Alpo Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 You are evacuating. There is a hurricane, there is a tornado, there is a fire, there is a flood. Doesn't matter what. You are evacuating. You have clothing and money and water and food and important documents. And you have a gun. How much ammunition did you bring? Online story, and he mentions that he has a pistol. And it just brought that question to my mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 All of it. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 A gun.......................??????????????????????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 So it's temporary. You're coming back. This is a local and limited emergency. So you take a handgun, a rifle, and a couple boxes. This is not a SHTF scenario... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 Financial and important documents, money, medications, means to make a fire and stay warm, water and food for several days. Weaponry and ammunition. Attitude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 (edited) With ten minutes, I grab two go bags. One has fifteen loaded magazines that fit my regular carry sidearm and there is a second, nearly identical handgun in that bag, along with four more boxes of ammunition, a second holster, and eye and ear protection. The second bag holds ten loaded magazines that fit my personal long gun as well as two other long guns belonging to other members of my immediate family. That bag also holds a week’s worth of my medications, a small first aid kit, another thousand rounds of appropriate ammunition, and the tools to make fire. I will grab the long gun and sling it as I head out. Important papers and financial documents are in a portable safe/container that is fire and water proof. My truck is fueled, there are emergency tools, and it’s ready for duty. If I have more notice, I can move a MUCH larger amount of ordnance in under an hour’s time! There are clothes and blankets in each of my vehicles. Food and water can be packed and transferred in a matter of minutes. Edited February 29 by Blackwater 53393 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 (edited) For me it would depend on why we’re evacuating. 1. Train derailment: poison gas leak - Grab my favorite Glock (loaded) and 3 or 4 mags plus my S&W 442 (loaded) and a couple of speed loaders. 2. Military Evac: Pick a reason. Can’t come up with one - favorite Glock, 442 and my PC Carbine and a dozen mags and a couple hundred rounds extra. 3. Weather related - See #1 I really can’t think of any other evac reasons. EDIT: What I take would totally depend on how we are evac’ing. Walking? See #1. Driving? See #2. Edited February 29 by Pat Riot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowderRiverCowboy Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 2 military go tuff boxes packed RTG at all times , these have everything in them , all ammo and weapons and full kit ESAPI Vest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 Sounds like I need to AMMO UP! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Joker Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 You keep guns and ammo AT YOUR HOUSE? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 2 hours ago, Texas Joker said: You keep guns and ammo AT YOUR HOUSE? It's in the secret underground bunker. DARN, now they know about that! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 I’m actually an urban legend, a figment of some twisted imagination! Reports of my existence are suspect and generally exaggerated! Think of me in the same terms as Bigfoot, the chupacabra, and other such imaginary creatures!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowderRiverCowboy Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 4 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said: I’m actually an urban legend, a figment of some twisted imagination! Reports of my existence are suspect and generally exaggerated! Think of me in the same terms as Bigfoot, the chupacabra, and other such imaginary creatures!! That explains the smell 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 8 minutes ago, PowderRiverCowboy said: That explains the smell When we pull your chain, you flush! 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 2 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said: Think of me in the same terms as Bigfoot, the chupacabra, and other such imaginary creatures!! We already do. You and Alpo both. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 8 hours ago, Texas Joker said: You keep guns and ammo AT YOUR HOUSE? No. It’s underwater at a lake nearby. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 If I had to leave my home for any reason, I would want to make sure I could reclaim it from squatters when I returned. Therefore no guns or ammunition would be left behind. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. James H. Callahan Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 My bug out bag contains a S&W M19. I keep it loaded and 2 speedloaders with 38+P hollowpoints (it is a 2 1/2 " barrel). Also has about 25 rounds each of full house .357 Mag hollowpoints and about 25 rounds of general purpose 158 gr lead bullets at about 1100 fps, my old IPSC just make major load. Hopefully I'll never need it and that will be enough to service. Some years ago there was a big house/shop fire some 300 yards north of my house, across a dinky little road. Dead of winter, dry as a popcorn fart, and a 35-40mph north wind. If the fire got loose and jumped the road it would have been in my backyard in like 2 minutes. Just about how long it would take to get the bug out bag and the dogs in my pickup and haul butt. Thankfully the gallant Clyde Volunteer Fire Dept. kept it under control. But it was a scary few minutes. I sat in my truck and watched until I was comfortable that the danger was past. JHC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. James