Pikey
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Bug out Bag / Survival Bag / Grab Bag
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jai_landrover
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I was in Yeovil Don't call the locals gay sailors I got a saw head that night. My mate pulled some bird and when we got back to the farm we were staying it was the owners daughter pics all over the place with her and her boy friend
jai_landrover
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I relied upon the fact that fat blokes are harder to kidnap Seemed to work! only got shot at a couple of times once the gurkha (ex sandhurt instructor the only one apparently) jumped up outted my passenger seat and looked all concerened I didn't even know listening to Shalamar and Will smith summertime through a tape wire Mp3 thingy in the old Hylux!
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were ya a pmc?
jai_landrover
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Yup! working for a company working under contract for DynCorp
Bubblemaker
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You mention fire or being submerged. Depending on where you are travelling you may need to get out fast to escape people. We had to bribe my way out of Guinea Bissau after some paperwork issues up through Senegal to Gambia in a 4 x 4. At every road block we were ready to bolt and as such each of us had a grab bag with personal papers, passport etc. Bottles of water, money and a GPS split between pairs. When you come across a group with AK's and machete's it can turn bad very quick.
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elizabethwood
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Thanks for that. I am taking my 90 to the Orkneys and the Shetlands this May then travelling south, zigzagging down to Cornwall without using main roads. I have until September and am worldy wise enough to know something will, at some point, go wrong. I had thought of most of the stuff you suggest but there are some really good ideas there. I know Im not leaving the UK but neither do I underestimate what cold, dark and disorientation can do. It was a useful post. Ta
V8Safari
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Agree - carry kit too especially when leaving vehicle in remote places of Africa. Have added rehydration salts which provides you will all the good stuff the pure water do not contain and water filter and headlamp. Otherwise good stuff
Store the bag out side the vehicle not in it.
Your compass is , A) the sun B) the stars C) an analogue watch D) small piece of steel, rub to align the electrons on leather/skin, float on a leaf/piece of paper, this gives you North/South, use the sun to determine which.
If you've sunk you're vehicle I reckon you've plenty of water. Fresh.. just boil it, salt.. then use a solar still then boil it.
If you're vehicles caught fire then keep it burning, this is the easiest way you will be found if people are searching for you. They're only searching for you if you've arranged 'non contact protocols' ie not called in for over 3hrs then start a search pattern agreed on before hand.
Injury priorities: Breathing then Bleeding then Breaks. You can't Bleed if you're not Breathing (oxygen starvation kills while people have been known to survive massive blood loss) so clear airways first. Treat for shock.. it's the biggest killer.
Top Tip number 1... flies live with in 100m of water. Birds flying low and straight have just drunk from a water source, trace it back.
Give up and you're dead. Mental fitness + physical fitness + equipment knowledge = what you make of it.
Your compass is , A) the sun B) the stars C) an analogue watch D) small piece of steel, rub to align the electrons on leather/skin, float on a leaf/piece of paper, this gives you North/South, use the sun to determine which.
If you've sunk you're vehicle I reckon you've plenty of water. Fresh.. just boil it, salt.. then use a solar still then boil it.
If you're vehicles caught fire then keep it burning, this is the easiest way you will be found if people are searching for you. They're only searching for you if you've arranged 'non contact protocols' ie not called in for over 3hrs then start a search pattern agreed on before hand.
Injury priorities: Breathing then Bleeding then Breaks. You can't Bleed if you're not Breathing (oxygen starvation kills while people have been known to survive massive blood loss) so clear airways first. Treat for shock.. it's the biggest killer.
Top Tip number 1... flies live with in 100m of water. Birds flying low and straight have just drunk from a water source, trace it back.
Give up and you're dead. Mental fitness + physical fitness + equipment knowledge = what you make of it.
davidwhittaker
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iPhone in waterproof charger case + swiss army knife should do the trick! 
vilguy
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the less fancy ****e you carry the better i reckon, whatever happened to good old mcguyver skills where he could have turned you broken half destroyed fender into a jet plane or something....
on a more realistic note, most of the stuff you would ever need is already part of your vehicle....mirrors, wire, tools (probably in your toolkit if you carry one!) first aid kit, hell most of us have sat navs these days, theres your latitude / longitude.. and most are pretty robust these days. turn it on.. get your co-ords and turn it off save batteries...
ok its not a grab bag but this is for the sort of situation where you would break down in the middle of nowhere type thing...
as previously mentioned, no point in going out and buying all manner of fancy ****e that does the same thing as something that you already have!
The number of squad members i saw going and buying shiney shiney ****e that they then had to lug around with them whilst out on patrol was laughable. Keep it simple... its all you need in life
on a more realistic note, most of the stuff you would ever need is already part of your vehicle....mirrors, wire, tools (probably in your toolkit if you carry one!) first aid kit, hell most of us have sat navs these days, theres your latitude / longitude.. and most are pretty robust these days. turn it on.. get your co-ords and turn it off save batteries...
ok its not a grab bag but this is for the sort of situation where you would break down in the middle of nowhere type thing...
as previously mentioned, no point in going out and buying all manner of fancy ****e that does the same thing as something that you already have!
