Thank you for posting this. My daughter just took the driving test last week and passed. She already has a car so I should get a bag together for her. What do you have in your daughters bag?
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Refreshing Your Get Home Bag
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Thank you for posting this. My daughter just took the driving test last week and passed. She already has a car so I should get a bag together for her. What do you have in your daughters bag?
You must be planning on a very short hike. It's not uncommon for me to be 50 miles or more from home. I need to have serious resources to draw on to make that in bad times, so...
Get Home Bag Inventory
Updated 2/21/19
Attached to outside:
2qrt Canteen
Top Pouch A:
Rain Gear
Life Straw
Rain Cover
Coin Paper
List
Top Pouch B:
Mess Kit w/Stove
First-aid Kit
Hammock
Plastic Silverware
Main pouch:
Socks (Warm Weather and Cold Weather)
Gloves ( Cold, Tactical , Fingerless Tactical )
Field Jacket w/Liner
Double Pistol Mag Pouch
Drop Leg Pistol Holster
Suspenders
Belt
Camo Shirt, Pants and Hat
Two Long Johns
Two T-Shirt
Two Boxer Shorts
Combat Knife
Three empty 40 S&W Mags
Ziploc Bags
NEED: Batteries (123 3v / 2032 Coin)
NEED: Rechargeable Batteries (AA / AAA ) w/charger
Solar charger
Extra Coin Paper
Outer Pouch:
*GPS, Binoculars and Range Finder (stored in vehicle)
Fishing Kit
Water Purifier
Cough Killer
Maps
Para Cord
Extra Straps
Camo Face Paint
Compass
NEED: Headlamp
Tools Bag
NEED: .40 Glock 22 Barrel
Knife Sharpener
Extra Compass
Leatherman Tools
Meds Bag
Amoxicillin 500mg
Antibiotic Ointment
Prilosec
Advil
Vitamins
T-Paper
Toothpaste
Toothbrush
Camp Soap
Hand Sanitizer
Bug Repellant
Sunblock
Listerine Strips
Water Purification Tablets
Sixteen Nicotine Gum
One Week of Regular Meds
Right Side:
Machete
Right Side Pouch:
Fire Bag
Candle Lamp
Fire Flint and Striker
Waterproof Matches (box)
Waterproof Matches w/striker papers (tube)
Fire Lighter Sticks
Three Lighters
Lights Bag
Flashlight
NEED: 4 Extra Batteries
Warm Bag
Two Foil Blankets
Left Side Pouch:
Gun Cleaning Bag
CLP
Brass Brush
Nylon Brush
AR Tool
Snake (.308 and 9mm)
Patches
Q-Tips
Bottom Pouch:
Food Bag
Two Stove Fuel
Four Freeze-dried Meals
Two Freeze-dries Breakfasts
Five Meal Bars
Nine Grits
Camp Bag
Camp Cup
Fork and Spoon
Tin Foil
Light Line
Belt Pouches:
Three Extra Glock 17 Mags
Exterior Bottom:
Sleeping Bag and Liner
Tent
Tactical Vest:
Six 30 round 300blk mags.
Three 17 round 9mm Glock mags.
Gun cleaning kit.
Gun Case:
300blk SBR
Glock 22 converted to 9mm
Some of you guys are way over estimating your ability to cover ground in adverse conditions. Think about having to move at night and off trail. That might be the only way to avoid trouble and it slows you down a lot. You could easily spend days covering ground you thought you could walk in hours. It could take weeks to cover ground you thought you could cover in a couple of day.
As for the amount of equipment in your GHB, you can always ditch equipment and supplies the situation doesn't call for, but if you don't have it to start with and you do need it, you're screwed.
As for the amount of equipment in your GHB, you can always ditch equipment and supplies the situation doesn't call for, but if you don't have it to start with and you do need it, you're screwed.
Nope. It's designed so the only thing I would need to find during six days of travel is water. The last thing I want to do is have to compete for resources with everyone else.
It's a long list to cover contingencies, but most of the items are small and light. If I can travel in the open, I can easily cover 10 to 15 miles a day with it. If I have to be discrete, cut that distance in half.
BTW, if you're bugging out, aren't you headed to a new "home" anyway?
You are, and generally speaking a bug out bag has 72 hrs worth of food. There should be water in your car along with purification methods in your pack. My point is if it was lighter you could go further. Bugging out is the absolutely last course of action and isn't just grabbing your rifle and bag and heading out across the wasteland. It starts with moving with a supplied vehicle.
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Ah, you are assuming you have a vehicle. I think the most likely cause of SHTF is an EMP or CME (Coronal Mass Ejection). Which will most likely fry your vehicle. Everything you need has to go on your back. We are already overdue for a major CME event. The last one was about 110 years ago and cooked the telegraph systems all over the world. A similar one today would pretty much end modern civilization.
The actual food in my pack weighs next to nothing, It's almost all freeze-dried. I can move the same speed if I have six days as three days of food.
Things that we seldom consider serious as things are now can end you in a crisis situation. The surest way that you will not be able to move well is to run out of calories (which you will be burning a lot of). A minor injury can quickly become a major issue unless it can be properly treated. Hypothermia will drain your strength in a short time. Small amounts of insect repellent and sunscreen can make a big difference.
The idea is to get home and still be in good condition, rather than barely making it.
I think you're over looking literally every other scenario to say that though. Bugging is applicable to almost any major catastrophe such as fire, flood, earthquake, fallout etc. And there is no realistically respectable threat of "emp" attack as it's not beneficial to anyone with the capabilities. But that's a topic for a different post. Disaster preparedness falls into the same category along with serious civil unrest (see Ferguson, Baltimore etc) and a lot of us fail to recognize the parameters of this reality.
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I think the next major catastrophe will be the internet going down for an extended period (3 days plus). That will shut down gas stations, grocery stores, some power grids, some water facilities, etc. It will be chaos.
You might want to print out this post because I won't be able to update it with "Told ya so".
