Ultimate Bug Out Bag - Bugout Channel

First time to see one of your videos...content good but for God's sake spend $7 for a camera tri pod.

Glad you remade your channel. You got me into prepping

Great video, very informative.

found you through EMP Shield (huge fan!) and looking forward to more prepper content. nice job!

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Out for good this time bro, we can never come back to the new world order, else be put in covid camps and forcefully vaccinate,( see nys Senate website the law they will be passing in all states, pure communism worldwide. No more freedoms

you can put a small zip tie at the top of your bic lighter to keep from accidently being depressed in your bag

Good kit brother. You have me a couple ideas. A couple ideas from me...
Did I see some banana or cotton?
Needles?
Most important though would be a head cover, a real poncho, extra socks.
Also I counted six blades. Too much redundance.
I'd run the multitool, saw, mora. Then choose the big knife OR hatchet. Dump the other 2 or 3. Everything would still be covered. Good work👍

Firesteel use is dependable and can be used over and over. People use them to be competent at start fires with them. In a survival situation...I would use my lighter as well.

Lots of interesting ideas in this video. I would ditch the stoves in favor of more heating tabs and 4 or 5 cans of food. Make sure one can is edible without cooking, like fruit. Then turn the can into a stove with your multitool. I might ditch a couple of the knives or other weight and substitute a big metal pipe which can be used as the handle for the hatchet. You can stuff the pipe with cord or fishing line or maybe arrowheads and bowline, the possibilities are endless. Your setup seems primarily woods based, but I feel like most bug out situations will occur in much more urban environments, so you might wish you had a flathead and a philips head screwdriver, a pair of pliers with cutters, and a decent pair of scissors.

Speaking from experience, the Snugpak jungle blanket/bag is garbage in the winter. A down quilt is more expensive, but takes up less weight and room, and keeps you far warmer in winter conditions.

Too many cutting tools! I'd keep the Mora, the sak and the saw. Also too many flashlights! You should more food unless you like foraging! In other than late spring and early fall you are could be pretty chilly in a jungle bag. They are made for tropical climates and the SOL emergency bivy is minimal at best! A wool blanket even a light weight would be good to use if you insist on the jungle bag and bivy. Just a thought because a long cold night equals a tired miserable next day!

Definitely not the ultimate bug out bag ! Minimal at best! Carry some ramen and bullion cubes tea or coffee. A hot meal before bed and you will sleep warmer and a hot beverage can help boost your morale in the morning or during the day! Good luck!

If you have no experience or have not been taught about wild mushrooms, do not fuck with them. Easy way to get yourself killed.

The cheap AAA battery light should take an 18650 as well, just needs a plastic sleeve to make it fit. Most of them do work, some don't. Try it at your own risk. I bought a bunch of those flashlights for $4 CAD each from a dollar store in Canada. They work fine but are not waterproof.

Firesteels are for people who like to make their lives difficult :p

get some Dude Wipes. Better than wet wipes for that specific use.

Some odd choices.

You can make a lot more fires with a decent ferro rod than with a Bic. Bic claims that you can get 300 1 1/2 second fires. This means if it takes 3 seconds to start your fire then you will only get 150 fires. If it takes longer than three seconds then you will get fewer.

R u American?Do mostly American carry this bag?

The number one feature in having a bic lighter is carmalising the ends of my paracordage from fraying. A fire steel or other incindiary cannot do this job as instantly as a butane lighter can. I use my scripto or bic liter to harden cordage used in making fibers fasten tighter together when forming a comfort grip cordage handle..

When people put these bags together, do they ask, "How many knives do I need?" and come up with five, and two sharpeners? Was that four flashlights? How many bits of fire kit were scattered all around that bag? I lost count.

