BoB - Bug out Bags

BoB's... okay, fine. BUT... where are you bugging out to? If you are rich enough to have been able to purchase a few acres somewhere, where is that somewhere? Is it a place where others will wish to be?

I read a few blog's about bugging out and survival when TSHTF or TEOTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it) and time after time I see people talking about how prepared they are.

How prepared is that? Let's use as an example one or more people go to their decided bug out area and set up house keeping, probably with maybe a tent or even a small camping trailer.

They have their fishing gear, their hunting gear even. How many people are prepared compared to the non-prepared ones? Pretty big ratio I'm sure. A few million in different stages of preparation for bad times vs ten's of millions not prepared at all. Yet, a large percentage of those people, when they start starving, are liable to kill you for the food you have.

It's possible that would or could take only one shot from a decent weapon, rifle or pistol/revolver.

An example: You've been at your bug out location for a week or so and one or more of "those" people sneak up on you and watch you for a few hours or days to see how you act.

Then, when they have it figured out, a .308 or 30-06 bullet through the old head sure makes for a headache.

Then they either bury you in a shallow grave and make themselves at home in your belongings, or they pack up what they want and take it to their bug out location. Possibly, if there is a woman as one of the "campers", they will "save" her for a while and use her as a sexual "toy" before they kill her. You need to be thinking of such things happening. Maybe they won't kill anyone, maybe they will just abuse them and after stripping them naked, take everything they own and leave them/you to die. You do think of how to prevent things like that, correct?

Because things like that already happen and TSHTF hasn't even happened yet.

I don't understand the people on the survival lists/blogs (most of them by far) talk about when TSHTF and or TEOTWAWKI as if they are going to go to some location and set up as if they were camping.

Most likely there will be no law enforcement for a long time and gangs will destroy whole cities and towns, burning many to the ground. Thousands, and finally, millions will end up dead.

And with 310+ million people in the country these days, it does not matter how well you think your bug out area it "secret" and or hidden. Others will have the same idea about it. And a lot of those 310+ million people do not even have one days food or water stored up. First will be the looting of food stores and the people looting them will be people who you thought were good people and would never do something like that. What happened to them? Something as simple as "They got hungry."

What kind of place would make a good bug out location? Well, out in the middle of a field where you can see for a half mile or more and nothing for those trying to sneak up on you to hide behind. Oh, wait. That isn't any good, no fish or anything to hunt out there in the middle of the field. Okay, in a canyon next to a creek/river full of fish with lots of trees and game to hunt. Easy for someone to sneak up on you then, and the creek/river noise will help prevent you from hearing the person/people doing the sneaking. That means one, two, or maybe 3 or 4 people won't have much of a chance keeping their "stuff" if someone else wants it.

If you do go to/get to your bug out location and set up like when you go camping, how are you going to prevent someone from doing that? (Taking your stuff)

You need to be thinking about that: How are you going to survive the bad guys?

Let's use, for example, that you get unlucky at your camp and a group attacks you and you kill a few of them and then several surrender. What are you going to do with them? Take their weapons and kick them in the ass and tell them to never come back? Can't do that, you would just about be guaranteeing they would be back at some time in the future and would bring enough of their buddies to make sure you were killed.

No, there is only one thing to do when a group attacks you, and that is to make sure all are dead when it is over. Surrender or not, they did make a choice when they decided to attack you and they all need to be removed from being a threat to you and your loved ones. When they make a decision to attack you, they are showing you they are not good people and that they are a threat to all good people.

Or, they surrender, you take their weapons and kick them in the ass. Maybe within minutes or hours they have killed others who maybe weren't able to protect themselves as well as you could. Those deaths are your fault. You could have prevented them by killing the bad guys.

There are going to be a lot of good people killed before they figure that out. Figured out that when they see bad people, that the bad people need to be prevented from killing. The only way to do that after TSHTF or TEOTWAWKI will be to kill them.

Until the good people get that straight in your/their head, that there will be a lot of two legged animals walking around out there after TSHTF who will kill for something to eat, then the length of time you "survive" might not be too long.

It is not going to be good times after TSHTF or TEOTWAWKI.

Are you mentally ready to kill to keep living so that when you need to pull the trigger you can to protect yourself and loved ones. It is not going to be easy.

And once you kill a fellow human protecting yourself or loved ones, you will probably end up having nightmares about it for months or years that you will have to live with also.

In the 1970's, I heard of a couple of different groups known as "survivalists", one is Southern Oregon and another in Northern Idaho. Although the people in Idaho seemed to be white and were called White Supremacists. And most thought of them as whacko's.

Today, it is different, doing a Google search for "survival blog" returns 210,000,000 (yes, 210 million) websites or pages devoted to survival. Survival and being prepared is not a dirty thing anymore. It is the smart thing to be doing.