justify your bob to me

[your_comforting_company]

Oh yeah, I keep a hacksaw blade and sawzall blade in there too... had to dig them out yesterday for some stuff I was workin on. Handy when workin with hardwood and bone. lightweight and a handle can be made for it on the fly.

[Ted]

The only BOB I have ever had was my father, and yes he drank alot ,but you've never met my mother! So I feel he was justified indeed!

[Nativedude]

Camp10 wrote: "Mine is a basic 72 hour kit. . ."

What is a 72 hour BOB?

[Camp10]

What is a 72 hour BOB?

I have enough provisions in it to go 3 days without having to hunt anything up. I didnt think it was a tricky statement. Like the rest of my post said, I have enough supplies and equipment both here and at a place less than 3 days from here to live for quite a while. My pack really only has to get me from one to the other.

[Rick]

I agree. A bob can last you any amount of time you want. My wife and I can last a week on just the BOB. If I have about 10 minutes to put things in the truck we can probably go 2-3 weeks or longer. I have a 5 gallon bucket that holds 275 dehydrated meals.

[Pict]

In all seriousness my big problem with the BOB concept in my actual practice is that I always need something out of it for trips to the bush.

Here in Brazil I tend to set my pack up for trips to the bush depending on the season and try to leave it that way so if I get time off I can just verify the contents and go.

I'm not a big fan of the idea of bugging out, especially here in Brazil. In fact I'm most likely the place other people would bug out to so I'm more concerned with turning my property into a compound to house, water, and feed people. Mac

Mac

[Winnie]

I agree with you Pict. I do have a 72hr BOB that's for use if I'm told to get out by the emergency services, otherwise, after careful consideration of my circumstances, I do the bug-in thing.

[COWBOYSURVIVAL]

Should you find yourself in the midst of a divorce a BOB is absolutely handy!

[pocomoonskyeyes]

CS Man am I glad to see you!! How goes it old friend?

[COWBOYSURVIVAL]

I am good, I'll do a short post to let everyone know I am fine!

[Rick]

sjj - Yes. They sell them year round but you can catch them on sale occasionally. Costco has an entire disaster "branch".

http://www.costco.com/Common/Categor...75277*&topnav=

[Trabitha]

The closest thing I have to a BOB are three (one for each family member), small individual emergency kits. Each kit contains first aid, emergency blanket, poncho, three days of food and water rations, whistle, light sticks, a respirator, and rubber medical gloves. (LifeSecure Emergency Solutions makes these kits.) They are the size of a womans purse and leave room for the addition of your personal items too.

If we were to have to LEAVE, the BOB bags are obviously insufficient for a family with a child. I back-pack/camp so we always have our packs ready to grab out of the basement. Each pack has our normal packing needs, (sleeping bags, tents, and such) plus our freeze dried food that we use while on the trail.

Finally I keep my REAL medical kit in a backpack by the door, so it's always easy to grab when needed.

Am I READY? Probably not...but I know I'm more ready than a lot of people out here...

[Rick]

And it may well be right for you and your family. Testing your kits is the only way to know however.

[your_comforting_company]

trabitha, I'm sure if you hang around very long you'll wind up with a 40lb bob like everyone else hehe. I'm always seeing something else I wanna toss in, but I still pack light.
By learning, you are preparing. Keep it up!

[Trabitha]

I think I'm still in the mentality that I will pack as though I have my truck...and then cut things out if I HAVE to hike. LOL! I'm not a "priss"...I've just grown accustom (like most) to some sort of protection...and ability to move. The idea of not having a car is scary, but I think we COULD do it if we had to. It's my son that I would worry most about. He's still so young. I really have to toughen that kid up!! LOL!

[Ponce]

Clovis? good show old chap......I have a white painters coverall and with white booties and a gas mask I think that it will do the job........I have some radiation decals for one of my vehicles and some radiating lantern mantles from long ago.

My "bug out" bag is my home plus two other places up in the hill with everything that I might need, winter or summer, for at least two months.

[Rick]

I have a white painters coverall and with white booties and a gas mask I think that it will do the job

Uh....do the job for what? And what are you going to do with the decals? And what, pray tell, is a radiating mantel lantern?

[Ponce]

Rick, in the old days the mantles used to have some kind of radiations material in them and I was able to find 10 of them........simply put them inside of a box and with my food meter (ultra sencitive) go over the box and the sound should scare a few people.

The radiation decals for the outside of my SUV so that to many people would want to get to close to me ............. I always have a plan behind the plan behind the plan and this plan is my third plan to try and get somewhere where I can get transport out of the country and to my farm in Argentina.

[crashdive123]

Do you have any kind of reference or information on those mantles. I've looked and couldn't find anything.

[Rick]

Okay. I found it. I think he's a bit wacky to think 1) anyone is going to be looking for his cache with a Geiger counter and 2) it would register in scary amounts if they did. He's a bit out in left field for me.

http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/c...cts/mantle.htm