My house burned down 2 months ago while I was at work. If it hadn't been for my bug out bag, and the car kit I keep in my 4runner, i would have nothing. Luckily, I had extra clothes, toiletries, my vital documents and pictures on protected hard drives, food, water etc. Being prepared isn't just for getting home or getting out. It ca be just to survive when you've lost everything due to fire, tornado, hurricane earthquake anything that can happen any day to your home while you are out.
Overton Windex: "All you need is a bic lighter." SP: "Bic lighters don't last forever." Overton Windex: "....so, I'm putting TWO bic lighters in my zip-lock."
One interesting idea for dumpster diving; if you live near a college is to check the student housing areas. These kids throw out some amazing stuff. Food, clothing, furniture etc
I’m homeless now for 10 months and I have a job and I live in my car. 24/7 I carry my bug out bag. My INCH bag is at another location. Thanks for the video.
I'm not sure how to ask this without upsetting someone. ( In this day and age, there is always SOMETHING that offends someone) There are many of us that will not be able to bug out, for one reason or another. I cannot or will not leave my apartment. I'm old. (70) and I live so far under the radar it's not funny. I also do not know 1 person in my community. While I am a prepper, and am very confident of MY abilities, the are a growing number of older Americans that really are not ready to roll over and "play dead". Do you have any videos you can direct them to?
I do not have specific creators, but I would suggest videos and blogs about "Bugging In" and "Grey Man Living". Those would be more about how to live among the chaos during that time. Hope that helps.
@55sargeshotrods - Oh no, Thank you but I have enough freeze dried, dehydrated and canned goods to last out a full turn of the calendar. I have generator, independent heat source, my "ham" radio license. My weaponry amount is content. I live on a Great Lake so my water is safe. While I am finei worry about other elderly. This page is very well thought of and I was hoping they could dedicate a upload for this subject.
It's called Bugging in, that's always going to be a first choice if your home is standing and safer than the roads. INCH bags are for catastrophic situations like floods fire tornados that have destroyed your home, you got evicted ECT
When I've been out riding my motorized bicycle. The homeless would see my bike and it looks like the ultimate transportation to them. And it doesn't require a license plate, no driver's license, no taxes, no registration no nothing. One of the few things I've learned from the homeless is you can take ramen noodles and soak them in cold water. After a few hours or two they turn soft. Then you can heat them up it would be a lot faster to cook once they're soft. Unfortunately most of the homeless I meant were just on drugs. Most of them didn't make sense and were too busy forging for food. Their food is drugs they got to steal anything to turn that theft into money to buy drugs and repeat multiple times a day every day. Don't get me wrong there's good homeless. But most of them are working like me. By the gov ernment's definition I'm homeless but you'd never know it. And usually homeless that live in tents are on drugs they don't want to take the help and better their self. They just want to be left alone to do drugs and commit crimes every day. There is no difference between the bad homeless and the bad migrants. And they only brought the migrants here for votes. And of course they will get rich off the migrants from the shelter, food and all the resources. Homeless is a big business what are politicians and guys at the top are getting rich. Google universal basic income and 32 an hour week in 15 minute cities. A lot of crazy things are happening and going to continue.
I am will past 80 years old and have a Bug Out Bag and a separate Get Home Bag, but will now think about the I.N.C.H. situation from my perspective. One of the main things that come to mind is that perhaps it will be a supplement to the B-O-B, especially considering age related items, such as Medical scripts, legal references, and more "permanent" type needs rather than needs for a few days. The SAS guide is already in my GHB, but I agree with its inclusion.
My first inch bag was MASSIVE. I could hike with it if I had to but not easily. I’ve since come up with what I think is a much better system. My inch bag is now in 3 parts. My plate carrier + belt have enough basic survival gear for a quick emergency. The backpack is basically a bug out bag. Light enough to hike with on top of the carrier/belt and primary and survive out of for a while. I also have a duffle bag that I can carry cross body or by hand which really turns it into the inch bag. Full camp site in a bag basically. I wanted to be able to drop bits at a time if I needed to be lighter and move faster or fight if needed but not lose all my supplies if I couldn’t make it back to the other parts of the kit. Hopefully I’ll never need it.
It makes sense to me to be as light as possible if you're traveling through rough terrain. I don't have a lot of experience hiking long distances. But the little bit I have done wore me out, and I didn't even have more than forty pounds of gear.
You are right to bring an I.N.C.H. bag to Atlanta. I grew up in CA and have lived in SC for 8 years now. Atlanta is the closest thing I've seen that compares to Los Angeles. 😂 Thank you for all your videos!
If you have ANY survival items, you need to store them somewhere, so you may as well get a small duffel, or a toolbox, or just a plastic storage tub. Then you can just move the stuff into your BOB or INCH bag when needed, then go.
Photocopies of all of your families important documents and or have all of those in one place in an easy to grab file folder. It's a complete PIA to get all of those documents again if you have lost them. After Katrina that was a massive problem for so many people.
Absolutely this. Physical pics of your family too, to prove your child is actually yours, or to show people if you get separated and your phone is dead. Also, copies of any licenses that may come in handy-- I'm a firefighter and paramedic, and have copies of my certs in my bags. Proving your usefulness when resources are scarce can help you out.
That's why I bought a small luggage carrier with two wheels. You'll have to decide what you pull and what you carry. Be ready to let go of the two wheeler in dire situations.
Sounds like some weight is to be lost before you even have the want to carry that… 75 Hard with OMAD works great to lose some weight. The complaining… leave it at the door or cuddle with it and hush.
About a decade ago, when I was first finding channels like this one and putting together my first preps, I made an INCH bag. Man, what a mistake. It was so massive there is no way I could hump it more than a quarter mile. I have since completely disassembled it. I am working building evacuation bags for myself and my wife that will contain only what we need to survive a five day walk. That is enough to get me to where I might be going and then some. Any more than that is added weight for no reason, slowing me down and reducing my survivability. In five days, I can walk 100 miles or more. That’s more than enough to reach safety, and then I will be able to utilize the resources available there. I don’t need everything for surviving in the woods for years in my backpack.
