From: medintz@falcon.cc.ukans.edu (Mike S. Medintz)
Newsgroups: misc.survivalism
Subject: Bug-Out Bag Contents
Date: 20 Feb 96 23:04:35 CST
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Since everyone else is posting what they keep in their bags, I figured I

might as well join in. Here goes:



Buck Special 6", with leather sheath and with the grip wrapped in friction

tape.

Gerber Gator 4"

Pliers (channellock-type)

P-38 can opener

"church key" can opener

1 bottle of Polar Pure(tm) water purifier.

3-1qt canteens

army-surplus ripstop poncho with liner

2D Mag-Lite with extra bulb and batteries

Silva model 15 compass

200 wooden matches

flint striker

sierra cup

coffee can

1/2 pound beef jerky

1 pound hardtack

20 tea bags (always the caffeine hound)

1 bottle, homemade hot sauce (I'll give out the recipe if you ask nicely)

1/2 pound, dried fruit

wool shirt

one pair wool socks

one set, long underwear

one pair, wool fatigue pants

10 3"x3" gauze pads

10 butterfly bandages

15 1"x3" bandages

2 3"x180" gauze roller bandages

1 roll, waterproof tape

3 8"x10" compress bandages

4 oz., povidone-iodine scrub

1 bar, Ivory.

toothbrush

extra bootlaces

50' parachute cord

one roll, duct tape



The Buck Special, compass, 1 canteen, and one of the large compress 

bandages I keep lashed to the outside of a backpack. Everything else 

rides inside 



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Mike S. Medintz

God bless America. Let's try and save some of it.