In it I've stashed a Glock Trench-Tool (this is a combined / adjustable spade-shovel-pick with a saw-blade in the telescoping handle. - You can sharpen one edge of the spade-blade to use as an axe.- A "mountain-man" hunter friend who traverses the Southern Alps on foot for fun - with a cheese sandwich and an apple in his pocket - over-nighted in a bivvy (bivouac) bush-camp built using only the Glock tool to test it. - No worries as they are tough!
Glock knives are very tough too:
There is a saucepan, kettle, stainless-steel pan/plate, canned foods (beans, Irish stews, tinned meat etc.) a packet of plain biscuits (crackers?), a jar of dry 'scots oats' (porridge), a screw-top container with tea-bags and sugar, - large plastic water container (with a squirt of bleach in it to stop it turning green) - eating irons, a sheath knife, a pruning saw, a machete (or axe if you prefer), matches, lighter, box of candles, strips of old rubber inner-tube, fuel-tablet folding stove, cord (para-cord is great), LED battery lights, a small first-aid kit ..
I should have a couple of space-blankets and a sheet of polythene or something better for a 'fly-sheet'.
- Remember to 'Rotate' - replace, the food items whenever you think of it. - Why not keep a sleeping-bag and a small gas stove in your vehicle?
If things Nuclear are on your mind - consider that while you can 'purify' water with tablets or bleach - 'tincture of iodine' will also sterilise water - and drinking water with iodine in it will help saturate your glands with "good iodine" and prevent radio-active iodine from being absorbed.
We Kiwis live where we get earthquakes - so do Californians, Italians, Afghanis, Pakistanis, Japanese, etc., etc. - so there is a REAL possibility of a problem. - We had two serious quakes some four and a half years ago in Christchurch - destroying lives, homes, and businesses - it will take tens of years to re-build peoples lives, the roads, sewers etc. - And those quakes were not the BIG ONE that we are due from the big South Island Alpine Fault - sometime when?
In America, with "bug-out-bags" - the 'what-to-put-in discussions' often focus on what rifle to include, how much ammunition and what calibre handgun(s), pistol or revolver? - All important issues that we avoid here in New Zealand - as we are forbidden by our Police to even consider (or voice an intent to use) the need of firearms for self-defence! - However, no-body could complain about you having a rifle to hand for hunting / food gathering in emergency times. There's nothing wrong with rabbit meat - roasted or in a stew..
Would it be bossy of me to suggest that if you keep an axe or machete for emergency shelter building and firewood cutting - Use it, carefully for practice now and then - to 'train' your muscles and become practiced at keeping every part of your body CLEAR of the area down-range of the edged tools swing - as an axe sticking-out of your foot would not be a good starting point for long-term comfort.
I guess that in theory your 'bug-out' bag might contain as much as is practicable of all the things you need to live - so that involves some SHELTER, HEAT, WATER, FOOD, CLOTHING, LIGHT, and TOOLS. Also rotate through your 'bag' a supply of any essential Medications.
Having that equipment handy means that if you are out in a good hunting location or a beautiful fishing river etc. - you can change your plans and stay overnight anytime.. that's Freedom eh.
Marty K
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