If your bag is too heavy, consider doing as I did... make a bugout BIKE, also. With a bugout TRAILER (Burley brand makes good ones). So in 3 seasons, you can put your heavy bag in your trailer - or your old dog, which is why I actually got mine...no way I'd leave my dog behind! In Winter, you can use a "pulk," or a toboggon, or a plastic sled, or a runner sled, or ........... You'll be slowed down by the snow, no matter how deep, and you can pull a load on a skid just as easily as walk yourself. Cause, you never know what's in that bag that you'd want! Especially if it's FOOD!
One thing that every prepper/survivalist I have listened to, has said is; 'The more you know, the less you have to carry'. I have found this to be the case; Seven years ago, when I first started prepping for SHTF, I put together a bag that I could barely carry because there was SO much stuff in it. Now, as I've learned more about making use of natural resources, my backpack is surprisingly light.
@@notmyname3883 food is pretty much the least important thing to have in a survival scenario. You can live for weeks without food. You will die in a few days if you run out of water. You can die in mere hours from exposure to the elements. Medical, fire, shelter, and water are all vastly more important than food.
I let go of the INCH bag concept when I realized, even as a significantly disabled veteran, I still was able to smoke my wife and kids on long rucks theough the mountains....especially my wife who is a cancer survivor with tons of medical issues, not her fault at all. They can't do what I can do. Can I survive months out of a bag in the Appalachian wilderness? Yes. 100% I can. I have the skills, experience, and knowledge. Can my wife and kids? Nope. I don't even think I could get her to last a few weeks, particularly when there's no more meds. There goes any INCH bag fantasies. I still keep a "bug-out/survival" bag but it's bare bones minimalist. Gear to keep warm and provide clean water and to make hasty shelter.... that's it. Add in a rifle with a full fighting load of ammunition. Everything else is up to the Almighty....
Maybe the INCH bag concept can work. Just not as we would think of it. A bag with things to comfort us as we approach the end. Photo albums and memories, a bible or other religious items. To make it easier to move on.
@SiXiam Maybe. I'm not going out peaceful though. I'll be going out screaming and in a pile of bodies and hot brass. They built me different on Parris Island lol. 😬
Yes but the older generation saw/experienced and knew things as well as possessing older values. Now many are retired and no longer "productive". At 63 with a spinal cord injury I've no doubt whatsoever they've been trying to kill me for the last 20 yrs! Unfortunately they seem to be getting dirtier and better at it.
Our cities are definitely overpopulated. We only inhabit about 3 to 5 percent of the total land mass of the United States. There's more than enough land.
I would suggest opening the plastic contractor bag and supporting it to collect rain like a big funnel. Cut the lowest corner, and put a bucket under the hole to collect the water.
Large tarps tied at the corners will collect rain, but not much weight. Use a weighted object to direct into container. Collapsible fabric buckets are cheap usually 3 to 5 gal. Collapsible plastic 5 gal. or 1.3 to 3 gal. are cheap as well. Dont forget water filtration.
I’m a Cold War veteran. 10 years active. Here’s what I want to carry. Sleeping bag, tarp, knife, fire start ,metal water container, firearm. As a combat engineer that was down range 6 months out of the year that’s all I need and that’s all I’m going to hump.
Thank you for this video. I have been setting up INCH bags all along, and didn't know it. In my mind, the odds of being gone beyond 72 hours are too great to settle on 72 hours of prep. If we are on foot, we need to be realistic on how many miles we can achieve per day. Sustaining (feeding, resting, healing, loving), sheltering, walking. Sustaining, sheltering, walking. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat...It is not impossible to bug out. Think of the number of refugees who make it on foot with little resources, today. But, seriously prepare your plan and mind for it.
I recently drove from upstate NY to S, C, and back. Both ways I was stuck in an hour traffic stoppage due to car accidents several miles up the highway. BOTH times, I was getting concerned about my "bladder" needs. I had my bucket, bags etc however, trying to sit on a bucket IN the car is not easy. I will now simply buy a bedpan because of the low profile. I won't leave home without it.
Get a drum cooler with a lit. Firemen & women use them in huge forest fires. In traffic jams, open passenger front & back doors in an area that doesn't have any buildings. Have paper towels ready before you get out & a walmart bag for trash disposal afterward.
Everyone's BO and INCH bag will reflect their needs and scenarios. If you saw my BOB, you'd call it an INCH bag because I have just under a 200-mile ruck to get there if I cannot drive to my BO location. I have rucked with my INCH bag on several 30-40 mile thru-hikes, and I'd be quite capable with it over a longer haul. Solid video, mate.
An inch bag with a dome tent is what I carry everyday. I have food, water, a way to cook, shelter, a way to stay warm, clean myself, etc. You don't know what will happen with an emp or some other attack and you may have to leave your vehicle and walk. Remember what happened on the highway in Virginia. NOBODY came to help them and people died. JUST BE PREPARED FOR ANYTHING.
Have an emergency shirt & pants with lots of pockets on both, ready to go, hanging somewhere easy to put on. Having all your pockets filled already with all your nessesary items, all your other bags will be lighter in weight.
A little is more. A tiny bag is great. I like a candle with a fire starter kit. Tea candles, bees wax candles. Not much weight, lots of comfort and such.
Just look at the people of Ukraine Early in the fight we saw people bugging out quite literally. Keep those pictures in your mind. Those where people running for their lives
In some cases it is a “there will be an empty lot, or pile of junk left where you come back.” Someone in an area prone to fire, hurricanes, or tornadoes. This is always a factor. I have lived in every one of those areas.
There should not be a homeless problem in the US. We can thank our greedy leadership for that. More than likely if we have to bug out it will be our leadership to blame. Until the people standup and take our country back its a good idea to have a bugout or inch bag ready to go imo. Make sure all your gear is in the bag and not scattered around your house. I think a lot of us are bad about this, myself included.
Pretty sure they will never fix the homeless problem because there's to much money to be made with it. Same with cancer and a bunch of other problems. And thats why we should never rely on anybody outside of our family to take care of us. Totally agree with you thats a good reason to have any type of bags and gear ready.
The Government does not want the homeless problem sorted out. In my own case where I live I have been made homeless in the past THANKS to the Government in the UK.
Back in the 1850s all my ancestors took their "inch bags" (hand carts and wagons), left their homes in Europe, Australia and the eastern US and headed into the US west. Most of them survived and even thrived in a relatively hostile environment. Their most important resource was knowledge.
