Real-world 'GO' Rigs, whatcha packin' in your pouch?

R.Markus said:
I know this isn't what you were refering to for this thread, but this is my "go rig" for work. The SH-E normally just gets used as a prybar for making entry. There actually is a go bag underneath the vest with some Mainstay bars, more magazines, CR123 batteries, and a bunch of other things.

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Probably the most 'real world' setup thus far...nice.


R.Markus said:
The SH-E normally just gets used as a prybar for making entry.
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I am sure it could share some stories. I think you'd have our full attention if you wanted to relate a few times that Busse did some real world work...it would be worth a new thread unto itself.

BOSS
 
That's a great kit but, personally, I would never buy one ready made. I pick each and every item in my kit to specifically fit my own unique circumstances and needs. For example I have a gravity operated water filter that is light and completely self contained (from the dirty water bladder to the filtered water bladder). My tent and bag are specific to the conditions in this part of the world and I'd be carrying a 10mm where I'm headed (not a 9). I have a the same Petzl headlamp for short term use (the first hour or so) but for SERIOUS shit I have a Zebra Light head lamp that puts out a flood of 420 lumens for 2.5 hours (750 lumens in short term turbo mod). What's even cooler is my custom made portable solar panel recharger that can charge my half dozen LiIon 18650 batteries, my GPS and even my iPad. ;)
 
get an LED headlamp and an led flashlight

for extended survival, you can't beat it... one set of premium batteries will last 500 hours of run time... it's MUCH better than super powered beams. You're better off having some light for a long time than a LOT of light for a few hours
 
BePrepared said:
get an LED headlamp and an led flashlight

for extended survival, you can't beat it... one set of premium batteries will last 500 hours of run time... it's MUCH better than super powered beams. You're better off having some light for a long time than a LOT of light for a few hours
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Dude!! You don't actually think I'm that stupid do you?;) I may not know much about Busse knives but that's only because I only discovered them a month ago. Lights I know about. The Zebra Light H600 is an LED headlamp that has 6 settings ranging from 80 days at 0.1 lumens all the way up to 2.4 hours at 420 lumens (the most practical probably being the 50 hours at 21 lumens) . One way or the other it doesn't really matter because the batteries are state of the art Lithium Ion that I can recharge from a custom made portable solar panel (or the wall of course).
BTW my Zebra Light SC600 hand held puts out 500 lumens for 2 hours and has the same range of settings lasting from weeks to hours. It's also only 4.2" long.
 
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The Zebra Light H600 and SC600 are both eminently practical in that they put out a massive "flood" of light (when called upon to do so) rather the "impress" your friends, long throw, spot light of many high powered LED flashlights.
 
that is definitely NOT shtf pack gear.

The only way i'd have one of those with me is if i had an extra person to carry it, and even then the weight would be better spent on food and gear. Any body of water than you NEED to cross can be crossed with a small raft.

my backpack weighs 25 pounds with everything in it. When you add a gallon of water, i'm carrying roughly 30 pounds. That's doable for very long periods of time. Then you add the bulk and weight of a raft that you almost certainly won't NEED, it becomes much more unpleasant
 
Here's something that i've decided to add to my pack... i think i can make room, and it'll be a heck of a thing to have

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BePrepared said:
that is definitely NOT shtf pack gear.

The only way i'd have one of those with me is if i had an extra person to carry it, and even then the weight would be better spent on food and gear. Any body of water than you NEED to cross can be crossed with a small raft.

my backpack weighs 25 pounds with everything in it. When you add a gallon of water, i'm carrying roughly 30 pounds. That's doable for very long periods of time. Then you add the bulk and weight of a raft that you almost certainly won't NEED, it becomes much more unpleasant
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First of all I think most peoples idea of SHTF is a power outage, flood, earthquake, war or other "finite" disaster that, while as horrible as it might be, has a foreseeable end. My idea of SHTF is a collapse of the entire world economic system. Think about what THAT might mean...

That said, in my neck of the woods and in the scenario I see as a strong possibility, this absolutely IS SHTF pack gear. I have absolutely no intention of hanging around in a city of millions of people if food were to become scarce but the alternatives are almost as bleak. A large chunk of British Columbia (the vast majority in fact) is rugged uninhabited wilderness. Living off the land long term (for months or even years) in wilderness conditions would be far from easy. High mountain lakes with abundant fish stocks are relatively plentiful here and if I planned to be off the grid indefinitely I'd absolutely be caravanning in things that you city folk wouldn't even think of such as a boat (to access fish stocks), a perimeter alarm system for early grizzly warning, multiple water filtration systems etc etc etc. You build your bug out system as you see fit but don't tell me how to build mine unless you've spent time in the Canadian rockies or similar back country. Heck, the bug out kit that was displayed earlier in the thread didn't even have mosquito net clothing or insect repellent (at least not that I noticed). There are places up where the mosquitoes and blackflies can actually kill if you are caught out at the wrong time of the year (they have been know to drive caribou literally insane).

BTW, the idea that you are actually going to carry water in with you says a bit about your familiarity with back country equipment. Hand held or gravity water filtrations systems can provide water indefinitely and weigh less than a pound to pack in.
http://www.mec.ca/AST/ShopMEC/Hikin.../platypus-gravityworks-4.0l-filter-system.jsp
 
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Bowman1911 said:
I'm really likin' that rig! Who makes it & how much was it?!
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Advanced Outfitters makes the chest rig and HSGI makes the mag holders. They make single or double AR or the ones you see here. I went with the HSGI Taco because it carries a variety of sizes of mags. I was trying to find a minimalist chest rig but in hindsight Id probably go full chest rig.
 
I used to have a charter arms ar7 pistol, can't remember exactly what it was called. Kind of looked like a broom handle mauser, used the ar7 receiver with a pistol grip and different length screw on barrels. It was great for backpacking trips, very handy and decent accuracy.

Charter arms explorer thats what it was, had to look it up its been 25years since I had it.
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Only pic I could find of it. Now I'm going to have to stalk gun broker when I have money and get one.
 
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gimmejr said:
Advanced Outfitters makes the chest rig and HSGI makes the mag holders. They make single or double AR or the ones you see here. I went with the HSGI Taco because it carries a variety of sizes of mags. I was trying to find a minimalist chest rig but in hindsight Id probably go full chest rig.
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wow those things are spendy lol really nice but dang! xD

think i'm prolly gonna go with these

http://www.originalsoegear.com/patrol.html
 
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as real world as it gets, tactical daddy diaper EDC, Osprey Quantum.

top front pocket has ferro rod, tinderquick, fatwood, waxed twine, wetfire cubes, O-light M20S.

kangaroo pouch for redbox videos to turn back in. prints nice and its always with you so you can't forget them

hand sanitizer in side pocket

main compartment: diapers, babywipes, blanket, baby chest rig, unlined steel water bottle.

and 2 nice big tall rear side entry pockets for drinks and snacks.

in my pockets Spyderco PM2 M390 and UKPK probably soon to be replaced by a CTS-XHP Manix2 most of the time.
 
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