Coronavirus Bug Out Pt 3 - Jeep Bugout Adventure

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] follow along with me in this video as I kind of show you guys how I am prepared or am not prepared for a situation like this and explore what it looks like to actually bug out a town to get away from a virus like this in this video series I'm basically practicing a scenario where I bug outta town due to a widespread pandemic event the irony is I'm doing this exercise during an actual pandemic event as the corona virus and kovat 19 rapidly sweeps across the country in part 1 of this video series I made the journey out of town straight from the office with just the gear and equipment that was currently packed in my vehicle I made my way out into the woods to a predetermined location and spent that first day setting up the beginnings of my bug-out camp in part two I made some important ink improvements and started the process of employing my gear and supplies here in part 3 I continued that critical inventory process and show you guys my cutting tools my firearms and ammunition and the modular gear that allows me to bug out away from my vehicle even further on foot so next I'm going to show you guys the module of gear which is the level of my gear that allows me to walk away from the vehicle and have everything I need to survive now and that course of my normal over landing off-road adventures traveling in remote places in the backcountry the really important function that this serves as this gives me the freedom this is my ultimate fallback option for if my vehicle goes down on me so this pack has everything I need in it shelter food water water filtration clothing this has everything I need in it to sustain life for about 5 to 7 days really comfortably from a bug-out perspective this serves as my inch or my bug-out pack so in the context of a bug-out scenario maybe what happens is my location gets compromised I feel threatened by other people encroaching on the area and I need to go deeper in the woods and if that's the case I grab this pack this pistol belt this Hill people gear chest pack and then probably a long arm of my choice and I head off into the woods so I'll go over real quick kind of roughly what's contained in each and then I think I'm actually going to do a series of breakout videos that goes breaks down each one of them in detail the pistol belt it's a t-rex arms Orion belt inner and outer belt so gloves to pistol magazines one rifle magazine a dump pouch that has two extra rifle magazines and one extra pistol magazine in it I've got a med kit kind of major bleeding blowout kit there with a few extra things in it got the coyote works survival knife and I got my Glock 34 in a Safariland holster so I'll go over in more detail in another video but that's the basics of what's on my pistol belt the hill people give chest pack has basics that I want handy while I'm on the trail so I've got like antibacterial wipes obviously a lot of instant coffee packets some basic meds ibuprofen heartburn medication acetaminophen stuff like that allergy meds benadryl and then inside it I've got stuff like a headlamp an extra knife flashlight a compass yeah natural compass a couple of energy bars fire steel knife sharpener stainless steel spork so the primary function of this Hill people gear chest pack is to provide me easy access to items that I want to use pretty regularly on the trail or that I might need so things like my fire steel compass flashlight stuff like that but other purpose of this is that it serves as kind of my first line survival kit so this is a the baseline filled survival kit which would allow me to at least spend 24 hours I would say 24 to 48 hours fairly easily with the gear that's in this so the idea is that pretty much any time I hike very far away from the vehicle I've got this on me but this also provides some redundancy to some of the gear that's on my shooters belt and or in my inch pack so they all work together or they can all kind of work independently of each other all right so this is basically my entire to take off on foot right now this pack weighs about 50 pounds or right out 48 pounds with all the water and everything in it however it is set up for four seasons and it has some extra stuff in it too now I'm going to do a breakout video to show you guys the detail on what's in this pack but suffice it to say this is basically my setup for walking off the grid so I got my pack set up pretty well so I can run all my gear run my handgun run my rifle I can run everything pretty well with it currently I'm probably not in good enough shape to load this thing 15 25 miles a day but it probably can make it 8 to 10 miles a day going nice and slow with 50 pounds on it and I always have the option of jettison a bunch of equipment from it as well I think it's worth touching base quickly on another module in here which is my recovery gear I keep some pretty basic stuff couple extra snatch blocks static line dynamic line soft shackles hard shackles and that's about it but that gives me the ability not only to recover my vehicle if I were to get stuck on my way to or from my bug-out location but also a huge mechanical advantage if I needed to move a big tree out of the way or perform some other major tasks like that alright so for guns and ammo what do we have well for the most part what we have is pretty typically what I would have on me in this situation with the exception of one extra I've got this Benelli m3 shotgun that I got