[CanRay]

Got the Bayonet for that SKS?

[usefulidiot]

Sure do. I normally leave it off when we go shooting but it doees give it that classic look. Still has the wood stock as well. Picked it up at a great deal, after cleaning it real well and adjusting the sights it holds a real nice pattern at 100 yards with the iron sights.

[CanRay]

Good.  The wood will stand you better against Zombies than the lighter weight of the Fiberglass will. 

[Critias]

SKS's are one of those guns that I just hate to see "sporterized."  Keep the gorgeous old wood on, don't funk it up with all the new gadgets and whatnot.  There's nothing that makes me cringe quite like seeing the classics torn up and wrapped in black plastic.

[Digital_Viking]

SKS's are one of those guns that I just hate to see "sporterized."  Keep the gorgeous old wood on, don't funk it up with all the new gadgets and whatnot.  There's nothing that makes me cringe quite like seeing the classics torn up and wrapped in black plastic.

I have an old Mosin-Nagant someone offered to sporterize. I looked at him like he offered to buy my firstborn.

[CanRay]

SKS's are one of those guns that I just hate to see "sporterized."  Keep the gorgeous old wood on, don't funk it up with all the new gadgets and whatnot.  There's nothing that makes me cringe quite like seeing the classics torn up and wrapped in black plastic.

I have an old Mosin-Nagant someone offered to sporterize. I looked at him like he offered to buy my firstborn.

I ever catch someone trying to do that to an old SMLE or Mauser 98 or 98K...

Bad enough what the Canadian Government demanded be done to the old SMLE girls. 

[Charybdis]

That's why I have everything backed up on my external Terabyte (although, it's starting to look a bit full). Easier to just grab that and my laptop.

My Bug Out Bag:

Ruggedized Laptop (picked up on the cheap from TacTeam surplus)
USB cables
Burner phone
FN Five-seveN w/4 clips and 1 box of ammo
1 change of clothes
Case of MREs (I'm a good packer)
2 canteens w/filter straws and purification tabs.

For the record, if I'm ever allowed to keep fire-arms, then I also will have one in my BoB.

However, sadly, not the case with current legislations...damnit!

Was it the Psych test? Tell me it wasn't the Psych test! *twitch*twitch*

[CanRay]

Try living in Canada.

[AlexHaze]

However, sadly, not the case with current legislations...damnit!

Was it the Psych test? Tell me it wasn't the Psych test! *twitch*twitch*

No fire-arms at all? Where do you live? I have a shotgun in my room. Then again I live in rural Missouri so all we do is hunt and raise cows...

[Teyl_Iliar]

My Bug Out Bag:

Ruggedized Laptop (picked up on the cheap from TacTeam surplus)
USB cables
Burner phone
FN Five-seveN w/4 clips and 1 box of ammo
1 change of clothes
Case of MREs (I'm a good packer)
2 canteens w/filter straws and purification tabs.

A whole case eh? I bet I know how you pulled that off.  The 5.7 sounds like a good side arm, but the ammo doesn't seem practical unless i'm out of the loop on it's availability these days. Mine consists of,

M-1 garand with 5 clips 48 rounds
S&W M&P .45 4 clips 2 boxes of ammo
2 changes of clothes
6-7 MREs (that'll last me a 1-1.3 weeks)
full trauma kit
state and national map
hygene kit
2 canteens and 3L camelbak.
32 GB thumbdrive with everything I need (SR Books and characters) and 2 forms of ID.

I'm working on a ruggedized laptop and a solar charger, but that's a ways off.

[Dr. Meatgrinder]

Case of MREs (I'm a good packer)

A whole case eh? I bet I know how you pulled that off. 

Yep, the key is field-stripping the MREs to save space.  They come prepackaged, but you can remove the components from the outer wrapping and get rid of some of the excess packaging materials...and pre-sort the items you want from those you don't.

That reminds me...I need to get a case of MREs. 

Also...how big a bag do you advise for a Bug Out Bag?  Are we talking about a gym bag?  Or, from reading some of the lists, are we talking more like a standard military duffel?

[Digital_Viking]

Case of MREs (I'm a good packer)

A whole case eh? I bet I know how you pulled that off. 

Yep, the key is field-stripping the MREs to save space.  They come prepackaged, but you can remove the components from the outer wrapping and get rid of some of the excess packaging materials...and pre-sort the items you want from those you don't.

That reminds me...I need to get a case of MREs. 

Also...how big a bag do you advise for a Bug Out Bag?  Are we talking about a gym bag?  Or, from reading some of the lists, are we talking more like a standard military duffel?

I use one of these:
http://www.uscav.com/productinfo.aspx?productid=17159&tabid=548&catid=1727

Thinking about getting this though:
http://www.uscav.com/productinfo.aspx?productid=17223&tabid=548&catid=1743

[beowulf_of_wa]

I use one of these:
http://www.uscav.com/productinfo.aspx?productid=17159&tabid=548&catid=1727

Thinking about getting this though:
http://www.uscav.com/productinfo.aspx?productid=17223&tabid=548&catid=1743

i have one of the large black ones. i use it for carrying my work gear ( snake gaiters, digging knife, clothes)  if the end of the world comes, that will be loaded with secondary gear. my "normal" pack is this http://specopstech.com/osc/product_info.php?cPath=197_230&products_id=1946&page=medical

[Dr. Meatgrinder]

Nice.  So we're talking about the size of a military duffel, though clearly there are better-organized packs out there if I can spend the money.

[beowulf_of_wa]

the black one gets all the "longer than a couple days" survival gear, the "med" pack gets the "need it to walk from here to home" gear