Backpackers Guide to the Apocalypse - Gear List - Packing List for Survival

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, hello, survivalist men and apocalyptic ladies. Might I just
say men, but this one might attract a broader audience
men and women, a lot of women getting into survival, prepping,
common sense living, whatever you want to call it. Today
we're going to talk about packing list for the apocalypse

(00:22):
or gear list for the Apocalypse. Welcome to the podcast,
either Gunfighter Life or Alpha Male, as I think I'll
put this out on both, since it's pertinent to both
asking a lot of guys in a prepping or into guns,
but not all. A lot of guys are in a
prepping that can't be into guns because they live in
some place where their rights have been infringed. So welcome

(00:47):
to the podcast where we talk about all manner of
things the right way, with God at the center, Judeo
Christian values, and real world firsthand experience on that Biolink
in the show notes, which are also cliff notes, but
real down and dirty military, Marine Corps, combat veteran, urban
warfare instructor, law enforcement lapd Avid Hunter professional big game

(01:10):
hunter and guide, private security contractor, and probably a bunch
of other stuff in there again Biolink in the show notes,
but with that, God is number one, and everything that
I do in the podcast is no different. Blessed be
the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war
and my fingers for battle. Now, this is a packing

(01:30):
list for a pack which means, in addition to your EDC,
your everyday carry which, if you are a free man
field compelled to do so, some way to access the Bible,
maybe a mini Bible, some scriptures, Bible app on your phone,

(01:52):
a belt, because I think a proper man should wear
a belt, appropriate footwear, which is also important. A decent knife.
I'm a big fan of carrying a fixed blade knife.
But that's not a shout. It's not a commandment, right,
There's no thou shall carry a fixed blade. But if
my kind of advice is carry a fixed blade on
your belt line every day carry that is generally going

(02:17):
to be big enough to butcher a deer and fight
with if you have to. This is not a primary
fighting tool, but if you have to, it's decent enough
for defense and also good enough to skin a deer with.
That doesn't have to be real big, it doesn't have
to be real heavy. It's a decent fixed blade drop
point or clip point three and a half ish inches

(02:39):
maybe four inches, but that is a legit thing that
you should have. I don't want to. I could do
a whole series on just this, but if you're asking
kind of my go to, it's an Demco Arminger four.
They come with a bunch of different blades styles. I
like a clip point, I have two. I have one

(02:59):
in Magnaica and one of just a general not super steel.
I think supersteel is worth it for a premium blade.
But if I'm going to be doing stuff around the
home instead beating stuff up, I generally stop for the
regular one. But I've had a lot of other ones
in the past that I've carried. Tops I rack jack tops,
Mini tracker, but decent usable fixed blade knives. If you're

(03:20):
going to carry a folder my recommendation. It has been
for a long time, and there are many right there
are tons. There are whole channels that just do like
folding pocket knives. Again, if you're not going to carry
a fixed blade, a buck one ten slim is probably
my best, most favorite do it all in life. They
come in you know, basic models for thirty bucks that
are still really good all the way up to really

(03:40):
premium you know super steels that are over one hundred dollars,
so take your pick there. But the buck one ten slim,
I specify slim. That's a more modern, better version than
the classic one ten and maybe not. It's pretty, but
it's more practical, and I stand by that. And there
are a bunch of there's a menagerie of other knives
right and I'm gonna go too far down the rabbit
hole there or was? I generally on my knife sheath,

(04:02):
but it could be in your pocket. I have attached
a way to start a fire and some kind of
water purification. I just have a little mini container aluminum
titanium that I keep water purification tablets in. I often
spend time out in the back country. Water purification is
a big deal. Don't care how much tactical stuff you have.
If you're the guy keeled over with dysentery or giardia,

(04:25):
you're not very cool as somebody who's had giardia is.
I could definitely see how that could kill you if
you weren't like well nourished and well rested and things
like that. It's pretty brutal if you're on the edge
of dehydration anyway. Fever no fun. I highly do not
recommend it a flashlight. I know your phone has a flashlight,
but a decent actual flashlight probably one of the most

