Contents of your Bug Out Bag

[whitewolf001]

What're you guys and gals hefting around? I'll be posting my listing shortly after an inventory. Gotta do it in my sparetime here at work. :yuck:

[Spots]

Mine is a get home bag, as I plan to bug in, but same concept. 4 or 5 500 calorie meal bars, small towel, coffee pot and coffee, 70 liter water bladder, zip ties, zip loc bags, trash bags, nomex and kevlar gloves, chest rig, combat load plus for the AR. 9 mags. 8 in the rig, one in the rifle. 4 loaded spare mags for the 1911. Foot powder, couple pair of socks, mole skin. Military compass, 1:50k map, blowout med kit on my chest rig. I always have a multitool, pocket knife and lighter with me all the time. I think thats it. The coffee pot and coffee is a definite luxury, but I use my bag for camping alot also so it rides in the bag. If I actually used it to get home chances are the pot would get left in the truck.

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Edited June 24, 2013 by Spots

[RichardR]

I have a change of clothes, a pair of spare boots, a rain poncho, a couple days of food & water, some fire starting stuff, a FAK, a map, compass, emergency radio, and a multitool.

Just enough stuff for 72 hours, with the sole purpose of getting myself from point A to point B on foot.

[whitewolf001]

Spare boots are a must do, I need to get an extra pair for myself. The way I see it, if something should happen and you have to get outta dodge, your GOOD/GH bag should also be able to somewhat sustain you. That's why I carry some longer duration contingencies like a Katadyn Vario filter and purification tablets and enough grub to last me five days well fed or 9-10 days slightly underfed, freeze dried of course :yum: for weight, plus 100oz of purified water to fill my water bladder immediately upon SHTF. I keep two spare changes of clothes, a Gerber suspension multi-tool, water, filter, food, purification tablets, purification straw, magnesium striker, bic lighter, laundry lint smeared in vasoline, strike anywhere matches, chemlights(x10), two small LED light/glow sticks w/spare batteries, alum mess kit, tomahawk, machete, some fishing line weights and lures, I'm sure I'm forgetting some other stuff but meh... I keep a first aid kit in the truck that I can throw in there but I keep it sepreate cause I've had to use it more than once. The pack is a Granite Gear C.H.I.E.F. and it is heavy(70lb-ish) for long range but if I need it for GH and need to be light weight then I can dump a number of things that aren't needed for the short trip. I keep my LBV with mag pouch(x6), Ontario Knife OKC FG Model 1 Strap Cutter, and dual pistol mag pouch, plus my bandolier(x5), wanting to get a KaBar to for it as well but have a Gerber skinning knife that works just fine for now on my Alice belt along with a canteen for secondary water storage, and my drop leg holster. My EDC includes the Gerber Suspension, a Kershaw Tanto Blur for self defence, Maglite XL200, and my Zippo; when I'm not at work, I'll have my FNX-9 on my hip along with two spare mags. I know it seems like alot but I can adjust it pending on the situation and can shed gear; I'd rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it :usa:

 

I do need a poncho, a bud is gonna hook me up with a Swiss surplus one, anything anyone can advise me on incorporating? I won't ditch any of this stuff cause likely I can either barter with some or give it out as charity, this is mostly refering to the chemlights, glow lights, water(I can always make more) and some of my medical supplies or if need be, shed it.

Edited June 25, 2013 by whitewolf001

[runco]

In my bob, a can of Off with Deet.   You know to get rid of the bugs!  :rofl: