One for the 'Bug-out Bag'

Nice knife, though I never got this "bug out bag" mania. Smells of tin foil hatter to me. A real catastrophe hits, and you face two scenarios:
1) you are dead. End of story. The most probable one. Sorry, no one likes to think of himself as a casualty, we all imagine how through our great skills and preparedness we'll survive. But so does everybody, and statistics show that the majority of people living where a REAL catastrophe hits, just die.
2) You survive, and the gov comes and seizes your "bug out bag" and whatever you have, for your own safety, and leaves your sorry ass in a social nightmare knowing that "in the end" the losses will be worth what's saved.
Face it, it's how things go. See Katrina.
See any real, non-hollywood catastrophe ever happened.
Best thing to do, get the hell out of there before the gov guys find you. yes, I know, smells of tin foil hatter too. :D

For minor catastrophes, like a tornado, a bag with a toothbrush, pijamas, slippers and spare underwear, in the trunk of an old POS but still functioning car parked away but within walking reach from your home suffices to get to the house of a friend and weather it out until you find a new residence.
Well, you can add a nice knife like that as a conversation starter and to carve roast or cut salami :D
 
I see. It's just that I've found that expression mostly used in a "survive the catastrophe" context, (sometimes with advices that border on the insane. :D).
I like to have hobby cases organized as well. I have my shooting box ready for the range so that I don't have to assemble everything every time (and inevitably forget something home).
I didn't want to stir a flame, it was just some fun on the "bug-out" concept. Something on the line of "what would you do in case of zombie invasion?", just the opposite, keep your feet on the ground, way :p
Sorry for hijacking the thread.
Let's go on with the great knife.
Does it already have a scabbard?
 
Alarion said:
"what would you do in case of zombie invasion?"
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I'd put on my tinfoil helmet, that way if they tried to eat my head at least their teeth would hurt.
 
Alarion said:
It's just that I've found that expression mostly used in a "survive the catastrophe" context:
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And I hope that context never stops evolving.!


Let's go on with the great knife.
Does it already have a scabbard?
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I'm so neck deep in a dozen other orders and projects, it may have to wait another week or so before I can get one made.
This seven days a week has to stop.
 
Karl B. Andersen said:
And I hope that context never stops evolving.!




I'm so neck deep in a dozen other orders and projects, it may have to wait another week or so before I can get one made.
This seven days a week has to stop.
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Well... if it can help, I consider you very lucky... :p
Forging knives is my favorite activity.
But I live in an apartment building in Milano, 80 miles from where I have my forge and shop, and I call myself lucky when I can carve a couple of weekends every 3-4 months to do what I like.
Every time I lose half the time available just to get again in shape, and getting where I had left last time... :rolleyes:
 
There's no way I'd hide that away in a bug out bag. I'd carry it every day so I could fondle it whenever the urge overcame me!
 
Karl - That is a beautiful Knife! I bet it feels great in the hand.
Thanks for posting a picture of it.
 
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