There you go again.
Ya know, not everyone is a narcissist.
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Shit! Jeremyās in on it too! I knew it. I just knew it.
Not enough ammo, not enough grenades, not enough food cans. Otherwise a good start. 
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Iām under the impression thatās just to get you to your actual storehouse.
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A single can of spam has 1020 calories. Give me dried beans and cured fatback along with a giant can of dried lemonade. Iāll outlast all yāall.
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Then better. But still, better have several more high-capacity magazines almost[1] full of ammo.
[1] Use one or two bullets less for less stress on the spring. Especially in suboptimal storage overstressed springs are prone to failure by both material fatigue and stress corrosion cracking. Optimally keep ammo out of the magazines, save a few for buying you time to load them up.
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Hey, I can scrap that at my workbench for enough steel to start a guard post, though Iāll need a few more chessboards to have enough woodā¦
Still not a very good deal though; as Mad Max teaches us, the apocalyptic future will be ruled by drugged out psychos in a weird mixture of athletic/S&M gear; so chems will always be valued.
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Mad max also teaches us water is most important. And guess who has a well.
##I am your ruler now!
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In case of zombies, Iād be interested in giving polearms a try.
Reputable Sources agree that zombies are pretty dumb; but their ferocious hunger and/or transmissible rage virus make the idea of using a close melee weapon unappealing; and their immunity to pain, shock, and blood loss means that your ammo probably wonāt stretch as far as you might want it to.
Instead, scramble up to some sort of perch that the clumsy shambling hordes canāt climb; deliberately make lots of noise to attract them, and proceed to thin the herd like a comically dressed Swiss guardsman!
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And there you go, denying subjectivity when it seems convenient for groupthink exercises.
What do I break the glass with? Sorry take it back didnāt see the axe at the bottom.
And there you go again, falsely positing that subjectivity and society are isolatable opposites.
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Here you go:
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Please, sir, can we have some aquacola?
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and theyāll outnumber you 100 to 1. Not good odds. 
You need more ammo. And landmines as your silent sentries along the perimeter.
A humble arduino with good powersaving mode and some sensors can yield a pretty good smart mine. If buried a little away from the actual energetic part and suitably encapsulated, can be even reusable.
And with a modified Birkeland-Eyde optionally combined with Fischer-Tropsch you can make explosives and propellants from air, water, and waste plant biomass. As long as you have enough electricity (wind farm, perhaps? water dam? buried Toshiba 4S nuclear reactor?) you have the resources for sustained defense.
A lot of the materials needed can be scavenged from abandoned cars and related infrastructure; lead plates for electrolysis, platinum catalysts for hydrogen recombination or for ammonia-to-NO burning if weād go the more efficient but more complex ammonia route, nitrogen generator from an abandoned fuel station (some have them for inflating tires instead of using air), microwave ovens from abandoned RVs or from apartments for microwave-assisted variant on Haber-Boschā¦
ā¦an engineer can deserve his imperialist bozo steakā¦
We can take care of ourselves. I could elaborate, but loose lips sink ships.
Besides, I donāt want to stray too far from the spirit of the OP, which is basically a sweet one: instead of planning how to offend/defend, why not plan how to get along and rebuild? I was just reacting to the arrogant assumptions about where the skillz are, and what the key skillz are, not the general idea.
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Agreement. However, the offend/defend has to be a plan B. We need both.
Youāre the mother in a rural Midwestern family. Your household is 80 acres large. Youāre a dayās ride from the nearest city.
TSHTF.
Now migrants from the city and beyond are ambling towards your little neck of the woods, desperate and hungry.
Hypothetical? No. Thatās what the Great Depression looked like to a lot of people. And for most, it was a challenge towards their religion, not their marksmanship.
Survivalists who donāt compare their fantasies to precedent deserve a good amount of derision.
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