Table Of Contents

Introduction

What is bugging out?

Where do you go?

Bug out bag

Additional Bug Out Kit

What to pack

Water

Food

Clothing

Medical Supplies

Personal Items

Tents and Sleeping Bags

Other Kit

Cache

Other preparations

A final thought.

Introduction

What is “prepping?” There is a growing community of people across the world that are making their own personal preparations so that they are ready to be able to survive if the world as we know it changes. Many preppers prepare for a doomsday event. We aren’t taking about religion here, but events such as flu pandemics, asteroid strikes, economic collapse and natural disasters. Preppers are preparing for a world without grocery stores, electricity or hospitals. Those that have prepared well, will survive. Those that haven’t, won’t.

For many people new to the concept of prepping there can be information overload. There is so much to take in, there is a completely new set of thinking to try to apply and there is a lot of stuff to buy. So much so that a newbie will often gather a lot of information together and then do absolutely nothing with it.  The reason being is that they don’t really know where to start. With so much to seemingly do, it can be overwhelming. Often people think that they simply are never going to get an end point of “being prepared.” As a result of having a huge amount of information, a massive shopping list and no clear plan the majority of people simply do nothing.

This book is written in response to that. It is for the newbie prepper that is confused about where to begin. This book will tell you how to prepare your own bug out bag in case disaster strikes and you have to get out in a hurry. I really hope that you don’t have to use it, but if you do you will be one step in front of 99% of the rest of population. A bug out bag is probably the first place anyone should start with regarding the concept of prepping. I also hope that more experienced preppers might find some little nuggets of information that they can put to use themselves with their bug out bag.

This book is short; most people will be able to read it within an hour. My nature tells me that I shouldn’t pad the book with useless information. I like to give you the facts in an organized and structured manner. Anything else simply isn’t required. 

What is bugging out?

The term bug out means getting your stuff together and getting your precious butt away from your home to a place that is going to be safer at that moment in time.

There are many reasons why your home may not be safe for you to stay in. Say that the economic situation has got even worse and that many people have lost jobs and as a consequence are no longer able to feed themselves or keep themselves warm. In that situation you are likely to see rioting and looting on unprecedented levels. Hunger can do strange things to people, the placid family guy who always says hello to you in the gym suddenly turns into a crazed attacker as he seeks food to keep his family alive. If social order breaks down in a town or city then you should certainly decide that this is the time for you to bug out.

Another scenario is that a natural disaster may strike, earthquake, hurricane or tornado. You might think that your house has come through undamaged, but has it? Is it really structurally safe? Maybe there is a gas leak? Maybe the water services are badly damaged? If there has been widespread destruction in your town then you will see social order break down like in the situation outlined above. The vast majority of the people will not have prepared for this event and so will have no food available, they will come looking for it. If destruction is widespread then you can’t count on government help coming any time soon. It is time to bug out to somewhere safer untill order has been restored.

There are probably a hundred or more situations where you might need to bug out. The one that you will probably need to take action on, is probably the one that you never even dreamed would happen. In short, if you fear for the safety of your family, for whatever reason, bug out. 

Where do you go?

So when you bug out where do you go? As preppers our goal is to get to a location that we have identified where we intend to live as the world as we currently know it ceases to exist. My location takes me exactly 35 minutes to reach in my car on a good day. Because of where I selected, there aren’t many bad days. There was some highway work two blocks away from my home on one test, it took me 47 minutes then.

However, say the situation that has caused us to bug out isn’t actually long term. For example, a hurricane has struck. Yes the devastation is pretty widespread and it certainly looks as though the end of the world has occurred. But this is only a localized event; it isn’t doomsday! The government will still be in place, across the country social order is unaffected, you know that help will be on the way. You also know that if a hurricane has hit your town then because of the proximity of your chosen location, it will probably have been hit as well. You also know that the roads are going to be hit with debris and may well be impassable. You know that you don’t have to survive for weeks on end before help arrives. So instead of your location you head to a safe area closer to your home, one that you can walk to in a short time. I have earmarked three safe areas close to my town they are north, southeast and west of my home. This gives me options. Depending on the reason that we have decided to bug out we will head in a certain direction. You probably won’t be able to shelter inside a building, but that’s okay, your bug out bag will help you survive.