from the chief and prime Dale shoutout to the chief thank you sir been enjoying the shotgun the only reason this is with me right now is just because I brought it with me on this trip do shoot at ring it out a little bit with the exception of this all the other guns are pretty typically what I would have inside my inch pack I have one firearm I have in here a twenty two single shot revolver and the reason why I have this and my inch pack is this thing is an awesome little game getter like I'm pretty deadly on Sage rats and small birds and things like that with it for it I've got 250 rounds of ammo all right so that's one firearm is a 22 long rifle single shot revolver and this is my Glock 19 X which is my everyday carry gun this is my concealed gun that I carry every single day so if I was bugging out I would have this on me no matter what so I would have this with at least one full magazine in it and probably another full magazine in my pocket or in my backpack my EDC backpack and then the pistol belt that I showed you guys I'm gonna have my Glock 34 and this is equipped with Trijicon RMR and a surefire weapon light on it and then my Remington 870 my trusty old Remington 870 this thing has been with me for a long time this thing just takes a beating and keeps on tickin then this is the heavy-duty the law-enforcement version with a heavy barrel and everything so it is a heavy shotgun but man this thing is just a tank then in addition to that if at all possible I would throw in an ar-15 with me in this case I have my ar-15 in because oftentimes I'm headed out to the range on Friday after work so I'll have an ar-15 in the rig with me so I would have this with me and a bug-out scenario if a I had an opportunity to go home and grab it or if be I already had it in my vehicle so now let's talk about ammo for these guys for the ar-15 I've got four thirty round magazines all the way full so 120 rounds of ammo for the rifle six full pistol magazines about 30 rounds of shotgun ammo and about 250 rounds of 22 mo so that's the scenario for guns and ammo so I feel like that would be plenty I can't envision a scenario in a bug-out situation where I would need much more ammo than that in fact I think that amount of ammo would probably last me a long time if I'm gonna do any hunting for small game I'm probably gonna use the shotgun or the 22 pistol so between those two I've got almost 300 rounds so you figure if I was able to shoot one small game animal a day with that that's almost a year's worth of feeding myself every day I'm thinking that the ar-15 and the nine millimeters would mostly be saved for self-defense with the exception of if I did get desperate enough for a bug-out situation lasted long enough where I needed to drop a deer and elk I would do that with the ar-15 I think something else that's worth mentioning is I do have this 1101 or a thousand watt portable power station with me and the reason why this is important in a bug-out type scenario is because I want to stay in contact with what's going on I want to be able to monitor the news and everything so I need to be able to keep batteries charging up I do also have a ham radio with me so I want to be able to keep it charged up I can scan with it listen for any local radio traffic stuff like that so the power station great deal I also have that solar panel that's on my light that can keep my phone and my iPad charged up so having a portable power station is a must now one downside to this is I don't really have currently a way to charge this by in the Sun so the only way I have with me to charge this is through my vehicle charging system which means I would have to run the vehicle and use some gas alright guys so I wanted to go over all the various cutting tools that I have in my kit and this is an area where my opinion you just cannot have too much redundancy the ability to make fire and the ability to be able to fashion things out of your environment with cutting tools are two of the most critical abilities to have to be able to survive out here those are also two of the most difficult things to replicate out in the wilderness environment so what I mean by that is yeah you can break a rock and you can get a rock to be able to process meat with but it is an extremely extremely exorbitant amount of effort to process game with a sharp stone as opposed to a good knife so I'm going to start with nine so what I have for knives is I always have my coyote works 2.0 and coyote works 1.0 survival knives so the 1.0 is that big robust survival knife that's meant to be a jack-of-all-trades and meant to be able to handle some pretty heavy-duty stuff full-tang fixed blade knives both of these the Caddy works 2.0 or as some people call it the coyote works pop is meant to be more of that practical camp bushcraft carving knife this is my go-to knife for really any kind of small tasks around camp it's also designed with a really broad belly on the blade so it's an excellent skinning knife and game processing knife as well so there's two fixed blade knives there that are theoretically backup for each other in addition to that I'm always gonna have an EDC knife now because this is a bug-out scenario and I left from my office I happen to be carrying this zero tolerance knife the ZT knife I normally I'm carry in a benchmade automatic now I also have a backup folding knife that lives inside my Hill people gear chest pack this is an extremely expensive knife but this is the Ontario Knife Company I think they call it the model