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Post by Gingerbread Man on Nov 5, 2013 11:22:54 GMT
Place pics of your Bug Out Bag here! If you'd like to discuss your bag, please state so. If you'd just like to post it without discussion just say so!  I'll have mine up soon! |
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Post by Browning35 on Nov 7, 2013 16:14:47 GMT
We actually don't have BOB's, we have GHB's and INCH bags. Our plans revolve around getting home if someplace else and bugging in. If it's that bad where we have to flee our home there's a very good chance that we won't be coming back anytime soon (if ever). So the INCH bags also contain our marriage certificate, SS cards, resume's, passports, employment certs, diplomas, family photos, birth certificates, enough cash to pay for first and last deposits in order to get an apt someplace else if need be and items like that which most BOB's don't contain. Most INCH bags seem to contain the ' roughing it' gear to survive in the field. Our INCH bags have that stuff too, but that's not all there is. Some of it is focused on having the necessary gear, money and documentation to start over again. A couple of the pics are from one of our GHB's and a couple from our INCH bags.     Also have some basic preparedness/survival items in the center console and in the tool box of my truck.   |
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Post by omegaman on Nov 7, 2013 16:45:08 GMT
Silcock FTW!
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Post by Browning35 on Nov 7, 2013 17:12:49 GMT
Seemed to make the most sense to put it there in case I needed to get water for the radiator. There's another silcock key in one of our INCH bags, but on most long distance trips we usually take my truck. The thing hasn't ever gotten used once. It's still in it's original packaging. I have a case of water on the floorboards of the rear seat, so far I've just used that. I intend on installing brackets for a fire extinguisher and a flashlight in this truck as well, but haven't done it yet.  |
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Post by Gingerbread Man on Nov 7, 2013 17:48:27 GMT
It's at most filling up 1-2L of water. I don't get the objection. It's not like you'd be watering your lawn with the neighbors water. If it's that kind of disaster where you're going to have to be using a silcock I seriously doubt anyone would even notice you filing your water bottles. My take any way, much ado about nothing.
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Post by omegaman on Nov 7, 2013 17:52:02 GMT
It's at most filling up 1-2L of water. I don't get the objection. It's not like you'd be watering your lawn with the neighbors water. If it's that kind of disaster where you're going to have to be using a silcock I seriously doubt anyone would even notice you filing your water bottles. My take any way, much ado about nothing. I've got 'em. Better to have and not need, etc...I never quite understood the hoopla. Anyhoo, I needz to get some pics up in here! |
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Post by NamelessStain on Nov 7, 2013 18:06:59 GMT
Browning, Might want to try that hand chain saw in pic 5. I had one for our MBO to the "island" and it was a pain to use. It kept binding, you had to bend over to use it so it was bad for the back, just a general PITA. Even our official chapter Logger showed his distaste for it. I'd give it a whirl to make sure you are comfortable with it before committing it to you back. Just trying to help  |
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Post by Browning35 on Nov 7, 2013 18:59:24 GMT
Browning, Might want to try that hand chain saw in pic 5. I had one for our MBO to the "island" and it was a pain to use. It kept binding, you had to bend over to use it so it was bad for the back, just a general PITA. Even our official chapter Logger showed his distaste for it. I'd give it a whirl to make sure you are comfortable with it before committing it to you back. Just trying to help I've used it before and that type does kinda suck and requires way more effort than a small folding saw or even the small saw on my multi-tool. The trick seems to apply little pressure but to go back and forth in a really fast see-saw motion. Apply very much pressure at all downward to remove more material at a faster rate and it binds. That saw more falls into the ' better-than-nothing' category with it's only virtue being that it's small and flexible. It's just in there as a backup to the full size saw in my truck toolbox or the folding saw in my pack. Plus I didn't want to separate out items in the kit, they'd get lost. Thanks for the heads up though. |
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Post by omegaman on Nov 15, 2013 21:05:49 GMT
Not so much a "bug out bag"; but, my usual backcountry load:   FAK:  Ditty bag (brown kifaru pouch, upper left above my pack) contents:  This pic shows my hammock gear. The big ball at the top is a mesh bag containing a 20degree down top quilt and a 15 degree down under quilt! Below that, the brown sack with the carabiners, is my Warbonnet Blackbird. Below that, is the Warbonnet Mamajama tarp (nowhere near full compression):  Top and Under quilts. Downy goodness!  Here are my tent components (REI quarterdome), that Omega_woman and I spread-load when backpacking together (also pictured, far right, is the Big Agnes insulated Q-Core sleeping pad):  Not pictured are a stuff sack that would have my extra clothes/layers and food (usually just mountain house these days). |
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Post by Gingerbread Man on Nov 23, 2013 0:26:00 GMT
GBM's EDC.  Maxped Typhoon LED 123 cell light, pressure switch or constant on/off.   Lights, mini saw, sharpie, CS Shark, N95 mask, etc.   Food.  Medi + sunscreen/bug/sani.  Hydro and para. |
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Post by LowKey on Aug 3, 2014 3:15:55 GMT
We actually don't have BOB's, we have GHB's and INCH bags. Our plans revolve around getting home if someplace else and bugging in. If it's that bad where we have to flee our home there's a very good chance that we won't be coming back anytime soon (if ever). This. This many, many times over. It never ceases to amaze me how often people poo-poo the idea of an inch bag, often with statements to the effect that, "you can't live off the land/out of your pack indefinitely". I'm pretty sure you'd have needed one if you lost your home in NOLA or a multitude of other disasters. I'm Never Coming Home doesn't mean you'll never have a home again, just that the one you'd been in is not going to be viable again. |
