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BUG OUT BAGS
(BOB)
A system of bag/s containing water, food, equipment, documentation, etc. Used during emergency
situations, to survive, and/or evacuate from one location to another for a specified period of time.
Bobs are usely set up for 72 hours of survival.
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MILITARY BAG / CIVILIAN BAG
Military Bag – military bags are constructed very well and will hold tons of gear and equipment, and
they can usely be camouflaged easily in the wilderness. But in an urban environment they are harder
to hide.
Civilian Bag – are good bags to compared to the military bags. But they are harder to hide in the
wilderness, and they will hide a lot easier in an urban environment.
TAILORING FOR SUCCESS
NeedsLocationSituation-
1) Have a plan for you and your BOB.
2) Stay calm and think logically.
3) Execution – Practice and work your plan.
Packing Tips
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Heavier items on the bottom.
Most used – easy access.
Pack for your situation.
Pack same way every time.
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SURVIVAL NEEDS VS COMFORT ITEMS
VS stuff you should just leave at home
There are a lot of different items that you can pack and this is just an example of some of the
basic items you might want to include if you are just starting out. You can make it simple or
complicated, inexpensive or costly, but whatever route you take, be smart and pack for you,
your location and emergencies you might encounter.
PRACTICE
PRACTICE
PRACTICE
PERFECT PRACTICE MAKE PERFECT
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LIST OF GEAR FOR BUG OUT BAG
FIRST AID KIT
Mole Skin
Ace Bandage
Chap Stick
Finger Nail Clippers
Metal Tweezers
EMT Shears
Multi-Vitamins (Strongest Ones)
2 x 2 Gauze Pads
4 x 4 Gauze Pads
Alcohol Prep Pads
Extra Large Bandages
Triple Antibiotic Ointment
Vitamin C Packages
Cloth Tape
Super Glue
Suture Kits
Field Surgical Kit
Lemon or Cherry Cough Drops
Motrin
Bayer Aspirin
Water Purification Tablets
Benadryl Pills
Benadryl Cream
Tiger Balm
Vitamin B12
Electrolyte Packets
Energy Shots
5 Hour Energy
Large Butterfly Bandages
Medium Butterfly Bandages
Plastic Tape
New Skin
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FIRST AID KIT CONT.
Quick Clot
Hand Sanitizer
LIST OF GEAR FOR BUG OUT BAG
Water Filter System
Water Purification Tablets
Canteen, G.I. Canteen, Canteen Cup, Hydration Bladder (Camelbak), Platypus Water Bags,
Water Bottle, Army 58 Water Bottle
Compass (two or three)
Flashlight & Headlamp
Binoculars or Monocular
Pocket Knife or Utility Knife
Para cord or 550 cord (100ft x2) (50ft x4) (25ft x4)
Nylon Climbing Rope (150ft) or (200ft)
Olive Drab Rope Deployment Bag
Hammock (DD Hammocks)
Sleeping Bag (Snugpak)
Tarp (DD Hammocks)
Bivy Bag
Whistle (Jet Stream)
Signal Mirror (Star flash)
Glow Sticks
Candles
Emergency Space Blanket
Duct Tape 1inch or 2inch
Folding Shovel, Machete, or Light Weight Shovel
Multi-Tool
Sling Shot + 30cal Steel Shot Ammo
Pepper Spray
Knife Sharpeners
Files
Zip Ties
Gloves
TP – Toilet Paper
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LIST OF GEAR FOR BUG OUT BAG
Fire kit
Micro Fiber Towel
Baby Wipes
Emergency Water Pouches
Emergency Food Bars
Emergency Survival Tablets
Fishing Gear
Pen Fishing Rod (EBay)
Crowbar / Prybar
Mess kit
Knife, Fork, Spoon
Survival Knife
Sewing Kit
Folding Survival Stove
Heat Tabs or Heat Gel
Poncho
Poncho Liner
Bandanna
Socks, Pants, Shirts, T-Shirts
GSI Tea Pot or Cooking Pot
Coffee Filters
Pocket Chain Saw
P38 Can opener
Fleece Hat (watch cap)
Coat (M65 Field Jacket)
Gas Mask + Extra Filters
Folding Saw
Sunglasses
Alum Foil
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LIST OF GEAR FOR BUG OUT BAG
FOOD
10 MREs
10 Freeze Dried Meals
10 Instant Mash Potatoes
5 Microwaveable Bags of Rice
5 or 10 Pouches of Chicken
5 Pouches of Tuna
20 Pouches of Cup a Soup
10 Power Bars (or Zone Bars) (or Cliff Bars)
5 Packages of Raman Noodles
12 Instant Oat Meal Packages
25 to 50 Tea Bags
25 to 50 MRE Orange Powder Drink Mix Pouches
15 MRE Wheat Bread Pouches
20 MRE Cracker Pouches
25 MRE Peanut Butter Pouches
25 MRE (Apple) Jelly Pouches
20 to 40 Honey Packets
50 to 100 Instant Coffee Packets
50 to 100 Coffee Creamer Packets
100 to 200 Sugar Packets
100 to 300 Salt & Pepper Packets
25 Vitamin C Drink Mix
5 Five Hour Energy Shots
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Pack – Stick with camouflage, dark green or other natural colors that blend in with the terrain.