+Bugout Channel Hey, man. Cool video. Yours is a basic setup, yet covers your bases and would most likely keep you alive and light on your feet ( you would laugh at mine, I'm sure, with the big, military rucks, weapons, ammo, meds, trauma kit, extensive fire bag put into a waterproof bag, but I do keep a 5 pack of full size Bic lighters [none of those cheap, gas station ones that will break] in my fire kit, pockets, ruck etc... As you said, why not simply flick a Bic if you can? ) a bunch of redundancies of redundancies, lol ( you are among the few people I know of that keeps that much 550 paracord (I keep 2 100 foot hanks, a 300 foot value pack I got from Coleman's surplus [it has a bunch of lengths, ranging from 12 to 20 feet in length that together total 300 feet] as well as 50 feet of Titan Cord [550 paracord with a copper wire as an additional strand, and 50 feet of 1100 cord [has 14, instead of 7, triple braided, high strength strands inside. I just discovered 1100 cord at Wally World last week, had to get it. All of the 550 is military]. Then again, I live way up in the Great Smokies, so our needs are probably different. I notice that you keep Super Glue, which is something I keep in my trauma kit ( the liquid skin they use in hospital ERs is basically Super Glue. I used to know a method to keep it from hardening after you open and use some, but I forget what it was. Do you know what I'm talking about? Please say yes and tell me, haha.

If I may make a few suggestions, some of which you may like and others you may think I'm a crazy person. When keeping a bag of batteries for everything ( I do as well, more than I need ), remember to cover the battery tips with electrical tape so they don't drain each other. I also keep multiple LED flashlights. For rucks, I use what the military uses ( right now, it's my newest acquisition, the Army's U.S.G.I. MOLLE 2 large combat ruck. I've seen instances where even the highly touted and way overpriced 5.11 Rush 72 has broken a strap, as well as some ultra expensive "tactical" rucks like Eberlestock, North Face, and so on fail ( I guess mine are more INCH bags because, if I have to abandon my isolated, mountain house, the world must be crazy, hence my abundant guns, meds, ammo [most people think I carry too much in the way of guns and meds]. Plus, I have a CCW permit and carry everywhere I can anyway, so... ). I would highly advise you to carry at least 1 good firearm, I recommend a good pistol you can easily hide on your person, and ammo to reload at least a couple times. I would also suggest getting surplus rucks and gear because, as I said, I've seen high dollar civilian rucks and gear fail.

My meds bags ( most of the contents of which would get me arrested if it wasn't SHTF, except for my RXd opioids and benzos [mainly high dose oxycodone and Xanax that are legally prescribed to me for legit reasons, but better to have a lot more than I need than need and not have ) are quite extensive, as are my trauma kits, guns, and ammo ( if SHTF happens, I'd rather be loaded for bear and, in the rural South, it's part of our culture ). I'm not saying to carry all that I do, but I would to look into at least 1 pistol you shoot well with, that's at least decently powerful and that you can conceal and get to easily, and at least some reloads.

If we're talking a few days, I'd probably use a medium ruck like the 36 liter Norwegian canvas ruck ( it's often called the "Heroes of Telemark" ruck because Kirk Douglas uses it in that old WW2 movie. Very high shelf, strong, top quality, and 30 some dollars at Coleman's Surplus ), the popular Medium ALICE ruck, or similar 36-42 liter ruck ( way easier to haul than my 90 something plus liter big rucks ). You might also want to load up a med bag that also has things like some prescription opioid pain pills ( maybe something you have left from an old surgery or injury. If you break a bone or sustain a painful injury, you'll be glad you have them ), something like Valium or the like ( tons of people have stuff like that around the house ) in addition to OTC stuff, build a real, life saving trauma kit, invest in some MREs and things like those heavy duty packages of canned type Spam, tuna fish, chicken, and so on. I also keep a sock full of rice, a trick I learned from an old Vietnam veteran who was in the LRRPs ( long range recon patrols ). Keep an extra 5 gallon can of gasoline in your car, as well as a couple gallons of water ( I have a Sawyer Mini in my water purification bag, as well as more stuff, but I still do that ), a can of Fix-A-Flat, and tool kit, maps and compass that don't take batteries, basic stuff like that

Pretty cool man but you’ve got way way too many knives, I mean you have a backpack full of knives, what are you going to do with them all?You need one primary knife and one Back up pocket knife.

In the army we used to say "travel light, freeze at night" your going to freeze or have to build a giant 🔥
Hopefully you don't have to be tactical because without fire or way more food. You will die with that kit

A 72hr bug out bag during cold weather without a real sleeping bag is actually a 8hr bug out bag because that’s about how long you will last. Please get yourself a good sleeping bag. Otherwise I like your vids.

srry but the pull trough sharpeners? ditch those immediatly, get like a worksharp field sharpener or such, but the pulltroughs are not the way unless you want to ruin the edge

What is the all-weather blanket? what size is it? thanks

How do you make the Vaseline cotton balls ?

