Good morning group. Hope this post finds everyone well and in good health.
In my continued effort to beef up my preparedness I have started looking more at security around my home. It is something that I have thought about but still don't feel like I have the best handle on. If you had seen me 15 years ago I would have probably been the least secure person on earth. I married a Navy boy and have since gotten over the fear of guns in the house.
Let me start by telling you what I have going on and hopefully you guys will have some critiques or tips you can share with me to help me keep my family more secure.
As a general description we live on 6 acres now with about 2 cleared. Our house is a split foyer with ground floor windows. One end of the house daylights and there is a double door with a regular lock and glass windows in it. The property is surrounded by woods on 3 sides, the woods back up to farms. The front of the property faces the road and there are two houses in between our property and the road. You can see our house from the road. We did install a privacy fence along the front property line.
I have removed all large shrubs from around the house. The house on 3 sides has at least 100 yards clear before the woods line. The fourth side of the house (the side with the double basement door) only has about 10 yards before the woods line. I am most concerned about that door and the ground floor windows. I have purchased that sticky plastic to put on the ground floor windows that is supposed to make them harder to break through. We have put deadbolts on the front and back door but I am not sure how to handle the double door in the basement.
We do have a large german shepherd and a border collie that free roams the house.
We have guns but they are locked up in a cabinet in our MB closet. We have a child that though we have been teaching about guns and safety and proper usage, because of special needs and the issues that go with it, I don't feel safe not locking the guns up unless we are using them.
I am trying to be as grey man as possible. I don't want to call attention to the fact that we are preppers. I don't trust my neighbors in front of us. Neither seem to be well suited to surviving turmoil.
Any ideas you have for me to beef up my security would be most welcomed, just short of
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Slippy
pikes that is. I don't think they are necessary just yet.