Water – A canteen with cup and cover for your belt, water bottle and a good water filter.
Fire – Waterproof Matches, Fire Steel, a Magnesium Fire Starter and tender. Magnifying Glass,
Lighter, or any other Fire Starter you like.
Food – Pack enough to last 3 days or 72 hours. But I recommend 30 days worth of food. You
never know how long you might be in a survival situation.
Stove – A small stove is essential if you want to stay hidden.
Sleeping Bag – Something lightweight, and still keep you warm and dry.
Shelter – Rain Poncho and Tarp or compact tent. Stick with natural colors that will blend in with
the surrounding area.
Cooking – Anything Lightweight.
First Aid Kit – It is best to assemble your own kit, tailored to your own needs.
Light – Flashlight, candles, headlamp, and extra batteries.
Tools – Folding Saw, Packet Knife, Fixed Blade Knife, Light Weight Shovel, Machete
Clothing – At least one extra pair of socks and underwear add other items as you feel the need
and if you have extra space.
Fishing – Line, Hooks, and Sinkers and a few small lures. Maybe a small gill net for catching fish.
Also maybe some Yoyos.
Snare Wire – Copper wire, don’t forget (50ft) Para cord
Plastic Bags – Two or Three Large Lawn Bags and several zip lock bags
Small Binoculars – See game and enemy before they can see you
Sewing Kit – Needle and Thread don’t forget to include a few buttons
This N’ That – Electrical Tape, Face Paint, Gloves, Sharpening Stone
TEN C’S OF SURVIVALABLITY
Cutting Tool – Knife (5inches)
Combustion Device – Strike Force & Wet Fire
Covering – Heavy Duty Space Blanket or Wool Blanket
Container Metal – Metal Water Bottle
Cordage – Para Cord or (550 Cord)
Compass – Lensatic Compass
Cotton Bandana – Natural Colors
Candling Device – Flashlight or Headlamp
Cargo Needle – Strong Leathering Needle
Cloth Tape – Duct Tape
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TEN ESSENTIAL ITEMS TO SURVIVAL
3 Minutes Without Oxygen
3 Hours Exposed to the Elements
3 Days Without Water
3 Weeks Without Food
THE FOUR PRIORITIES OF SURVIVAL
Shelter
Fire
Water
Food
Whistle & Light
Fire Steel
Compass
Tarp
Folding Saw
Para Cord
Army 58 Water Bottle
Knife
First Aid Kit
Multi-Tool
Watch Cap or Fleece Hat
Gloves
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Stockpile food, water, and emergency supplies. Dry goods like grains and legumes, along
with canned goods, bottled water, water purification tablets, and first aid supplies should be
kept on hand in case of collapse or natural disaster. Make sure you have a way to cook and heat
water like a camp stove or BBQ grill and have a good amount of fuel on hand, because a stove
with no fuel is just junk.
Learn to be resourceful and do things yourself. From home plumbing to growing your
own food, learn to provide for your own needs as much as possible. Start now to learn how to
create and tend a food garden, and consider spending time studding up on home repair and
other useful skills. Hunting and fishing are great ways to help put food on the table. If you have
never done either find a friend or someone to show you how.
Network with friends, family, and neighbors. Build relationships within the local
community so that you can rely on them – and they on you in case of collapse. But be careful
who you trust because one mistake could cost you your life and the lives of your family.
Learn to barter. Have on hand important goods like personal care items (soap, razors,
deodorant), non-perishable food items, tools, first aid supplies, and other necessary supplies.
Consider what you know. Do you know how to garden? Are you skilled in holistic health
techniques? Do you know a lot about home repair? These skills are not only valuable for you,
but you can use them to barter and help others in case of world economic collapse.