Most aren't in the condition to carry a real I.N.C.H bag. This is a seriously big and heavy bag which you need to be in shape to carry. It needs all that one needs to 'I'm Never Coming Home'. That means permanently. You will be heading out to a location where you may have a 6 month cache or more, or to a location where you will set up a permanent base.. That journey may be very long, too.
This is the comment I was looking for! Either you have a bugout location, a friend/relative's prearranged location, or someplace you can be left alone and relatively secure. That means you have caches of additional items, tools, ammo, meds, food etc. previously located at MULTIPLE cach locations.
I know this is after the live but I live in AZ and new to all of this, what would recommend the best way to set up a "Get Home Bag" or a "Bugout Bag" for the summer heat and the best way to store it in your car in the heat of the summer?
You covered the basics well. It really is not complicated, understand the rule of three's and address as you need. One thing to keep in mind is the number of people who will relocate from the cities. In the first months of covid we had all of our water ways here in the National Forest blocked by rv's. It was massive, it look like small compounds. It was a good example of what it could look like in real event. To hunt or fish, would not be realistic in this situation. The animals will relocate, or be exhausted quickly. Skills are key, gear is relative to environment and ability. Learning to live with less is helpful. Living off a motorcycle, bicycle, hiking, or even overlanding, can give an idea of how little really is needed to sustain. If you can stay home, if you have to leave, design your gear to be portable and ready to go. As far as knife, the ESEE Junglass, and PR-4 is my goto. Great video, thanks for sharing.
A couple of suggestions: Gold n Silver: I've bought both in Combi-bar. This is minted in a form similar to a chocolate bar, in that single 1g chunks can be broken off to exchange for things. I've also bought gold in 2.5g bars/tabs as well - Small denominations will be more useful. Talking about having to eat unusual food; I've included anti-diarrhea meds and electrolite replacements in my kit. Oxo/stock cubes are also a good source of electrolites, as well as vitamins and also make a good healthy and morale-boosting hot drink. Learning how to make fish traps will be a good idea - Drop it in the water and let the fish trap themselves. Yo-Yo automatic fishing reels are another good thing to pack. I would [personally] avoid a Mora knife for long term survival as I find them really difficult to sharpen (and keeping the scandi profile) with a small hand-held stone in the wild.
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My get home bag is the ILBE assaulte bag, it is set up for much longer than 72 hrs. I have the ILBE main pack and I guess this would fall some where between a bug out bag and an i.n.c.h. bag. Other than food it would last me indefinitely. I guess I dont understand the need for three different bags.
never heard of I.N.C.H. bag but now that you explained it I realize that my bug out bags are actually a I.N.C.H. bags lol....I know where I'm bugging out too it's just unincorporated land out in foot hills littered with old abandoned gold mines
An INCH bag? This is essentially for a lone-wolf fantasy guy. Rambo living alone in the woods. Far more realistic is a BOB to get to your already-prepared bugout location. If you can't bug in, and don't have a safe bugout alternative, then an INCH bag is only going to prolong your now-unpleasant life for a while.
The thing about hunting in a SHTF situation is that all the wildlife will go extinct in like 4-6 months because everyone will be wanting to do hunting.
While there is some people that can't leave there are people like me that have no choice but to leave because the house that I'm in is so old and torn down it could collapse on us at any moment. It is not a safe environment to be in. But also speaking off gridding. I will always have seeds to plant with me gor long term. I always have things in the car too just in case. An extra food in there and extra stuff for the car. Also have lethal weapons but non-lethal weapons I have pepper spray and pepper spray guns. Besides cast always keep a chunk of quarters on you because nobody ever thinks of vending machines
Victor Davis Hanson recently wrote a book about the catastrophic loss of whole city states through history (like Thebes and Carthage and Pompeii in ancient times, but more modern times have examples too). There is always that possibility. It’s called The End of All Things, I believe. In today’s world there are even more ways our homes and towns can be destroyed. It isn’t likely my husband and I can do much at this stage in our lives. But one thing we can do it to provide our adult kids with info and skills. If we had to leave our home, we could survive for a short time. But not very long. So our goal is to have a shelter and water purification. We would squat in abandoned property. Leave everything better for having lived there is our motto in life.
I personally have a few clipper lighter they are butane refillable and extra flint. I also carry a few ferro rods. Personally i find it best to carry what a longtime hikers carry. Like watch videos of Appalachian Trail through hikers. I don't agree with Dave Canterburys gear choices but lately he's coming around. Then again he might just be trying to sell different gear. My way of thinking is sleep is important so its vital to be comfortable. Sleep pad a good selter i uses a 3 x 3meter tarp. But also carry a hammock. I don't do that wool blanket nonsense. I use down poncho liner. It weights nothing also carry a alcohol stove much better then canned fuel and a twig stove. Next important thing is food learn fishing trapping and hunting. Small game is everywhere. I keep freeze dried food for bad times. Alcohol makes no smake and is almost invisible. Just my opinion.
I just realized you had 2 different channels. I've been watching both but I hadn't realized it. You should mention that at the end of the video. I was like I guess he's not doing prep videos anymore.
The true concern of a big bag is carrying it. If things are so bad that all your stuff is in it, then things are bad for everyone. Your bag will be attractive.
I hop Freight trains for years as a kid. The whole concept of a Lightweight inch bag Is A pipe dream. Military surplus is the way to go.. it's the only thing that will Hold up Too long term abuse, and go to distance. Imho For food procurement, I would prefer The right pellet gun over a 22. For self defense a light weight 380 like a lcp max.
For fire you should also have a magnifying lense, you make fire and it takes nothing from your kit so as far as there is sun you are good and save the ferro for rainy days.
The concept of the INCH bag is just stupid and cowardly. A "get home bag" absolutely. A bug out bag (for a a short term) maybe, but the idea of never coming home to the vast majority of your resources and abandoning your aged/infirm family members is just cowardly. I will fight and die on my own land protecting my loved ones possibly but I will not abandon anyone, period. If vehicles are not a viable escape plan (so I can take them all), I'm staying and in any event I'm not taking my family into the wilderness to die. If we are to die, we will die together at home.
Two of my main barter items are vegetable seeds, and fishing supplies. Why can't I put those items on my garden cart. I recently came across a folding cart on Amazon that's rated to hold 550 pounds of gear. I'm not planning to load it to its limit but it's durable rig and can handle off-road use.