The other situation where the bug out bag is useful is if you do suspect that the situation is more long term and you do actually want to head to your location, but you believe that the roads will be completely impassable. You need to hike to your location. Now I would hope that I personally could hike to my location in a days march. However, I would have my family with me and that includes my ten-year-old daughter. I know I have no chance of reaching the location in a day when travelling as a family. Hence I need a number of pre selected safe locations to aim for as we make the march in two days. All of my safe locations are simply small clearings in woodland that are away from the main footpaths that pass through them.

Bug out bag

The bug out bag isn’t a complex concept to grasp. It is a bag that contains everything you need to survive for 72 hours in relative comfort. Each member of your family should have their own bug out bag. Obviously the size of the pack each family member is expected to carry is going to be dependent on their age and physical condition. A fifteen-year-old boy is going to be able to carry more than a seven-year-old girl. You will need to determine how the bags are packed, but it is essential that every member of the family has certain key items with them in case they become separated from the group. More on that later.

You need your bag packed and ready at all times. Why? Lets just try an experiment. From the time you read the end of this paragraph you have got just four minutes to go and pack a bag with everything that you need to comfortably survive for 72 hours. Go!

The clock is ticking. Tick tock. Tick tock. Tick tock.

Assuming you actually got up off your assets and gave that exercise a go. I know that your packing won’t have been that successful. I know for a fact that my brother-in-law won’t have even managed to get himself upstairs in the four minutes! To avoid this situation when it matters you must have everything packed before you need it.

A bag with supplies in it is useless unless it can be carried. There are hundreds of items that you might want to take with you. But accept that you can’t take everything. You need to be able to carry this pack with relative ease. I regularly go out for runs with my pack on (short ones, I might add) but I want to be sure that the pack isn’t going to be an issue when the time comes.

A bug out bag needs to be a quality backpack. It needs to be waterproof and it needs to be a proper hiker’s pack; one with a metal frame. These are especially designed to ensure that the load you carry is evenly distributed across your shoulders. This means that you will tire less quickly than carrying a suitcase for example. It may be the case that for smaller children you decide that a pack with a metal frame is going to be too heavy, you may like to choose a “day pack” like they might take to school with them. Remember the bag will be useless if the child cannot carry it. 

Additional Bug Out Kit

Many people simply go to the stage of having a bug out bag ready. I don’t, I go a small step beyond.

Each member of our family has a utility type belt, which is stored with the bags. Each belt has two metal water bottles clipped to it; these are always full. The belt also has our survival knife attached (Myself, my wife and my fifteen year old son all have a large good quality survival knife. My daughter has a small Swiss Army knife, more so to keep her happy than anything else.) In addition, each belt has a plastic whistle tied to it (not a metal one, in extreme cold this could freeze to your mouth.) It also has a glow stick tied on. You know the things I am taking about, a plastic stick that you crack, the chemicals inside mix and it starts to glow. Once operated they normally last a few hours.

Why do you need these items? The water is obvious and I will come to that later. The knife, again obvious, but it is best to have the knife in its sheaf at your side than having to grope for it in a bag when the time comes. The whistle is for attracting the attention of rescuers; short sharp blasts with pauses are best. The glow stick can provide you with a light source, although it will be quite weak, but again, it is mainly to help rescuers find you at night.

In addition to the bag and the belt we each have a windproof and waterproof jacket. They are of decent quality, I don’t recommend specific products in my books but you know the type. Go for ones with lots of pockets with zips.

In the chest pocket of each jacket there is a typed piece of paper. It contains essential information in case we are unconscious when a rescuer finds us.

The information on the paper is this

Name

Date of Birth

Contact details of my mother and my wife’s parents

Blood type

Passport number

A shortened medical history

If appropriate the medications currently being taken.

The paper is placed inside a sealable plastic bag; the type that you can put sandwiches in is a good type to use.

In the left hand main pocket is a folded map of the area with the locations of our safe places marked (this map is kept inside a plastic map case.) Inside the map case is also a basic, but workable compass. Everyone of our family knows how to set up a map with a compass in order to read it correctly. This is essential; items prepared will be useless unless you know how to use them correctly. There is also a pencil and notebook inside the map case. Always use pencils because pens have a nasty tendency to run out and not write on damp paper. Even if the pencil breaks you can always sharpen it with a knife (a lost art!)

In addition I have a have a hand held GPS locator. It is pre-programmed with the safe sites and that of our long-term location. Myself and my wife both know how to use to the device, we were taught by our fifteen-year-old son (this is a useful trick for technology; simply get the kids to set the thing up, it seems to be a skill they are born with these days). The time not to be reading the instruction manual is when you have your packs on your back and you are ready to go.