Have a gun and lots of ammo! If you have a gun then add as much ammo as you can, if
you don’t have a gun get one now!!! And learn how to use it!!! If you have supplies and want to
keep them, then you will need a gun. I would say to have more than one gun. One shotgun, two
handguns and two long guns would be my bottom line, but it’s up to you how to survive the
collapse or natural disaster.
Have a plan to survive and stick to it. Plan a list of needed items and work on it and plan
for a stock of food and water and work to get it done. What we store now is what we live on
later, so if you want to live good then stock up really well or if you want to live bad then stock
up bad it’s your choice. If I were you I would do my best to survive good and have as much food
as you can.
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1) Water
It should go without saying that water is a survival basic for any situation. In a survival situation
water quickly becomes the most precious commodity.
1 liter per day per person is really the bare minimum. So your 3 day Bug Out Bag should have at
least 3 liters of water.
To expand your capability or survive longer than a couple of days you will need a water
purification system. This can be as simple as boiling water and iodine tablets, or serious water
filters.
 You can use a Collapsible Water Bottle for extra storage.
 Make water collection easier with a Backpacking Bucket.
 Use Coffee Filters to extend the life of your water filtration system.
 Find out How Bottled Water Can Improve Your Bug Out Bag.
2) Food
For a 3 day Bug Out Bag, backpack meals and energy bars can be sufficient. Backpack meals are
freeze dried meals that you just add boiling water to. They are light weight and last a long time.
Obviously you will need a longer term food solution in any type of wide area catastrophe, but
for your basic Bug Out Bag backpacking meals are a good set up.
3) Clothing
Your Bug Out clothes should be similar to what you would pack for a weekend backpacking trip.
 A pair of sturdy boots or shoes.
 A pair of long pants (preferably not blue jeans)
 4 pairs of socks
 2 shirts (maybe one long sleeve and one short sleeve for layering)
 A jacket that is both warm and protection from rain
 Warm long underwear of some kind
 A Hat
 A Bandana
This list could go on for a while and many people would never dream of leaving their Bug Out
Bag without twice that much, but in a pinch that set up could get you by for 3 days. Be sure to
plan for the weather in your area. Do you have seasonal clothes in your Bug Out Bag?
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4) Shelter
If you are going to survive for 3 days you are going to need protection from the elements and a
warm dry place to sleep. You need at least –
 Some type of tent or tarp and a way to set it up.
 A ground tarp for underneath your shelter to stay dry
 Some type of Bedroll, preferably a good sleeping bag
5) First Aid Kit
Trying to cover everything you need in you Bug Out Bag. First Aid Kit is another article entirely
to itself, probably several more. I will not try to cover it because I would surely leave something
out. What I will do is recommend that you build your own first aid kit instead of buying one of
those prepackaged first aid kits that clam to have 1001 things to get you through any
emergency. While some are ok, in my experience these types of kits are usually filled with a lot
of stuff you are unlikely to need and not enough of the things you will probably need a lot of.
Plus, building your own first aid kit gives you an intimate knowledge of what it contains and
how to use it. How many people buy one of those pre-made set ups and just assumes they are
prepared, because there’s so much crap in it there must be what I need? Bad idea.
First Aid Gear: Have a Sawyer Extractor for Poisonous Snake Bites.
6) Basic Gear
Basic Gear sounds repetitive (what have I been talking about?), but it is my category for things
you absolutely cannot live without. But don’t really fit well into another category. Many
survivalists will not like this list because it is not exhaustive by any means, but again I will say: It
will be enough to get you by for a couple of days.
Rain Gear – at least 2 ways to stay dry in the rain. Poncho and a coat are good coupled with
your tent/shelter.
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Fire – A bare minimum of 3 different ways to make a fire. Here are some examples.
 Matches
 Lighters
 Fire Steels
 Flint & Steel
 Bow Drill
 Hand Drill
 Fire Saw
 Fire Plow
 9 volt battery & steel wool
 Magnesium Fire Steel
 Magnifying Glass
Six different Fire Tenders
 Dryer Lint
 Cedar Shavings
 Cotton Balls w/Vaseline
 Cattails
 Birch Bark Shavings
 Wet Fire
You’re also going to need something to cut your firewood and a Knife uses to much energy long
term.
 Folding Saw
 Axe
 Machete
 Survival Chain Saw
 Wire Saw
Cooking – Bare minimum here is a small pot/large cup to boil water in for both drinking and
freeze dried meals. A small backpacking stave and fuel are better.
