 Greetings friends, this is Survival Doc and in this video I'm going to talk about our bug out bags. This is my bug out bag and this is my wife's bug out bag. These are military Alice packs for my wife because she is much smaller frame. I got a medium Alice pack and for myself I got a large Alice pack. Now I want to make a comment about the color of these bags and in another video that I made I talked about the disadvantages of using camo and O.D. or olive drab green or military looking green and I made the point that when you bug out you don't want to look real militant. Well here I am with O.D. green gear and woodland camo gear and I'd like to explain why. One reason is because these are military surplus and I got these bags very very very cheaply. Now if I were to go out to a camping or a backpacking store and buy bags of this quality they would cost a few hundred dollars and by buying military surplus I'm able to get these bags for around forty dollars apiece. And that's an important factor because that allows us to have other money that we can spend on other survival supplies. I don't want to put all of my money in these bags. And another consideration is that camo is very stylish. I see women with woodland camo purses. I see infants wearing pajamas of woodland camo and of course you see people of all social walks of life wearing camo clothing. So because camo has been widely accepted as being stylish these days it doesn't really stick out as being militant like it might have in the past. So I'm not really concerned about that and of course camo does have the advantage that if you do have to hit the woods it does allow you to blend in more. So looking at the pros and the cons I decided to go with the O.D. green and the camo material. But primarily because this is military surplus material. Military surplus material is very very very well made. It is well thought out as far as the design of all the features and it's just you just cannot get a comparable quality for the price. Now I'm going to go over the contents of our bug out bags, it's my wife's and mine I'm not going to go over all the contents in her bag because there's a lot of duplication in her bag. I'm just going to point out a few differences. If you notice I have her walking shoes right on top here and the reason for that is if we have the bug out then the first thing she's going to want to do is put on some good walking shoes. So she grabs her bag, she takes the shoes off immediately and puts the shoes on and she's ready to walk. And then these also have gloves. If the weather is cold she has some warm gloves right there to put on. Now you see we have a sleeping bag cover down here. This is a Gore-Tex, it's waterproof and also I have these carriers right here that are made to fasten to the bottom of these army packs. And I got these straps here for about two bucks a piece at a main military supply. Alright another item we have here, there's a sleeping bag inside this bag of course. And we also have a sleeping bag bivvy cover. This is Gore-Tex, this is not a sleeping bag but this is actually a cover that your sleeping bag goes in. It's a mummy style bag. Alright this is also Gore-Tex, it is waterproof so when you put this around your sleeping bag you can actually sleep in the rain and keep fairly dry. On the side of my wife's bag as well as my own we have our finished gas mask. I don't know if we'll ever need gas masks when bugging out and there's also a filter in here. I don't know if we'll ever need a gas mask but if we do it's something that should certainly come in handy. Also I had this extra space in there so these are some freeze dried foods that I put in here. On these outside pouches on the outside pouches you want to put things that you might want to be able to get to in a hurry without having to open the entire bag. Much easier. Alright in here again we have freeze dried foods. Now one thing I like about freeze dried foods is that this is almost weightless. It's very very very light so you can pack a lot of food in very small places with very little weight. Now another advantage of freeze dried food is it's ready to eat. These are green beans, these are peaches, you can just open this and eat them right out of the pouch and they're delicious that way. But you can also cook them of course, you can also soak them in water and reconstitute them and have something very close to fresh food. Over here we have a poncho, very important if you're bugging out when the rain starts coming. It's very good to have a good quality poncho that will cover not only you but will also cover your pack too so your contents don't all get wet. There's a mosquito net. You put this over your head to keep mosquitoes from biting you. In here I have more freeze dried food, we also have two way radios. We have a set of two way radios, one goes in my wife's bag, the other goes in my bag. We use the type of rechargeable batteries in here that will hold a charge for three years when it's not in use so that if you forget to charge it up every year you're still good. Over here we have a first aid kit. This is a very handy item that every bug out bag should have. This is a water filter. This is the type of water filter, it's like a straw you put this fast in this portion on top of this portion there's a charcoal block in here and this allows you to actually stick the straw down in the water and drink from a stream. We also have other water filtering filters in here, matches of course. Here is a magnesium fire starter, I have another one in my bag, you see a lot of redundancy between our bags in case we get separated, she has her own equipment. There's a whistle, signaling whistle, pocket knife and we'll take a quick look inside the bag. Now one thing my wife has in her bag that I don't have is a book and of course when you're bugging out there may be times when you're bored and a lot of people will consider this a just an extra item that you