Bugout Bag? What’s Inside and Why?

good morning guys i'm dave canterbury with suffer lines outfitters in the pathfinder school and i thought we would break away from the normal series that we're working on right now and i did an event this past weekend here in ohio and i taught a class on building a bug out bag and i've never really done a video on my interpretations of how to or what consists of or the things in a bug out bag what a bug out bag really is what it means those type things i've never really done a video on that so i thought i would take the time today to shoot a video on building a bug out bag okay let's talk about bug out bags for a minute what that means what that entails to me bugging out means that you're leaving one location that may not be safe anymore and you're moving over distance to another location that you believe to be safe and there could be multitudes of reason for this natural disaster would be a good reason here in southeast ohio flooding could be a reason for that tornadoes could be a reason for that but you are moving from one unsafe place to a safe place so the distance that you may have to move and how long it's going to take you to get there can definitely dictate what is in that bug outback the environment and season can definitely dictate what's in that bug out bag so it's not as easy as building one little bag and throwing it in a corner and saying this is my bug out bag it should be something that is correct for the season correct for the environment correct for the amount of days and time that you may be traveling and also light enough weight that you can travel and that's important i see lots of bug out bags out there look like they weigh a hundred pounds you're not going to move very far over distance with a 100 pound backpack especially if you're doing it through a wooded environment in this area where there's a lot of undulation of terrain one of the biggest things that knocks people out of our basic survival classes is not being physically fit enough to carry their own gear and we're not talking about an extreme amount of gear like some people put in a bug out bag we're talking about normal everyday gear so let's kind of break this down a little bit talk about it and have a better deeper conversation about building our bug out bag now lots of people are going to say but dave what about the 10 c's dave what about the five c's all of those are going to be incorporated into this bug out bag that we're going to build again it's just going to depend on how long we need to bug out or how long the distance is it takes us to get to the safe location how many days of travel we have in between and the time of year that we're in as well here in ohio because we're building this bag as if it were an ohio bug out bag for this terrain and this environment and right now in this season which is early summer okay so let's get that all out of the way first now if we're going to move over distance we have to keep things as lightweight as possible and as multifunctional as possible and this is really no different than the base survival mentality that i teach at my school week in and week out to people about basic intermediate advanced level survival now when it comes to tools and that would be the first thing i would think about when it comes to building any bag so for a short term bug out bag when i say short term three four days that may take me to get from point a to point b on foot i want to keep it as light as possible and i want to have tools that are very multi-functional in nature now i'm gonna have a saw in this bag and it is inside the pack and we'll get to that in a minute and i'll show it to you but it's a silky big boy all right that's going to process firewood as quickly as i need to process firewood if i need to stop for a night i'm not going to carry an axe i'm going to carry a shovel something like this cold steel shovel will do 90 of what an axe will do in the short term if it needs to be very very quick it will limb it will chop down small saplings and it will bust up firewood if needs be as well then an axe would serve the purpose of but yet this will also dig holes to make shelters and things like that dig cattle dig fire pits all the things you're not going to want to do with an axe and you certainly don't want to pick up a digging stick it has a wooden handle so it can be replaced on the fly if you break it as long as you have something to take the screws out and that's where your sak comes in a good solid belt knife from either pathfinder knife shop sc knives morgarberg any of those heavy duty belt knifes in that four to five inch range are going to be good and then i would always have some type of sak in my pocket that has a spare saw blade a knife blade a phillips head screwdriver and a couple of tools on it to peripherally help me do things in case there's something i want to do a small task that that larger knife might be too big and unwieldy to accomplish and this is also the knife that i would use for processing any food if i need to process food which we're going to get to in a minute because we shouldn't be processing food in a bug out bag scenario but this knife gives us lots of smaller tools that we can use as we travel it also gives us that toothpick and that set of tweezers that are great for first aid which we're going to talk about as a high priority when we're bugging out here in just a minute as well so simple tools belt knife sak shovel and a main saw it's not going to add a lot of weight to your kit but it's very multi-functional okay so when we look