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Updated Get Home Bag for 2025 | Essential Survival Gear
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Jun 8, 2025
In this video, I walk you through my fully updated Get Home Bag (GHB) for 2025. Whether you're prepping for emergencies, natural disasters, or unexpected situations while away from home, this bag is designed to get you back safely. I've upgraded the gear, streamlined the loadout, and focused on what really works in real-world scenarios. Let me know in the comments: What’s in your Get Home Bag for 2025? USGI Industries Poncho: https://bit.ly/3ZdDh6N IFAK Pouch: https://bit.ly/4aUbq1j Princeton Tec Headlamp: https://bit.ly/45mDHwM Leatherman Rebar: https://bit.ly/4jjsosz Oden Wolf Knife: https://bit.ly/4kAvoBX Raider's Backpack:
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we are going to go through my get home
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bag and the updates I've made for
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2025 so stick around it's going to be a
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good
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video some of you may know that um
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recently I had a surgery i had my left
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hip uh replaced total replacement and of
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course recuperating and uh you know
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going a little stir crazy of course not
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be able to get outside as much uh
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mobility is getting pretty good right
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now i think we're at day seven or eight
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and um I'm feeling pretty good today so
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I thought this would be a great
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opportunity for me just to sit here and
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go through um my get home bag that I've
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updated because that's something I like
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to do at least yearly just go through it
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evaluate
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um what is in it uh make some different
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choices maybe add or subtract a few
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things and of course I learn a lot from
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watching other people's videos and
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comments that you guys leave so this is
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my updated bag and uh we're going to go
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through the contents and then uh there's
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going to be some questions that I'm
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going to have for you guys things that
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you can help me out with because I think
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there are things that I'm trying to make
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decisions on and I need um some feedback
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I guess uh of what you guys would do or
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don't
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do now the first thing with get home
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bags that we need to realize is that um
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there are going to be things that we
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have on our person all the time that's
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our EDC and um for everybody it's
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different um you know for many people
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it's going to be a um a firearm uh for
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personal protection that is definitely
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um a key item that I like to carry and
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have with me if I'm not carrying it it's
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going to at least be in my vehicle with
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me that I can get to it and it's
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something that I can either conceal on
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my person or put it in a different type
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of bag and and we'll talk about that in
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a little bit and then of course the
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other thing you're always going to have
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um you know some kind of cutting tool on
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you i always carry a pocket knife i'm
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always going to have some kind of pocket
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knife on me um it just depends on the
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day but I have a variety of them so I'm
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going to have that i'm probably also
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going to have my wallet my keys my phone
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bandana possibly a lighter these are
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things that you know I carry all the
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time uh just in case but
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now so this pack is uh from a company
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called Rebels Raiders uh it was another
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company before that and then they went
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under and then that guy bought the
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company or or something like that and
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he's still manufacturing this pack it's
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pretty popular um in the prepper Minute
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Man kind of community a lot of people
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know Rebel Raiders but it's a it's a
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great pack so far um I've been testing
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it and I really enjoy it um it's around
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I want to say 30 to 37 L um it is a um a
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lightweight Cordura material right
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around like 500D um it has a lot of
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features to it but the pack is not
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important what's really important is the
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contents and it's up to you to choose
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the gear and the pack that you like so
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on this outside
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panel I want to keep a couple things
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that I can grab pretty quickly i'm going
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to have a pair of mechanics gloves
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lightweight duty kind of gloves and then
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I'm going to carry my rainsuit now this
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is a Frog Toggs they're really a great
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lightweight um rainsuit uh you can see
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they really don't uh take up a lot of
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space it's a lightweight material they
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are waterproof i've worn these in
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downpours before hiking around and they
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work great and they come with a pair of
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pants and a hooded jacket that zips so I
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want to be able to uh get to my my rain
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gear pretty quickly um when I'm out
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because if I am you know leaving my
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vehicle and hiking uh I may not be able
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to hit shelter right
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away so this outside pouch just contains
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first aid items i have a pretty compact
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first aid kit here it has everything I
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need in it to take care of myself um of
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course at the bottom there is a
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tourniquet ready to go on this outside
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pocket I've got wet
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wipes this particular pouch I've done a
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video on this before where I actually um
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took this and built it into a waist pack
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so this pouch can come off and then I've
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made a belt um that attaches to it and
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then I can carry this as a waist bag so
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I have the belt with me um in the pack
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and then if I need to take this off and
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carry this um you know on myself I can
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do that and that g just gives me another
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option of carrying
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gear and here is kind of my mini land
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nav
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kit this is a writing pouch and then
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I've got right and rain notebook
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i have a base plate
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compass from
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Sento got one of the new Wright and Rain
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Boltaction
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pens then on the outside here I have
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some nav cards uh these are basically
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grid readers and also um some different
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um you know cues to help you with land
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navigation um and survival but primarily
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you know how to read a map things like
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that and that's a lot of stuff that you
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should know already but it's good to
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have that kind of stuff available in the
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grid readers are handy now as far as
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maps go um there's not a map in here
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because in my vehicle
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um I always carry um a gazettter map
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book of the state that I'm in so I'm in
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Ohio i always have that map gazettter
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with me i can take that with me shove
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that in my pack i can tear out pages of
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it it's a very uh
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extensive map system um of the state you
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there's a lot of information in there
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and um it works
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fantastic this little back pocket here
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of course we have headlamp and batteries
