"Realistic" survival pack

HappyHighwayman

HappyHighwayman

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What's in your realistic "go bag" for shit hits the fan zombie apocalypse scenario? Let's keep firearms out of this, I assume you have an AR-15 or .22 LR setup. What water, food, supplies, tent, etc do you really need? Cooking gear, knives, axes, sharp sticks? Medical supplies?
 
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Cali

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Would depend if you're looking at a short term (few days) go bag or long term (few weeks at a minimum).

No matter what, first aid and water filtration.
 
afm199

afm199

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Basically, if the apocalypse hits, my survival pack isn't going to mean shit. The guy in Humboldt County with 10,000 gallons of water, 500 of gasoline, plenty of weaponry and ammunition, and friends is going to be alive long after I am.

My three weeks of food and water, and weaponry will either be taken from me or simply last three weeks.

In the event of massive social collapse, it's going to be quite ugly. Fortunately I am old and senile, and don't have that much to lose.
 
cheez

cheez

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I have a bug in stockpile including food and water for 2 months for 2 people.

I have a bug out bag and equipment, bug out truck and trailer that can move said stockpile. Tent, airbeds, sleeping bags, machete, axe, hatchet, sharpening stones, rope, lanterns, batteries, oil, folding chairs, etc.

I have a bug out plan to a place where other humans are unlikely to be encountered, where water and game are abundant and where my small family is capable of surviving (some would call it vacationing) for an extended period of time.

My entire extended family knows the bug out plan and will join me there in case things go south; the name of the place is also our family safe word and using it in a sentence improperly is a panic phrase.

I now know I lack morphine suppositories. I just don't know how I'm going to stock enough anti-itch cream and laxatives to offset their side effects. Storage space is valuable.
 
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aminalmutha

aminalmutha

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I love the Doomsday Prepper episode where the guy shot his thumb off. :laughing

This thread reminds me of that guy.
 
berth

berth

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The realistic survival pack for most people is to be able to shelter in place for 2 weeks and hope for the cavalry. If you're really keen, you have 30 days so you can feed some of your neighbors.

After 2 weeks, desperation is all that's left and that's when the neighbors start eating each other -- and you're one of the neighbors.

And when that happens, if you're not in your stocked redoubt in Idaho with your 10 very best friends in the world, then it's pretty much pot luck at that point and you can't really plan for that.
 
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89hawk

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Blow Dart gun. You then can hunt cats in the backyard without the neighbors knowing what you are doing.
 
bpw

bpw

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Given the incredible difficulty of predicting how exactly things go wrong I think it mostly comes to mindset and knowledge. Get those right and you have an extremely versatile skill set that can't be stolen.

I have spent a lot of years sailing offshore and in the really remote spots, there seems to be very little correlation in how much stuff people have and how successfully they survive a bad situation, but the competent people often make it through against ridiculous odds while others can't manage with huge amounts of stuff.
 
Agent Orange

Agent Orange

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afm199 said:
Basically, if the apocalypse hits, my survival pack isn't going to mean shit. The guy in Humboldt County with 10,000 gallons of water, 500 of gasoline, plenty of weaponry and ammunition, and friends is going to be alive long after I am.

My three weeks of food and water, and weaponry will either be taken from me or simply last three weeks.

In the event of massive social collapse, it's going to be quite ugly. Fortunately I am old and senile, and don't have that much to lose.
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This. We're in the Bay Area. Ocean to our backs and Cities between us and the Sierra. People can barely drive on a good day. Imagine chaos and social disorder mixed with panic. No one's going anywhere.
 
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Nucking Futs

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Eldritch said:
Mine is simply 80lbs of morphine suppositories.
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Wassup, lets hang out

Agent Orange said:
This. We're in the Bay Area. Ocean to our backs and Cities between us and the Sierra. People can barely drive on a good day. Imagine chaos and social disorder mixed with panic. No one's going anywhere.
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Agreed

My go bag?

Gold, silver, a pressed Armani suit, shined Ferragamos, and hopefully a few of Eldritch's butt drugs
 
afm199

afm199

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Agent Orange said:
This. We're in the Bay Area. Ocean to our backs and Cities between us and the Sierra. People can barely drive on a good day. Imagine chaos and social disorder mixed with panic. No one's going anywhere.
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Yup. I've run a bunch of scenarios. The only one that basically works at all is a dirt bike over the Oakland-Berkeley hills and escape eastward, with lots of money. Which won't work mostly because that's where about one million people will be going. If that's the case, motel rooms are going to run $500 a night plus occupancy fee. Food will be non existant.

The problem with a hideout far away is that you have to get there.
 
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Sharxfan

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Planning for Hurricanes is the same as these kinds of things. Sheltering in place where I have everything I need to survive. Plus my neighbors are crazy like me so we will band together and take over the post-apocalyptic world....... Welcome to Swampistan..........:sniper

Oh yeah, I am hereby issuing a passport to Eldritch contingent upon the fact that he brings his medicinals with him.....
 
Rambeezi

Rambeezi

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Don't have a bug out bag as I'm pretty much set on staying home. I have enough rations and supplies to last a couple of months. Anything beyond that I'm pretty much screwed especially water wise as there is a limit to how much I can store.

I do have a get home bag in my truck just in case I am out and about when an earthquake or other disaster renders my truck un-driveable, ...etc. It just a messenger bag with the usual survival items with the most important items in there being a radio, flashlight, knife, hyrdroflask and lighter.
 
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