By: 4ortrus

4ortrus — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:56:09 +0000

I agree with both reviews ,health concerns would most likely put me in a vehicle .Staging areas for fuel and at least two final destinations are some logistics I’m trying to work on .How long can you store gasoline ???

By: Michael Edwards

Michael Edwards — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:19:14 +0000

Nothing is to much to put in your bug out bag, as long as u can handle it without help. I prefer to bug out in a vehicle of some kind. Therefore the heavy BOB is not a problem. First aid kit, MRE’s, knives, various weapons including a pair of 45ACP’s, 30/30 cal hunting rifle & scope. My M1 30 cal rifle and various other firearms. Warm clothing, shelter devices. I am somewhat parinoid and beleive in lots of firepower.
Mike

By: ScottS

ScottS — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:35:54 +0000

I have issues with this “adaptation” of the law of three. It was originally just three by three, three minutes without air three days without water and three weeks without food. Period. A 3×3 matrix or three cubed. Somebody thought they were cute and added the bit about shelter and are WRONG. There is no absolute when it comes to shelter. It depends on climate and clothing. Including it in this manner has caused so many peope to Frankestein up a Bug out bag it is ghastly (pun intended). I have seen bags so heavy that they nearly triple the energy expended to move about just because of the added weight. Shelter is a “situational situation” just like a firearm. If you will be traveling by motor vehicle, where it is less critical, it is easiest to bring portable shelter, by foot, not so much but it will be needed much more, as you wont have the interior of the car/truck to protect you from the elements. YET, this is the most neglected area of education in this topic. Few people study how to make a shelter out of what is available in the local AO… and less how to choose what to carry to make one OR what clothing to wear to eliminate the need for one for the most part. I have well over 40 years personal experience in living of the land, and minimalist survival techniques. WE need to instill the ideology that the Bugout bag is not a portable Winnebago, and that it is secondary to knowledge and skills that are learned and practiced ahead of time. I commend you for sticking to the premise of not overloading the “BOB”… And I look forward to seeing more of your work on this subject, as I finally have found someone I can point others to and tell them that I am not talking off the top of my head when I tell them that a 99 pound bug out bag is unrealistic.

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By: 4ortrus

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