(04:48):
used things in your EDC besides your knife, but a
good flashlight. The amount of power you get out of
these little tiny mini lights up is crazy today compared
to white it has a police officer. What I had
when they were first coming on the scene is like
tactical lights to side. They are now and the power
they are is awesome. I'm not gonna get into a

(05:08):
battle of lumins to tell you how many lumines you
should have, but I will tell you that more is
often not better, more is often less. And this may
be something where you get one and you decide it's
not for you, and you put it in your truck
glove box or something. You get another one that works better,
but a good usable light, some little piece of cord
paracord microcord I actually like better, probably also should be

(05:30):
part of your EDC. Doesn't weigh very much. And then
I would encourage you to again, if you're a free man,
one of the people you feel called to when Jesus
says that he who has no sword, sell his cloak
and buy one. If you're one of those kind of men.
Carry a full size fighting handgun. Now, something is better

(05:51):
than nothing, you know, the little hashtag me too, your LCP.
It's a little bit better than the fixed blade and
eye that you carry, but not by much. Carry a
full sized fighting handgun. And I've talked about this adnologia,
but a good full sized fighting handgun, meaning full size.
A Glock nineteen is not full size. A Glock nineteen is,
by definition, by Glock's own definition, a compact, a full

(06:14):
sized fighting handgun. You can go less than that, but
just realize you're you're getting less than that. One of
my go tos and favorites six hour, p. Two twenty six.
I do a whole episode or a whole show rather
on guns, an episode after episode on handguns. So I
don't want to turn this into that, but that's generally
what I like. That doesn't mean that's what you should have.

(06:36):
Most people go for plastic, fantastic, polymer striker fires because
they're cheap and they're like the good enough. They're like
the Honda Civic of handguns. They they're good enough usually
till they're not. But full sized polymer striker fired handgun
or if you are a connoisseur, maybe step up to
a metal hammer fired gun, but that's on you. But
a full sized fighting handgun and I generally will carry

(06:58):
a reload. You also may carry some kind of small
secondary knife or small multi tool, like a Victor Knox
Classic that has a few basic tools on it. You
may decide you want to carry something like that. If
you work with your hands all the time and do
like kind of trade work, you may carry like a
full sized multitool or a leatherman. And you may carry

(07:21):
other stuff that I don't remember. This is DC this
so the packing list is in addition to EDC alright.
Number one, You should have a Bible. Bible is most
important your eternal salvation. They make a little mini bibles.
They make them so small that it's kind of crazy,
so small that you can read them without a magnifying glass,
but generally you read them with a magnifying glass. Make

(07:43):
them so small you can fit them in the palm
of your hand. The entire Scripture, not just a New
Testament psalms and proverbs, which is okay, but like the
entire Bible. If you're looking to save weight, that might
be the way to go, but a decent compact because
you have to carry it. Bible, I like New King James,
it's my favorite go to translation. You do you pick
what you want now? I mentioned Carrie a fixed blade

(08:05):
for EEDC. You should also have probably a little bit
bigger beef here fixed blade for your gearless for the apocalypse.
Right for your go to pack. I want to step
up something like a k bar. It's a classic classic
Air Force survival life in se four or five or six.

(08:28):
A tops tracker tops Tracker number three is even big
enough to go in this category. And depending on your environment,
you may want other bladed bladed tools in here, like
like a good multitool, a leatherman or gerber. You're really
in a real thick, nasty like southeastern United States, you

(08:50):
know where it's real thick, almost like a jungle, a
big chunk of the year. You may want a machete,
you may want a kukrie or something like that, but
other blades other than your EDC. And actually I should
have done this, sirch. So let's talk about the bag
in particular. A good load bearing pack is somebody that
rucks pretty regularly. Makes it part of my life on purpose.