I am very late getting in on this video. I usually am late. I work the overnight shift and then catch up on what I can on my days off. Hahahahahahahahaha! So here I am chasing trying to chase this bug or fly, and I can not seem to figure out where it is going off to. It isn't on my screen. It is on your wall, going across the top of the map, and landed over by your hat. I think it was like 23:46 into this video that I discovered that I am not ever going to catch up to it.
I have no need of an INCH bag. I made that decision out of choice. Once I made that decision, then a different mind set took over. I was raised in the UP of Michigan and currently live in upper Wisconsin on a Great Lake for a total of 71 years.. Now, this means that I am not in a city. I dont have the same limits or worries that anyone else has. Even my neighbors. But many many other people will face clean fresh water issues. That just may force them to bug out and utilize the INCH thinking. I happily live in an apartment building. So my ability to stay safe and secure has been met. Shelter, heat and food are covered. But, what about others? I guess what I'm trying to say that each persons needs have to be thought about and without ego.
With a 72 or 96 hour Bug out bag to my brother's house, my dad's house, my uncle's house, I may not need a sewing kit. I may not need an esee knife. I may not need a blowstraw to backflush, a water filter or a replacement water filter. With an inch bag, I will probably need an Esee knife, I will probably need a full-blown first aid kit. With an inch bag I will probably need a way to hunt and fish where I would not with a 72, 96 hour bag. With an inch bag, I will need a blowout straw, or a replacement filter for the Grail water filter.
Inch bag isn’t realistic plan. You should have a community of like minded individuals (family, friends, ect) to fall back to, or an additional location that’s already been established and supplied with resources. Your get home bag/ bug out bag is now a single purpose bag…“get to another location bag”
Question - currently I have an opportunity to purchase a small (and profitable) retail/vintage retail shop with many vendors. I was thinking long term, would this be good business to have during SHTF? Maybe a safe way to barter without people coming to my home? What are your thoughts? Thanks much. I enjoy your channel.
If your city is caught in an air raid and it's bombed into oblivion, your bugout bag or get home bag automatically becomes your I.N.C.H. bag! That's if you haven't prepared an I.N.C.H. bag in the first place! If everthing's shot to hell, there probably won't be any hotels or motels to go to. Then whaddya do?
You might want to touch on the subject on how many rads per hour your body can take before you have radiation poisoning and what you can do to help your thyroid. What to do if you’re driving down the highway and everyone’s car just stops. They don’t know how to count flash to bang. They don’t know to seek cover in a culvert or a ditch. I think you need to start teaching real world scenario. A bug out bag is only good if you know where to go. There is an underground stone quarry near where I live. In the event of nuclear explosion that’s where you need to be underground.
@SensiblePrepper do you have an Amazon code or link to the metal container that fits in its own cup? I like to buy from your store whenever possible. thank you!
Think Hawai/Island/Chile(Chaiten) lava, Japan/Chile Tsunami, California/Chile fires or Turky/India earthquake. Your home is gone, do you start on 0 or do you have something
Wow… with all that stuff, that bag has to weigh 35-40 lbs. make sure you bring your go to pain meds because your back and shoulders are gonna feel it….. I know there is no way I’m in the condition to lug that much weight for countless miles, I’m pretty sure neither are the vast majority of people. A bag like this is fun to think about, but just not practical. In reality, you’ll ditch 50% of it the first 5 miles. God help you trying to lug it while injured… I like watching ultralight hikers videos of their loadouts and adapting that to my get home/ bug out bag..
One fact in these scenarios is always overlooked due to the cool gear aspect, is we better get VERY comfortable being VERY uncomfortable!
I don't recall anyone mentioning a Leatherman or related multi-purpose tool.
My house burned down 2 months ago while I was at work. If it hadn't been for my bug out bag, and the car kit I keep in my 4runner, i would have nothing. Luckily, I had extra clothes, toiletries, my vital documents and pictures on protected hard drives, food, water etc.
Being prepared isn't just for getting home or getting out. It ca be just to survive when you've lost everything due to fire, tornado, hurricane earthquake anything that can happen any day to your home while you are out.
Overton Windex: "All you need is a bic lighter."
SP: "Bic lighters don't last forever."
Overton Windex: "....so, I'm putting TWO bic lighters in my zip-lock."
One interesting idea for dumpster diving; if you live near a college is to check the student housing areas. These kids throw out some amazing stuff. Food, clothing, furniture etc
I’m homeless now for 10 months and I have a job and I live in my car. 24/7 I carry my bug out bag. My INCH bag is at another location. Thanks for the video.
Good luck to you brother, hope things get better for you soon.
@mithril1584 Brother may the LORD show the way forward to better circumstances safe journey GOD BLESS ....🙏🤝🫶
I'm not sure how to ask this without upsetting someone. ( In this day and age, there is always SOMETHING that offends someone) There are many of us that will not be able to bug out, for one reason or another. I cannot or will not leave my apartment. I'm old. (70) and I live so far under the radar it's not funny. I also do not know 1 person in my community. While I am a prepper, and am very confident of MY abilities, the are a growing number of older Americans that really are not ready to roll over and "play dead". Do you have any videos you can direct them to?
I do not have specific creators, but I would suggest videos and blogs about "Bugging In" and "Grey Man Living". Those would be more about how to live among the chaos during that time.
Hope that helps.
I’m a veteran. When it comes time have enough food to feed your self and without military skills you need to be part of someone that has those skills
@55sargeshotrods - Oh no, Thank you but I have enough freeze dried, dehydrated and canned goods to last out a full turn of the calendar. I have generator, independent heat source, my "ham" radio license. My weaponry amount is content. I live on a Great Lake so my water is safe. While I am finei worry about other elderly. This page is very well thought of and I was hoping they could dedicate a upload for this subject.
