When SHTF, like royally hits the fan, there's a good chance you'll need to set up a perimeter defense to guard against intruders to your property. For an excellent method, check out the system of sector stakes below.
Sector Stakes
Now, firstly, what are a sector stakes? The sector stakes are prepositioned markers for use as boundaries for the field of fire of your weapon. They physically allow the firer to concentrate on his or her sector of fire without haphazard lateral movement. By utilizing one on your left and right, they establish left and right limits for you to employ your rifle or firearm.
The sectors are positional assignments for occupants to repel attackers. The importance cannot be overstressed. They give a firer an “area of responsibility” to cover, and anything in that sector should be known, marked on a diagram (called a sector sketch) and committed to memory. Also of note are points of cover and/or concealment. Cover is something that will partially or completely block you from enemy fire (shielding you). Concealment is something that can hide you from the sight of an enemy.
Your sectors need to range to the end of your property, or out to about 500 feet, whichever is closer. The sectors need to interlock, so as to create interlocking fields of fire, a condition that is met where the left and right limits of two adjacent firers intersect one another, and permit overlapping fire on an enemy.
It is important for you and your team to walk the entire length of the property, and pace out the areas where obstacles that can provide dead space, cover, and concealment to the enemy are known, along with their exact distances. It is also very important for you to be able to make laminated copies of these sector sketches, and using a grease pencil (dry erase are garbage) to note down your information of things found in your sector. Identify each fighting position (FP) by number, not by the person’s name! If you’re overrun, you don’t want your names going into someone else’s head or intel files.
A key reason for these sketches is if for a reason such as changing a guard shift, or a shift between team members to one another’s fighting positions. In this manner, you have a nice laminated diagram that gives them all of the information they need about the position.
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What's great about sector stakes, should you choose to implement them, is that they work great both with a small number of people on your side and with a large force at your command.
If you're going to follow this plan, though, make sure you keep track of your stake locations with a map, which, as the article says, will make it much easier to pass the information along to the people on your team.
Even if you're all alone, planning sector stakes could be useful because it will force you to take every detail of your property into account and know the shooting distances for every area.
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Won’t work with my house defense, but already have set in my mind what I need to do. I can make my house a tough nut to crack in one day. My goal is to deter intruders to the easier places to attack, sadly like my neighbors. I do have a large bay window off my back master bedroom, that will be my weak area, that I still need to address in my mind. If I had more people with automatic weapons, I would be more flexible on a outside defense. Trouble with most houses is they are tough to make defendable with numerous windows, and weak doors. I suggest taking the time to actually look at your house, and what you could do in a hurry to make it harder for entry. If you don’t have weapons, don’t waste your time. You will have to be prepared to deter their interest, and move on.
Brian Soles
Leave window some what weak and fortified other areas will create a likely entrance at your window so it would be pretty easy to defend