Threat Coming To The Door- What Do You Take

Edit: (Scenario- Post SHTF): You have received a radio call from an associate in your community advising you that the .gov squad is doing house to house searches, 20 minutes out estimated, heading your general way to find hold-outs from mandatory relocation to camps- for your "safety". You have not been specifically targeted as a HVT, but they do have intelligence that there are people in the AO who have violated the relocation orders. They may stay in your AO as it is later in the day, so you need to anticipate at least overnight, but possible three days of BO, till they have moved out of the area. You can not leave by vehicle as most primary road ways are being monitored with checkpoints or roving patrols.

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This isn't really an "item-by-item" list of my bag contents. Not sure if that information was what was being fished for.

EDIT: (I'll just parenthetically add that a few years ago I started getting into setting up caches, so this could possibly supplement what's already in my bag just in case I either could not take the bag, or if I needed more of a certain supply. I don't have nearly as many as I'd like, but maybe I'll get there some day. Each cache has something different, but there's a little bit of redundancy in them for safety just in case I can't get to the other because I spaced them considerably in different directions under the theory that if I was being chased, I can't realistically say which direction I'd be heading in).


I have several bags ready-packed. I'm not the anal retentive planning type, and which one I would grab would depend on what I thought would suit the situation.

I have a hiker bag which has mostly hiking stuff which is usually ready to go (sometimes it is in a state of disarray as I change gear around in the bag). Although it's a three day or less bag in terms of food supply (my typical hike trip length), if I put some extra Mountain House in it (I should be able to do that with 15 or 20 minutes leeway as per scenario), I would be easily set for a week or two without too much hardship. Bag weighs about 25 - 30 pounds when loaded with several days worth of water.

I have a second bag which is more of a comprehensive bug-out-bag and includes more "personal" (document related) stuff that I would never put in my hiking bag. This bag also has a lot more tools (I won't even list them all here but it's basically hand tools of various kinds as well as optics including a spotting scope and a very compact pair of binoculars). I also have more shelter options in this bag than my hiking bag. It's a bit redundant, but I like options. Also, a lot of the gear in this bag contains camouflage whereas the previously mentioned hiking bag has more traditional clothing which is less conspicuous in certain applications. My break-down .22LR is in this bag permanently along with some ammo for handgun and .300 Win Mag. Regardless of whether I ended up grabbing the handgun and rifle, the ammo is in the bag and I wouldn't have time for fishing it out, so it stays in the bag as dead weight, for better or worse. Bag typically weighs between 45 - 55 pounds, depending on configuration (which I occasionally change based on the season).

I'd probably grab some computer-related and document-related stuff and just throw it in the top of the bag... stuff that I'd rather not have laying around... not that I need it.

Grabbing either bag would do me just fine if it were just for three days.

 

I see some people consider communications gear a priority. Anyone want to offer an opinion on why the would opt for that over other gear (like food) for such a short term situation?

I don't have anyone to communicate with to begin with, so it wouldn't be a high priority. I'd rather have a generic FM commercial band radio before anything else, to keep abreast of the news. And if I were to bring my more expensive com gear with me, I'd probably opt for a wideband scanner over a transmitter.

 

I have a bag out bag with everything I need... so, one thing

 

Like some our BO gear is in three levels. 1--three day bag. 2--three week back packs/web gear. 3-- permanent stay containers with virtual house keeping gear.

 

I figure if the scenario about .gov and 20 min warning ever comes true in MY location, the war is lost and I hunker down defensively.

 

I mean that in the sense that I live 20 miles from the nearest road (no road vehicle access, and some of the most difficult terrain to cross) and that road goes 30 miles to a town of 3500. If sweeps come my way, every other bit of humanity is gone. I figure I live in the sub .001% of .gov radar, so by the time they got to me, it's over. I can only evade closer to the world given the geography of my place.

 

I guess I would have to make the decision at the time. I would realistically have way more than 20 mins notice (more likely 2 hours), and could put a real hurting on a group headed my way long before getting here. There are a few choke points that I could slow them down by days. Also, my position is pretty defensible, and somewhat hardened (I have a lot of cover, and even more concealment on my spread)

That being said, by the time I'm in defense mode, I'm sure the JDAMS would be on their way.

 

If "they" get to your door then we have failed one objective already. "The best defense is a fantastic offense".

 

My free obama phone, my free obama food EBT food card, my free obamacare card, all of the 40oz bottles of malt liquor that I can carry purchased with my obama EBT card and an iPod also purchased with my obama EBT card loaded with kanye west ............. Nuthin else will be needed barry will take care of me I voted for him....6 times.....

 

You said five things but.... My children, our bags that are already packed and something that goes bang.

 

“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!”

― Benjamin Franklin