiehunters.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=16627

Interesting read. Thanks for the link.

*stumbles in, looks around*

Sorry for the late response; I was taking a nap...

I will add another +1 to what ironraven and Blast said.

ETS and ZS are complementary, in my opinion. ETS focuses more on practical short term stuff where the world is not ending (my boat is sinking, so I am stepping up into my liferaft). ZS does that too, but is more about the long-term, totally messed-up situations (my continent is sinking, so I am stepping up into my boat).

I enjoy both a lot.

Also, I lurve fried pickles. They are my favorite Renaissance Festival breakfast.