(09:13):
You know, there would be just for staying in shape,
for hunting, for guiding, for backpacking, for living in the bush,
for international travel, whatever it is, right, rucking is a
big thing. I like to ruck, And even when I
don't like to do it, like it's really hot, it's
really cold, it's nasty, I try and make it a
point to do it. So I'll tell you what I

(09:37):
like to carry. But that doesn't mean it's going to
fit your work well. For you. Now, it should be
a good load bearing pack, and that means to me
it's either going to have a hard frame, like an
external hard frame, or a soft frame. Both have advantages
and disadvantages. If you're gonna get really heavy, you're probably

(09:58):
gonna want a hard frame pack. But some kind of frame,
whether it be hard or soft frame, and you need
need need This is kind of a almost a shall
is you need a weight bearing belt. Like you don't
want all the weight on your shoulders. You rocked for
several hours with all the weight on your shoulders, you're
going to be miserable. You rucked for several days like that,

(10:18):
you might have a hurt back. You don't want all
the weight distributed on your shoulders. You want it on
your waist and then some on your shoulders. A good
padded weight bearing belt built into the pack. I would
also encourage you to not get something that looks uber tactical.
You get a pack with Molly's pretty mainstream now, but

(10:43):
maybe don't go full black multiicam. Maybe don't go full
whatever Camo djour is. Whatever's coool this year? What all
the cool kids you're wearing a hunting A good neutral
colored pack, A brown or a green would stay away
from black. Black is not tactical, I would argue, it
never has been. It stands out like a sore thumb

(11:05):
in almost any natural environment, unless you're gonna bug out
to a coal mine. But Beije's Gray's, khaki, tan, brown, greens,
pretty much any like natural neutral color. Probably don't want
to hot pink pack. Probably don't want to hot you know,
Shartruce pack. But any of those neutral colors will work now.

(11:26):
Packs that I like everly Stock gun Runner and everly
Stock Ormef Pack, Rocky Mountain ELK Foundation Pack for most things.
For most people, I'm gonna tell you to get the
gun Runner. You're accustomed to rucking and rock a lot.
Maybe get the RMEF or if you're actually gonna pack
out things like elk Moose, big charismatic megaphone, because it's

(11:48):
big enough to do it. But I'm again, I'm gonna
say for most people the gun Runner or something like it,
because I've seen this Tennessee time and time again. People
get a big pack and they feel compelled to fill
it with stuff, and you will soon go over that
firepower versus mobility equation. You will get so much stuff

(12:09):
in your pack that you're gonna look like an arthritic
ninja turtle. You're not gonna be fast, you're not gonna
be mobile, You're gonna be taking breaks every five minutes.
So resist the urge to get a big pack and
put a bunch of stuff in it. Even if you
get a big pack, resist the urge, especially at first,
put a lot of stuff in there until you're good

(12:30):
at rucking. A decent recommendation, and this might sting some people,
is like twenty percent of your body weight. And I
would specify twenty percent of your healthy body weight. If
you want to know what that is, go to the
US Army's Height and Weight standards. Whatever height you are,
whatever the max weight it says, unless you're just a
muscle bound and I don't mean I'm big bone, that's

(12:51):
not a thing. I mean, like you are a body
builder and you have a ton of muscle and like
less than ten percent body fat. That's the only exception
I would give to the height and white standards. If
you are ex height and you are more than that
maximum US army healthy height and weight, you probably should
deduct that weight from the weight you have in your pack, right,

(13:12):
because you're already let's say you're forty five pounds overweight,
you're already carrying forty five pounds of extra weight. That's
more of a hindrance, and sadly many Americans are. So
you're gonna want to substract, subtract that from whatever you
can carry from twenty percent of your body weight. But
let's say you're a healthy, fit mail twenty percent maybe
thirty percent of your body weight. I would say no

(13:33):
more than twenty percent at first, and right, this includes
all the other stuff too. This includes a primary weapon,
This includes Ammo, all the other stuff, So that plus
to pack twenty thirty percent. Keep that in mind. Resist
the urge to throw a bunch of stuff in your pack.
And then stand in your living room and look, look
how tactical I am in my living room. If you're
not rucking that thing up and down technical terrain, you

