Whats in your bug out bag?

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I'm sure lots of people might recommend war paint and punji sticks, but I went the "reality route." And I carry my Tuff bag with me daily. You cannot plan an emergency.

I have common things like spare rounds and a magazine for my automatic and/or a HKS reloader. But I also have Tylenol for my wife, a spare micro-fiber cloth, a spare charged cell phone, A123 batteries for various SureFire flashlights, a small packet of Kleenex, asthma medicine, etc.

It's not the survivalist bag for the zombie invasion, just enough of the common stuff to get me from one area to another.

For example, winter is coming. I might add one of those small foil blankets and some energy bars.
 
I always have a few boxes of Trioxane in mine......

I've started many a fire in wet conditions by cheating. :cool:
 
I have a "Bug-In" bag that I keep in my truck.
small backpack
couple of days of food & water
blanket
sheet of plastic
para-cord
matches
toilet paper
sheath knife
Normally, I would already have a pistol and a couple of spare mags on me.

Basicly its the bare minimum needed to get by for a few days.

It would be just my luck that if disaster should strike that I wouldn't be home at the time. I call it a "bug-in bag' because its purpose is to get me home.
 
A solid camping/combat knife, some hard liquor(can work as an antiseptic and a mild pain reliever, and some people will trade things for a stiff drink), salty food, plenty of water, a flashlight, and a battery operated radio.
 
If you depend on heart-diabetes-blood pressure medicine, carry enough to keep you in good health for XXX amount of days.

Just be sure to rotate the meds in and out to maintain freshness.
 
Some ideas:Swiss Army Knife or Leatherman/Gerber tool. Small first aid kit. At least one day's worth of persciption meds. That extra cell phone is a good idea, but maybe a little pricey(maybe the means to charge the Cell Phone you already have). Already mentioned: a means to make fire and light. WATER!! If not hot weather a Snickers bar: if hot, Planters peanut brittle bar. A metal cup or clean empty can-for drinking, cooking, digging, ect. Instant coffee pac or tea bag (the accessory pac from MRE's covers lots of these small items). 10 or more feet of string or para-cord. WHISTLE. 1 or 2 tin foil squares. Also remember the rule of 3's; you can last up to 3 weeks without food, 3 days without water,up to 3 hours in cold weather without shelter, 3 minuts without oxigen, but you won't last 3 seconds without thinking!
 
I watched some survivor show the other night. Some guy with a toilet brush (that's mustache and goatee) wearing some camo fatigues was 'splaining that a useful thing to have are tampons-you just push them into bullet wounds, pull out the applicator and viola! no more bleeding and good as new. Then they practiced an extraction, where when a storm is a coming-they surround the house of the extractee with weapons drawn to hold off the looters and then extract the estractee (who looked like honey boo boo's momma) and everyone goes off to some safe place. Then some goober calling himself Sargent Major is yelling at some guy who's magazine kept on falling out of his AK when he tried to shoot it and the guy kept screaming "sir yes sir" and doing push ups. Then another rather large guy wearing camo fatigues was yelling at some guy cause he couldn't put up his tent in 15 minutes. All in all if this is what I got to do to survive-then go ahead and shoot me :rolleyes:
 
CAJUNLAWYER said:
I watched some survivor show the other night. Some guy with a toilet brush (that's mustache and goatee) wearing some camo fatigues was 'splaining that a useful thing to have are tampons-you just push them into bullet wounds, pull out the applicator and viola! no more bleeding and good as new.
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I'd rather bleed out than go buy a box of tampons.

And depending on the calamity one is facing, and a person's faith, a pocket-sized bible might be a nice addition to the bug bag.
 
Toilet paper
A book of NY Times Saturday crosswords.
Notes of a Dirty Old Man, by Charles Bukowski.
Ibuprofen
Vicodin
A corkscrew
An Opinel No. 7 folder, and a small whetstone.
A flashlight
2 pair reading glasses and a microfiber cloth
A pen
A small 2-way screwdriver
A bottle of water

I figure that will get me to a Stop-'n-rob to get enough supplies to tide me over for an hour or so while my wife finishes her shopping.
 
CAJUNLAWYER said:
I watched some survivor show the other night. Some guy with a toilet brush (that's mustache and goatee) wearing some camo fatigues was 'splaining that a useful thing to have are tampons-you just push them into bullet wounds, pull out the applicator and viola! no more bleeding and good as new. Then they practiced an extraction, where when a storm is a coming-they surround the house of the extractee with weapons drawn to hold off the looters and then extract the estractee (who looked like honey boo boo's momma) and everyone goes off to some safe place. Then some goober calling himself Sargent Major is yelling at some guy who's magazine kept on falling out of his AK when he tried to shoot it and the guy kept screaming "sir yes sir" and doing push ups. Then another rather large guy wearing camo fatigues was yelling at some guy cause he couldn't put up his tent in 15 minutes. All in all if this is what I got to do to survive-then go ahead and shoot me :rolleyes:
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I'm curious; where did you see this? Sounds like something Bear Grylls would come up with.
 
Three or four of the small tubes of Super Glue. I always keep several unopened ones in my duty bag, use the small ones because in reality you never use the tube twice.

My wife and I were at a nice resturant a few weeks ago and when the waiter brought out our salads and fresh bread, my wife commensed to cut a slice of bread and sliced her finger to the bone. She went to the rest room to clean it up but when she came back with it wrapped up in paper towels she said it was bad. I advised the waiter we had to step outside a few moments and we went to the car and got my duty bag out of the trunk. I dug into my first aid kit cleaned the wound again with antispetic, swabbed it with gauze, then squeezed the wound together and super glued it shut. Put some neo-something and a bandaid on it and we went back and enjoyed our meal.
 
My bug out bag--

- One forty-five caliber automatic
- Two boxes of ammunition
- Four days' concentrated emergency rations
- One drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine,
vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills
- One miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible
- One hundred dollars in rubles
- One hundred dollars in gold
- Nine packs of chewing gum
- One issue of prophylactics
- Three lipsticks
- Three pair of nylon stockings.
 
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