It also breathes, so it’s more comfortable to wear. I bought a ripstop nylon rain poncho, even though it cost 3x as much, because it was lighter than a typical plastic one.While I can’t say that my bug out bag is the epitome of lightweight, I’ve made a number of my choices based primarily on the item’s weight. Having spent enough time on the high trails myself, I can see the advantage of this. Serious backpackers are sticklers for weight, willing to pay higher prices for just about everything, just to save a few ounces here and there. So, while aluminum is less costly from a financial point of view, titanium wins for most serious backpackers, by saving a couple of ounces. Titanium cookware, for example, is lighter than aluminum. But you can get quality and strength by going with lightweight, strong materials, especially titanium. Granted, quality items are often heavier, especially when we’re talking about tools. So the weight adds up quickly, making that 30 pounds disappear. Many things manufactured for the prepping and survival community have been developed without thinking about weight.
Related: 13 Weird Survival Tools Every Prepper Should Stockpile How Heavy Was That?Īnother factor to consider in your purchases, is the weight of each individual item. So while it’s a good idea to have tools which can serve multiple purposes, make sure you put them through their paces, testing them out in real life to make sure they won’t break at a critical moment. Some tools that do multiple things are poor quality, created to dazzle you with all they can do, but will break in actual use. Just make sure it’s a good one.īuying gear that provides multiple capabilities is great, just as long as it is quality gear. If you’re carrying a multi-tool, then let it be your backup knife. Go for something smaller, like a folding pocket knife. But that doesn’t mean you need another sheathe knife for your backup. You probably have some sort of a nice sheathe knife for your primary. Take your knife, your primary survival tool. The second part of this is that the second one doesn’t have to be as big, fancy, or easy to use as the first, just as long as it works. The same goes for purifying water, cutting wood and any other survival task you can think of. In other words, when it comes to having a way to start a fire, always be sure to have a second way, something that’s different than the first. The idea really isn’t to carry two of everything it’s to build redundancy of capability. For that matter, we need to make sure we actually need one. There’s an adage in the prepping community that “two is one and one is none.” That actually came from the Navy SEALS and it’s a pretty good idea.īut before we start putting two of everything in our bug out bags, we need to make sure that we really need two. Still, this shows what can be done, if someone is in shape. It includes weapons, spare magazines, body armor and spare batteries. That’s a whole lot more than I carried, back when I was in the Army. Soldiers and Marines fighting in the Middle East typically carried somewhere between 60 and 100 pound. Related: 11 Items You Shouldn’t Have in your Bug-Out Bag Of course, you could work on improving your physical conditioning, allowing you to increase that pack size, without giving yourself a heart attack. Thirty pounds really isn’t a lot not when you’re trying to take everything you might need to have, regardless of what happens. If anything, a 250 pound person would probably have more of a struggle with that 30 pound pack than a 150 pound person does, unless that’s 250 pounds of lean muscle.
So you don’t get to carry a 50 pound pack if you weigh 250 pounds, laughing at your 150 pound buddy who’s trying to fit everything into a 30 pound pack. Ideally, a bug out bag should weigh about 20% of your body weight. But if we try to take all those things with us, we’ll end up with a bug out bag that weighs so much, we can’t even manage to leave home. There are always differences, and the things that each list adds always seem like good ideas. While any of those lists alone looks good, the confusion begins when we start comparing them to each other. In order to help us with this dilemma, there are countless lists of what a bug out bag should include. You’re trying to create a pack which has everything you could possibly need, for whatever emergency you might run across that causes you to abandon your home, but doing it without knowing what that emergency is going to be. Building the perfect bug out bag is one of the biggest challenges the average prepper takes.
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