(13:55):
don't know if it's too heavy. Next one, emergency mail medical.
I didn't mention because actually forgot, but I generally edc
a tourniquit in my pocket. Many people do not. You're
gonna want emergency medical see episode on March algorithm. But
massive bleeding or massive hemorrhaging emergency medicine. If you don't
have any training, you should get training. But like a

(14:17):
turn a tournique or turnique as they say in the UK,
but I say tournique, a tourniquit, quick clot, some kind
of pressure bandage, A basic medical emergency kit, whether it's
refuge medical, North American Rescue, you know, but a decent

(14:38):
quality medical kit and know how to use it. But
medical is important, right. All the other stuff, if you
bleed out is not going to do much good. I
would throw in the emergency medical kit. Antibiotics you I
don't think people today realize how many people died in
times passed from infection. Antibiotics, antibiotics, antibiotics. I'm not going

(15:00):
to tell you how to get antibiotics, but I will
tell you that fish also use antibiotics. They may be
the same ones made in the same factory to the
same dosages. But again you need training. You need to
know when to take them, how much to take for
your fish. Right, but medical and tying into the infection

(15:20):
and antibiotics, hygiene announce of prevention is worth a pound
of cure and minimum. Just put a bar soap in there.
A lot of people they've got all this tactical stuff,
and I love tactical stuff. I've got this super steel blade,
and I've got these sweet hollow points, and then their
kit doesn't have a bar soap or basic hygiene stuff.
Look at how many people in times past died because

(15:41):
they got a small cut, or they got a mosquito
bite or something they got rubbed raw and infected. Just
a bar of soap could could be worth literally it's
weight in gold. So don't have a bunch of gold
in your bag and not have a bar of soap.
But basic hygiene stuff, a soap, a toothbrush. You don't
need toothpaste. That's a gimmick. But some baking soda would

(16:02):
be nice, some salt both for brushing your teeth and
or for you actually need salt to survive, so that's
a good thing to have in your kit. After that,
some kind of sleep system and your bare basic bones.
You can get better than this, but your your basic
one is going to be a range of role. A
poncho Hoo's a US military issued poncho or something like it,

(16:24):
not a cheap, flimsy, one dollar to throw away one
that's better than nothing, but a military poncho and a
poncho liner. You can do a lot with the You
can live out in the bush and these I know
because I've done it. Just a poncho can easily become
a shelter. There's many different ways to configure it, especially
if you know what you're doing. And a poncho liner

(16:44):
is far warmer than it should be now climate dependent.
If I was in Alberta, Canada, I probably wouldn't want
just this in my winter pack, but at a bare
minimum poncho on, poncho liner, some kind of sleep system.
Now this is something that I would advocate you get
and camo. Some kind of cameo pattern doesn't have to
be the latest and greatest CAMO pattern. Think your pack

(17:05):
should be that, because if you're in an environment with
many people, you maybe don't want to stand out, and
the camo, ironically, in some environments may make you stand
out more, which is the opposite of what camo is
supposed to do. But for your shelter, for your poncho,
if you are trying to be discreet and sleep and
not get bothered, camo at least on your poncho shelter

(17:30):
and or for covering up your gear. That might be
a good thing. But at minimum a poncho in a
poncho liner you can make. You already have cortages part
of your edc or in your pack. You can take
sticks and make sticksters up bunch of different ways to
make poncho shelters. And your environment and whatever place you're
camping at is going to dictate what kind of shelter

(17:51):
you make. Since I mentioned cortage, you should have cortages.
You probably have an array of cordage. I know in
the prepper industry they love five fifty I five fifty
quarter is okay. It's not the end all be all,
and it's often not the best. You may just get
some tarred bank line. You may get some microcord, but
you often find better than pair of cord. But I'm
doing something simple. I may not need five hundred and

(18:11):
fifty pounds of strength. You also may look at just
some some plain manila cordage. I like playmnilla cordage because
it's cheap, and I've actually go out and used my
kit and I'm running like a main line to drape
my shelter over and a bunch of other lines to
keep it steady. I don't have to worry about like
after I cut them and winding them all back up