at building a bag like this really what we're doing is we want to address our survival priorities and i talk about the top five survival priorities and the last one is the one that really changes when it comes to bugging out so our first priority is always going to be self-aid or first aid we can't do anything else if we're bleeding out obviously if we can't breathe or we can't move there's nothing else we can do we have to address and fix that problem first i always have a tourniquet on the outside of my pack somewhere this one is at the ready on the shoulder strap if it's a bug out bag so that i know exactly where it's at and i'm always going to be able to get to it as fast as possible that's very very important also have backups to this kind of stuff like the belt that's around your waist the shimagus in your bag the utility paracord it's in your pocket backups are always good to have but know that you have the real deal right here at the ready if you need it now our second priority and we'll talk more about sulfate because i don't carry a lot of self-aid measures with me because this tourniquet is my bleeding stop gap most everything else i can handle with duct tape and a bandana and plants around me if i know the eastern woodlands well which i do that doesn't mean that you shouldn't carry a first aid kit with you just don't get extravagant with that first aid kit and think that you have to have a bunch of vitamins and a bunch of drugs and things like that that aren't prescribed to you have things that will control bleeding have things that you can splint things off with things that you can isolate with those are the things that you want in a first aid kit if you carry one in addition to your bag now our second priority is always going to be cover and our cover is going to start with the clothing on our back so we're going to want to dress for the proper season have the proper clothing on and then some type of outerwear in this pack that we can use in addition to that and if our outerwear is also part of our shelter again it's a bonus because we have multi-functionality built into our gear so let's kind of break this open for a minute and talk about that and i'm kind of going back and forth with this pack a little bit just because of the way it's packed it's packed as if i were going to need this stuff so what's on top of my bag generally is food because i'm going to grab that out of the top whenever i stop for a meal we'll talk about that in just a minute shimon that's my bandaging that's my washcloth that's for wiping down filtering water before it goes into a main filter to get the debris and things out of it military style poncho helicon tech this is outerwear for rain it is also a tarp over either a makeshift hammock it's going to be fairly short or on the ground and i prefer to sleep on the ground if i'm thinking about a scenario like this i would much rather just be able to throw something on the ground and sleep than to worry about do i have the proper trees at the proper distance and you know where am i looking to put this hammock blah blah blah blah it's easier just throw something on the ground anywhere you decide to stop so remember that this is a piece of outerwear as well as a tarp because this is rain gear now also in the bottom of this pack and there's not a lot in here there is a ground pad this is a snug pack pad it can be used either in a makeshift hammock or on the ground so again it's kind of multifunctional it can be used for a sip pad if i need to stop there's lots of things i can use this for but and it also floats when it's closed up so it can also be a flotation device if i need it now rope bag bank line paracord stakes rope management system if you look at my video on cordage management you'll see that stuff but i do carry steaks with me in any emergency bag or bug out bag i would have steaks because i'm not going to take the time to make steaks or look for steaks when i can just carry either titanium or lightweight abs and pound those in the ground as needed i've got a pair of leather gloves in there but again that is part of our cover because we're going to use those any time we're manipulating things around the ground area so we don't get poison ivy we don't get stickers we don't make things worse when we're trying to travel quickly okay map case talk about that in a few minutes the last part of our cover that we have in here is we have a swagman roll swagman roll can be an underquilt for a hammock it can be a sleeping bag it can be something that we put under the poncho and we wear as outerwear to insulate us or we can wear it stand alone out of outerwear to insulate us so it's very multifunctional piece of gear that's good to about 40 degrees and when you combine that with the poncho itself you've got a pretty good layered system there that you can use down into a little bit colder weather than that but definitely get you out of the wind and rain if needs be as well as on the ground for sleeping so that pretty much covers everything that's inside the pack other than one bug net bivvy this is a very old bivvy sack made by oh wear tarps i don't even know if they make it anymore but it's just a flat bivvy that you can lay out stuff the sleeping pad into stuff the swagman roll into and it's bug proof so again weather environment dependent but it doesn't weigh anything and it is mesh i've talked to you guys about this power film solar brick and solar panel in a past video you can look that up to find out about this but this gives me the capability to charge anything i need to charge from