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The best way to survive an encounter is to avoid it in the first place. In a remote wilderness-type environment, it might be worthwhile to find ways to steer or "nudge" people away without them even knowing it's happening.
I would start by taking a good look at a topo map of the site to identify obvious avenues of approach, then walk the property to confirm what I learned. Most people would be using roads, man-made trails, and game trails.
There isn't a lot you can do about roads except to make sure your shelter isn't easily visible from the road. This could mean planting some fast growing tress or shrubs to obscure lines of sight or using multiple ways in to avoid making an obvious trail, to name just 2 examples.
You could try to block the smaller trails with, for example, coils of razor wire, but that would just let everyone know that there is something in the area that is valuable enough to try to protect. Not a great plan, in my opinion.
But you CAN (and maybe should) find the thorniest, nastiest plants you can find, propagate them, then plant them in natural-looking groups designed to gently nudge people in a slightly different direction. If you just plant them across an obvious trail, people might tend to charge though them anyway, but planted at an angle to the trail, most would tend to turn a few degrees in order to walk around.
The farther from your shelter you nudge them, the better. Nudge them a few degrees a mile away and they will walk right by and never even know you're there.
I would start by taking a good look at a topo map of the site to identify obvious avenues of approach, then walk the property to confirm what I learned. Most people would be using roads, man-made trails, and game trails.
There isn't a lot you can do about roads except to make sure your shelter isn't easily visible from the road. This could mean planting some fast growing tress or shrubs to obscure lines of sight or using multiple ways in to avoid making an obvious trail, to name just 2 examples.
You could try to block the smaller trails with, for example, coils of razor wire, but that would just let everyone know that there is something in the area that is valuable enough to try to protect. Not a great plan, in my opinion.
But you CAN (and maybe should) find the thorniest, nastiest plants you can find, propagate them, then plant them in natural-looking groups designed to gently nudge people in a slightly different direction. If you just plant them across an obvious trail, people might tend to charge though them anyway, but planted at an angle to the trail, most would tend to turn a few degrees in order to walk around.
The farther from your shelter you nudge them, the better. Nudge them a few degrees a mile away and they will walk right by and never even know you're there.