It's called Bugging in, that's always going to be a first choice if your home is standing and safer than the roads. INCH bags are for catastrophic situations like floods fire tornados that have destroyed your home, you got evicted ECT
When I've been out riding my motorized bicycle. The homeless would see my bike and it looks like the ultimate transportation to them. And it doesn't require a license plate, no driver's license, no taxes, no registration no nothing. One of the few things I've learned from the homeless is you can take ramen noodles and soak them in cold water. After a few hours or two they turn soft. Then you can heat them up it would be a lot faster to cook once they're soft. Unfortunately most of the homeless I meant were just on drugs. Most of them didn't make sense and were too busy forging for food. Their food is drugs they got to steal anything to turn that theft into money to buy drugs and repeat multiple times a day every day. Don't get me wrong there's good homeless. But most of them are working like me. By the gov ernment's definition I'm homeless but you'd never know it. And usually homeless that live in tents are on drugs they don't want to take the help and better their self. They just want to be left alone to do drugs and commit crimes every day. There is no difference between the bad homeless and the bad migrants. And they only brought the migrants here for votes. And of course they will get rich off the migrants from the shelter, food and all the resources. Homeless is a big business what are politicians and guys at the top are getting rich. Google universal basic income and 32 an hour week in 15 minute cities. A lot of crazy things are happening and going to continue.
Pack your bags with everything you want but the first thing you should pack is skills
I would advise everyone to watch 20 days in Mariupol. The people who left the city straight away had a better time than those who stayed.
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I am will past 80 years old and have a Bug Out Bag and a separate Get Home Bag, but will now think about the I.N.C.H. situation from my perspective. One of the main things that come to mind is that perhaps it will be a supplement to the B-O-B, especially considering age related items, such as Medical scripts, legal references, and more "permanent" type needs rather than needs for a few days. The SAS guide is already in my GHB, but I agree with its inclusion.
My first inch bag was MASSIVE. I could hike with it if I had to but not easily. I’ve since come up with what I think is a much better system. My inch bag is now in 3 parts.
My plate carrier + belt have enough basic survival gear for a quick emergency. The backpack is basically a bug out bag. Light enough to hike with on top of the carrier/belt and primary and survive out of for a while. I also have a duffle bag that I can carry cross body or by hand which really turns it into the inch bag. Full camp site in a bag basically. I wanted to be able to drop bits at a time if I needed to be lighter and move faster or fight if needed but not lose all my supplies if I couldn’t make it back to the other parts of the kit.
Hopefully I’ll never need it.
@@rustyshackleford9017no, just the carrier as a way to carry stuff. Maybe one day armor but not a priority for me
It makes sense to me to be as light as possible if you're traveling through rough terrain. I don't have a lot of experience hiking long distances. But the little bit I have done wore me out, and I didn't even have more than forty pounds of gear.
You are right to bring an I.N.C.H. bag to Atlanta. I grew up in CA and have lived in SC for 8 years now. Atlanta is the closest thing I've seen that compares to Los Angeles. 😂
Thank you for all your videos!
If you have ANY survival items, you need to store them somewhere, so you may as well get a small duffel, or a toolbox, or just a plastic storage tub. Then you can just move the stuff into your BOB or INCH bag when needed, then go.
Agreed! The gear you are going to take with you must be organized and separated out before you have to bug out or leave in an emergency. 👍🏻
Photocopies of all of your families important documents and or have all of those in one place in an easy to grab file folder. It's a complete PIA to get all of those documents again if you have lost them. After Katrina that was a massive problem for so many people.
@@rustyshackleford9017😂 very true!
Absolutely this. Physical pics of your family too, to prove your child is actually yours, or to show people if you get separated and your phone is dead. Also, copies of any licenses that may come in handy-- I'm a firefighter and paramedic, and have copies of my certs in my bags. Proving your usefulness when resources are scarce can help you out.
a bug out bag is a 72 hour bag! An I.N.C.H bag is 72 lbs. 😩
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Think about multiple ways to use your items!
That's why I bought a small luggage carrier with two wheels. You'll have to decide what you pull and what you carry. Be ready to let go of the two wheeler in dire situations.
so true
lmao
Sounds like some weight is to be lost before you even have the want to carry that… 75 Hard with OMAD works great to lose some weight. The complaining… leave it at the door or cuddle with it and hush.
About a decade ago, when I was first finding channels like this one and putting together my first preps, I made an INCH bag. Man, what a mistake. It was so massive there is no way I could hump it more than a quarter mile. I have since completely disassembled it. I am working building evacuation bags for myself and my wife that will contain only what we need to survive a five day walk. That is enough to get me to where I might be going and then some. Any more than that is added weight for no reason, slowing me down and reducing my survivability. In five days, I can walk 100 miles or more. That’s more than enough to reach safety, and then I will be able to utilize the resources available there. I don’t need everything for surviving in the woods for years in my backpack.
If your bag is too heavy, consider doing as I did... make a bugout BIKE, also. With a bugout TRAILER (Burley brand makes good ones).
So in 3 seasons, you can put your heavy bag in your trailer - or your old dog, which is why I actually got mine...no way I'd leave my dog behind!
In Winter, you can use a "pulk," or a toboggon, or a plastic sled, or a runner sled, or ........... You'll be slowed down by the snow, no matter how deep, and you can pull a load on a skid just as easily as walk yourself.
Cause, you never know what's in that bag that you'd want! Especially if it's FOOD!
One thing that every prepper/survivalist I have listened to, has said is; 'The more you know, the less you have to carry'.
I have found this to be the case; Seven years ago, when I first started prepping for SHTF, I put together a bag that I could barely carry because there was SO much stuff in it. Now, as I've learned more about making use of natural resources, my backpack is surprisingly light.
@@notmyname3883 food is pretty much the least important thing to have in a survival scenario. You can live for weeks without food. You will die in a few days if you run out of water. You can die in mere hours from exposure to the elements. Medical, fire, shelter, and water are all vastly more important than food.
I let go of the INCH bag concept when I realized, even as a significantly disabled veteran, I still was able to smoke my wife and kids on long rucks theough the mountains....especially my wife who is a cancer survivor with tons of medical issues, not her fault at all.
They can't do what I can do.
Can I survive months out of a bag in the Appalachian wilderness? Yes. 100% I can. I have the skills, experience, and knowledge.
Can my wife and kids? Nope. I don't even think I could get her to last a few weeks, particularly when there's no more meds. There goes any INCH bag fantasies.
I still keep a "bug-out/survival" bag but it's bare bones minimalist. Gear to keep warm and provide clean water and to make hasty shelter.... that's it.
Add in a rifle with a full fighting load of ammunition. Everything else is up to the Almighty....
This is the reality of many, many people.
Maybe the INCH bag concept can work. Just not as we would think of it. A bag with things to comfort us as we approach the end. Photo albums and memories, a bible or other religious items. To make it easier to move on.