one and this is just a good solid folding knife with a decent sized blade so that gives me actually four knives in my kit so plenty of redundancy there are a lot of a lot of backup for if something should happen to one of them so now let's move on to some more workhorse cutting tools well I'm always gonna have a good axe with me this thing actually lives just strapped to the side of that my inch bug-out pack but this is a grand force Brook small forest axe one of my favorite axes of all time they are fairly expensive there are some other good axes out there that fill the same role for me this is about all the axe I need it's the right balance between not being extremely heavy and bulky but being efficient enough that it helps me accomplish a wide variety of tasks out here so building shelter all kinds of stuff like that processing wood another cutting tool that I have is the silky Big Boy this is the Big Boy XL mm with the curved blade and this is really important for a couple of reasons one this curved blade is slightly thicker than the blades that come on the red handle or the black handle silky Big Boy and then secondly this is a much more efficient cutter and one thing you do have to keep in mind with the silkies is a lot of people believe they're fragile they're not fragile as long as you remember that they only cut on the pole stroke what happens is people try to push them forward and then the blade binds they're not designed to cut on the forward stroke they're designed to cut on the pole stroke so put your downward pressure on the pole stroke and then let up on the forward stroke but these silky big boys are machines and then of course more recently I've added the electric chainsaw now from a bug-out perspective I'm only gonna get so much out of this but with two sets of batteries it's gonna give me about 40 to 50 minutes worth of cut time which actually is enough time for me to do the major processing on as many logs as I might need to build a shelter or to set myself up with a good supply of firewood that would last me for a while so that's what I've got about four knives grants force brucks small forest axe silkie big boy XL mm saw and my Makita electric chainsaw I did want to mention that if any of you guys are interested in the original cavity work survival knife or the county or its bushcraft camp knife 2.0 both of those are available from Chad seek a knife and tool you can find him on Instagram hat seek a knife and tool horrid his website seek a knife and tool just Google seek a knife and tool and you'll find Chad so caddy warps 1.0 ultimate survival knife and caddy warts 2.0 the survival knife slash camp knife so I do also keep him radio right here along with a multi-tool and a couple other items inside that deal on the back of my head rest down here my door I've got bug repellent some more disposable gloves I always have those handy in case I have to touch something oily or underneath the engine compartment of the vehicle I've got my vehicle repair kit stashed right back here I'll go over that in another video but I think I'm kind of getting down to the end of my inventory here so I'm gonna sit down collect my thoughts and then give you guys a rundown on how I think I fared as far as how well-prepared I am for a potential bug out you know it's actually kind of crazy when I really get down to inventory and everything that's in my Jeep how much gear is actually in there you know the good news is as I think there's plenty of gear in there that I could be really comfortable easily for 30 to 45 days in a potential bug out scenario this is about a wrap on this practice bug out trip I'm getting ready to pack on my gear up but I was thinking about kind of some of what I learned and experienced on this trip and I really believe that it's valuable and important to do this a couple of times a year with all my various kind of bug out kit so this trip was kind of all about testing out my vehicle-borne bug out kit which to a large degree is the same kit that I use for most of my camping and exploring but the same can be said for most of my bug out gear like for example my inch pack has pretty much the same gear in it that I would need to just go on a backpacking trip for five to seven days it's maybe a little heavier on tools for a situation like that if I was just going on a backpacking trip I probably would lighten the load up a little bit but other than it's pretty much the same gear to come out and go camping for an extended period of time as it would be debug out to the woods so was thinking again about the scenario about what's happening right now back in town with a corona virus and it was really nice just to get out here for a couple of days get away from it all not worry about catching the corona virus or getting infected from somebody not worried about all the drama that's surrounding it right now and the state of Oregon right now all of the bars and restaurants are closed they've banned gatherings over 25 people so it's really just kind of a crap show back in town anywhere so if nothing else this was really nice just to get out here and relax for a couple of days it's all in all I'm gonna call this trip a success oh yeah definitely figured out some deficiencies in my gear one thing is my food supply I want to shore it up a little bit I do think after this experience what I am really pleased with is and for as many years as I've been doing this this shouldn't be a terrible surprise but I definitely feel confident that with the gear