Bug Out Bag Essentials

[Marine Cpl]

So as I said in another forum. I had a Bug Out Bag that I took on a hike in some hills at a State Park. After about 15 minutes in, the bag kicked my ass. When I got home, I removed a tent, a full mosquito net, shaving gear, pillow, pot, and other non essentials to lighten it up.

Here are my essentials off the top of my head that I can remember. I'll add more as I remember. Add yours. More heads can come up with better items.

Camo Poncho. Serves multiple purposes. Can be used for rain, worn as camo over regular clothes, made into. A small tent, used as a stretcher, ect.

Half a sleeping mat. Just enough for torso

550 cord

Sleeping bag with gortex bivy sack

Duct tape

3 MRE's

First Aid kit

Micro folding shovel

Combat Knife

Survival Straw

Water purification tablets

Canteen

Canteen cup for boiling water

Candle

Lighter

Change of clothes

Survival flashlight (the one that winds up)

Compass

Whistle

Baofeng Radio

Hydration bladder

9mm Carbine

Glock 26

Mosquito net hat

Fishing hooks with line

Magnesium fire starter

 

[dsdmmat]

What no water proof bag on your list? You probably want to add at least two of those to your bag. They can be used for quite a bit and don't take up space.

I would also dump the three MREs. Each one is about 3000 calories and you could get away with just one for a 3 day journey if you really had to do so. How far are you planning on traveling on foot?

 

[Marine Cpl]

No more than a week of hiding in the woods if things in the neighborhood go south.

I don't plan on going far. Just deep enough to be away from civilization if FEMA makes mandatory evacuations.

 

[Marine Cpl]

I guess a couple heavy duty garbage bags can serve the purpose.

 

[Phauxtoe]

yea put together a budget bag with all the stuff i read about and it was a brick.
i have chopped so much of it down to super basics. (stiff figuring it out)
I feel it really depends of when and what the problems are.
I have a lot of options on hand to stick in the basic bag.

Work in Progress!

 

[Greywolf224]

Willi were you going on a hike in the woods or doing a 21 day outing on Naked and Afraid!

 

[dsdmmat]

No more than a week of hiding in the woods if things in the neighborhood go south.

I don't plan on going far. Just deep enough to be away from civilization if FEMA makes mandatory evacuations.

Eating will just require you to use more water. Unless you have a lot of drinkable water around I would cut down the amount of food you carry to just the minimum.

 

[Marine Cpl]

Eating will just require you to use more water. Unless you have a lot of drinkable water around I would cut down the amount of food you carry to just the minimum.

Well the MRE's will be field stripped. Water will be in a 3 liter bladder and I also have streams in the woods where the survival straw and purification tablets, or boiling in a canteen come into play.

 

[Phauxtoe]

Eating will just require you to use more water. Unless you have a lot of drinkable water around I would cut down the amount of food you carry to just the minimum.

get a Sawyer water filter

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

Good advice and ideas in here so far.

What type of 9mm carbine do you have? I can't seem to find any now that are good to go in this state

 

[dsdmmat]

get a Sawyer water filter

Still have to have a water source around.

 

[dsdmmat]

Well the MRE's will be field stripped. Water will be in a 3 liter bladder and I also have streams in the woods where the survival straw and purification tablets, or boiling in a canteen come into play.

you will want a secondary water purification collection/ purification collection point. Keeping unclean water out of your blather and canteen until it has been purified will be necessary to keep you from getting sick. The water proof bags or some type of collapsible 5 gallon container would be optimal for this.


If you are laying low starting a fire will be the last thing on your list of things to do.

 

[Marine Cpl]

Good advice and ideas in here so far.

What type of 9mm carbine do you have? I can't seem to find any now that are good to go in this state

I have a Lone Wolf G9 AR type with a Thordsen Stock. It takes my Glock magazines.

 

[Marine Cpl]

you will want a secondary water purification collection/ purification collection point. Keeping unclean water out of your blather and canteen until it has been purified will be necessary to keep you from getting sick. The water proof bags or some type of collapsible 5 gallon container would be optimal for this.


If you are laying low starting a fire will be the last thing on your list of things to do.

Are water purification tablets safe for a bladder? Or perhaps purify it in the canteen and then add to bladder?

 

[Aimtite]

There are lists like these all over the web. I guess it also depends on where one lives, weather, where one needs to do according to plan, and such.
I like to think in terms of small and light that can have many uses.

I would add in order of importance:

......

1 - An emergency supply of medications the person needs specially those who might die or get very sick if they don't have it with them. Maybe some antibiotics too.
2 - water + small 4oz tube of potassium permanganate
3 - dry clothes in cold weather or more water in hot weather.
4 - large plastic /nylon barrier along with some cord. Poncho will do too.
5 - small high energy foods.
6- space blanket or two (almost no weight).
7- super-glue (better than band aid or stitches too)
8- Some steel wire but paracord is first.

I am not sure the combat knife is the best option. I like to have two one small and the other one larger but not too cumbersome. I mean,
if you are going into a jungle or thick woods then a machete is the man.

 

[dsdmmat]

Are water purification tablets safe for a bladder? Or perhaps purify it in the canteen and then add to bladder?

Better to purify it in something that is easily decontaminated or disposable at a later date.