@SiXiam Maybe. I'm not going out peaceful though. I'll be going out screaming and in a pile of bodies and hot brass. They built me different on Parris Island lol. 😬
Im a 43 yr old blk male. & i feel the system is walking us down gen by gen...the Us is getting greatly over populated
Same age. I think that's why a certain virus was released because of over population (just my opinion I don't have sources)
Yes but the older generation saw/experienced and knew things as well as possessing older values. Now many are retired and no longer "productive". At 63 with a spinal cord injury I've no doubt whatsoever they've been trying to kill me for the last 20 yrs! Unfortunately they seem to be getting dirtier and better at it.
Our cities are definitely overpopulated. We only inhabit about 3 to 5 percent of the total land mass of the United States. There's more than enough land.
How are all the unvaccinated people still walking around living their lives without health problems exactly
What did you being black have to do with anything?🙄
I would suggest opening the plastic contractor bag and supporting it to collect rain like a big funnel. Cut the lowest corner, and put a bucket under the hole to collect the water.
Large tarps tied at the corners will collect rain, but not much weight. Use a weighted object to direct into container.
Collapsible fabric buckets are cheap usually 3 to 5 gal. Collapsible plastic 5 gal. or 1.3 to 3 gal. are cheap as well.
Dont forget water filtration.
I’m a Cold War veteran. 10 years active. Here’s what I want to carry. Sleeping bag, tarp, knife, fire start ,metal water container, firearm. As a combat engineer that was down range 6 months out of the year that’s all I need and that’s all I’m going to hump.
true that. need to be able to traverse land
Nice!
Ammo??? smh
Lol obviously he had that@xbobsworld
Thank you for this video. I have been setting up INCH bags all along, and didn't know it. In my mind, the odds of being gone beyond 72 hours are too great to settle on 72 hours of prep. If we are on foot, we need to be realistic on how many miles we can achieve per day. Sustaining (feeding, resting, healing, loving), sheltering, walking. Sustaining, sheltering, walking. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat...It is not impossible to bug out. Think of the number of refugees who make it on foot with little resources, today. But, seriously prepare your plan and mind for it.
So many in this world are displaced and traveling great distances with only what they can carry. I'd appreciate a discussion on a "refugee bag".
Never call an American citizen a refugee in his own country.
I recently drove from upstate NY to S, C, and back. Both ways I was stuck in an hour traffic stoppage due to car accidents several miles up the highway. BOTH times, I was getting concerned about my "bladder" needs. I had my bucket, bags etc however, trying to sit on a bucket IN the car is not easy. I will now simply buy a bedpan because of the low profile. I won't leave home without it.
Nothing humbles me more than having a liquid bowel movement OUT OF DOORS! It's truly wild.
Get a drum cooler with a lit. Firemen & women use them in huge forest fires. In traffic jams, open passenger front & back doors in an area that doesn't have any buildings. Have paper towels ready before you get out & a walmart bag for trash disposal afterward.
Really enjoy all of your content.
Thank you for clarifying the differences
9:50 Native American Tribes also had camp sites in mind; they had been using the same areas for generations.
You are as always Awesome. Thanks !
Everyone's BO and INCH bag will reflect their needs and scenarios. If you saw my BOB, you'd call it an INCH bag because I have just under a 200-mile ruck to get there if I cannot drive to my BO location. I have rucked with my INCH bag on several 30-40 mile thru-hikes, and I'd be quite capable with it over a longer haul. Solid video, mate.
An inch bag with a dome tent is what I carry everyday. I have food, water, a way to cook, shelter, a way to stay warm, clean myself, etc. You don't know what will happen with an emp or some other attack and you may have to leave your vehicle and walk. Remember what happened on the highway in Virginia. NOBODY came to help them and people died. JUST BE PREPARED FOR ANYTHING.
It's my survival bag. It is whatever I need. Short term and long term with my battle belt.
Have an emergency shirt & pants with lots of pockets on both, ready to go, hanging somewhere easy to put on. Having all your pockets filled already with all your nessesary items, all your other bags will be lighter in weight.
Thanks. Now i find my self putting together another bag lol and haven’t even finished watching the video yet.
I got two zebco 33 with collapsible rods off ebay and they work good.
A little is more. A tiny bag is great. I like a candle with a fire starter kit. Tea candles, bees wax candles. Not much weight, lots of comfort and such.
Just look at the people of Ukraine
Early in the fight we saw people bugging out quite literally.
Keep those pictures in your mind. Those where people running for their lives
Thank you … your wisdoms are very important to all.
In some cases it is a “there will be an empty lot, or pile of junk left where you come back.” Someone in an area prone to fire, hurricanes, or tornadoes. This is always a factor. I have lived in every one of those areas.
Don’t forget your meds but could take up your whole bag!
If you need meds to live, you might as well call it your “I’m gonna die” bag. Resupply is unlikely.
Stretch it out as long as possible. Giving up will kill you faster than almost anything else. @@donalddicorcia2433
There should not be a homeless problem in the US. We can thank our greedy leadership for that. More than likely if we have to bug out it will be our leadership to blame. Until the people standup and take our country back its a good idea to have a bugout or inch bag ready to go imo. Make sure all your gear is in the bag and not scattered around your house. I think a lot of us are bad about this, myself included.
Pretty sure they will never fix the homeless problem because there's to much money to be made with it. Same with cancer and a bunch of other problems. And thats why we should never rely on anybody outside of our family to take care of us.
Totally agree with you thats a good reason to have any type of bags and gear ready.
The Government does not want the homeless problem sorted out. In my own case where I live I have been made homeless in the past THANKS to the Government in the UK.
I built my inch bag on a deer cart.
Big ole 8 point
Back in the 1850s all my ancestors took their "inch bags" (hand carts and wagons), left their homes in Europe, Australia and the eastern US and headed into the US west. Most of them survived and even thrived in a relatively hostile environment. Their most important resource was knowledge.
But where would you go now?
@@robertcrump8022 Good question. I've been looking around the world and it seems like we're all in the same boat...or worse.
Most aren't in the condition to carry a real I.N.C.H bag.
This is a seriously big and heavy bag which you need to be in shape to carry.
It needs all that one needs to 'I'm Never Coming Home'. That means permanently.
You will be heading out to a location where you may have a 6 month cache or more, or to a location where you will set up a permanent base.. That journey may be very long, too.