The large right main pocket on the jacket is for our gloves. These are the thermal type that you can buy from any outdoor kit supplier. Most of these type of jackets now have a cell phone sized pocket. Out cell phone obviously goes in there. Most people have cell phones these days and they are normally to always to hand, I don’t advocate having a spare cell phone to hand in a bug out kit. My family is actually pretty lucky, all three of our cell phones (mine, my wife’s and my son’s) are on different contracts and the providers are different for each one. These days getting signal isn’t so bad; but a certain provider’s equipment may have been damaged when another one hasn’t been. So we have managed to cover our bases with three phones with coverage supplied by three different providers.

The other pockets on the jacket are filled with high-energy snacks and candy. I’m a fan of pear drops that I buy from a traditional English sweet shop close to my mother’s house in England. I find that sucking a hard sweet helps keep my mouth moist and means I’m not constantly looking to consume liquids. Other snacks that we keep in our pockets are cereal bars, raisins, and Kendal Mint Cake (another English product – basically a high energy almost pure sugar bar.)

Together with our bug out kit we keep our hiking boots. These are always stored there! The kids know it will be a fate worse than death, if I find that they have moved them for any reason. The hiking boots are worn when we go camping or on hikes (the last thing you want to be doing is breaking in new hiking out boots when you are bugging out) but they are always returned to the correct place once we are done with them. There is always a fresh pair of wool hiking socks stuffed into the boots awaiting us.

We also store a pair of combat style walking trousers for each of us by the bags. You never know when the need to bug out will come. I wouldn’t really fancy bugging out in my suit (if I had to I would,) this way essential clothing is to hand.

The final piece of kit I would hope to take with me would be one of my handguns. As a responsible gun owner this is not stored with my bug out bag, but in a locked gun cabinet. If I have time to get it I will, if I don’t then I won’t lose too much sleep over it.

There is just one more thing we keep ready.  Next to the bug out equipment there are four shop bought medium sized bottles of water. We each drink these as we are getting ready and then leave the bottles in the house before we leave. The idea is that we try to get a significant amount of water in our systems before we set out into the unknown. That way we aren’t using our precious supplies in the first few hours.

What to pack

Now we come to what to pack in our bags. Every member of our family has their own personal items based on their needs. Until my daughter reached about six she had a stuffed bear in her sack. Would it keep her alive? Probably not, but it would help keep her calm when placed in a frightening and unusual situation. A few non heavy luxuries can help, for example my wife has a small bottle of dry shampoo – she says she feels a wreak if she doesn’t wash her hair in the morning. Clearly she knows that normal shampoo will probably mean wasting valuable water so she packs the dry stuff. We all understand that clean hair isn’t going to save anyone’s life. But if it makes her feel better and keeps her moral up then who I am to argue that this isn’t a good idea?

Last year, my son insisted that his laptop should be his luxury item. I pointed out that we weren’t buying him another laptop to keep in his bug out bag and that I was pretty convinced he could live without Facebook for 72 hours. I also pointed out the weight of the thing. He very proudly showed me how he could carry the bag complete with his laptop without any difficultly. I nodded my head, said I was very proud of him for carrying the extra weight, told him he was still not taking the laptop and gave him an extra bottle of water to carry for his sister! He stopped asking about stupid non-essential items after then.

Despite the fact that we have bought waterproof backpacks we still pack everything inside the pack in a heavy duty refuse sack. I want to ensure that the kit inside my pack stays dry. This is a great way to ensure that this happens. 

Water

Water is the most essential item that you will pack. Regretfully, it is also the heaviest. I liter of water weighs over 2 pounds. You need a minimum of two liters to drink a day, probably three if you are walking. That’s nine liters in order for you to survive 72 hours. That is a lot of weight and a lot of volume; it is basically impossible for a child to do this. So we store water in advance at our safe areas in caches (more on that later.) It is however, essential that every pack has at least some water in, just in case someone gets separated from the party.

We carry water in our two metal bottles strapped to our belts and then two medium sized bottles in our bug out bags, normally in the pockets at the sides of the bags. I ensure that the water is kept fresh and is rotated and used on a regular basis.

We also have water purification tablets in each bag and every member of the family knows how to use them, although I strongly hope that we won’t need to.

Checklist

2 metal water bottles on clip belt

2 medium sized shop bought bottles in bag

Water purification tablets.