Light – At least 2 dependable flashlights, and a backup set of batteries for each. Also make sure
you have a red lenses.
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Survival Knife – The most used and versatile tool in your Bug Out Bag.
7) Weapons
The fact of the matter is you might be dialing with a “Without Rule of Law” situation, or close to
it, and people are likely to be doing crazy things. Being prepared to defend yourself is part of
the survivalist mindset. Obviously a firearm of some sort is best for this (though not in all
situations). I will not go into specifics about what type of gun you should bring, because that is
hotly debated and really a personal choice. Take what is comfortable to you. Outside of guns
your survival knife could be used as a weapon if you had too. Also someone as simple as a big
walking stick or club can be a strong deterrent for the bad guys.
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THE SURVIVAL SKILLS
1) Shelter – First Basic Survival Skill
Shelter protects your body from the outside elements. This includes heat, cold, rain, snow, the
sun, and the wind. It also protects you from insects and other creatures that seek to do you
harm. The survival expert has several layers of shelters to think about. The first layer of shelter
is the clothing you choose to wear. Your clothing is of vital importance and must be wisely
chosen according to the environment you are likely to find yourself in. Be sure to dress in layers
in order to maximize your ability to adapt to changing conditions.
The next layer of shelter is the one you may have to build yourself, a lean-to or debris hut
perhaps. This is only limited by your inventiveness and ingenuity. If the situation requires, your
shelter can be insulated with whatever is at hand for the purpose. Being prepared, you may
have a space blanket or tarp with you, in which case creating a shelter should be relatively easy.
Before you are in need of making a survival shelter be sure to practice and experiment with a
variety of materials and survival scenarios on a regular basis. Should the need arise you will be
glad you did.
 Poncho Lean-To/Tarp Lean-To
 Poncho Tent/Tarp Tent
 Debris Hut
 Field-Expedient Lean-To
 Swamp Bed
 Tepee (Improvised)
 Double Lean-To (Improvised)
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2) Fire – Second Basic Survival Skill
Knowing how to build a fire is one of the best survival skills you can have. Fire provides warmth,
light, and comfort so you can get on with the business of survival. Even if you don’t have
adequate clothing a good fire can allow you to survive in the coldest of environments. Fire
keeps away the creatures that go bump in the night and so you can have the peace of mind and
rest you need. And that is not all. Fire will cook your food and purify your water, both excellent
attributes when you want to stay healthy when potential disease causing organisms are lurking
about. Fire will dry your wet clothing and even aid in the making of tools and keeping pesky
insects at bay. But even that is not all. Fire and smoke can be used for signaling very long
distances.
Always have at least two, and preferably three ways of making a fire at your immediate
disposal. With water proof matches, a butane lighter, and a magnesium fire starter or fire steel.
You should be able to create a fire anytime and anywhere no matter how adverse the
conditions. So the lesson here is to learn the art of fire craft. Practice and become an expert.
Your ability to create a fire is perhaps the most visible mark of an experienced survivor.
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Matches
Butane Lighter
Fire Steel
Magnify Glass
Magnesium Fire Starter
9 volt Battery & Steel Wool
Hand Drill
Bow Drill
Fire Saw
Fire Plow
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3) Food & Water – Third Basic Survival Skill
Whenever you plan an excursion be sure to always bring extra food and water. Having more on
hand than you think you need will give you that extra measure of safety should happen, and
you have to stay longer than anticipated. It is important that you know how to ration your
water and food as well as find more in the environment in which you find yourself in. You can
go without food for about 3 weeks, but living without water for even a few days will cause your
efficiency to drop dramatically. If at all possible, boil any water you find in order to kill diseases
and organisms that may be in even the cleanest looking water. Filtering or chemically treating
water is second best.
4) First Aid – Fourth Basic Survival Skill
Always bring along your first aid kit and a space blanket. Most injuries you are likely to
encounter in the wilderness are relatively minor scrapes, cuts, bruises, and burns. Larger
injuries are going to need better facilities than that which you have at your disposal, which
means you will need outside help. Panic is your number one enemy when you are in any
emergency situation, be it injured, lost or stranded. What you need in these situations is first
aid for the mind.
Think STOP.
Sit
Think
Observe
Plan
Your best defense in any emergency is your ability to think and make correct decisions. Building
a fire is often the beginning first aid for the mind. Doing so will so will keep you busy and
provide an uplift from the warmth, light and protection fire provides.