 

[carpediem]

Good advice and ideas in here so far.

What type of 9mm carbine do you have? I can't seem to find any now that are good to go in this state

Isn't the Marlin Camp Carbine good to go? Cannot remember the mag capacity on those.

 

[BDinPutnam]

Couple of things maybe not mentioned that i consider helpful to have and worth the weight/bulk.

Two contractor bags.

A small roll of duct tape (yes I know there are better ways to carry tape- it fits around my canteen cup that fits around my water bottle).

Two bottles of life boat matches.

Self-assembled 1st aid kit including nitrile gloves, N95 dust mask, and lightweight clear safety glasses (3m).

Oral rehydration salts.

Food stuffs, firemaking, and first aid are carried in those ziploc/foldable waterproof bags which can double as water bladders as needed.

I want to add a hobo stove (boil water using just sticks- and folds flat).

 

[BDinPutnam]

Isn't the Marlin Camp Carbine good to go? Cannot remember the mag capacity on those.

Pricey and bulky. Just my two cents. An AR9 can be broken in two and carried, and if like Will your sidearm is a Glock you are gtg on mags for both.

 

[carpediem]

Pricey and bulky. Just my two cents. An AR9 can be broken in two and carried, and if like Will your sidearm is a Glock you are gtg on mags for both.

Is the AR9 like that little .22 that fits in the buttstock? I think a Charter Arms gun or something.

 

[BDinPutnam]

Is the AR9 like that little .22 that fits in the buttstock? I think a Charter Arms gun or something.

Nope. Will's Lone Wolf (and my QuarterCircle10) are 9mm AR's built to run Glock magazines. Esentially an AR15 chambered in 9mm, designed to run Glock magazines and all non-chambering-specific parts (i.e. barrel, etc) are interchangable with your AR*. As are accessories, which is nice.

*Glock mags do require a specific bolt carrier (or you can do the "Glock cut") to make them reliably strip/feed a Glock mag.

 

[Marine Cpl]

BD. I bought this Hobo stove but it never made it into my pack due to me going lightweight. I'm just gonna use it if the power goes out.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0125U36Q2/ref=ox_sc_act_image_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A2KDBGPI4VU5M7

It's pretty well made and only twenty bucks. Runs on sticks, twigs, and pine cones.

 

[carpediem]

Nope. Will's Lone Wolf (and my QuarterCircle10) are 9mm AR's built to run Glock magazines. Esentially an AR15 chambered in 9mm, designed to run Glock magazines and all non-chambering-specific parts (i.e. barrel, etc) are interchangable with your AR*. As are accessories, which is nice.

*Glock mags do require a specific bolt carrier (or you can do the "Glock cut") to make them reliably strip/feed a Glock mag.

Nice. I may have to look at one of those. I would like one in .40 or .45. I have seen some of the 9mm conversions, but they used what looked like an UZI mag.

 

[GOPerfect]

I never really got into the bug out idea. Well kinda. I have everything that I need, I think. I have been collecting stuff for quite some time. I have loaded up bags, I have a few different styles and sizes. Not sure why I have not done an official bag yet. I have a couple of friends who take it very serious; they have one for all members of their families.

 

[Marine Cpl]

I don't have kids but I have a bug out bag each for me and the Mrs. It isn't built to go for extended periods. My home has most of my supplies. But I figure there might come a time when you just have to bug out of your home until things blow over.

Kind of like in that book in the Going Home series where they had to leave and bug out to a camp site because DHS was rounding people up.

It could be a number of reasons too. Nuclear fallout, natural disasters, ect.

I also have a small Assault Pack that I carry around in case I ever have to walk home from work 55 miles away. In it is a survival sleeping bag (the space blanket ones) an MRE, water, Boafeng Radio, flashlight, leatherman, poncho, and 550 cord.

After this thread, I'm going to add a trashbag, small first aid kit, and duct tape.

 

[BDinPutnam]

Nice. I may have to look at one of those. I would like one in .40 or .45. I have seen some of the 9mm conversions, but they used what looked like an UZI mag.

Don't want to hijack Will's thread; what you want is do-able in these calibers, in NY, with Glock mags (and some others I'm not familiar with). I can't speak to reliability. Will start up a Pistol Caliber Carbine thead in Long Guns forum shortly.

 

[carpediem]

I know it doesn't really fit in a go bag, but what about some kind of body armor? Keep that next to a go bag or not worth the extra weight? Obviously it would only be needed in certain scenarios.
@Willjr75 where did you get that Boafeng radio? Do you keep the FRS type radios too?

 

[Marine Cpl]

I know it doesn't really fit in a go bag, but what about some kind of body armor? Keep that next to a go bag or not worth the extra weight? Obviously it would only be needed in certain scenarios.
@Willjr75 where did you get that Boafeng radio? Do you keep the FRS type radios too?

I got the radio on Amazon. It's listed in this thread.

http://nygunforum.com/threads/shtf-communications.65/

 

[carpediem]

I got the radio on Amazon. It's listed in this thread.

http://nygunforum.com/threads/shtf-communications.65/

Thanks. I need to get a bag of sorts set up for each car, just in case we are in a vehicle and need to use it to get home. That radio I would probably leave in the household bag.

 

[Magnus]

Most important question, what type of bag are you using?