don't need but I think this particular book could come in very handy. A lot of trees, a towel, toilet paper, there's a rubber glossures that she can put over her shoes if it's raining, cooking kit, of course there's extra clothing in here, extra warm clothing like a long underwear, warm socks, sweater and when you bug out you may be bugging out in the daytime and it may not be real cold but it tends to get cooler at night and so you want to dress in layers and so when the night time comes the temperature drops she does have some extra layers of clothing that she can put on in here. Okay I'm not going to go over all the contents of her bag because as I said there is some redundancy, the main bag I want to show you is my bag, okay this is my bug out bag these are the shoes I'm going to be wearing like my wife I have the shoes stored on top of my bag that way if we have to bug out the shoes are right there ready to put on no wasted time looking for the right shoes these shoes stay with the bag just like my wife's shoes they stay with the bag we don't use them for any other purpose. Now we do wear them when we wear our bug out bags, now these bags are heavy it takes them getting used to I carried a backpack like this across four countries in Europe on a two month hitchhiking excursion that I did in Europe one time so I do have experience carrying a bag just like this about the same weight I carried it for two months so I do know what you need in a bag and what you don't need but the shoes stay with the bag and when we practice with our bags or what you need to do with carrying a bag like this is you need to condition yourself you don't want to just put on a fifty pound bag and just head out the door thinking that you're not going to have any problems with it so what we did my wife and I once a week we go for a nice walk and I wear my bag and she wears our bags and at first they seem very very heavy and because they are heavy but the more you exercise with it the easier it gets and and after a certain amount of time it's just natural you don't have to worry about it. Now on top of my bag I have a tent this is a dome tent it says it sleeps three people to my experience it comfortably sleeps two people but if you have you're bugging out with some children or something you certainly can make room for another few bodies in there. It has a fly it's good in the rain. Now for my bag and my wife too we of course do have the frames and if you do use an Alice pack like this or any kind of bag that you want to carry this much weight you definitely want to have the frame with of course the kidney pad and of course the padded shoulder pads. Now my bag I also have the sleeping bag the Gore-Tex sleeping bag cover with the straps to attach it with you don't want when you're bugging out you don't want things falling off of your bag or things working themselves loose like I said a couple of bucks that may military supply I do have the Gore-Tex sleeping bag cover my sleeping bag is inside here this is the sleeping bag cover this can also be used as an emergency rain shelter of course. Now one quick note I would like to make about bugging out and that is in according to my plan bugging out is a last resort we do not want to bug out most of the time you're going to be better off if you can stay at home where you're protected where you have all of your supplies and where you can defend your house and not have to worry about the elements so our plan is not to bug out our plan is to hunker down and I think for most people that is the best plan but a bug out bag is still a good thing to have because you never know you might absolutely be forced to leave your house for any number of reasons a tornado could just rip at the shreds or there should there could be a chemical spill or chemical attack that could make it inhabitable but for whatever reason if you do have to bug out it is good to have a bug out bag now another thing a bug out bag is good for is when we travel we throw our bags in the trunk of the car and if some type of disaster occurs while we are traveling we have all of our emergency supplies here and if something happens and we can't stay in our car say if gasoline becomes unavailable and we have to hit the road on foot you're going to be very very glad that you have a bug out bag in the case like that if you have to abandon your car hit the road on foot so our bug out bag might very well serve as a get home safely bag that we also have an emergency bag in the trunk of our car in addition to our bug out bags your car you're not as concerned about weight in your car of course as you are when you're carrying things so we do have another large bag to send the trunk of our car with some additional supplies because if we're if we're living out of our car these supplies could come in very handy but of course if we need to leave our car and hit the road it's good to be portable now in the interest of time so that this video is not excessively long I might not show you every single thing that's in my bug out bag so I can see the comments coming now what about this you didn't have this in your bag what about this so just keep in mind that I may have other items in here and if you have suggestions as far as some things that I don't mention in the in my bug out bag then I suggest you make your own video and show us what is in your bug out bag on the side here I have my gas mask with the filter in there alright now in here also there's some extra room in there so I do have some additional packets freeze-dried food in there alright this right here of course is a canteen so I can carry some water or in here I have some water purification tablets over here on this side I have a dramedori bag this is a four liter dramedori bag it actually holds a little bit more than a gallon this top right here is that this is the same top that fits on a Nalgene bottle and I have a water filters not in my bag but I've got a ceramic