radios all the way up to cell phones on the fly and i can recharge this brick while i'm at it okay and the other thing in this bucket is the saw that we talked about and it's on one side so there's really not a lot in here when you look at what's inside this pack you have the swagman roll at the very bottom you have a ground pad a bivvy sack that is a net and waterproof on the bottom and on either side of that you have your solar and you have your saw all of those can be gotten to from the top of the pack just by opening it now we'll keep the map bag out for a minute we'll keep the rest of this out for a minute we'll go ahead and put this rope bag back inside for now so that covers us as far as cover elements go and our chamog again is part of a cover element for shade things like that wrapping around our neck to keep in warmth but also part of our first aid as well as our water filtration so again everything's working multi-functionally okay once we get beyond our cover when to think about combustion what can we do to start fire because that's going to number one give us the ability to stay warm number two give us the ability to heat water and disinfect it from groundwater pathogens and things like that we also have other ways to disinfect our water we'll talk about in here as well but let's talk about combustion first always always have a cigarette lighter in your pocket a bic lighter wrap with some one inch duct tape that is my number one fire starting resource fire starting emergency kit right there it's very very simple it doesn't need to be fancy no matter what anybody tells you duct tape is slammable you've got open flame with lighter you're good now backups to that in the top pouch of this pack i have my compass which is the sunto mc2 that has a magnifying glass on it i also have inside here i'm trying not to get everything out of here at once on you guys so i'm just trying to fish around for what i'm looking for which is a fair cerium rod good five to six inch three eighths to half inch diameter fair serum rod again wrapped in duct tape does have a tungsten striker attached to it this is the one we saw on our website it's soft it works you don't have to do a lot of scraping on this thing you can barely scrape it with this tungsten steel and it throws sparks i'm barely even touching that thing to throw those sparks if you really get after it you're going to get a lot of sparks so you got three ways of combustion now there's one thing that we want to talk about with combustion in here and i'm going to leave these things out of here so i know i've talked about them already okay there's one other thing we want to talk about as far as combustion with our bug outback whatever food we're carrying should be easily heated and only need hot water or edible on the run and if it's going to be something you heat water with or you may need to disinfect water and you want to have a backup to a filter then you're going to need some type of device that will give you open flame and so i would tell you to carry a camp stove now i'm going to pull some things out of here that we're going to talk about later as far as food only because the camp stove is on the bottom of the pile mesh bag very very simple there is one can one large can of fuel in here that's brand new and there is one coleman stove in here that's less than 20 bucks or 20 bucks on amazon but it's heavy duty it's not some small frail thing that you would use backpacking it's something that if you bang this thing around it's still going to work for you it works okay so while we've got this stove out we just did a demo on how it works very simple food again short term three days we have three just add water meals here by stowaway gourmet three packs of jiffy peanut butter that can be eaten on the fly and three packets of copica coffee very simple quick and dirty three days worth of food if you want more you can take it but this is lightweight and easy it doesn't take a whole lot to prepare one thing i would shove in this bag along with the food is a long-handled spoon of some sort should be able to get down in those bags and eat and it makes your life a lot easier all right our next priority is going to be water and i keep all my water kit basically outside this pack except for the chamog which we talked about using as a pre-filter before we put water through a filter we'll go into that in just a minute so inside this bag are two or three devices one of them is a large 30 liter dry bag very flexible this allows me to carry water from point a to point b if my camp is possibly a good ways away from a water source i can carry a large amount of water in this bag back to camp for disinfection i can also use this inside the pack to waterproof everything or use it to waterproof tender sources and things like that for the next morning multi-functionality is the key the next thing i have in here is a 32 ounce water bottle that can be used to boil water in if i want to it's just a bottle and a lid i can collect water with this i can boil water in this i can filter it through the bandana if i want to before i boil it or after i boil it the last thing in this bag is my grail geopress for disinfecting water on the fly you can look up the specs on grail i trust it with my life i drank water all over the world in this thing and as long as you're conscious about where you collect the water as far as turbidity or filter that turbidity out first this filter will last a long time longer than you're going to be bugging out and that is the key not how how long will it last will it last