Your BOB?

Mike Franklin · 07-24-2008, 11:43 AM

Is the purpose of your Bug Out Bag to get you to your stuff/hidey hole or is it what you expect to start your 'new life' with?
Mine is trickly to get me home. I have no doubt that within a couple of weeks I'll have a small village of people gathered together to survive.

big shrek · 07-24-2008, 01:31 PM

Hey, didja forget where ya posted this topic below??

Mike Franklin · 07-24-2008, 01:51 PM

I kinda thought that what you carry and where you plan on going might be different. I may have gotten confused. I was reading an article about the Russian Army Mutiny, they ran out of diet coke and demanded resupply.

SwedeSteve · 07-24-2008, 07:34 PM

Ours just gets us to our hide.

JMcDonald · 07-24-2008, 07:39 PM

Same here. Gets us to ol' grandpa's place.

larmus · 07-30-2008, 10:28 PM

ditto, gets me to a place were family and friends can gather and collect our thoughts

KGunner · 07-30-2008, 11:25 PM

Would get me to my place and/or create a new place in the mountains.

JMcDonald · 07-31-2008, 11:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KGunner

Would get me to my place and/or create a new place in the mountains.

"The Mountains" is probably the only place you could actually get away with staking your own claim and living off what you can find. Stay quite though. If the thard times are long, you will have to outlive all the people who thought they could raid the Walmart camping section and live in the hills too.

Big Dog · 07-31-2008, 05:46 PM

My GHB (get home bag) is designed to allow me to walk the ten miles (more, if I have to detour the 'bad' part of town) to get home, assuming my vehicle is kaput. Usually this will be my bike.
So, I have a belt&harness rig in my sidebags, and everything in various pouchs that attach to it. Two one-quart GI canteens, a SS canteen cup, a couple cans of sardines, a couple enegry bars, basic survival gear.
I keep a small rucksack in the car - with similar items. Also, when things are looking hinky, I carry my MountainBike on the car rack. I'm never more than fifteen miles from home with the car - it isn't the most reliable car.....

I have NO remote BO area to go to. I bug in if the situation gets bad. The ONLY reason I BO is to get the heck out of Dodge for a Katrina-level hurricane.
I'll be back after it clears.
If I do have to BO for good, I'll be a well-equipped refugee.

mos19k · 08-01-2008, 07:55 AM

We have GHB's in our vehicles. My job has me well armed so I don't keep a weapon in my GHB but my Wife has one in her's. She has the longer route of about 9 miles, mine is only 6 miles. Something would have to be incredibly wrong for us to leave our home but we do keep bags in case that does occur.

TACAV · 08-01-2008, 08:34 AM

It will get me to my designated safe secondary location. That or to a place of egress to my secondary location.

07-24-2008, 11:43 AM	#1
Mike Franklin Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Poteet, Texas Posts: 1,276	Your BOB? Is the purpose of your Bug Out Bag to get you to your stuff/hidey hole or is it what you expect to start your 'new life' with? Mine is trickly to get me home. I have no doubt that within a couple of weeks I'll have a small village of people gathered together to survive. __________________ Aim real good we're nearly out of ammo.

07-24-2008, 01:31 PM	#2
big shrek Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Northwest, FL Posts: 444 Images: 37	Hey, didja forget where ya posted this topic below?? __________________ No worry I are just der big dumb troll nevermind dis here notepad I am just countin' ma toes.

07-24-2008, 01:51 PM	#3
Mike Franklin Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Poteet, Texas Posts: 1,276	I kinda thought that what you carry and where you plan on going might be different. I may have gotten confused. I was reading an article about the Russian Army Mutiny, they ran out of diet coke and demanded resupply. __________________ Aim real good we're nearly out of ammo.

07-24-2008, 07:34 PM	#4
SwedeSteve Bullet Maintenance !! Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: The anchor point, Alaska Posts: 10,261 Images: 1	Ours just gets us to our hide. __________________ Thank God we don't get as much Government as we pay for! -Will Rogers

07-24-2008, 07:39 PM	#5
JMcDonald Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 516	Same here. Gets us to ol' grandpa's place. __________________ Don't feed the highschoolers.

07-30-2008, 10:28 PM	#6
larmus Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: arizona Posts: 619 Images: 6	ditto, gets me to a place were family and friends can gather and collect our thoughts

07-30-2008, 11:25 PM	#7
KGunner Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Fort Collins, CO Posts: 424	Would get me to my place and/or create a new place in the mountains. __________________ Kel-Tec P11 Mossberg 500A Tactical 12 ga. 1947 Mosin Nagant M44 Yugo SKS 59/66

07-31-2008, 05:46 PM	#9
Big Dog Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Tallahassee, Florida Posts: 10,205	My GHB (get home bag) is designed to allow me to walk the ten miles (more, if I have to detour the 'bad' part of town) to get home, assuming my vehicle is kaput. Usually this will be my bike. So, I have a belt&harness rig in my sidebags, and everything in various pouchs that attach to it. Two one-quart GI canteens, a SS canteen cup, a couple cans of sardines, a couple enegry bars, basic survival gear. I keep a small rucksack in the car - with similar items. Also, when things are looking hinky, I carry my MountainBike on the car rack. I'm never more than fifteen miles from home with the car - it isn't the most reliable car..... I have NO remote BO area to go to. I bug in if the situation gets bad. The ONLY reason I BO is to get the heck out of Dodge for a Katrina-level hurricane. I'll be back after it clears. If I do have to BO for good, I'll be a well-equipped refugee. __________________ Moderator of: AR15/M16, M14/M1A, New/Beginning Shooters and Militaria/Collectables.

08-01-2008, 07:55 AM	#10
mos19k Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Miami, Fl. Posts: 314	We have GHB's in our vehicles. My job has me well armed so I don't keep a weapon in my GHB but my Wife has one in her's. She has the longer route of about 9 miles, mine is only 6 miles. Something would have to be incredibly wrong for us to leave our home but we do keep bags in case that does occur.

08-01-2008, 08:34 AM	#11
TACAV Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 605	It will get me to my designated safe secondary location. That or to a place of egress to my secondary location. __________________ Zombies don't hold grudges, discriminate, or negotiate- Neither should you. -The Zen of Zombie-