water filter in the trunk of my car that actually screws the threads on it actually screw on a Nalgene bottle it's an MSR filter so you can screw it on top of either an Nalgene bottle like this and these are good bottles to have of course because they're very durable they won't break and they can even freeze and won't crack if they freeze but anyway this so I can carry another an extra gallon of water I don't know if I'll be carrying an extra gallon water weighs eight pounds a gallon so if I fill this in the canteen over here that's an extra ten pounds of course water is something that's very very essential and so depending on the circumstances I'm not sure how much water I'll be carrying if I'm around water that I can drink easily and I have to a lot of walking to do I won't necessarily be carrying that much water but I do have the capability of carrying a lot of water if I need to now first of all we'll take a look at what I have in the pockets here there's a case where you can put we can have mounts and I have mounts of our state and the local area there are some small pouches here various items here I have this is actually a pistol cleaning kit this is a multi tool have a knife sharpener there's the knife sharpener a knife now I carry a I carry a knife just like this in my pocket this is a spare because the knife is very very important and here's some more gun cleaning supplies here I have liquid soap this is all-purpose soap you can use this to bathe with you can also use it to wash your cooking supplies and of course a sponge to wash with here I have extra magazines for my block 19 extra ammunition in there here on the outs on the outer pockets where you can easily get to them I have a lot of freeze-dried food as I mentioned freeze dried food is very light and and it is also you can eat it right out of the packet there's the other half of our radio set my wife has the other one in her bug out bag more freeze-dried food more freeze-dried food salt and pepper this is my magnesium fire starter it has a compass in the top of it and magnesium on this side what you do is you scrape off some magnesium filings and to to light your kindling and then you use this to light the magnesium just a real easy way to start a fire there's a knife for a filet knife compass notebook pencil take notes with matches lighter and here's um had one of these in my wife's bag too this is a real neat little water filter now always and the items like this and like the fire starter I always like to leave the instructions with them too now I know how to use things are these things but in case I'm not available someone else is using my bag it's it's good they might need the instructions if they're they're not as familiar that's a side solid charcoal block in it and with this you can just stick this right down in the water and drink very neat little the very very minimum every bug out bags should have one of these types of water filters here's a little fishing kit hooks line lures weights it floats everything you need to fish with and extra batteries over here this pocket I have my poncho these are good high quality ponchos that will cover not only us but cover our bags too if we're walking in the rain there's mosquito net goes over your head and this is a an emergency blanket this blanket is not just to keep you warm but this will also hide your heat signature people are looking for you using infrared heat seekers this is something you can hide underneath and it will block or it'll help to block your heat signature okay it's so much for the pockets let's look inside the bag right here's some spices to make your food more palatable this is a cooking kit or here's another water filter this is a good water filter to fill up your canteen with this is a ceramic water filter it's a ceramic element you can put this down in the water and pump this a ceramic water filters are very very very good water filter they last practically forever when they get dirty you can wash the ceramic they also in here how this is actually a rain cover for the alice pack so that you can just cover your entire alice pack and protect it from the rain and here I have some cord plastic bags very southern pieces of equipment I carry a real good first aid kit well packed with a lot of items that I might need to perform first aid in this bag I have certain toiletry items more soap deodorant there's a little stove a little alcohol stove inflatable pillow this actually is a little solar kit this is a solar battery charger and I can charge the battery say in my in my radios with this solar battery charger toilet paper this is a battery operated radio towel this alcohol fuel for my alcohol stove these are galoshers to keep my feet dry from walking in the rain and here's a bag of help of extra clothing as I mentioned it's good to dress in layers I have in here long underwear very warm socks an extra pair of pants that I can put over the pants that I'm wearing and a sweater and here's a nice little item to have this is a actually a folding her collapsible bucket and of course you can haul water with this but another thing that this comes in handy with is to wash you could put water in here and you can wash to you can heat water on your stove and have warm water in here to wash with or you can also use this for washing your dishes but that's something that comes in very handy and there you go this is these are the contents of survival docs bug out bag and one more item that I might or might not carry in my bug out bag depending on the circumstances is my keltex sub 2000 folding rifle now what I really like about this rifle is it accepts Glock magazines these are magazines for Glock 17 9 millimeter and these magazines will also fit my Glock 19 and of course both rifles will also use the high capacity magazines because you never know what you might need when you're bugging out this is survival doc reminding you be prepared or be prepared to be placed