longer than you're going to be bugging out yes it will unless you drink water like two elephants there's a cup for this that is a prototype that has not been released yet that will be released third late third quarter of this year that is a state heavy duty stainless steel cup with large batwing handles on it and a lid that is made specifically to nest on this grail because this grail is slightly tapered there's no nice big cup on the market today that will fit this bottle correctly as an exact fit it gives you another option of a steel container that you can use with this as a standalone kit for disinfecting water so you can boil if possible or filter if it's not possible and again you have a lid that goes with that but that's a very simple kit for disinfecting your water but it's very effective especially in the short term and again we're not talking about forever here we're talking about the short term okay so we'll stuff that back in there and then we'll move on now i like to give people options because like i said there's no such thing as the perfect bug out bag and what's good for me may not be as good for you what i trust you may not trust so you have to build your kit around what you're comfortable with a second option would be to carry something like this large water bladder that's made by mountain safety research at six liters and you can it's made out of a heavy canvas type material you're not going to tear it up you can take the large cap off of this thing to fill it up at the source here once you get back to camp again i would filter the water before you put it in here through a shimanoga bandana once you get back to camp you can plug some type of soil filter into that if you want to just like that and hang it from a tree and make a gravity filter out of it that will work fine too however my experience is if you're not really careful these will get clogged up on you again how long does it have to last as long as it takes you to bug out from point a to point b not forever because this is a good option and it rolls up fairly flat we put into a backpack so our last priority as far as our survival priorities in an emergency scenario would be navigation or signaling for rescue signaling is a form of communication but i would probably circumvent that with communication period and navigation in a bug out scenario you're probably going to want to communicate or at least be able to gather information while you're traveling so we've got our compass we talked about already we have a map of the area and a protractor so that we can plot grid coordinates of someone that gives them to us and then we should obviously have our cell phone that's fully charged in case it does work and then we should have some type of a backup communication device like a radio and i've done lots of videos on ham radio lately and there's a reason for that i believe it's important to be able to communicate if something happens that cell phones do not work correctly now with that said i'm going to tell you the same thing i told you when i started the ham radio series get yourself a cheap baofang boothwing however you want to pronounce it radio off amazon learn how to unlock that radio you can look at just a rubicon has some fantastic videos on the ev5 r my buddy josh nas at hamrido crash course has some fantastic videos on that radio there are some ins and outs to that you need to watch those videos to understand but here's what i'm telling you in an emergency situation no one is coming after you because you talk on the wrong frequency or because you don't have the right license day to day you should adhere to fcc rules period being a good citizen however in an emergency all bets are off the difference between that cheap 25 30 uv5r and something that cost six or seven hundred dollars is that that six or seven hundred dollar radio is going to be very limited in the bands it can talk on and you're either going to buy a gmrs radio that's going to talk on gmrs frequency only and it may be two or three hundred dollars or you're gonna buy something that's five six seven hundred dollars that cost that only works on ham bands two meter seventy centimeter or you're gonna buy something that is a cheap radio shack reader that only talks on frs or some mid-range gmrs radio in between that somewhere buying that thirty dollar twenty five thirty dollar bow flying radio and unlocking it allows you to hear everything from weather to gmrs frs some of the hand bands as well as other emergency services and things of that nature that are unencrypted can you talk on those bans legally by fcc regulation not without the proper license in the proper radio however again we're saying emergency scenario i want all i can get for my money get that then you'll have your communication pretty well stacked in place now there's a couple other things we should talk about within this backpack that don't really fall into those exacting categories kind of like the food didn't but they're things to think about okay and some of them are things that i carry day to day anyway because really this backpack is no different in most ways than the backpack i would take if i going camping for the most part so i've got four disposable wipes biodegradable again i'm taking three four days right i have a couple of notebooks in here right in the rain and one or two pins to jot down notes and things like that i have a roll of one inch duct tape in the top of this pack that i use as part of my self aid but also for repair it's also good for fire starting multi-functionality that's what we're all about