(18:32):
and having a bunch of different cords of a bunch
of different lengths. You got a bunch of that stuff.
It's super cheap. Just don't even worry about. It's biodegradable.
It's like made from grass, so it's not a big deal.
I'm not for littering, but Manila cordages it's like literally
dead grass. Maybe have some of that. And also it
burns really well, so if you need tender, it's kind
of double duty. Take your old cordage if you're camping

(18:52):
again the next night and use it for tender to
make fire, so that works pretty well. Also a compass
now you can have fancy electronic stuff, and I'm not
saying you shouldn't, but just a good compass, a little
emergency button compass that may be part of your DC
or on your jacket, but a good practical compass, whether
it be a good engineer type compass or a surveying

(19:16):
type compass, or I like just a flat lensatic compass,
like a map compass with a magnifying glass with measurements
on there that you can use on a map legend.
But again this goes back to, like many other things,
you gotta have the skill. If you can't read a map,
you can't read a map with a compass. So a
good quality compass, whatever kind you want, that you know

(19:40):
how to use, that should be in your kit. The
next one I'm going to repeat myself. Water water, water.
I cannot stress to you how important water is. Just
having access to water, which if you're out west, you
may have to plan your entire route just so you

(20:01):
have water. If you're in the Southwest even more so,
like that's gonna be one of your major factors on
whether you survive and thrive or have to turn around
or whatever it is. But water, water, water, and if
you're in the East Coast. You may have an abundance
of water, but especially after some kind of disaster, that
water likely could kill you. Like dirty water probably kills

(20:24):
more people, and historically it's probably killed more people than
bullets than swords. Water, water, water. You need to have
access to water, and you need to be able to
clean and purify water, and you should have I say
it three times, you should have three different ways to
do that. And if you think you're just gonna boil water,
I would actually have you go out and see how

(20:47):
much energy it takes to gather the wood, split the wood,
build a fire enough to boil Let's say two gallons
of water. Let's say a gallon. They say the old
classic a gallon of water a day. I would, so
you probably need more than that, but you see how
much energy it takes to boil and how much time
it takes to boil a gallon of water. Boiling will work.

(21:08):
I would have that as your third method. But two
other methods, primary methods. Not I'm just gonna go out
and boil water. But water purification tablets are cheap and easy,
they're lightweight water filters. Knowing how to make a water filter,
but again that takes time. That should be either probably
a third way to do it if you're not gonna boil,

(21:29):
making your own water filter, but just a good water filter.
I actually don't like life straws. I like either a
soiler mini. I've used life straws in the past, That's
why I don't like them, but a soiler many or
a grail water bottle, or like a burky water bottle,
some kind of good on the go water bottle. But

(21:50):
water water water. Before I even worried about fire, which
is the next thing, you should have several ways to
purify water without fire, because if you're in a hostile
environment you make a fire, you may not get a
chance to drink that water. So but having a chance
or having the ability to make fire. And I would
say waterproof lighters are good and cheap and easy. You
should definitely have a good lighter in your kit or two.

(22:12):
But I would also recommend a ferrosiam rod or something
like it, so that even if you get wet fall
in the creek, you go to cross a creek or
a river, you know, when everything gets wet, you still
have the ability to make a fire. And again I'm
not the one that is all. All you should have
to do is rub two sticks together. I've got nothing
wrong with you having a good, decent lighter and tender,

(22:34):
but I would also not as important as water. I
would have a primary and a backup at least, but
have a way to make fire. Next one, this is
going to be for people that live in more urban environments,
most people that live easto the Mississippi, I would say,
in a more urban than a rural environment or than
a wilderness environment. Lock picks and not for doing anything nefarious.

