Bug out bag

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chaco3

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Hi, Kind of new here and am learning alot, thanks to everyone. I do ahve a question as to what goes into your bug out bag? Do you have any good links as to where to look to get an good idea as to what to put into a bug out bag. Thanks
 
The forum has been around for ten years. I know non-paying members do not have the search function. But Google has you covered on that.


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Done deal. Please think again before making new threads, you're not the first to ask the question.

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Here's an interesting question and possibly a new topic altogether: What if you have to bug out with a baby? With space in a BOB for one person's supplies limited enough as it is, what essentials would you bring for a baby or a small child? With children having less-developed immune systems, would you carry antibiotics and more first aid? Formula for infants? Pack a separate bag that can piggy-back and detach? Would you get a pack with integrated child carrier? Like this:
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I know if I had to bug-out, I'd probably want to take my kid on the way out the door and I haven't prepared anything for him.
Another interesting question:
What if your wife isn't so good at preparation and only weighs 100lbs, making it difficult for her to carry a large pack? Would you carry her supplies and have her carry the babies? Leave her at home? Not pack anything for her because you'll just trade her for goods? :D
 
folks tend to focus on the minutia of what goes in the bag, and not on why they need certain things.

Cover the basics; water, food, comfort, (clothing, shelter), security......

The rest you can figure out as you go. It helps a LOT to actually take the darn bag out and live out of it for at least an overnight hike.
 
Instead of hating on the new guy maybe we should make this a sticky-no unessecessary comments, just pictures of bugout bags and contents. I swear we get 2-3 of these a week, a common thread with common pictures would be nice.
 
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If you leave her at home, you had better not ever come back. She might have traded something for a .45.
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Best way is to do a blanket wrap on the FRONT so you can carry a pack on your BACK. Simplicity 101, it's how the native americans carried papooses for hundreds of years, if not thousands, so it obviously must work for backcountry baby carry. helps balance out the front/back weight too, so your back doesn't feel like it's got Bushman's Scrapper burried in it...
 
If the sh*t goes down, I'm not leaving the house. I have plenty of food, beer, water, ammo and guns there (not to mention a bunch of retired veterans in my neighborhood). Not much of that will fit in a bag.... :)

In my opinion, the only thing a BOB is good for is running from the cops and I have no reason to do that.
 
On another site I was "banned" for telling someone to use google.
Too rude to suggest google. Boo hoo.

It doesn't matter if you have a "sticky" for BOBs. Look at zombieland, they have two stickies for BOBs and they still get "look my BOB" threads. And everyone points out same stuff over and over.

Someone will ask or post about their BOB like it's a special, never before seen ALICE pack.
 
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gordonquixote said:
If the sh*t goes down, I'm not leaving the house. I have plenty of food, beer, water, ammo and guns there (not to mention a bunch of retired veterans in my neighborhood). Not much of that will fit in a bag.... :)

In my opinion, the only thing a BOB is good for is running from the cops and I have no reason to do that.
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you'll feel differently after a natural disaster probably.

nice to yank out your bottled water and heat some chicken soup while you look for your roll of cash, while everyone else is setting around in their underwear after a good middle-of-the-night flood.

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Well said Brother Vec. I for one am going to bug in if at all possible. Do have some family land a few dozen miles away from almost anything. But I am still getting my place ready. After that its the other land time. I however do beleve VERY STONGLY in having a GHB and plan to what to do incase of emergency... there are also dozen of ideas here and on line about this as well. Read, study, read and then make your move. THEN (hte most important) TRY IT.

You will quickly learn what does and does not work before its needed... IE I used to have condor II as the GHB. No more, after humping a mildly weighted condor 17 miles I would not really want to make that trek again. I now keep my Kifaru MEx in the car until I decide what I want to do but I am leaning to a Kifaru pointman for 3 season use, and then a large pod attached for use in the winter with the 0* bag, and the cold weather clothing will occupy the space the summer bag was in the base of hte bag. I was thinking of a second MEx but really the pointman would be the ideal size and still keeping the cost/ bennefit decent. I for one will NOT recommend a pack that has no support for any distance with any weight involved. After I originally purchased my Kifaru MEx, I loaded it up with around 40 lbs and did a decent 8 mile trek, the next weekend was a bit over 10. It amazing how much better the weight carrys when it is designed to carry it. Dont get me wrong, the condor is nice, but when it reached 25lbs, it felt like a bowling ball was resting against my back.
 
Ditto

While not as focussed as many. My first plan is to Bug In - my neighbours arn't vets but we are a community. However there are circusmstances where Bug Out may be necessary - chemical spills Tsnaumi ...

That is what the Red Cross reccomends! Food and water and other supplies at home for at least 36 hours (duration of most emergencies). A bug out bag in case of the ened to leave the area- though frankly I expect we will have time to pack them. Though I have one in the car anyway - which doubles as a breadown kit, accident first aid kit, get invited to dinner and want to get out of the suit kit, etc
 
Such an interesting concept that I still dont really understand. I keep my backpacking kit ready to go all the time , not in case of an emergency but because I hate having to scramble at the last minute to make sure I have everything ready to go. Every time I do last minute packing I forget something.

When I return from a trip now, I just replace things I used, wash clothes, care for the tools etc and repack. I have stuff sacks in the same closet clearly marked summer / winter and wet. They contain clothing and other misc needs for those weather types.

I dont guess it really constitutes a bug out bag but If If the wife and I grabbed our back packs and few stuff sacks we could survive indefinitely were it needed.

I still think knowledge and attitude is the most important thing to have ready all the time.

I dont understand the desire to go overboard with these things. You dont really need much to survive. At some point it is more about comfort. Having been through katrina even if you had a full kit ready to go, the highways were so clogged up you couldnt really get anywhere where you would get use out of the bag and the most important commodity quickly became fuel second to water. I have been through a few tornadoes as well, doing mop up after the fact as part of the FD. I guess some of those folks could have pitched a tent but when your house is gone and the community is in shambles there is usually a county or state / national support mechanism thats going to kick into gear and help.

So for me I dont know. I just dont really get the obsession some folks have with them, but hey its always good to think scenarios through. Yet there aint much you cant get through with a little knowledge and patience.
 
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A bugout PLAN is also overlooked-if all the main roads are shut down, how are you going to get out of dodge? where are you going, how are you getting there, and via which routes? what you get there what are you going to do? I have a spot picked out, a natural garden of eden hidden within a fortress of sheer 2,000 foot cliffs on all sides. There's one small pass in, and it's easily defendable. There's elk, moose, bighorn, plenty of varmint, fish EVERYWHERE, untouched fresh water, etc. How close are you to military installations, nuclear powerplants or other nuclear targets? All things to think about.
 
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