The number of squad members i saw going and buying shiney shiney ****e that they then had to lug around with them whilst out on patrol was laughable. Keep it simple... its all you need in life
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Griffdowg
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the less fancy ****e you carry the better i reckon, whatever happened to good old mcguyver skills where he could have turned you broken half destroyed fender into a jet plane or something....
on a more realistic note, most of the stuff you would ever need is already part of your vehicle....mirrors, wire, tools (probably in your toolkit if you carry one!) first aid kit, hell most of us have sat navs these days, theres your latitude / longitude.. and most are pretty robust these days. turn it on.. get your co-ords and turn it off save batteries...
ok its not a grab bag but this is for the sort of situation where you would break down in the middle of nowhere type thing...
as previously mentioned, no point in going out and buying all manner of fancy ****e that does the same thing as something that you already have!
The number of squad members i saw going and buying shiney shiney ****e that they then had to lug around with them whilst out on patrol was laughable. Keep it simple... its all you need in life
Guys, this is going a little off topic.
The point of the original post was intended for complete vehicle loss. Ie. You have nothing but what is in that grab bag to keep you safe, comfortable and able to return to safety. You may have kids, someone elderly, your wife with you etc etc. The post was intended for your average traveller on an overland trip to remote destinations. Not your Hi-Vis vest, camo trouser wearing 'survival specialist' who never leaves the forests of Wales.
None of the stuff I have mentioned is 'shiny' its common sense practical gear that would help your average person survive and be comfortable. I know I would be ok for sometime on my own but I also know my girlfriend would be a lot happy with a warm meal and a tarp for shelter after 2-3 days stuck in the Siberian Tiaga. Little things can make all the difference to moral, but Im sure I don't need to be saying this.
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A bug out kit is something you buld to the situation depending what it is you do.
But as a minimum it should have
A good solid knife
A way to start a fire (char cloth,tampon, fire steel, magnesium block,)
A way to purify water( the most important of the lot)
Shelter if Posable (poncho and para cord poncho )
My own kit consists
An army issue man bag
A gerber gator rescue.
Animal fat candles
A fire steal
Tampons
Small pot of patrolium jelly (Vaseline)
Iodine
A poncho wraped tight with 30m para cord.
Sat phone and Spair battery (power monkey soler charger)
First aid kit (celox gauze, first feld dressings small, plasters, paper sutures, thred sutures, 2 haemostats, scalpel and blades, 1 saline give set.)
If I go abrode there is 2 of them one on the roof one with the pasanger.
But as a minimum it should have
A good solid knife
A way to start a fire (char cloth,tampon, fire steel, magnesium block,)
A way to purify water( the most important of the lot)
Shelter if Posable (poncho and para cord poncho )
My own kit consists
An army issue man bag
A gerber gator rescue.
Animal fat candles
A fire steal
Tampons
Small pot of patrolium jelly (Vaseline)
Iodine
A poncho wraped tight with 30m para cord.
Sat phone and Spair battery (power monkey soler charger)
First aid kit (celox gauze, first feld dressings small, plasters, paper sutures, thred sutures, 2 haemostats, scalpel and blades, 1 saline give set.)
If I go abrode there is 2 of them one on the roof one with the pasanger.
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+ sewing kit with various threads, packs up tiny, include surgical thread, tiny and weightless to all intents. Suture needles, the curled ones.
+ small pot of organic honey.. amazing antiseptic, beats MRSA and excellent source of energy.
+ wound powder.
+ sausages.
+ small pot of organic honey.. amazing antiseptic, beats MRSA and excellent source of energy.
+ wound powder.
+ sausages.
Er that's what the thred sutures are needles and thred.
As for wound powder I don't rate it at all (quick clot is ok)
I prefer aluminum sulphate for small cuts. for big wounds like major bleeds or amputations then CAT tourniquet and celox is the way ahead.
Honey is good though, I had never thaught of that before.
Damn my drunken eyes for not reading straight.. I stand corrected again.
Had a mad dog take chunks out of me in a no-name town in Jamaica, the powder dried and steralized the wounds.
Got tourniquets, got super glue and plasma bags.. if it goes this wrong I hope it's someone else.
Had a mad dog take chunks out of me in a no-name town in Jamaica, the powder dried and steralized the wounds.
Got tourniquets, got super glue and plasma bags.. if it goes this wrong I hope it's someone else.
JonnyP
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I am well into bushcraft n survival n all that. I keep a grab bag in the landy.
Its just a 24hr kit that contains a few bits n bobs that could come in useful if it ever went pete tong, which it probably won't, but its good fun preparing for just in case.
Its just a 24hr kit that contains a few bits n bobs that could come in useful if it ever went pete tong, which it probably won't, but its good fun preparing for just in case.