Food

We take three days rations for each person in the bag. Your personal selection of food is up to you. However we take a mixture of dry food stuff and dehydrated meals that you add hot water to make. Some people preach against the dehydrated meals, but if you buy a quality brand you will find they actually taste pretty good (although look pretty awful). People’s main concern is that you have to use your water to cook them. I say that the water is entering your body anyway so I don’t see the problem if you are just drinking or putting the liquid into food.

There are a number of specialist survival bars that are extremely high in calories that are available for purchase. I believe that some are recommend by the Federal government. We also have some of these bars in our bags as part of our rations. I personally think that they taste like crap, but hey, I’d rather they taste poor than me be dead.

We include easy eating foods like nuts and raisins, which are high in natural fats and calories yet low in weight. I would never consider packing canned goods in a bug out bag. You spend a lot of your effort carrying around packaging that is useless. Plus you need a can opener. In my mind canned goods are no-good for this situation.

It will be nice to have a hot drink. It will help keep you warm and also helps keep moral up. So we “collect” sachets of coffee, hot chocolate and tea bags from hotels and restaurants. We also include creamers and sachets of sugar in our packs. We allow for 2 hot drinks a day. We obviously only pack for our personal tastes. This means that I pack tea bags (being brought up in England) my wife and son have coffee and my daughter has hot chocolate.

In order to heat both the food and the water for the drinks my son and me carry small hiking stoves, the sort that come with a burner, a wind guard, two pans and a kettle. They are useable in all weather conditions. I carry the fuel for the burner in a purpose-designed flask that is tied to the outside of my bag.

When it comes to eating, the dehydrated meals can be eaten straight out of the packet. You will need a spoon or a fork. You will also require a thermal mug to prepare your drinks in. (A normal non-breakable mug will do, but I love the thermal sort)

Checklist

2 large survival bars

3 (minimum) dehydrated meals from a quality supplier

3 freeze dried muesli packs – just add water (eaten hot or cold)

Nuts, raisins

Beef jerky

Dried apricots and other dried fruit

3 large Calorie dense biscuits

3 Flapjack cake bars

6 hot drink sachets

creamer and sugar, plastic stirring stick (these are easy to “collect” from numerous outlets)

thermal mug

Spoon, fork.

Clothing

We pack one change of clothing per person that includes underwear. We also include two pairs of socks as these are items that are likely to become wet. Layers are the best way to dress in order to keep warm, so a t-shirt, covered by a thin pullover, covered by a fleece, covered by the windproof jacket should about do the job in even the toughest conditions. A pair of leggings would be a useful addition for underneath your trousers (men, it is acceptable to dress in women’s clothing in order to survive.)

A warm jumper is an essential item. Hyperthermia is a real threat when outside in cold weather you need to ensure that you are not struck down.

A lot of heat is lost via the head, so a wool hat is needed during winter. The hood on the jacket will serve as the waterproof layer. Obviously in summer the opposite is true. We add a sun hat to the bag together with sunglasses and sunscreen. The last thing that we want is sunstroke. In the heat you will need to consume more water than the 3 liters mentioned earlier; 4 would be near the mark (more on how you can do that later.) Notice I say that we add a sunhat, we don’t remove the wool hat. In the heat of the summer in many places the heat differential can be massive. In other words, it may be very hot during the day, but it can also be extremely cold at night. You will probably still be glad of your wool hat.

In order to save space in our bags, we place the clothing in a vacuum bag and compress using our normal vacuum cleaner. If you haven’t seen these amazing space saving bags just Google vacuum-sealed bags and see what I’m talking about. They are well worth the investment.

If you have children that are still growing up will need to regularly change the clothes that you have stored. It sounds obvious, but the last thing you want for your child is that when the bug out call comes for the clothing in the bag to be six months old and basically un-wearable.

Checklist

1 spare set of clothing vacuum packed consisting off

1 trouser

1 pair leggings

1 set underwear

1 t-shirt

1 thin pullover

1 thicker fleece or sweater

2 sets of wool socks

1 wool hat

1 sunhat

1 pair sunglasses

Sunscreen

Medical Supplies

Every bag needs a first aid kit. It may be the case that the adults have a larger kit than the children. But everyone needs something just in case your family becomes separated. I’m not going to list the items that should be in a first aid kit; I’ll be here all day and any such list is always open to debate.