H. Callahan Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 11 minutes ago, J-BAR #18287 said: If I had to leave my home for any reason, I would want to make sure I could reclaim it from squatters when I returned. Therefore no guns or ammunition would be left behind. I don't know about you, but that would be about a 2 hr operation for me. And I'd probably need my trailer which is on our farm 50 miles away! JHC 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Fast bug out: 1911, six loaded magazines, belt holster on the righe, mags in back Ithaca 37 pump 12 gauge with 5 in the mag in my hands and a bandoleer with 25 more. Winchester mod 95 with 5 rounds of .30 U. S. Krag in the mag on a sling and 40 in cartridge belt. Two medium sized belt knives, one 4" double edge dirk in a shoulder rig and four various size folding knives (one a side lever switch blade). I can't carry much more than that in the way of weapons. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. James H. Callahan Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 12 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: Fast bug out: 1911, six loaded magazines, belt holster on the righe, mags in back Ithaca 37 pump 12 gauge with 5 in the mag in my hands and a bandoleer with 25 more. Winchester mod 95 with 5 rounds of .30 U. S. Krag in the mag on a sling and 40 in cartridge belt. Two medium sized belt knives, one 4" double edge dirk in a shoulder rig and four various size folding knives (one a side lever switch blade). I can't carry much more than that in the way of weapons. Cop pulls a little old lady over for going a little fast. She hands him her DL and LTC. He asks if she is carrying, Yes. Glock 43 in my purse....Is that all?...No, .45 auto under the seat......Is that all.....No, Remington 870 in the back floor and a Mini 14 in the trunk.........Lady, what are you afraid of?.......Not a d*mned thing! JHC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 12 hours ago, Texas Joker said: You keep guns and ammo AT YOUR HOUSE? No. Most of it is at the bottom of a lake where I had a boating accident. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted March 1 Author Share Posted March 1 1 hour ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: 1911, six loaded magazines Six-pack, or three dual pouches? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 10 hours ago, Capt. James H. Callahan said: Cop pulls a little old lady over for going a little fast. She hands him her DL and LTC. He asks if she is carrying, Yes. Glock 43 in my purse....Is that all?...No, .45 auto under the seat......Is that all.....No, Remington 870 in the back floor and a Mini 14 in the trunk.........Lady, what are you afraid of?.......Not a d*mned thing! JHC So true...and fairly common in my part of Arizona. There are a a lot of ladies in my circle of friends who carry at least one handgun with them everywhere they go and a bunch who have more stashed around their vehicles and homes and even in their places of business. A higher percentage of men carry than women. If I'm very vigilant I can usually spot a concealed gun on about one person out ten or eleven, and probably an equal number (or more) are carrying and I can't spot it Although a CCW is not required (in Arizona we can carry openly or concealed without one) I have one becauseI can buy a gun without a background check, and because I have only been stopped twice in eight years by the police. I alway show my driver's license, registration , insurance card, and CCW card. One of the officers asked me why and I told him very frankly that I just didn't want any surprises. He said he didn't either. Both thanked me for showing it. Yeah, I know, I'm on someone's list. That's a BS excuse. Hell, I've been on someone's list...maybe lots and lots of someones...since the fifteenth of March nineteen forty two. Maybe even earlier because someone was certain to know Mom was pregnant before that. I'll deal with that if and when it gets to be an issue. I won't lose much time worrying about it before that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Maverick Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 22 hours ago, Texas Joker said: You keep guns and ammo AT YOUR HOUSE? Nope, I don't have any guns or ammo. I lost it all in a boating accident. TM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Maverick Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 11 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: So true...and fairly common in my part of Arizona. There are a a lot of ladies in my circle of friends who carry at least one handgun with them everywhere they go and a bunch who have more stashed around their vehicles and homes and even in their places of business. A higher percentage of men carry than women. If I'm very vigilant I can usually spot a concealed gun on about one person out ten or eleven, and probably an equal number (or more) are carrying and I can't spot it Although a CCW is not required (in Arizona we can carry openly or concealed without one) I have one becauseI can buy a gun without a background check, and because I have only been stopped twice in eight years by the police. I alway show my driver's license, registration , insurance card, and CCW card. One of the officers asked me why and I told him very frankly that I just didn't want any surprises. He said he didn't either. Both thanked me for showing it. Yeah, I know, I'm on someone's list. That's a BS excuse. Hell, I've been on someone's list...maybe lots and lots of someones...since the fifteenth of March nineteen forty two. Maybe even earlier because someone was certain to know Mom was pregnant before that. I'll deal with that if and when it gets to be an issue. I won't lose much time worrying about it before that. Texas requires you to show your chl with your license if pulled over by the police. TM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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