Ditched my bug out bag for an INCH BAG
what is up i am redoing my bag system here and i thought it'd be a good time with everything unpacked to kind of go through it um i for all of 2020 i had an inch bag aka i'm never coming home i had a bug out bag which was in the trunk of my car so it doubled up as a get home bag um and then i had like a everyday carry kind of small thing i kept in my glove compartment in case it got in a car accident or shot or something so the problem with having a bug out bag and an inch bag is that a lot of items you have to buy twice and that's just really expensive and the other thing is i'm constantly figuring out what to put in what bag so you know i have the bug out bag i can i can survive out there for 72 or more hours but in reality if i was able to come home first and then bug out i'm i'm stuck sitting on the ground switching out things for things i much prefer so it's kind of like this weird it's never harmonized the way i want it because some bags have things i've heard you know i prefer and then other things that i prefer in a different bag and ideally i want them all together so where i'm at now is it's basically i'm just having and i'm never coming home bag the weight is going to be heavier but it's easier to grab it's already got all my ideal items in it and i can stay out there for a week or longer if i need to um as opposed to having a whole bunch of bags and buying tons of stuff and it's just it's too confusing so i'm trying to consolidate everything into one bag if there was an instance where i would need more than one bag for another person or i'm just going camping or something i have that too and then that way the things that are non-essential or supplemental such as winter items like gloves or an axe or a hatchet i can add or just camping i could take items like you know fuel for uh miniature stove and whatnot or i could just put together a bag quickly for another family member or friend in case of uh stuff hits the fan situation i do a lot of camping so i also just want a bag that i can bring camping with me because i can practice the skills i need for bugging out but i also can have fun camping that's another reason i wanted everything in one bag so without further ado to save space i'll start with my shelter system every place i live it changes so now that i'm in north carolina there's a lot of creepy crawlies on the ground it will just rain out of nowhere so i wanted to be off the ground something with a quick setup so first and foremost i have an eno tarp here this is great it comes with everything already the cordage is attached the stakes come with it it's super low maintenance i can just throw this up super fast i don't even need a ridge line really but um you know if i want to make certain shapes certain frames and whatnot of course i can put that up so part first hammock for the time being i have a not an ultra light hammock i have an ultra light hammock i just put it outside on the balcony because uh the quality is not good it's really hard to get a good night's sleep and it's very small the bug nets always in your face i did a kind of a review on this one double wide super huge it's just a much better hammock for camping um so again i'd consider consider putting the smaller one in uh in a bug out situation but for now this isn't killing my back or anything so anytime you have the hammock your back is exposed so you're going to get you're going to lose all that body heat so i have an under quilt for that even the under quilt and the hammock together they're still a little bit smaller than my sleeping bag was which was originally in my inch bag plus my sleeping bag weighed a ton so this is still a superior option right now i have a really compact goose uh down feather blanket which is nice the only thing about this is it's a little small it doesn't go all the way over my feet if i have it pulled up to my chest um so what i am gonna do is switch this out for a queen size wool blanket um but those are extremely expensive so and it's also summer time right now so i can hold off on that for now and then not shelter but could be is my poncho so i think everyone should have a poncho in their bag system obviously keep you dry but it'll also go over the bag and keep that dry and then it also doubles up as a tarp and or a mat or a carrying bag i mean it has countless functions to it and then i have a chamois scarf the another item that's got countless applications you can pre-filter your water with this you can use it as a carrying bag you can throw it around your neck when it's unfolded and use it as a sling if you have an injury just walking down south you know wiping the sweat off of you so schmucks are always a must for any survival situation food i was carrying the sos bars and you know if if i'm in trouble and i think i'm going to have to be out there for a while um or i'm going to a bug out location which i do not have as of now because i'm a new resident in this state i'm working on i have made some prepper friends and trying to figure that out so in the event where i'm going somewhere and i think i might have to walk a day two days three days these are good they're 3000 calories problem is it weighs as much as a brick it's not helping my bag system right now weighs 30 pounds with just this full of water if i were to fill up the camel back it's going to get even heavier than if i'm putting a gun in my waist and some magazine clips on me it's just going to get heavier and heavier and heavier so i'm trying it's by no means an ultralight bag but i'm trying to keep it in that 30 pound range 35 max out at 40. so for now i just have two packs of beef jerky two uh snack bars and a whole bunch of electrolytes just because the the south is it's just so humid and so hot and you do not want heat stroke while you're trying to do all that i forgot to mention straps for the hammock that hammock comes with fantastic straps but before i got that hammock i had already bought a set of enough these ones are really nice that i have in here is navigation system so i have a headlamp and some spare batteries for that i have a map of if i did have to go out to the woods for a bug out location um great smoky mountains just such a massive beautiful area so this is a topographic map so the right coordinates down i have a waterproof notebook this also has some some notes in it things that i might have to remember if i'm out there different knot styles how to tie those and whatnot um so also i have a suto mc2 compass i'll definitely do something on this once i get uh you know to get i'll do a video on this but um fantastic compass uh multifunctional so it's got the