The excrement just hit the fan, you have 5 minutes to grab your things and gtfo

[ceyko]

I used to have a plan for bug out, but with 2 little ones and some other things bug out is not an option.

At the time though the plan was...

a 22LR rifle with 5 magazines and a baggy of rounds
a 12ga pump for the wife and a box of rounds
a sidearm each
a water filter/purification pump
a few bottles of water
some dehydrated food...etc...etc.

Since then though, bugging out is not an option. Our house/area will be like the Alamo if it is that bad.

Also, the more I scouted resources in a reasonable vicinity of my home - the more I realized that a lot of other people know about them and will go there too. IMHO, this even includes driving there. Unless you have an area already (which also will be iffy), it's sort of a crap shoot. I've been in public game lands that seem remote, until hundreds of hunters around in a certain area. It is a VERY large area, but this demonstrated to me that if thousands, (hundreds of thousands? Millions?) are doing the same thing, even the most remote areas are going to be crowded.

[Pokulski-Blatz]

Government runs out of money, stops social programs - immediate civil unrest, riots, imminent food shortages, etc.

If it comes to that I see three scenarios.

1.) I see the unrest coming and load the truck up with supplies and get the fuck out of town before shit hits the fan.

2.) It happens instantly, I am going to try to shelter in place.

3.) Unrest spreads like wildfire and there is no option but to get out on foot. I am grabbing my bug out bag, 14.5" AR, and the Glock 23 for myself. The wife gets a bug out bag, 552 Speedmaster, and the M&P 22 pistol. After I get my stamps back in there will be a couple cans and the 14.5" AR will be replaced with a 10.5" AR with a can on it. Last thing I do before I leave the house is to put the dog down. I will be damned if I am going to leave him there to fend for himself, and given his medical issues he wouldn't make it very long while on the run.

In reality, I think the bulk of the unrest would be in more impoverished areas than where I live. It would be really hard to not see it coming. I would imagine that while the food shortages would become a problem after about a week to a week and a half, I hope to have enough sense to get the fuck out of town after 3-4 days of the food supply drying up. After the shelves in stores become bare shit will get really nasty. I don't think that leaving in a car would be hard, I don't see a mass exodus if that scenario would happen. Going somewhere remote should be pretty easy as long as you can get out of populated areas very quickly. Highways would be ideal.

[whitetrash]

AR
2 1911s
All my ammo
Make fun but I've got a quality tacti-cool vest to help distribute the load for this situation
The wife will have her px4 and the 357

Bag with a change of clothes, some provisions, water purification needs.

Where it will get tricky is with the kid. My current plan is load him and the bags in the stroller and roll out. I know I'll have to ditch the stroller eventually but any time it shaves carrying another 25-50lbs with him and gear I'll take advantage of.

I still need to get some supplies and it's not a perfect plan but that's all I got so far.

[FATHERFORD]

I'm more for "buggin in", but if I had to bug out on foot...

My first reaction would be to grab my SBR AK. Fucking reliable, cheap plentiful ammo, and relatively light.

Then I would grit my teeth, leave the ak in the safe, and grab my Keltec sub 2000 that takes glock 9mm mags and my glock 19 as a side arm(with a few 30 round mags).

I would also grab my SBR 10/22 and my sparrow with a brick of hyper 22 and a few hundred rounds of subsonic and a few mags.

Water purification setup, first aid kit, dried food, buck knife etc. Typical BOB items.

[ELVIS]

make sure all of you nutjobs dont forget to pack your medication!

god bless.

[BP]

I live within 5 minutes of Lake Belton, I'd grab some floaties and head there. Then I'd wade on over to the Fort Hood side and watch the 1st Cav mobilize.

In the spirit of the question though I'd probably load up my Grizzly with all the ammo I could find, grab an AR and my Kimber, all the gas cans, my basic camping supplies and some blankets. I figure fully loaded with 10 gallons of fuel in jugs I can make it 250+ miles away from everything pretty easy. Depending on the situation I'd either head to the Mexican border or into the Piney Woods.

[Mach1Run]

I would have to take the AK47 and XDs myself, give the wifey the 18" AR and the XD9, and my son take the 10/22 plus all the grub and gear we could gather after that.

[Roscoe]

Nothing.

It's I am Legend up in this bitch....

[helosailor]

-AR pistol
-10 loaded mags
-SR22
-250 rds .22lr
Go bag with:
-3 day food kit
-water purification
-3 pairs socks
-first aid kit
-flashlight
-poncho
-small roll of p-cord
-knife
-duct tape
-electrical tape

[YALE]

I'll throw this out there, too. You guys with corrective lenses would do well to keep your prescription updated yearly, and work with your optometrist/opthamalogist to get as accurate a prescription as possible, and keep a pair of glasses around. Contacts would be stupid, moving cross-country.

[GrayStangGT]

AK
XDm
Ammo
Knife
Para Cord
Matches
Whatever food I could find

I would probably just grab my big camping box on wheels and drag it till I got to a safe spot to load up the essentials out of it into my backpack.

[Sean88gt]

dogs would be a huge liability if you're trying to survive.

Mine isn't big enough to do much (30lbs) and likes to bark at any stranger, which is an issue when silence becomes your best friend.

Mre's that you don't have to carry

What I was thinking initially, but go back to the weight.

make sure all of you nutjobs dont forget to pack your medication!

god bless.

And a book.

[Moose242]

grab an AR and my Kimber

Welp, you're already dead.

[Cannon88]

Shotgun, rifle and a 4 wheel drive...

[JP135]

I live in the sticks. Leaving would be the last choice for me. My neighbors are like-minded and we've discussed this - we'd go communal in a defensible location. Sever the road leading into our area with a dozer then fortify. Drag in fuel tanks from everyone's property and run generators. Most of us have freezers full of wild game that we can replace as we use. It'd be a pain but we'd get by.