that rides around in my Jeep all the time I definitely could survive out here and be fairly comfortable for a good 30 to 45 days now my food supply was a little weak I would have to supplement that food supply but I think with just a little bit of hunting a little bit of small game procurement handful of robbing some quail things like that I could easily supplement my food supply and that's really about the only thing that I don't feel like was quite there to last me a whole 30 to 45 days so anyway I'm gonna get packing up and we'll hit the trail back into town we'll do a little bit of exploring along the way you know one thing about this trip that I was thinking is if nothing else this exercise of dragging literally everything out of my Jeep and going through it and inventory it as a good thing to do at least once a year so if you're like me and most of your kit just stays in your rig all the time a couple of things can happen one is over the course of a year or so you bring along one or two pieces of year that are specific to a certain trip and then maybe you don't take him back out so one thing that can happen is you can accumulate more gear than you actually need so definitely in the course of this I came across a few things that I can take out of here several things that are just duplicated triplicated that I just don't need that much of and then the other thing is going through everything and discovering things that you don't have so in that in this case I was pretty happy I feel like I really had most everything that I needed or most everything that I would want for an extended bug-out situation out here for 30 to 45 days there were a couple of things like I said food supply I think ideally it would be nice to have maybe about five to ten more gallons of potable water ready but I guess really the point that I wanted to make is just that it is a valuable exercise just to go through and pull everything out of your rig inventory it and go through eliminate things you don't need and make a list of things that you need to add into it so that in and of itself was a really good aspect of this for me hi guys this Odyssey tent is so much easier to stow away without dealing with the cover or anything just four latches and that's it she is stowed and everything's still locked down good on top all right I just got a couple more things to throw in and we'll be on the trail and with that I was on the trail and headed for home so one question that might stand out to you is how much different is a bug-out trip like this from one of my normal Overland camping expeditions and in a lot of respects the truth is there really isn't much difference but the big difference is mindset the mindset of my typical backcountry solo adventure is really more about exploring relaxing and enjoying myself the mindset on a mock bug-out trip like this is very specifically about examining my gear skills and equipment against the backdrop of this disaster situation in this case a widespread pandemic event requiring me to bug out a civilization and head off to the woods for an unknown period of time it really comes down to giving myself an honest answer to the question as to how well would I do or how well am I prepared for a scenario like this there's two reasons why being prepared is important and why answering questions like this is important the first is the obvious one from time to time the proverbial s just does hit the fan natural disasters man-made disasters wildfires floods hurricanes or situations like the one we're in now with a widespread pandemic event do happen and when they happen inevitably having very specific skills gear and supplies can make a huge difference and safer navigating the other reason for me why I feel it's critically important to be prepared for a variety of emergencies and have some good basic survival skills as it allows me to walk through life with a lot more confidence and a lot less worried pursuing my interest in the outdoors exploring and adventuring takes me to some of the most remote places in the West and most of the time I'm solo on these adventures now there's a lot that can go wrong in that situation but I'm able to go out there and enjoy the experience because for the most part most anything that can happen I've got the gear I need to deal with it and I've got the skills I need to deal with it it's a little early to tell what direction this current corona virus pandemic event is gonna take our country personally I don't think it's gonna be the event that breaks our country's back I don't think it's gonna be the one that causes our society to collapse but I do think it's gonna be rough I think we're gonna see some suffering I think we're gonna see some death I think before it's all over we're gonna see a lot of economic strain on our country and some hard times ahead as a result of this event but regardless of what happens having some basic plans some basic preparedness and some basic supplies definitely gives me the opportunity to worry a lot less about what direction this might take so I hope you all enjoyed this video I look forward to your comments appreciate your support and I'll see you guys on the next adventure until then coyote works [Music]

Channel: Coyote Works

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Keywords: bugout, jeep, coronavirus, shtf, bug out, overland, camping, oregon

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Length: 26min 0sec (1560 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 22 2020