Ah, T.P ?

What z blade length of folding saw?

The secondary light, most of those type have lenses that unscrew so you can use it as a magnifying glass for fire starting also. Very cool bag

Too many knives no sleeping bag pad? A light weight hammock would be good some anti-inflammatory Advil a collapsible gallon water jug and a larger filtration device, light weight 22 pistol. Pack is just too small. One stupid food bar??

Great video!! Thanks for sharing 😁👍

Eating wild mushrooms is a risk I wouldn't want to take. You can eat the wrong one and get really sick and mushrooms have no nutrients worth the risk. Thank you for your video.

I may have missed it but I didn't see toilet paper and soap.

I don’t understand the need for so many “primary” knives.

Nice kit. Thank you

Take out 3 of those redundant knives and you'll be able to have water.

Too many knives. Not enough calories. No backup ID. No money.

Couldn't agree more about the swiss army knife, I've used the swiss champ on EVERY weekend trip, day hike I have ever been on and I would be lost without it, been using it since I was 18 (18th birthday present) I'm now 43 , If you don't have a swiss army knife GET ONE NOW.

You know that freezer quart bags being a thicker bag’s make great for stuffing and organizing your gear 😎👍🏼

You need a Mora knife❤😊

"You know, a lot of guys, they go straight to the firesteels. I'm not exactly sure why, because personally—and I have a firesteel in here as a secondary method of fire starting—but I'd much rather just use a Bic lighter, as opposed to a firesteel. These things definitely get a fire going quickly. You don't have to worry about, you know, don't have to worry quite as much about tinder. Just go ahead and , you know, strike it and get the fire going. Sorry, not strike it. Light it and get the fire going. It's really easy. I'm not that hardcore that I'm going to use a firesteel in a survival situation if I have a lighter. That just seems silly. It almost seems like it's just it's just people are, you know, just trying to seem, I don't know, more hardcore than they really are. Or maybe they just don't put the thought into it but I'm not quite sure what they big deal is on firesteels. I do like 'em. They are cool because you can use them in the water, or when they're wet, excuse me; but, if you can have a lighter, why wouldn't you use a lighter. It seems silly."

I'll try to explain, from my perspective: The compelling feature of a ferrocerium rod ("firesteel") is its reliability. If it gets dropped in water, just wipe it off and it's immediately functional. Likewise, high wind doesn't hinder it. It works fine at high altitude. It works fine in extreme cold. If you drop it in the campfire and are slow at fishing it back out, it'll still be fine. Accidentally break it into pieces, and it's still fully functional. And it lasts for many of thousands of strikes—practically forever. It's a nearly indestructible piece of metal, with the reliability if a piece of metal. It can even be used as both the ignition source and the tinder, making it yet more reliable.

On the other hand, I've had the tops break off of my Bic lighters. I've has the bodies crack and the lighter fluid leak out. I've had the gas lever accidentally depress and lose all the fuel. I've had Bics work poorly in extreme cold, and likewise at high altitude, and likewise in extreme wind. I've had them get wet and take a few minutes to make functional again. In short, they tend to be unreliable in actual emergency conditions.

But here's the thing: to be able to use firesteels consistently in difficult emergency conditions takes practice and skill. Which means using them first and frequently when not in an emergency. Additionally, using firesteels to get fires going whenever you can helps with learning to recognize and prepare tinders well, learning how to breathe into a fire to make it grow, how to build a good fire lay, etc. And these skills also transfer and help with getting any fire going with any tool in any circumstances, such as using a lighter.

Sure, if you're in an emergency, and you have a lighter, and it's a situation where the lighter works well, then use it first. They can definitely be the fastest, easiest option to get a fire going sometimes. But make sure your firesteel skills are fully comfortable and ready for when they can't.

what i have done/used . first aide added nail clippers tweezers and Q tip. have 35 + years in the outdoors camping hiking etc never had use for a fix blade knife axe /hatchet use folding saw all i carry is a good folding knife put lighter in a case so button dont get pushed extra phone for gps useless when no service get a real compass and 2 topo maps areas you might go get 1-3 packages of food what if you cant get to your supplies 2nd bottle for water good idea if water not to available

So let's see the knife out of the sheath.. And the hammock out of the bag, and everything else that you talked about, but didn't show... Lol

Worthless small bag