BOB in a Baby Bag?

[BrazilianSnowMan]

Since I have a baby in the house, I was thinking about "camouflage" my BOB in a baby bag. Even if you dont have a child with you, it wont atract a lot of attention.
In baby blue or pink, its better for concealment in urban enviroment than my army bag.
Its practical?

[kyratshooter]

I remember those days.

I do recall that my wife and kids could live out of the contents of the "baby bag" for a couple of days.

Since I was the appointed bag carrier I got to chose the color so we had a big ole denim tote that was 2'x2'x 1' with a three inch wide strap. I could have carried an M4 and 20 mags in that thing, plus the pampers.

If you are between 18 and 40 years old it would work for you, but at the mid-60 year mark it would just draw more attention than necessary.

Cheers and looks of admiration possibly, but way too much notice.

I am considering a wicker basket for my Humm-around.

[crashdive123]

Each locale will be different. If you want to blend in, do what the locals do. If there are a lot of day packs or shoulder bags and you are carrying the same type thing then you'll fit right in. As Krat said - if some of us older gentlemen were carrying a baby bag we might draw more attention.

[finallyME]

It will definitely work. A couple times, we would use a normal backpack for a diaper bag, more comfortable. One time we got a camo diaper bag. It had one of those trendy camo patterns not meant to actually blend in the woods. The best camoflauge for a BOB is any small bag. The larger the bag, the more attention it brings.

[Rick]

I'm with Crash. Observe the locals and do what they do. Then you'll fit in.

[hunter63]

I gotta believe that a baby to plan for would be a whole nother world of preps to consider, what they use ?...Like 50 pampers a day?, bottles, food, booty wipers, clothes...they grow over nite.....Bless you.

I would be interesting to see what exactly you would pack?, and for how long?

[BrazilianSnowMan]

I'll take some pictures of my setup when I get home tonight and I'll post it tomorrow.

[BrazilianSnowMan]

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[BrazilianSnowMan]

Another very good thing to have is a trauma kit, for stabs and gunshots. Easy to assemble and may be a life saver.

[kyratshooter]

When you have to work in a second bag for the baby's stuff you are sort of defeating the purpose!

When I was growing up women carried purses. I am talking shoulder bags or handbags of substance. That was when women wore dresses and had no pockets to work out of. As time has come and gone women have taken up jean wearing (not that there is anything wrong with that) and taken to the limitations of the pockets in those jeans and only using a small wallet for carrying essentials.

I remember as a kid, you could ask my mom for almost anything and we expected it to be in her purse. Knife? No problem look on the key chain. Bandaids? No problem look in the side pocket and grab the Bactene while you are in there. Hungry? No problem, she keeps a Snickers bar in here somewhere and there is always the large economy size pack of gum, a full sized box of Klenex and enough writing material to start a novel!

My late wife went back to school at 45 and took up bookbag carrying, only this go around she could afford a nice Austrian made leather rucksack. She replaced her shoulder bag with that for several years, but still had the overgrown wallet inside.

Up to the mid 1800s men also carried shoulder bags, wallets with straps and belt bags. Pants were not equipped with pockets as they are today. Even in modern times the Navy forgot to install pockets on the "whites". Even in the early 20th century Nesmuck could advise men to equip themselves with a "ditty bag" for carrying needed items. Right after WW1 a man toting extra carrying gear was labeled a little strange and holding your wifes purse was reguared as an insult! Times do change.

I rather enjoy having my possibles bag available when doing reenactment work. Boone and Crocket had it made!

No one seems to notice women carrying backpacks and large shoulder bags, but when I see a man with one it screams "!!!gun gear!!!" at me. It is the same with fanny packs on a young adult. I have seen several men having the contents of their back packs searched in the past couple of years. It seems that backpacks scream "bomb gear!" to the local police.

Not saying it is right or wrong, and the camo as a baby bag might work for you, I hope so. It just would not work for me at my age unless I had one of the grandkids in immmidiate tow.

[BrazilianSnowMan]

KShooter, I have two kids, at ages 4 and 1 something. We have to carry a lot of stuff! I drive a double cab truck and a compact car. When the kids come along, forget about the small car. So much s*** that I get upset when I get home, some days I have to make 3 or 4 trips just to unload the stuff!
Its one baby bag for each, plus the trollers and walker and on top of it my stuff.
One more baby bag among all that gear is nothing special... With two baby seats on the back seat, all that gear looks perfectly alright. Worst case scenario is a police search, but what can the cop(s) say to me? All legal items, Im not breaking the law for carrying magnesium firestarter, first aid and trauma kit, two way radios or even the knives.. And I dont carry no guns inside the bags.
I understand that if you are over 40 or 50 this trick might look suspicious. Or if somebody ask about the baby bag, just say "Viagra works fine!". lol

[hunter63]

Lot of places a fixed blade knife is considered a concealed weapon.....Just saying.

My carry knives are all small folding "pocket knives" unless I'm out and about, then I have a belt knife or three.

Now should you have occasion to attend a function where a bag search is possible....mostly looking for beer, of MJ being brought in.....and they look in your baby bag, bingo! Big knife would get you a ride in a squad...out of place....who would carry something like that in a baby bag unless mayhem is intended.....?

I/we have a shoulder bag that we carry on visits to whole city junk sales, festivals and such.
Has a couple of bottles of water, snack, $1 dollar ponchos, umbrellas, sun screen, small FAK and a lighter or two.....No weapons of any kind.

Some thing to think about.

[Rick]

Yeah, check your knife laws and those for any place you intend to visit. A lot of places here in the states those would be illegal. Maybe not where you are.

Thanks for the pics. That's not what I envisioned it would look like. I don't think I would give a family carrying those a second glance. Might be a failure on my part but looks pretty normal for around here. Not nearly as bad as some of the camo you see at Walmart....

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