(22:55):
If you get cordinated an area you have to escape,
there's a fire, there's who knows what. But lock picks
can be very very handy, so lock picks and again
the skill. If you have lock picks and you don't
know how to pick a lock, not super helpful, but
lock picks. A file in an urban environment can be
used for many many things. You can also use to
sharpen your knives if you don't want to also bring

(23:17):
a nice sharpener, but a good file, a good saw,
and you might go with a wood saw. If you
are in a wilderness environment, you might go with a
metal saw. If you're in an urban environment. I already
mentioned multi tool, but maybe get a multi toool tailor
to your environment. They have like survival multi tools, and

(23:37):
they have like urban urban multi tools. Get whicheveryone is
more applicable to you. Now, one very important tool that's
not super tactical, so it often doesn't get discussed, but
a shovel, a mini shovel and E tool which stands
for entrenching tool, some kind of shovel. Yeah, it can
be used as a weapon. Pretty much anything can be
used as a weapon if you have a good imagination,

(23:59):
but a shovel, it can be used so often for
so many things. Plus it's in the Bible. It's a
command when you go out to make war, you shall
have an implement among your equipment. You shall dig with
it and turn and cover your refuse. Right, we talked
about that dirty water common sense from the Bible. Also

(24:21):
spiritual reasons. You know, you want your camp to be holy.
But also we talked about that dirty water. Don't be
part of the problem, be part of the solution. Don't
contribute to dysentery. Be part of the solution. And the
more people that do that, the less like you are
to die from it. Just good common sense. The shovel

(24:41):
is good for that. The shovel can also be good
for when you make shelters to night in an environment
where it's prone to rain, you can dig a little
trench uphill that goes downhill so that the rain does
not run and get you soaking wet at night. It
runs around your your tabernacle, your tent, and you stay
dry instead of being soaking wet and miserable and possibly

(25:03):
dying of hypothermia. Shovels again one of those things, not
super tactical, but very practical. So don't forget about the shovel.
Can you make a shovel. You can, but it's just
one of those It could just be as simple as
like a Walmart gardening shovel. They are worth their weight
to pack. I'm gonna tell you that a good shovel

(25:23):
is fantastic. Even make like aluminum or titanium or super
strong light weight shovels. That's something I would tell you
to spend some money all maybe a good like titanium
mini shovel very important. I would highly suggest, highly recommend
you have one. Speaking of titanium, also in an area,
I would recommend spending a little bit extra money we

(25:43):
talked about water water water, but having a good titanium
water bottle. They're just they're so lightweight. You could have
a couple of spares. They might take up a little
bit of space, but not a lot of weight. If
you find a place that has good clean water, or
you are going to boil water, you probably want to
boil a bunch of it, not just one cup at time.
So good lightweight titanium water bottles they are for years

(26:06):
and years. I had a standless still water bottle and
it's fine, and I still have it and it's good
for like normal day to day stuff. But for I
think the amount you save versus the money you spend
a titanium water bottle. If you are going to spend
a little bit of money, titanium shovel, titanium water bottle,
you know, take you know, make use of some of
that newer technology. Now, if you're trying to scraunch up

(26:29):
the money for a good fixed blade knife, you know,
maybe weight and just get a metal water bottle at first,
there's just a stainlessteel when you're an aluminum one, and
get a titanium one later. But they are and the
shovel and the Titanium water bottle. Since I mentioned titanium,
I would highly recommend those. Another one, multi vitamins. This

(26:51):
is important. You know, scurvy was a thing for a
long time. Now you should know how to forage and
how to get sources of vitamins. Ce pretty much everywhere
I've been in the US, there are some natural sources
of vitamin C, but maybe not in the middle of winter.
So and that's just one vitamin, right, There's all kinds
of vitamins and minerals that you might need to be healthy,

(27:11):
even if you have the calories, because you know, you
might have to take what the bush provides as far
as food goes, and some of that food may have
enough calories, but it may be lacking in nutrients. And
multi vitamins are lightweight, they're easy, they're affordable right now,
so why would you not have multi vitamins now. In
addition to that, you should probably also carry some calories. Yes,

(27:33):
I'm all for foraging, fishing, hunting. I do it pretty regularly,
quite regularly, actually, but man, it's nice to have some calories,
especially fat. Fat is often maligned in today's world and
culture because people think that eating fat makes you fat. Now,
eating a bunch of junk food makes you fat. But
fat is one of those things. Even if you're a