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this is um a headlamp that I've um
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talked about before in other videos but
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what's nice about this this is the I
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believe the Princeton Tech Bite and uh
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the first uh light that comes on when
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you press the button is the red light so
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that's a nice feature and then if you
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want to go into your other modes you
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can if I can get them
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here there and you go into white
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light but when you shut that off it's
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always going to start with the red light
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and I like that feature and of course it
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runs on uh AAA batteries so I got some
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extras in here for
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that side pockets
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these side pockets are big enough to fit
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a canteen but that is about it so um I
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don't use cantens in this particular bag
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so I'm using these side pockets really
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for more for organization of smaller
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items so here this is um basically my
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shelter kit um
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uh
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has bank
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line i have a quick deploy ridge line
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ready to
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go i have
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some guidelines these are just shock
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cord that I use for this corners of my
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tarp and then some titanium stakes so I
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don't have to sit there and fashion a
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lot of uh stuff in the field i want to
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be able to put up my shelter relatively
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quickly and then the shelter that I'm
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using uh with this is a um a poncho and
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I'll show you that here in a second but
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this so this is the shelter kit so I can
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grab this um everything is contained and
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together in a small lightweight
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bag and then back
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here I just have a couple um things from
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Exotac i've got my fire sleeve that
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holds big
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lighter and it keeps that protected
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and then a um ferosmium rod from Exotac
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which has a striker built into
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it so these are very lightweight small
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options don't take up a lot of room
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other side of this bag on this
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pouch I
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have an Sbit
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stove this is a newer one that I just
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received replacing my older one my old
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German one um this is my water
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purification kit so we have a Sawyer
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mini in here we have the tube of course
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the Sawyer Mini itself
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water purification tablets uh micro
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pure and then there
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is a syringe that's for flushing or back
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flushing your uh filter which is really
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important for water flow but these
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things are great you can there's a
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variety of ways to how to use these
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um in a in an emergency situation for
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filtering your water and then I have one
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of the larger Sawyer squeeze bags for
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filtering the dirty water so I would
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actually collect dirty water with this
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and then squeeze that out or pour that
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out into another
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container and then I have a metal
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spoon and then a lid to my cook pot
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which we'll see here in a second
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another part of the hydration system for
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this backpack is it does have a
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hydration pocket in the back um this is
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where the the stiffener for the the
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frame sheet of the pack is but also it
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allows me to carry a 2 to 3 L um bladder
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back here and I can use that in
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conjunction with my Sawyer with my
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Sawyer filter so just gives me another
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option of carrying water now this bag
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um is coming in at just around 15 lbs
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dry weight and it's going to be dry
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weight because you're not going to store
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water in this you don't want to store
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water in it um cuz water's going to go
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sour on you if you leave it in your hot
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vehicle over the summer really like the
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beaver tail um on this pack it has
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bungee cord up and down the side so it
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can expand out i mean it's big enough
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there's enough room in there you could
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actually put a helmet if you wanted to
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but it's a great place to put those
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grab-and- go items and then you just
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unbuckle these two top buckles and then
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the whole pack uh will actually flay
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open so I've got my uh spare pair of
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socks and these socks um I've been
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testing these for a while now these are
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uh Camel City kind of an unusual name
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but they are made in USA sock um they're
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a blended uh marino wool I believe so
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this is their their work sock and um
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I've been wearing them with my work
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boots i've been wearing them uh camping
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hiking um and they've been really uh
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comfortable they do a good job of uh
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mitigating sweat in my boots so I really
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like these and I'm going to have a good
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pair of socks with me to change out into
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because sometimes I don't wear great
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socks sometimes I'm wearing you know uh
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lightweight uh tennis shoe socks um
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couple contractor
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bags lots and lots of uses for these so
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it's a multi-use item but um definitely
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worth having in the
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bag i'm going to have a couple of these
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um MREs um these are the reduced sodium
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ones which I really like so I got two of
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those i got two
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meals now there's room in the bag to add
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actually more i could um potentially add
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like a MountainHouse for another option
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of something that needs to be cooked but
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the thing with these M meals is I can
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eat them cold um I can warm them up with
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the heater pack or I can take the
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contents and put it in a pot and cook it
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that way so it really gives me some
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different options and if I'm keeping
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these in my vehicle I'm going to want to
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rotate these out uh you don't want to
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leave these in your vehicle all summer
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long with the heat um they're they will
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degrade faster so it's a good idea to go
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through these and change them out you
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know take one pull it out go camping
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with it eat it and then put another one
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in but the thing is with the get home
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bag you want to keep it all together and
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not be going in and out of it all the
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time that way you don't uh lose or
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forget or misplace items
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now my shelter is this poncho right here
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this is a militarystyle poncho um uh
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I've done some videos on this in the
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past on how to set one up and uh it
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performs very
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well and uh compacts down pretty
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nicely and I'll have a link in the
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description below to my Amazon store
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where I have these um they're great
