Ditch gear for the truck...input on my little list please!

For your hasty "get me home bag"

I would add tourniquet/pressure bandage
strobe- in case you are immobilized and need to signal
goggles- smoke/flying debri
pepper foam(people or dogs)
balaclava
talk to your doc about a one or two pill prescription pain medication (if only a two pill prescription with limited refills- he will not suspect abuse)
roll of electrical tape- works for small wounds, will burn and all the "tape" uses too.
maybe a cheap FRS/GMR radio with weather ane emergency chanels

2Door
 
Too many good suggestions!

Have a pile of painkillers here that I can include...they gave me lots for the leg but I tapered off after a couple of days...think I have about fifty left!

I guess I don't have a pressure bandage but that's easy to fix...tactical supplier up the road gives me a discount (charity for the mentally deficient I think he said.)

Electrical tape I do keep in the FAK, growing up my dad's first aid solutions to everything were 1. honey and 2. electrial tape for small problems, duct tape for big ones.

Looks like I'm on track here!
 
LOL, no wonder I don't see you so much on CGN.. you're over here! Good to hear the pain is subsiding man! I'm cheaping out on my bag with a ratty ALICE pack. It's got no holes and it's not like leaving an Eagle pack in the trunk. I just got 3 mediums with straps on Fleabay for $44 shipped total. :D Need one? Trade you one for some of your ankle leftovers :p
The bag is stored in a medium-short Roughneck to keep nosy people out and look very grey-man. I figure if we get the big Earthquake, the bridges will be closed for sure (designated emergeny response lanes, gov't-only in case of a disaster), so at best I would be able to drive to your neck of the woods if I was at work, and at worst I'd have an 18km walk home from the airport. So I want to make sure whatever I need to have is packable. My contents are minimalist BOB with an emphasis on food, and of course some vehicle essentials. It's a get-home pack, and I've walked 40km in 8 hours. Lots of the small stuff is covered by EDC gear: paracord, Bic lighter, folder:D, Leatherman Surge w/ extras, latex first-aid gloves (tactical black of course!), mini-Sharpie, Petzl E-lite headlamp and a Fenix P1D-CE.
 
Sh*t, I missed this whole post and have no recollection of posting anything here! :D Also, sometimes I post the same things twice because of my brain injury.

Sh*t, I missed this whole post and have no recollection of posting anything here! :D Also, sometimes I post the same things twice because of my brain injury.

misanthropist said:
Great thoughts guys! Except for the crutches...14 miles, I want an electric wheelchair!

Brian - hope the brain injury is okay. Cna yuo siltl raed okay or is it hard sometimes? Occasional difficulty reading is almost certainly a sign of severe loss of intellect. Bste fo lkcu!

I like the three boxes idea - I used to do a pretty similar thing and switch boxes out until one time I got my truck good and stuck way back in the bush, opened up my rescue box and found food, water, blankets and a radio where I was expecting to see fifty feet of steel cable and a winch!

This doesn't show the failings of the system but it definitely called the operator into question so I bought a fancy schmancy aluminum tool box and started keeping all my usual stuff in there. Now, when I go off road, if there isn't a black box in the back, I have problems!


Now in all seriousness Brain, I hope the injury is all right. I had a good friend sustain a brain injury and although he seemingly recovered, his personality changed quite a bit, and he developed serious drug problems and eventually died of an overdose (his third) at age 25.

Not that I am insinuating anything, no doubt your bizarre and erratic postings are not drug related but I hope your damage was limited, that it healed, and that in the end you lost little or nothing. Brain injuries are scary, especially for me. I have 31 brain cells and I need them all functioning all the time!

And yes, I spelled it that way on purpose!
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Seriously, you'll want an LED-type flashlight for daily use, saving the Surefire, since Surefire's don't burn as long because of the power usage.
 
How about a Stanley FatMax® Xtreme™ FuBar™ Utility Bar

and a picture of your Mrs holding it !!!!
 
Since you're up in the great white north, aren't the short barreled shotguns legal? A 14" 870 would be a sweet little BOB gun.

Illegal here, but my pistols aren't. I still have a Krebs AK as my truck gun, but it's in a bag that looks fairly innocuous.

Part of my plan, should things go very badly, is to do very bad things to people who act very badly, and take their stuff.

That's just me though.
 
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