unless you have like a platoon size group, you not gona have very good security, its just not gona happen..but you can do stuff to help out.
This^ is a big part of the situation.
I try to look and plan realistically and right now I have three trigger pullers here, I'm not going to be able, inclined nor foolish enough to think I can build a forward operating base. I have some neighbors and am comfortable with the potential of the community and am not on an edge or exposed seriously but am considering making a more difficult to observe concealed area for entry and exit and as a security precaution like stated in my original post. As for the patrolling it will occur but I hope most of it will be as part of the community/tribe and well out of my personal perimeter (24 hr patrols on property are unrealistic without reason).
As for existing defenses like a few spider holes and so far one very nice dug in position, they already exist along with some nice concealed exit routes all but the holes clearly observable for me (yes I'm aware of the hole problem and will address that with some clever engineering). Making me and friends difficult to observe places me in a more secure point if something were to land in my lap so to speak.
"Best defense is a good offense" Abso f n lutly but I doubt even a dedicated professional squad could pull off 100 percent observation, patrol and interdiction over what may come to be measured in months initially. An honest man has to work for a living and just by making the "compound" very difficult to even observe will provide some deterrence or take out some momentum should things get rough (not knowing what waits inside or even the layout).
Deer and other game setting off alert traps will be unlikely in the area, tasty animals are hard to come by already, too many country boys with .22 mags and a healthy disrespect for game laws.
Keeping an obscured area (inside the triangle) for peace of mind while working on what may be more repair and fabrication work than I care for will do wonders for production.
I'm not thinking of a castle here, too many examples of them becoming funeral pyres come to mind. Just a tough and painful to peel onion (compound) with a disappearing juicy core (me) is more what I'm shooting for.
Got to work on my homemade hydraulic cylinder black powder cannon collection. Did you all know they aren't firearms according to the revenuers and legal in Florida to boot? Gotta be careful with them though, they blow right thru a shrubbery like it wasn't there.
Night patrols and more than a few day observations looking in and out are on the absolute must do list if built for feeling out the weak points.
Been chewing this over for the past few days, making notes and am more comfortable with it than I'm currently set up just on the concealed center area bonus alone. Burying a line from one of the wells to the center is on the list now as well as a water tank in there. The fence between the structures is a lot of free vertical square footage for pole beans and a solar drying rack can be placed and attended inside the area with minimal footage use. While the natural pond will not be in there I can bring the fish in clean, smoke and or dry them and at least be watched over from the barn while cast netting them (tilapia maybe). The barn has an excellent field of view due to its height but could use a few loopholes and spot hardening, just having someone up there listening and observing with glass makes me more comfortable thinking about working inside an obscured area. Picking up a homeless mutt up to run the property around the triangle will probably be well worth feeding. Spiking the approach and changing the drive in spike pattern regularly will take a lot of piss out of most vehicle crashers. Contemplating some tangle foot...