magnifying glass so i can start fire as a you know permanent heat source as long as the sun is out uh it's got a signaling mirror here too you know has a ton of features i'll have to do a whole video on this alone attached to it is pace speeds so i know how many meters and kilometers i've gone so that's all part of the navigation system which is extremely important because you don't want to get lost out there in the middle of nowhere or if you have to get to your bug out location and the road has been blocked off or a bridge has been overtaken by a gang or something and you have to abandon your car and go on foot you're definitely going to want that navigation this is just a garbage bag i have a roll of one inch gorilla tape i have a full roll as well but for this bag i think this will do it i have a spare battery pack this has got four more charges for my phone i you know you don't see this much but my comfort item is carmex just because when you're out there um your lips get so chapped and also you can rub it on your knuckles or on the cuticles as they start getting shredded apart out there a lot of times when i wear a hat and i'm out in the bush and i sweat and stuff i start getting this really itchy forehead um so i can kind of put a little bit of that on top too so it's kind of like a first aid item procurement of water so for fire and water you want three ways at a minimum so first thing i got here is uh my pathfinder survival uh water bottle it's a single wall so those you know those ones that keep your coffee hot and your drinks cold at the grocery store those will actually expand and explode on a fire it's very dangerous you really want to get a single walled one you can just put that into the fire and that will boil your water for you it comes with the nesting cup which is fantastic because i can make food in this and boil my water i could also use this to carry sticks in it's got a lid i can actually make a char material in here as well i think the way that they do it at the pathfinder survival school is they'll take really punky wood like i grabbed in that last video and they'll pop it in here and then this over as a lid and put it in the fire and that will actually create the char cloth or the char wood so this is just a great a great item and it's it's as with everything that can't very comes out with it's multi-functional which is really cool so there's your boil method for the water second water procurement water purification tablets so these are going to be something you you pop in that you know you fill up your camelbak full of water from a stream um you're not going to want to get cholera or something like that so salmonella what not so you pop your tablet in there for about a half hour and then you can drink that water third is going to be my sawyer mini i think this is superior to the life straw although i hear the sawyer squeeze is superior to this but if you want a light straw it comes with this attachment you can still make it that way but if you don't want to be down in warming water um and you don't want to be limited to accessing directly from the water system you could just still your squeeze bag up and then this will attach to the top of it and so you can go ahead and drink it that way when you need to flush out it comes with a syringe you can flush it back out to clean that filter out so this filter should last a hundred thousand gallons i don't know any other filter that does that much so extremely reliable a lot of people put these on a smart water bottle which is great but those things are large you know it's bigger than this thing so i prefer to roll it up in the squeeze here take all the parts actually i prefer to throw everything in there uh i don't i could probably get that into if i finagle it but i don't want to wrestle it out so it's flat anyway that's another reason i like it so it's kind of like a little panel back so yeah those are your three ways to procure water now moving on to fire big lighters um i do need a waterproof case these guys or at least one of them but big lighter is going to be your most reliable why you know start a friction fire when you're trying to you know get to a location as fast and stealth as possible so don't make things more difficult on yourself yes i'd love to do fire starting stuff uh you know the ferro rod or whatnot camping having fun just practicing those skills but when stuff hits the thing you're going to want to just be quick and go to the lighter but those freeze or you drop them somewhere or you get water in them or whatever ferro rod is my next guy here this will last far far longer than these these will run out of fuel eventually this will go on and on and on i do have some gorilla tape wrapped around it too because it's flammable but it also gives me a little bit of a pull handle um so when i pull the rod back like a lawnmower to shoot sparks i have a little bit of a handle here got the string on it too to keep it around my neck and um if it's raining or it's hard to find material to start that fire i made my own i got a little like it's you know supposed to look like chewing tobacco but it's a shredded beef jerky stuff so i use the container for that and inside are cotton rounds that i slathered in vaseline so those will take a spark light up and they'll actually um they'll actually burn for a decent chunk of time i'd say probably about five minutes as you get the other materials on and dried out so they're just homemade but it's cheap and then the third way of making fire as we saw on the compass that magnifying glass will make fire too just in case though i also have this flat like wallet magnifying glass that's always going to be with me wherever i go um so this will run out fastest this will run out much slower but eventually will run out this will never run out as long as we have the sun got a spare pair of socks in here too you want to have your socks on while you're hiking when you go to bed at night you want to wear a different pair of socks a nice pair of wool ones is good next up is first in i don't really want to unpack all this i have a sam splint in here i have a tourniquet i have a decompression needle in case your lung starts collapsing if you get shot i have chest wound seals in there i have gauze i have all kinds of stuff for first aid i also have an emergency whistle in there so you can use your mirror for signaling you can also use your whistle so first aid next up is your cutting tools so i have a gerber multi tool here um really great you just you need one of these you need the pliers they'll cut wire they'll pull a fish hook out of your skin if you get it stuck in there um open you got a can