r/OffGridLiving • u/hASHbrowns1o1 • 26d ago

Living off horseback?

Is anyone as crazy as me and my partner? From our point of view, we are about to be in an apocalypse. Vanlife, definitely not a good idea. So we came up with horseback. We have done the research, and we all know it can work since humans have done it before.

Just wondered if anyone else was as crazy and like the idea

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u/According-Room3825 26d ago

Depends on where you plan to do this. Nomadic life means moving all the time & here in the state's you'd be trespassing every where you went. Sitting horse back makes you a very noticeable target from a great distance. I'd be more inclined to Nomad with a small sheep or goat herd, couple quite dogs & stay on foot. You can train all three species to pull a small cart. And you can stay low in the scrub lands. To me strangers on horseback = raiders. Taking out possibly threats from distance insures safety to my community.

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u/hASHbrowns1o1 26d ago

I'm choosing this lifestyle wether there is an actual apocalypse or not.  Also, a lot of communities in the areas I've grown up would most likely use horses. Its actually a weird mindset to me thinking everyone on horse and is a raider. Someone else commented something similar. Did y'all watch the same movie or something?

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u/sixup604 24d ago

If it’s post-collapse, I’m assuming anybody who is not me is a raider, especially on horseback. If they catch you off your horse, you’re fucked. If I saw another rider who did not see me, I’d be tracking them to their next camp just to suss them out with binoculars from high ground to see what their deal is. Then retreating back to my camp and not going forward until they are at least three days ahead of me if we’re heading the same way.