This is the comment I was looking for! Either you have a bugout location, a friend/relative's prearranged location, or someplace you can be left alone and relatively secure. That means you have caches of additional items, tools, ammo, meds, food etc. previously located at MULTIPLE cach locations.
Really appreciate you sir 🇨🇦🤠
I recommend Dave Canterbury bushcraft books plus green back to basics which is trove of homestead basics
Good shoes and socks.Good loose overalls so you dont worry about pants falling down, especially if you start loosing weight
A 22 air rifle is wonderful idea cheap ammo, cheap air and more silence
Don't leave out BB and slingshot. Pistol and rifle crossbows are cheap as well.
pistol cross bows are illegal in alot of states @@dananorth895
Even find out how to use Salt and baking soda. How to make vinegar. Air dry veggies and fruit.
I know this is after the live but I live in AZ and new to all of this, what would recommend the best way to set up a "Get Home Bag" or a "Bugout Bag" for the summer heat and the best way to store it in your car in the heat of the summer?
Don't forget sharpening stone for blades
You covered the basics well. It really is not complicated, understand the rule of three's and address as you need.
One thing to keep in mind is the number of people who will relocate from the cities. In the first months of covid we had all of our water ways here in the National Forest blocked by rv's. It was massive, it look like small compounds. It was a good example of what it could look like in real event. To hunt or fish, would not be realistic in this situation. The animals will relocate, or be exhausted quickly.
Skills are key, gear is relative to environment and ability. Learning to live with less is helpful. Living off a motorcycle, bicycle, hiking, or even overlanding, can give an idea of how little really is needed to sustain.
If you can stay home, if you have to leave, design your gear to be portable and ready to go. As far as knife, the ESEE Junglass, and PR-4 is my goto.
Great video, thanks for sharing.
Not one blooper today! Wow... 😁
A couple of suggestions:
Gold n Silver: I've bought both in Combi-bar. This is minted in a form similar to a chocolate bar, in that single 1g chunks can be broken off to exchange for things. I've also bought gold in 2.5g bars/tabs as well - Small denominations will be more useful.
Talking about having to eat unusual food; I've included anti-diarrhea meds and electrolite replacements in my kit. Oxo/stock cubes are also a good source of electrolites, as well as vitamins and also make a good healthy and morale-boosting hot drink.
Learning how to make fish traps will be a good idea - Drop it in the water and let the fish trap themselves. Yo-Yo automatic fishing reels are another good thing to pack.
I would [personally] avoid a Mora knife for long term survival as I find them really difficult to sharpen (and keeping the scandi profile) with a small hand-held stone in the wild.
Hello my friend first thank you very much for all the information for very helpful and important information that you give us all the time God bless you always and stay safe outdoors
Great video, zombie apocalypse time!!!
My get home bag is the ILBE assaulte bag, it is set up for much longer than 72 hrs. I have the ILBE main pack and I guess this would fall some where between a bug out bag and an i.n.c.h. bag. Other than food it would last me indefinitely. I guess I dont understand the need for three different bags.
never heard of I.N.C.H. bag but now that you explained it I realize that my bug out bags are actually a I.N.C.H. bags lol....I know where I'm bugging out too it's just unincorporated land out in foot hills littered with old abandoned gold mines
An INCH bag? This is essentially for a lone-wolf fantasy guy. Rambo living alone in the woods. Far more realistic is a BOB to get to your already-prepared bugout location. If you can't bug in, and don't have a safe bugout alternative, then an INCH bag is only going to prolong your now-unpleasant life for a while.
We all understand that dummy...
A INCH Bag Is still valuable to prolong your survival if you don't have a home when SHTF.
Like Refugees status
The thing about hunting in a SHTF situation is that all the wildlife will go extinct in like 4-6 months because everyone will be wanting to do hunting.
Nah. 95% of population will be dead in 4-6 months. Wildlife will explode
While there is some people that can't leave there are people like me that have no choice but to leave because the house that I'm in is so old and torn down it could collapse on us at any moment. It is not a safe environment to be in.
But also speaking off gridding. I will always have seeds to plant with me gor long term. I always have things in the car too just in case. An extra food in there and extra stuff for the car. Also have lethal weapons but non-lethal weapons I have pepper spray and pepper spray guns. Besides cast always keep a chunk of quarters on you because nobody ever thinks of vending machines
Victor Davis Hanson recently wrote a book about the catastrophic loss of whole city states through history (like Thebes and Carthage and Pompeii in ancient times, but more modern times have examples too). There is always that possibility. It’s called The End of All Things, I believe. In today’s world there are even more ways our homes and towns can be destroyed. It isn’t likely my husband and I can do much at this stage in our lives. But one thing we can do it to provide our adult kids with info and skills. If we had to leave our home, we could survive for a short time. But not very long. So our goal is to have a shelter and water purification. We would squat in abandoned property. Leave everything better for having lived there is our motto in life.
How would you decide your destination where you should go? And what do you do about pets?
I personally have a few clipper lighter they are butane refillable and extra flint.
I also carry a few ferro rods.
Personally i find it best to carry what a longtime hikers carry. Like watch videos of Appalachian Trail through hikers.
I don't agree with Dave Canterburys gear choices but lately he's coming around. Then again he might just be trying to sell different gear.
My way of thinking is sleep is important so its vital to be comfortable. Sleep pad a good selter i uses a 3 x 3meter tarp. But also carry a hammock. I don't do that wool blanket nonsense. I use down poncho liner. It weights nothing also carry a alcohol stove much better then canned fuel and a twig stove.
Next important thing is food learn fishing trapping and hunting. Small game is everywhere. I keep freeze dried food for bad times. Alcohol makes no smake and is almost invisible.
Just my opinion.
We have seen many people that have lost everything with Hellene, very sad... INCH would be very handy to have in such a situation...
Very good information.
Having a place to go to is as important as a bag to get you there. Plan b +c!
Smart sir
I just realized you had 2 different channels. I've been watching both but I hadn't realized it. You should mention that at the end of the video. I was like I guess he's not doing prep videos anymore.
The true concern of a big bag is carrying it. If things are so bad that all your stuff is in it, then things are bad for everyone. Your bag will be attractive.