I favour the pre-packed first aid kits that you can buy from an army supply store or any outdoor store. I find that the kits are always far better packed that I would be able to. They now also come in canvas rolls as opposed to hard plastic boxes which makes things easier to store.

As well as a basic first aid kit I also add light painkillers and some heavy duty ones as well (there are ways of obtaining prescription medication if you are creative – don’t do anything against the law though.) Remember all medications have use by dates, so you should cycle your medication, using up old supplies and then replacing with newer purchases. In addition, I add a diarrhea medication. The last thing you need is diarrhea, it could seriously dehydrate you and it could even be life threating. Take this threat seriously and include it in your first aid kit.

You will also need supplies of your regular medication. I know we are only planning for three days, but if the medication is truly life saving I think you would be better packing a seven day supply. (Better safe than sorry!)

I also include multi-vitamin pills for 4 days (always best to go one extra when the things are so small.) Survival food may be full of calories, but it doesn’t always give you the full range of nutrition. A multi-vitamin each day will work.

Finally there is one thing that you can’t pack but you simply can’t do without. You may have the best first aid kit in the world, but if you don’t know how to use it you may as well have left the thing at home. Each member of my family has attended first aid courses; my kids did their first one at 6. I have been trained in advanced first aid and I go on update courses every year. My wife only updates every two years. My kids are still going through short courses and once they have finished the series they too will go on two yearly updates. I cannot stress how important skill building is. You need the skills before an emergency situation arises. Don’t delay book you first aid course today.

Checklist

 First Aid Skills Training

1 quality first aid kit

diarrhea medication

Any medications you currently take

Basic painkiller

Bad boy pain heavy-duty painkiller

Multi-vitamin pills

Personal Items

Trust me, if there is one thing that you do not want to forget in your bug out bag its toilet paper! Each of our bags has a roll in it but we have removed the inner tube and crushed the roll so it takes up less space. Again this is stored inside a sealed sandwich bag. Wet toilet paper is something that you will want to avoid.

I also have a small wash kit, which is filled with items from hotels. I forget about shower gel and shampoo. Unlike my wife, I can go three days without washing my hair (it does help that I don’t have much of it of course.) I stick with three of the mini bars of soap that a hotel provides and a travel toothbrush and toothpaste set. I also have a hand towel to dry with. In addition to a basic wash kit I have a small travel packet of moist paper towels, these are great for quick wipe down at the end of the day. I also have a travel size bottle of hand sanitizer which I always use before I eat (I don’t want to get ill when bugging out.)

Ladies, you will need to consider feminine hygiene products in your bag.

I also include a few kitchen bin liners in my personal section. They are useful for many things and you never know when you might need one.

Checklist

Toilet Paper

Soap

Toothbrush and toothpaste

Hand towel

Moist paper towels

Hand sanitizer

Feminine Hygiene Products

Bin liners

Tents and Sleeping Bags

I always advocate taking a tent with me in a bug out bag. We have two small pop up light weight tents that both me and my son carry on the bottom of our bags. My son is very large for his age and is quite capable of carrying heavy weights; obviously this helps ease the burden on my wife and daughter. Although it does always appear that our packs are much larger.

We like the pop-up tents; okay, they aren’t the best quality but they will help keep us warm and undercover, each tent sleeps two.

We also have a quality sleeping bag each with a compression sack, which helps reduce the size.

Finally we each pack two foil survival blankets, what some people call space blankets. These weigh next to nothing but you never know when you might need one.

Checklist

Tent

Sleeping bag

2 Space Blankets

Other Kit

We also have a range of other kit with us. We take two different flashlights in our bags. A pen type size LED battery flashlight is the first type, it is amazing how powerful these items are for their size. We also have a new set of batteries to go into it. Then we have a hand-powered flashlight, one that you turn the wheel at the back to power up. I never find these things as bright, but I think they are really useful to have, because you are never worrying about the power running out.

We each have our own fire lighting kit. This consists of a book of waterproof matches, butane lighter, three sealed firelighters and three different bundles of tinder in order to get a fire started. All our fire kit is packed inside a sealed plastic box. This helps prevent you firing up your butane lighters by accident and finding that your bag is on fire. Again, these tools are useless unless everyone knows how to use the things, make sure everyone is skilled at making a fire before they need to. It could be the difference between life and death.

We all have a quality multi-tool that is readily accessible in a side pocket. With any multi-tool you really do get what you pay for. This is an item where I wouldn’t want to purchase cheap. The last thing you need is for your multi-tool to let you down when you really need it.

