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    Better. Happy Birthday!!
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    OK, I'll bite:
    Ditch the BOB and get a BOV. You'll need that just for the amount of food you want to carry. Are you saying each adult( how many are you talking here?) should be able to ideally lug 75 lbs?
    My idea of a BOB should have enough stuff to cover 72 hrs. What you propose is not a BOB.
    Just find that "new suitable location" now, move there, and save yourself a lot of trouble later, whatever that trouble may be.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brainsoverbrawn View Post
    A permanant bugout bag, is a bag which you take with you when you leave somewhere for a particular reason, find a new suitable location, and build anew. It is very heavy, and should be split up between multiple people if possible to reduce strain, and conserve energy.
    Ideal weight per adult: 75 pounds
    Ideal contents: farming supplies, a hatchet, food to last 1-2 years, warming pads, mini generator, wind up flash light, pictures of home(to help keep you sane), defensive weapons of some sort, nails, hammers/other tools (along with nails, and wood gathered to create barrier from outside world),spare clothes.

    If you have ideas to add to this list, please comment them!!
    You are not describing a bugout bag at all. You are describing a moving van.

    Seriously - I think your idea of a bugout bag is vastly different than what I, and many other consider regarding them. For me - a bug out bag is because you have to leave quickly, very quickly for (insert reason here - gas leak, train derailment, fire, etc.) but will be returning as soon as possible.
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    Supercalifragilistically speaking, it can happen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pete lynch View Post
    Are you saying each adult( how many are you talking here?) should be able to ideally lug 75 lbs?
    Adult number can vary, but i, as a 15 year old can already carry 50 pounds easily, and no, i dont play sports, and no, i dont take steroids.
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    And in reguard to all of your comments saying I need a van, i can fit all of this easily into my old school backpack.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brainsoverbrawn View Post
    And in reguard to all of your comments saying I need a van, i can fit all of this easily into my old school backpack.
    And what food are you carrying that will last you that long in your backpack?....

    Oh, wait, you said that you're only 15...that explains it......
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    Honestly, you can't carry all of that nor can you fit it in your backpack. It really would take a moving van.

    My bug out bag contains clothes, personal hygiene, medication, assorted legal papers, money and a very few other items. Like, Crash, once the calamity has passed I'll be back home. My bag is to land in a hotel or with family.

    You are thinking correctly, however, about the things that you might consider should you need to bug out. You just need to determine why you are bugging out, where you are bugging out to and how long you expect to be there. Without knowing those answer you can't really determine what it is you need to take with you. I can tell you that I would carry a 50lb pack to the truck and that's about as far as I want to pack it. I've hiked with 40lb packs before and it's no fun for me.
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    As a long time hiker/bacpacker 75lbs is quite a load. The human body is capable of much more(our military troops carry a lot more at times). But the tools you named would go close to that themselves. Food for 1-2 years would require something more than a backpack to fit in even if its all freeze dried or dehydrated.

    You have great ideas on needs but probably should do more scenario planning and assess the bulk of what you propose as well as weight.
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    If you can carry 50 pounds at 15, maybe 75 pounds at 18 (we all know adults peak at 18) ............then it's all down hill from there.

    Like to see a picture of all that stuff mentioned, in a pack........a worthy goal never the less.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brainsoverbrawn View Post
    Adult number can vary, but i, as a 15 year old can already carry 50 pounds easily, and no, i dont play sports, and no, i dont take steroids.
    So just prove them wrong. Stuff your school backpack full of whatever you want, and go live in the woods for a week. It will enhance your brain and brawn.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SlowRide13 View Post
    So just prove them wrong. Stuff your school backpack full of whatever you want, and go live in the woods for a week. It will enhance your brain and brawn.
    ........I 'd try the back yard first.....
    Still want to see a pic of that pack with 50 pounds being carried.....or even a vid.
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    Just for fun, though, I have given some thought to leaving and never coming back. Here is my "permanent bugout bag."
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    Quote Originally Posted by SlowRide13 View Post
    Just for fun, though, I have given some thought to leaving and never coming back. Here is my "permanent bugout bag."
    Point of interest.....Was a project in Tech school.....
    You can pick up enough discarded aluminum beer and soda cans to keep yourself in fuel and food almost indefinably....
    of course you have to stop and sell them.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hunter
    Got rid of my Yamaha 175 Enduro, after using up 6 or 7 of my 9 lives.


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    500 gal of gas @ about 6.3 pounds per gal.........a Whole lot more that 75#
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    You might need a chainsaw.
    How many pounds of nails are you planning on putting in that bug out bag?
    It takes well over 200# to build the average small house.
    You can't put a month's worth of food in a backpack!
    I have a two years supply of food in my house it proably weighs over 1000 pounds
    I would like to see the backpack that can carry that much.
    I don't want to see the MAN that can carry though!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    How much you'all wanna bet this is a school project of sorts?

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