I hop Freight trains for years as a kid. The whole concept of a Lightweight inch bag Is A pipe dream. Military surplus is the way to go.. it's the only thing that will Hold up Too long term abuse, and go to distance. Imho For food procurement, I would prefer The right pellet gun over a 22. For self defense a light weight 380 like a lcp max.
Lol, cheap and tested around the world! Can't beat mil. surplus.
For fire you should also have a magnifying lense, you make fire and it takes nothing from your kit so as far as there is sun you are good and save the ferro for rainy days.
why do you think the ferro will be used up?
what is the difference between a lense and a lens?
At 1:50
I.N.C.H. Bag - I’m never coming home bag
Good stuff
The concept of the INCH bag is just stupid and cowardly. A "get home bag" absolutely. A bug out bag (for a a short term) maybe, but the idea of never coming home to the vast majority of your resources and abandoning your aged/infirm family members is just cowardly. I will fight and die on my own land protecting my loved ones possibly but I will not abandon anyone, period. If vehicles are not a viable escape plan (so I can take them all), I'm staying and in any event I'm not taking my family into the wilderness to die. If we are to die, we will die together at home.
another comment mentioned keep bic lighters until they don't spark at all. the spark may be enough to start fire
You can use double wall containers. Just put a hole in the first wall so the pressure can release.
Pressure of what? The inert gas heating up?
Having 2 layers of metal takes 3xlonger to boil water...
u guys notice that bug on the wall by the blade? 23:50
The optimum get home bag would be completely empty when you get home. What would the optimum INCH weigh?
the whole idea of a i am never coming home bag is that you never come home. please explain why it would be empty when you do come home.
Two of my main barter items are vegetable seeds, and fishing supplies. Why can't I put those items on my garden cart. I recently came across a folding cart on Amazon that's rated to hold 550 pounds of gear. I'm not planning to load it to its limit but it's durable rig and can handle off-road use.
Get Home Bag is one of the terms I use.
I am very late getting in on this video. I usually am late. I work the overnight shift and then catch up on what I can on my days off. Hahahahahahahahaha! So here I am chasing trying to chase this bug or fly, and I can not seem to figure out where it is going off to. It isn't on my screen. It is on your wall, going across the top of the map, and landed over by your hat. I think it was like 23:46 into this video that I discovered that I am not ever going to catch up to it.
There are plenty of homes to choose from. There will be NO property ownership or lines when this comes.
I have no need of an INCH bag. I made that decision out of choice. Once I made that decision, then a different mind set took over. I was raised in the UP of Michigan and currently live in upper Wisconsin on a Great Lake for a total of 71 years.. Now, this means that I am not in a city. I dont have the same limits or worries that anyone else has. Even my neighbors. But many many other people will face clean fresh water issues. That just may force them to bug out and utilize the INCH thinking. I happily live in an apartment building. So my ability to stay safe and secure has been met. Shelter, heat and food are covered. But, what about others? I guess what I'm trying to say that each persons needs have to be thought about and without ego.
I missed the live!
With a 72 or 96 hour Bug out bag to my brother's house, my dad's house, my uncle's house, I may not need a sewing kit. I may not need an esee knife. I may not need a blowstraw to backflush, a water filter or a replacement water filter. With an inch bag, I will probably need an Esee knife, I will probably need a full-blown first aid kit. With an inch bag I will probably need a way to hunt and fish where I would not with a 72, 96 hour bag. With an inch bag, I will need a blowout straw, or a replacement filter for the Grail water filter.
what is in a full blown first aid kit. contents, please.
Watching an hour late as usual! I missed the Patreon meeting last night as well. Too much to do and not enough time! Hope everyone is well.
Love the guy in the comments saying you don't need a bag like this because there are hotels to stay in !
Some would call those "dreamers".
Bless his heart. He's probably the same guy who thinks you shouldn't hunt because you can buy meat at the supermarket !😂😂😂
@@ManuelRivera0391 Wouldn't surprise me haha
Inch bag isn’t realistic plan. You should have a community of like minded individuals (family, friends, ect) to fall back to, or an additional location that’s already been established and supplied with resources. Your get home bag/ bug out bag is now a single purpose bag…“get to another location bag”
Buying time til you can make/find a natural substitute (. If insulin no hope)
Carnivore diet.
If we go "inch" mode, I'm not taking one bag, until my truck is down, and I gotta walk.
There are more people supporting the same candidate than we think, I can guarantee you that.
baking soda, good for washing, de-o
Question - currently I have an opportunity to purchase a small (and profitable) retail/vintage retail shop with many vendors. I was thinking long term, would this be good business to have during SHTF? Maybe a safe way to barter without people coming to my home? What are your thoughts? Thanks much. I enjoy your channel.
If your city is caught in an air raid and it's bombed into oblivion, your bugout bag or get home bag automatically becomes your I.N.C.H. bag! That's if you haven't prepared an I.N.C.H. bag in the first place! If everthing's shot to hell, there probably won't be any hotels or motels to go to. Then whaddya do?
You might want to touch on the subject on how many rads per hour your body can take before you have radiation poisoning and what you can do to help your thyroid. What to do if you’re driving down the highway and everyone’s car just stops. They don’t know how to count flash to bang. They don’t know to seek cover in a culvert or a ditch. I think you need to start teaching real world scenario. A bug out bag is only good if you know where to go. There is an underground stone quarry near where I live. In the event of nuclear explosion that’s where you need to be underground.
@SensiblePrepper do you have an Amazon code or link to the metal container that fits in its own cup? I like to buy from your store whenever possible. thank you!
I have a rechargeable lighter and a solar power bank
Sorry, if this is a repeat question, but can you tell me the brand of backpack that you suggest
Think Hawai/Island/Chile(Chaiten) lava, Japan/Chile Tsunami, California/Chile fires or Turky/India earthquake. Your home is gone, do you start on 0 or do you have something
Wow… with all that stuff, that bag has to weigh 35-40 lbs. make sure you bring your go to pain meds because your back and shoulders are gonna feel it…..
I know there is no way I’m in the condition to lug that much weight for countless miles, I’m pretty sure neither are the vast majority of people. A bag like this is fun to think about, but just not practical. In reality, you’ll ditch 50% of it the first 5 miles. God help you trying to lug it while injured…
I like watching ultralight hikers videos of their loadouts and adapting that to my get home/ bug out bag..
Why are there so many names for so many bag’s?