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good hunter, good fisherman, good forager, often fat is the
hard thing to find in nature. Very few, you know,
animals have an abundance of fat, So you know, some
things do, like waterfowl and things like that, but fat.
So if you're carrying extra calories, you may want to
carry something with quite a bit of facts that may
may be what's lacking in the diet. A good, simple

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one is peanut butter. Right, who doesn't love peanut butter.
It's dense in calories, dense and fat, and good. Chunky
is better than creamy. If you think otherwise, I don't
know what to tell you. I hope you survive anyway.
I will say there are essential proteins and essential fatty acids,

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and essential fat that you need to survive. There is
no essential carbohydrate. You can live the rest of your
life without ever having a carbohydrate and you will be fine.
People eat carbohydrates a lot because they're cheap, but you
don't need them. So if you're gonna have food in
your pack, I would recommend a high fat, high protein
food all right now guns and again, I do a

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whole other part podcast listening to the Alpha Male long
guns and gun fighting. It's called Gunfighter Life. And we
could debate this at Naugeia right And there's a bunch
of different camps. And there's the guys that think the
twenty two is the bestest, most survivalentist gun out there,
like a Ruger ten twenty two or an AR seven.

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They have their merits. I'm not saying that I'm that guy.
There's guys that say it's got to be an AR.
If it's not an AR, you're wrong. It's got to
be a Daniel defense are you know fourteen point five
with all this and that, and if you're expecting red dawn,
that's not a bad choice. There's guys that say three
o eight is the only option, you know, something like

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a scout rifle, and I love a scout rifle. I
often go out in the back country with a scout rifle.
I tend to lean more towards the shotgun because it's
the most versatile. And again going back to you know,
feeding yourself, whatever God provides, that's food that I will eat.
But there's really nothing compared to a shotgun that will
take you know, a mourning dove to a grizzly bear

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out and I can eat the morning dove. And if
I want to shoot a deer and elk with a
shotgun again, I got my elk last year with a shotgun.
Nothing else is that versatile? This is good on a battlefield, No,
it's not. But even myself. And there's guys that have
been a lot more stuff than me, But even myself,
you know too, combat tours during the invasion, lapd works

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some of the nastiest streets in the country, works fugitive recovery,
work as a private security contractor still currently work as
a private security contractor. You count all the you know,
lethal violent encounters I may have been in or potentially
been in, and you multiply that by ten. That pales
in comparison to the amount of times of my life

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I've had to eat. Is a shotgun good for fighting?
It certainly can be, especially with in the right environment
and close up environments. You know, I don't want to
turn this into a gun episode, but number four buck
double up bucks slugs fantastic. Oftentimes, when I had the choice,
even though I had access to full auto, you know,

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assault rifles and things like that. I would often still
grab Remington eight seventy with buckshot and slugs because I
didn't care what looked cool, what was tactical. I cared
what was gonna keep me breathing at the end of
that encounter, and that often was a shotgun. Now, there's
plenty of environments and scenarios where I would not want that,
But for all around, if you give me no caveats,

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like Russian zombie COVID infested paratroopers are parachhooting in right now,
you give me no caveats. The shotgun, to me is
the most versatile. It has its drawbacks, but when it
comes to eating whatever might whatever God might provide me,
the shotgun is the most versatile. And even in some situations,
I would take a twenty two if I had to

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cover a lot of ground on foot and I never
had any chance of resupply. You know, that's one of
the reasons people like the twenty two. But I don't
want to turn this into a big debate on that.
But do your research on what you think the best
long gun is for this, and that may change depending
on environment, time, experience. But have a decent long gun.
Maybe you want to take down gun post shotguns, pumps

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and semi auto's are takedown guns. Your average AR is
a takedown gun. You know a lot of people don't
think of them like that. You take two pins on,
it takes down you unscrew usually once strew on a shotgun,
pump or semi auto and it comes apart. But do
some research. Have that, have a good AMMO and some
good support year for it. Basic cleaning kit. Again, I

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don't want to turn this into that episode, but have
a means of defense, defending and providing. I think that's
part of being a man and that just is the
best tool for the job today. But whatever camp you're
in on that, you know, team twenty two or Team
twelve gage or Team AR fifteen or you're three aha eighty,

