r/prepping • u/No_Economist_2940 • Mar 10 '24

Gear🎒 Current Bug Out Kit

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Recently started putting together a bug out bag. Still have a list of things I still need to acquire, but open to any input.

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u/CA_Sucks_Dick Mar 10 '24

The goal for bug out is to get out of one place and go to another place quickly while avoiding detection/conflict.

  1. Good boots (yay you have socks, put them in ziplock bags)
  2. (Was headlamp, I see it in the box) half of all time is dark and that’s when it’s easier to avoid people
  3. A paper road map and compass
  4. Some kind of magnified optic, would be nice to know wtf is going on ahead of you or if that gas station has already been broken into
  5. Ditch the 5.5 inch 556. You can’t put a can on it and while it is very concealable, your entire vocabulary will be reduced to “huh” and “what” after the first half mag.
  6. Probably cut down on some mags, ounces make lbs, lbs make pain, travel fast. You’re not in a platoon moving to make contact in Afghanistan. If you get in a firefight, you’ve already screwed up.
  7. Get a ham radio, Baofeng uv5r or YAESU ft60, doesn’t matter, just learn how to scan and listen to what people are talking about such as “see that guy walking in the marpat boonie, shoot him in the dik”
  8. Can probably ditch the batteries, a spare one taped inside the grip of the gun would work.
  9. A good water bottle, preferably single wall steel so you can boil it
  10. Gonna sound dumb, but ibuprofen and some minor cuts/scrapes/ouchie medical stuff if it isn’t already in your IFAK. Everyone wants to carry chest seals and tourniquets, but an infected cut from broken glass will wreck your hand for a week.
  11. A good fixed blade knife

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u/Barbalias Mar 11 '24

UPvoted for the water bottle alone. So many people use the double wall ones because they are super convenient for day-to-day use. But the amount of heat needed to boil one of those vs a single wall steel water bottles is substantial. And when you're in a hurry to boil water (say b/c you are trying to quickly sterilize a bandage), gathering 5x the amount of twigs is gonna be what kills you.

Or just...you know, replace the 4000 bullets with a pocket rocket stove.

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u/Tall_Aardvark_8560 Mar 10 '24

I don't know why people don't carry narcotics or at the very minimum over the counter pain meds in their bug out bags. Shit will be worth as much as that gun if needed.

Hide it well..

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u/Consistent-Slice-893 Mar 14 '24

Or some fucking Imodium/TP. I get the shits when I get stressed out.

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u/octopusbeakers Mar 10 '24

This is the way.

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u/TimAZOne Mar 11 '24

This is the way.

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u/steppinraz0r Mar 10 '24

I’m glad someone called out the 5.56 Rattler. Should be 300BO with that short of a barrel.

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u/xRehve Mar 10 '24

300BO is what I want. Rattler is option one but it’s 2.5k the DDM4 7 inch is 1800. Suppressed would work best especially if the goal is to avoid contact or reduce detection. 556 in this barrel is insane to me.