littletommy
Grandmaster
Any suggestions on what i should include in mine?
Between the posts and links provided in this thread, you'll learn a ton of stuff about BoBs, good way to pass the time on a rainy/snowy day.
Any suggestions on what i should include in mine?
Any suggestions on what i should include in mine?
ThanksDouble T -- I really think you will find the FATBOY too small (& it does not have the waterbottle pocket). The JUMBO is about 1/2 again bigger, with the waterbottle pocket. Most people I've talked with or on different forum who have the FATBOY, wish they had gotten the JUMBO.
How would someone get into a Bug Out 101 class? I would like to learn from an experienced survivalist.
i keep all my bug out stuff in the car trunk, so i can carry a few larger items. I also have regular electric plugs that draw power from my cigarette lighter (i love this item, available at radio shack for example.) I was thinking about getting some kind of emergency communication as well, would a CB radio be right?
loving the "bug out bag" episode of Archer by the way
I'm putting together my BOB and have been researching and keeping an open mind. I'm overloaded before even getting into the firearms and ammo. I have made a list of required items, or combined lists that I have found online and added to them as I needed. If it were just me I think I'd be OK but two kids (11 & 5) plus the wife my pack would huge. Does everyone with a family have a BOB for each person? (within reason of course).....
BTW I'm kinda attached to the wife and kids and need to bring them along!
Do you guys have dedicated bags that are stored in a place to grab and go? Yes, I do. My bags are in the basement in the mechanical room where it's dark and cool most of the time.
When setting these up how did you start? I got started with a BOB almost by accident. I kept reading about them online and thought about what a bunch of over the top, paranoid, tin foil hat wearing nerds were worrying about with having an emergency bag like they were going to run like they were Rambo the second a crisis hit. Then I ordered an additional large alice pack and two cases of MRE's for my preps and wanted to see if I could stuff all 24 MRE's into a large alice just so I could store it there and not have to buy another tote. After stuffing them all in there I later starting thinking about how nice it was to have such a big bundle of food ready to go if my family needed it but that we'd also need shelter so I put a big tarp in the radio pouch. Then a while later I started thinking about what else would be nice and before you know if I've got an alice pack with just about everything in it that anyone would need to help them get through a real life hard situation. For me, getting a BOB or emergency kit as I like to call it by it's non-tacticool name was an evolution.
After looking at all the stuff you guys keep in your bags, where would one start after the pack?