opener all kinds of stuff in here another miniature knife and saw um so definitely awesome um a lot of people like leatherman i will eventually get one of those it's just um everything you do you know the the adages buy it once by once cry once um so you do want to spend and get top of the line stuff when it comes to saving your life but the thing is when you're putting together an entire system that gets insanely expensive so my way of doing it is if i can't buy the best thing because i need multiple things i need to budget properly at least go middle of the line you know gerber's a great company it's american-made it's going to be your middle of the line so that being said i have a gerber folding saw as well you know everyone wants a silky i can i can get them silky eventually as well but i like the gerber folding saw it does come with a spare blade that has different teeth as well so more of a fine verse more of a rough one i did not include my hatchet or my axe in this because i'm in the eastern woodlands where it doesn't get too cold until winter so as the winter draws i will start start supplementing my pack you know put that wool blanket in add the hatchet or the axe on and it will change uh with the seasons in my location um next cutting tool is just my backup knife so it's a mora knife bushcraft high carbon steel 90 degrees fine for the ferro rod pretty good stuff so that's about a forty dollar knife and then i have a joker compara which is about a hundred dollar knife um really nice high carbon steel as well 90 degrees fine keeps its edge really well it does come with a miniature ferro rod i didn't have a whole lot of luck with that guy out camping it might have been the fatwood that i had though i had just had some fat wood in my trunk so i don't know which it was i'm gonna have to test that out um and just to keep them sharp in the field i have an ax sharpener i have a bush pot i use this for cooking all kinds of stuff it's actually a you know a carrying you know some sort of bucket for carrying things but inside of it i can also keep a lot of things from my bug out bag so cordage is in here i have you know number 36 bank line 100 100 yards of that [ __ ] bank line there i have probably over 100 yards of paracord in here probably 150 and then i just shove this mosquito net in there too it just goes over your face i haven't had any problems with mosquitoes yet down here but i'm not sure if i i just haven't gone and they're just not here yet but bugs are tough in the south so i like having that net there then this lastly is a tin here this is my hunting kit i have snare wire in here i have more water fill more water purification tablets i have extra batteries for the headlamp i have a spare ferrule rod in here i have all my fishing line and fishing hooks in here i have a small candle as well to save you know that lighter fuel i have some cotton in here for char cloth material i drilled a hole in the top of the cooking tin here so then i can that steam can come out and i can make that charred material in here as well and then i have a silcock key as well for um you know i'm in an apartment so i'm still i'm not in a city but i'm outside of one in the suburbs so i'm still near a lot of commercial buildings i'm not completely out in the countryside so that's definitely a valuable tool to have different bags in there to make it a little bit easier this guy just goes around the bush putt i have a dry bag which i like so this is good this holds a lot of things in it as well and this will just go inside the bag but it does have a little um you know i could set up camp and leave the big sub behind and take what i need over my shoulder in the drive bag um it also has the way it clips here um i could run that bank line and chuck it up over a branch and hang you know fish or meat or food to keep it away from bears as well and of course it's a dry bag so if i do get submerged in water i'm going to have things like the cell phone charger inside of here so they don't get wet um and then lastly um you know i went to rei looked at um osprey and mystery ranch and they're just three four hundred dollar bags and that's just not realistic for a lot of us so i got this guy for 80 bucks and it's great it's got all the compartments i need it's long enough for me i'm tall guy i'm 6'1 so i like that it's nice and long it has all the support so we got the plastic in here the frame this really helped when i took it out the other day i just cinched everything as tight as i could and really helped i got a lousy back um i do have a camel back in here it has the attachment in the slot for that as well on the bottom here if you pull this velcro it actually has a rain cover that goes all over the bag so it starts raining out um i have the poncho anyway but you know what even more protective reiterate i got rid of the bug out bag and i'm just going to keep this in my car as a get home bag as a camping for fun bag as a bug out bag and as a i'm never coming home back it's going to work for everything i sacrificed um you know a little bit more carrying weight but as you saw in the last video i'm going out practicing so that doesn't affect me as much um and again i don't know they say your bug out bag shouldn't be more than a quarter of your weight i'm i got to be 190 i want to say so i mean we're talking 45 pounds or you know you know somewhere thereabouts and i'm nowhere near that this thing's 30 pounds um you know an ultralight bug out bag like my other one was probably closer to 15 pounds but really the only benefit is i can move a little faster and it's a little easier to crawl through branches and things like that but then again if i'm out in the woods i don't have as much stuff so i'm kind of limited to that 72 hours or or so a little bit longer honestly but with this i can stay out there for i mean a long time as long as i can get game and uh and i don't have any injuries i can stay out there for a while i don't recommend that plan though the plan of going out in the woods and trying to survive on your own is kind of stupid um even professionals you see on tv shows they really have a hard time even making it 90 days out there so it's best to go to your bug out location i'm just like i said i don't have one yet i'm working on it and it's uh i don't have a community either i'm new to this state so um right now i'm sort of forced into that plan of going out to the woods being the lone wolf i'm not romanticizing that at all it's a terrible idea but it's the best idea for me where i stand right now which had a lot to do with why i decided to do this bag system but that's it thanks for checking it out
2021-07-11 13:09