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ponchos the company that makes these I
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think did a really nice job with them
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they come in a variety of of colors and
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camouflages but I like the multicam uh
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for Ohio works pretty well um for a lowp
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profofile camouflage shelter so there's
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that's my
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cover then I've got um um this kind of a
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new setup for me this is a 40 oz clean
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canteen and then I've got this is my
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titanium cup that I got from Stay Ready
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Outdoors and uh they actually laser
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etched my logo on there that's kind of
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cool but what I like about these 750ml
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titanium pots um is that it has a bail
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so if I have to cook over a campfire
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which I'm probably not going to want to
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um in a situation where I'm trying to
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get home and I'm trying to be stealthy
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um but it it's something I can do and
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then also it has um pretty decent
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folding handles that stay where they're
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supposed to they do not close on
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themselves easily like some of the other
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ones I've had in the past so it's a nice
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little titanium pot fits nicely with
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that 40 oz um bottle so now I can boil
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in this bottle so that's a gives me
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another
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option my uh ground cover that I'm going
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to be sleeping on top of um is going to
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be um one of these space blankets a
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two-sided kind heavy duty in the
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military they call these like a casualty
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blanket same thing um but uh this is a
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commercial one i think a grabber blanket
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is another term they use and then I'm
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going to want some tools so here is my
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folding saw this is from Silky this is
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the uh I think the they call this the
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F100 or 180
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f-180 yeah F-180 Silky really nice
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little saw i've been testing this out
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recently and I I think it's it's
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good then for my u insulation layer I'm
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going to use the um Helicex uh Swagman
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roll poncho uh these are such a
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fantastic multi-use item uh they do a
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great job of um providing
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lightweight insulation and cover but you
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can wear it like a poncho so I could
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wear put this on as a poncho put my
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poncho over that and now I have an
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insulating system if I want to um I can
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also turn this into a sleeping bag i can
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wear it uh use it like a a quilt just a
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variety of ways of using these so um you
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know they're not the cheapest option out
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there but they're far superior to the
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standard military issue wi they're a lot
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thicker and they have better insulation
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because they're running um I think it's
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like an Apex um yeah an Apex Climate
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Shield um insulation in these so a good
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good insulation layer i This is from
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Odin Wolf um this is the uh their flat
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grind knife um really nice all-purpose
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blade shape and style full tang D2 steel
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inexpensive you know it's in like the
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mid30s 35 bucks something like that
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and then what I've done is I've taken my
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Leatherman rebar which I think is
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probably one of the most fantastic um
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multi-tools out there and I bungeeed the
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sheath um to the
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um sheath of the knife so has my tools
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all
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together nice uh nice option to have and
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I don't need a big knife you know a 4-in
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blade is plenty and then of course I've
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got my pocket knife with me as well so I
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have several different options for
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cutting tools we're going to go back to
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this personal protection subject because
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this is the question I have for you guys
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um if you're carrying a pistol
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um what are the different ways you're
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you're going to want to carry this so a
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lot of different options out there right
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you can carry this in its holster um on
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your waist concealed and that works
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really well right we we can do
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that but the other option
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is what about um taking out some of
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these extra items in the pack and using
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a chest pack instead to carry the pistol
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as well as things like land navigation
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so you know having the compass here
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having items inside my pack signal panel
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uh you know space blanket
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notebook ferosm rod lighter some
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band-aids flashlight pens glow stick you
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know all these little items that are
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floating around in the pack could all be
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consolidated
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into a chest pad so the question is do
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you think this is a good idea of
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carrying something like this cuz I know
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a lot of people are going to say "Well
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um you know you wearing that is going to
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definitely make you um stick out as a
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target uh it's not very gray man." And I
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get all that but and then of course your
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pistol goes back here carry spare
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ammunition with me as well um but you
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know if things are really bad and it's a
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natural disaster the grid's down or
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whatever and I got to make it home um
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having everything together in a chest
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pack to me makes a lot of sense because
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I can carry this and have all that stuff
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accessible very easily and get to it
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quickly um and then you know if I don't
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want to wear it I can take this off and
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then this can be shoved into the pack
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and put away that way so I think it's a
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it's a good option all right guys i need
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to wrap this up i'm getting tired and uh
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of course I'm on all kinds of
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medications so I probably should uh take
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it easy today but I wanted to share this
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update to my get home bag tell me what
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you guys think uh let me know in the
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comments what things that you would add
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or subtract i'm always looking for
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opinion and information and as always
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thank you so much for watching my videos
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and we will see you next time on the
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prepared wanderer
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um you need to be aware of one is small
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um you're not going to get a lot of room
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in here but if you close off the top
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where the hood is at if you wrap an
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elastic band around it it will help keep
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the rain out and it will stay dry um but
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if you pitch this thing low enough to
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the ground you shouldn't get a lot of
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stuff coming in from the sides so I got
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mine raised up just a little bit just
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for some air flow but um all in all I'm
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completely under it i'm not even all the
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way down inside of it i'm kind of
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sticking out so I could cook
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