Each bug out bag contains 2 signal flares. Each member of our family knows how to use these safely. Obviously these are used to attract attention of any rescuers out there.

I have an emergency radio in my bag; it has both a battery and a wind up power up option. The radio that we have has an alert tone whenever there is an official “disaster” message about to be played. This is extremely useful when your mind is “busy” and you need help in concentrating, it will help ensure that you don’t miss anything important.

Each pack contains a roll of paracord and duct tape. These are extremely useful items to have with you and be used to help in a whole range of problems and situations. In addition, both my pack and my son’s have ten foot of good quality thick rope slashed to the top. You never know when you might need rope so it is good to have with you.

Finally each bag has $100 in small notes. Both my bag and my wife’s bag have an additional $400. Yes, this means that we have over $1000 of our hard earned cash just sat in bug out bags. To be fair, the banks give you almost zero interest anyway. I would rather we had the cash ready in case we need it in an emergency. Finally, I also have an unused credit card in my bag. Our card has a high limit. I don’t really know how or when I might use it, but the idea is if we need to purchase airline tickets to get out of an area or some rooms in a hotel for example (again, probably not likely if a disaster has struck but it is there as a back up. I would hate to see an immediate solution to our problem and not have the means to sort it out.)

Of course this list is not complete, you should feel free to take what you want with you. I know some people swear by a small bottle of household bleach which can be used to treat water, or some people always pack a little sewing kit. If you wear glasses you might consider a spare pair a prudent item. In short take what you feel you might need. But make sure you can carry it.

Checklist

LED flashlight

Wind up Flashlight

Fire starting kit

Quality multi-tool

Signal flare

Emergency radio

Paracord

Duct tape

Rope

Money

Credit Card

Cache

This is the bit where you can turn your bug out experience from purely surviving into something that might actually resemble a bit of comfort. At each of the safe locations we have marked down I have cached a large sealable box of additional survival kit.

This box is actually buried at the safe areas. Each one contains slightly different things but they include things such as canned foods and tin opener. Canned goods last forever, but there is no way I would consider carrying them around in a bug out bag, but I have no problem in storing them at the safe area. There is another supply of hot drink making stuff. Loads more candy. There are also sugar filled soft drinks and isotonic drinks that help balance the body. We have some heavy blankets, spare batteries for flashlights. We have foam rolls that separate us from the groundsheet of our tent. They offer a little bit of comfort and help in keeping warm away from the cold ground. We also have some comfort items, like books and packs of cards. Once a paperback has been read it is excellent for helping start a fire; although I do also keep a larger selection of fire starting materials in our cache. There is more toilet paper and personal hygiene products stored there as well.

The box isn’t buried deep, our safe areas are away from the beaten track and the actual burial points are under bushes etc. I carry a small trowel in my pack to help dig the box up. The box handle is actually attached to paracord, which can be pulled and that helps pull the thing out of the ground.

You can burry as much stuff as you think you might need. I have heard of people burying barrels of equipment to access. Why not?

Finally, at each of our sites I have also stored a further quantity of water. These aren’t buried as I like to ensure that I swap them regularly. But if you look around a site you will find numerous places to hide bottles of water. Inside rotten fallen trees is a good place or actually up a tree is another place I have used. If you find a good place to store water then you can really stock up and ensure that you have a good large supply.

Other preparations

As I have said throughout this book, you should be familiar with every single piece of kit in your bag and cache. It is useless having the stuff, if you can’t use it. Make sure that you take the time to learn how to use everything to its full potential.

We have already discussed the fact that a first aid course is essential. But you might like to also consider doing a short survival course as well. This could be a great thing for your family to do together as bonding.

If you are planning on taking a gun with you, then firearms training is a must.

You should also consider working on your physical fitness. You need to be able to walk with all of this kit on your back. You can never be fit enough. 

A final thought.

I hope you never have to use the information that has been supplied in this book. I hope that you can leave a happy, peaceful life without anything untoward happening to you at all. But you need to be ready. A bug out bag is the perfect place to start when you are a newbie prepper. Make it your goal to get your bag started and sorted out in a matter of months. You simply don’t know when you might need it.

Finally, you need to do some practice runs with your equipment. Everyone needs to know what to do. You may feel a bit foolish at the start, but if you have children, then try to make it fun. But whatever, ensure everyone is ready.

I’d like to thank you for downloading my book, I hope you have enjoyed it and it has inspired you to take action.

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