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Post by Browning35 on Aug 3, 2014 16:02:22 GMT
Yeah, if we're fleeing our house we're probably not coming back anytime soon. So we'd need more stuff. It's less of an INCH bag and more a truck bed full of tubs. 3 tubs filled full of canned and boxed food (not including what we'd get out of the cabinets...probably two more tubs out of that as we store a lot of food), cases of water, a toiletries tub, 5 gallon sealed buckets of rice, my medic bag, the med tackle box, duffle bags full of clothes, cased guns, shitload of ammo cans and boxes of mags, passports, money, jewels, certs/diplomas, our GHB's, my tools and so on. I bought a bunch of tubs like this from Home Depot.  This one's full of ammo instead of food (those are in the closet and get rotated out as well, I'm not digging them out of the closet right now as my wife put a bunch of stuff on top of them as we're trying to make the house neater to sell it). You get the idea though.  Our live off the land plan would be to go to a ranch in central Texas owned by my father-in-law. Plenty of cows, they have an orchard and a garden and there's game (deer, hog, turkey's etc). I'm always helping him out there and at the deer leases. We have an open invite if something goes really wrong. Family is family. I have stored treated gas in the garage for the trip that gets rotated out. 30 gallons plus I don't allow my truck to get below half a tank. More than enough to get down there. There's a trailer there that we went in on together to put out at the deer leases. Could just live in that until we got our own place down there. That way we aren't getting on each other's nerves during a stressful time. Own place, own space. I wouldn't just try to pick a place in some national forest. If something like that happened we wouldn't be coming back anytime soon. Try to get work down there. We both have medical jobs/certs/degrees, so we'd likely be able to get jobs almost anywhere. Our plan is a little less Red Dawn living in a dugout or tent and a little more move to Texas from Louisiana ahead of Hurricane Katrina and set up there til we can go back. |
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Post by Browning35 on Nov 23, 2014 3:58:01 GMT
I bought the Brunton Ember 2800 and the Brunton Pulse 1500 today for spare power for my iPhone. One doubles as a solar charger/small battery and then the other one is a one shot deal (til you charge it up again from a plug) for a backup source of power. Both are for when I'm hunting or we're hiking, away from everything and I don't have another way of charging the phone. Phone's low? Plug it into the Pulse and keep hiking or plug in the Ember and sit down and eat and wait for it to charge off the sun. That's the plan anyway. Why just settle for one mere source of backup power when you can overkill it for an extra 2 ounces and $18? •The Brunton Ember 2800 ($28) is a compact power storage reservoir with a small integrated solar panel. The Ember is meant to charge handheld electronics like smart phones and MP3 players. www.brunton.com/products/ember-hybrid-solar-charger •The Brunton Pulse 1500 ($18) is a lightweight charger holding 1 Amp that acts as an power reservoir/additional battery outside your phone. www.brunton.com/products/pulse-1500If you're like me you kind of count on your phone. Phone calls, internet, GPS, being able to look at pics and video of your son doing cute stuff, camera and video to take pics of your son doing cute stuff, calculator, ballistics programs, a flashlight etc. Gotta keep that thing powered somehow. I'm usually good about charging it when I get in the truck and it goes on the charger in there, but these two are back up just in case I'm away from a power source. When I'm in the outdoors I'm in the outdoors and it usually just stays in my pocket, kind of the whole point in getting away from civilization. I just charged them both up and stuck them in my Go Bag, M'urse, Tactical Diaper Bag, Get Home Bag...whatever you wanna call it. The bag I keep all our shit in. It contains a spare knife, Leatherman, pull ups, wipes, spare clothes for my son, juice packs, Capri-Suns, Gold fish, granola bars and Teddy Graham, first aid kit, flashlight, spare batteries, tape, lighter, lighter fluid, spare flint, bandana, sewing kit, super glue, an emergency space blanket, ammo etc. Here's the units. The Ember (solar charger/battery unit) comes in a small box with instructions and a yellow multi-adapter cord and instructions. The Pulse (small yellow battery square) just came in a sealed package with folded instructions and the Input is a Integrated USB port and the Output is a Standard USB + micro USB permanently attached and pushes back into the unit.   Not my pic, but an iPhone (left) with the Ember (right)  This *IS* my pic and the lighting sucks, but the Ember (the black battery/solar charger plugged into the phone with the provided yellow cord) does apparently work as it's charging my phone. The Pulse (the small yellow battery square) had somewhat of a charge already in it out of the package as it did start charging my phone immediately as well, but according to the instructions you're supposed to charge the battery off your laptop. However my laptop is an old one and that new small integrated USP port isn't present anywhere on my laptop, so I'll have to get an adapter for it tomorrow. Review for the Brunton Ember 2800 <<<Click>>>
Brunton launch new Pulse and Torpedo portable chargers <<<Click>>>I'll try to remember to add to this to say whether it's worth it or not. |
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Post by as556 on Nov 25, 2014 14:03:35 GMT
We almost bought that charger, too. Looks nice. I'll try to post pics of my BOB today.
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Post by omegaman on Nov 25, 2014 14:55:30 GMT
You know, I could really use one of those chargers for my work truck. Often find myself way out in the woods or swamps with a dead phone...not smart.
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