ferro rod we've already discussed then i have a camp rag in here by super essie straps that is orange on one side i can use for a waypoint marker if i'm exploring an area of the woods when i'm traveling but it's also made out of kevlar material so i can use it to grab things off fire use it to protect the hand if i'm cutting all those types of things it works well for and again it doesn't take up very much room in the pack so it gives you a good utility rag i have a cigarette lighter in the top of this pack that's in an exo-tac waterproof case multiple cigarette lighters one in my pocket one in my pack i have a black diamond headlight with multiple modes including flash and spare batteries for that headlight and then charging cables for not only the phone also for the radio one more pin okay those are the things that i'm carrying and these cables will plug into that large brick we talked about from power foam so i can charge all the things i need to charge on the fly so those are the things i generally keep in the top of this pack that are kind of my ready access thing in the top exterior pocket of this pack that i may need to get to right away and on the fly everything else that you saw goes inside the pack itself those things always ride at the ready along with the compass that goes in there as well now a couple more things real fast okay there's going to be people that are going to say i would not not have a hammock i would not not have a hammock okay that's fine my preference would not be that if i had to sleep anywhere i could flop a hammock may not be the ideal thing however what you can do can do is carry something multifunctional and what i've gotten this dry bag which could fit into that pack especially if i took one thing out and again you're gonna have to swap things in and out is a vietnam era military jungle hammock this thing is waterproof so it will make a ground sheet on the ground if i want to sleep on the ground with it put my pad on top of it but it also makes a fairly short hammock with nothing but paracord or rope so it's very good for a makeshift quick and dirty hammock if i need it and then there's also a full on eight by eight oh we're tarpon here i've had this overwear tarp for probably 10 years and it's still fine it's still serviceable however i don't think something that's an 8x8 is necessary for sleeping on the ground i can use a poncho for that that's more multi-functional to sleep on the ground in some kind of a burrito roll as a shelter or as outerwear where these things won't work for that but if you insist on a hammock i would go with a system that's very simple like this so that it does become more multi-functional for you in the end and it will fit into a very small bag that's not going to take up a lot of room inside your pack and it's going to be waterproof at the same time so you can carry water over distance with that bag or collect water in that bag if you need to okay so before we go i know what you're thinking he didn't say anything about firearms you're right he didn't not because i don't think it's important because showing firearms on youtube is the quickest way to get your channel and your stuff demonetized or at least limited and who gets to see it and who can advertise on your videos so i wanted a lot of people to be able to see this video so i did not put a firearm in the video however we can talk about that here at the end of the video if you stuck around that long here's my take on it again point a to point b as fast as i can get there i'm not worried about hunting i'm not worried about getting food i'm carrying that with me all i'm worried about is eliminating a threat along the way a smaller caliber nine millimeter semi-automatic handgun glock 19 pretty much operate the slide pull the trigger she's going to go bang it's very simple nine millimeter ammo is very common that's your best bet if you want to carry extra ammo carry it in 30 round magazines two of those magazines in your backpack along with the mag in the gun is going to give you a full box of ammo on top of what you have in the gun that's ready to be used in the gun if needs be if you decide you're going to have to have a long gun for some reason i just have to have it i don't feel right without a long gun in my bug out bag i would tell you to find something the same caliber that's reliable as your handgun same caliber that's reliable as your handgun i can give you an example of that in my case i would say if you're going to carry a long gun you think you need that capability with your sidearm kel-tec sub 2000 is a good nine millimeter and it takes glock magazines so the same magazines that fit the glock 19 fit the kel-tec sub 2000 and it gives you a longer gun with the same ammunition and the same magazines that's my thought process when it comes to that stuff and i've talked to you guys about that kind of stuff over and over again in other videos but for me the simplest sidearm to carry for a bug out bag scenario what i would carry would just be a glock 19 because again i'm just trying to quickly eliminate a single threat i'm not trying to hunt i'm not trying to forage none of that stuff i just want to get from point a to point b as fast as possible guys i appreciate you doing this video today i thank you for everything you do for our school for family and for business follow our sponsor instructors affiliates and friends and i'll be back in the video as soon as i can guys thanks for your 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Length: 29min 24sec (1764 seconds)

Published: Tue May 17 2022