Sand and Sand bags seem to be the best so far. Or packed sand ,gravel dirt mixture . Bags would stack best. Free

Adam, you sure look young considering you built a house for John Dillinger.

miss me, dontcha' Jenn?

Nothing works as well as sand bags. I have them stacked two deep and have fired my 30-06 with full metal jacketed rounds into the sand they penetrate maybe 6 inches into the bag. We stack the bags on their sides so we have 16 inches of sand bag wall to hide behind. Our Attackers will be in the open facing fire from three dirtections plus a flank attack by me and one other man armed with shotguns coming in from their blind side. The biggest plus to our defensive set up is we have the high ground and from the blinds you can not even see or fire on the house. To our back is a private lake which we can escape across with only one real place to land as the entire back of the lake is silt and swamp. There is no possibility of attack from the rear and if anyone did they would be sitting ducks from our rear deck. Imagine paddling a canoe trying to cross a lake while under fire. You have to remember this, no one knows what will come down if anything. I don't see the mad max scenario that many of you see coming. I see a few gunfights over added gun regulations, a worsening economy and shortages of some foods and medicines.. Of course there is always the possibility of revolution against giving up our constitution. If the so called New World order ever tries to rule us with some world government we might fight a war to stop that or some other takeover attempt. A huge natural disaster such as yellowstone blowing the center of this country into the stratosphere is always a risk or the big eartquake making Nevada the new west coast. Any huge event like that could trigger a lot of panic and looting chaos and lawlessness .

I have decided that becoming more self reliant is the key to being prepared for any type of event. You cant however prepare for every single possibility. So we used sand bags. They stop bullets, all bullets including .50 cal but Ill never be facing a .50 cal here in my little woods. More like a few starving rednecks with shotguns and deer rifles or gangs from the distant cities looting the outlying areas looking for food and ammunition . We are well armed and have a basic perimeter defense and am adding tricks all the time making it better as time alows us. Early warning systems are key to knowing when someone is advancing(also lets us know when the deer are on the field). If I get things the way I want them Ill have a Laptop setup with trail cams hooked to its own battery and inverter . I already have walkie talkies for us to talk between foxholes and the main house. We also are building sand and log emplacements out a half mile from our house to be used as forward observation posts and first line of defense. Using a series of fall back points. I feel its better to keep the fighting as far from our door as possible. Michael

Yeah, It works but its kind of a pain in the ass.

yeah, state land is like 5 miles from here but the a-holes dont care
neighbor down the road almost lost his wife, bullet cane thru the kitchen window and shattered the dish in her hand
cops didnt even come out for it just said its a hunting accident
few years back an amish friend put hunter orange blankets on his dairy cows for rifle season
someone stopped on the road and dropped all 8 of them then drove off
every bullet went thru the bright orange blanket, dead center
but hunters are 90% of this ares income so nobody wants to do anything about them