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you're wrong. Just whatever you feel convicted compelled to carry,
have it. Be good with it, be trained with it,
be well regulated with it. Have the basic stuff you
need to keep it going. Like, for instance, if you're
gonna pick an AR, I'm looking at one right now
next to the bed. You might want an entirely separate
bolt carrier group in your kit. A lot of the
things that go wrong or the small parts, and a

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lot of the small parts are in the bolt carrier group.
That's just a for instance, you're gonna carry a twenty two,
you had better be very very good at clearing malfunctions.
Twenty two malfunction a lot. And you may be like,
why go to the range and it doesn't malfunction. Maybe
with you know, when it's clean and dry and doesn't
have blood in the action and all that other stuff,

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But twenty two is malfunction. So that's just another example.
Be really good at clearing malfunctions. Maybe have several extra magazines,
but again, just pick one. Practice with it, train with it,
be good with it. Make an informed decision on your platform,
your ammo again going back to that power to weight race,
not poweredway ratio, but firepower versus mobility equation. You know

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how much AMMO can I carry before it's actually more
likely to get me killed and help me survive because
I have too much weight. And this is a very
very basic list, right, There's all kinds of things that
you may choose to have in your kit that I
didn't cover. One that I just realized I forgot to
put on list. Socks you had better have extra socks,
extra socks, extra socks, extra socks. But I mentioned in

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the beginning, youdc a good pair of footwear. If you're
the kind of man that generally doesn't wear a practical
set of hiking boots or whatever day to day or
combat boots or whatever, you may want to have those
in your pack. You may choose to have a couple
of pairs of footwear, but footwear is super important. And again,
you know your environment. If you're in you know, northern Alberta,

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your packing list's going to be a lot different than
somebody that's in Miami. You're in Miami, your bug out
list should probably be a sailboat. But you get the idea.
This is meant to just be a basic, hopefully refresher
because you're already into it, but a basic thing to
listen to and be like, oh, you know what, I

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should probably up my water game, or maybe I should
learn how to pick locks. Maybe that's more important in
my environment than watching all these bustcraft channels and learning
how to make a friction fire with two sticks. Not
that that's not a cool thing to do, but for you,
learning how to pick locks maybe a more germane skill.
And actually get out there and rock and spend time

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out using your kit. I highly encourage that. So anyway,
I'm gonna start wrapping this up. I hope that you
guys appreciate this. Whichever podcast you're listening to this on now,
I'll often give a tactical verse of the day. I'm
gonna give a couple today. How about the speech that

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David gives right before he slays Goliath. This day, the
Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will
strike you and take your head from you. And this
day I will give the carcasses of the camp of
the Philistines to the birds of the air and the
wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may
know that there is a God in Israel. Then all

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the assemblies shall know that the Lord does not save
with sword and with spear, For the battle is the Lord's,
and he will give you into our hands. Now that's
that's a fantastic verse. But some other ones just a
little bit later in here. Now this is about King Saul.

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Now Saul was afraid of David because the Lord was
with him, but had departed from Saul a little bit,
just a little bit farther down from that, and David
behaved wisely in all his ways, and the Lord was
with him. Therefore, when Saul Saul that he behaved very wisely,

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he was afraid of him. Wisdom right, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes,
and all throughout the Bible. Wisdom. You could give all
the best kits to a foolish man and not going
to do him a whole lot of good. He'd give
very minimal kit like a sling and a stone to
a wise man like David, who practiced with them and

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was acquainted with them. In fact, he was offered better kit. Right,
Saul offered him a sword and armor and all kinds
of I assume the king had top notched stuff, the
best of the best, and he said, no, I'm gonna
go with my basic kit. Because I'm paraphrasing, he didn't
say this, but he took his basic kit because he
knew it and he understood it. Right, Let's be wise

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in that wisdom is more important than stuff for a warrior,
for a man in general, for life, wisdom is more
important than stuff. Thanks for listening, and have a blessed day.