Bug Out Philosophy

What's up TKZ'ers. Kris here, and I'm back with a couple more items I think everyone should have in their "Bug-Out Bag. Before I start though, I'd like to thank the guys for adding me to the staff for the website. I look forward to contributing more and more and also I'd like to apologize to you guys, the readers for slacking off on the Weapons Wednesday posts. I will be resuming those will full force this coming Wednesday and I will also post some weapons stuff this weekend.

Practical Things to Know.....

With the world plummeting into chaos, you find yourself lucky enough to have a working car and maybe even a generator. The problem is you are very low on gas and no where near a working gas station. Not to mention you're in NJ , where it's against the law for you to pump your own gas, so this means all the gas stations are crawling with zombie attendees anyway. So, they should be avoided unless you have no other options. You do notice abandoned cars everywhere you go, but how could you get gas out for you to use?

Practical Things to Know: HOW TO SIPHON GAS FROM CARS

Batteries Not Required...

     Batteries this and plug in that...majority of what we use requires a power source of some kind to keep it operational as well as convenient.  When it comes to light, many of us just flick a switch or click on a button and walah...light! (is that how you spell walah?)  What do you do when there is no power?  Batteries only last so long unless you can recharge them (cough...solar panels...cough).  But, for thousands of years candles, in some shape or form, have been a source for illumination.

To Stay or To Go? That is the question...

 

When it all comes to a stop, will you move around?  Will you set up shelter in one place?  Will you look for other survivors?  Will you be that random guy/girl walking alone in the shadows?  None of us know these answers, we may find out if/when 'It' actually happens.  Until then, we can plan, research, investigate, and think about what the future may hold.

Practical Things to Know...

It has been three days since you have eaten the last can of mystery meat you had in that bug out bag of yours. You have actually resorted to chewing on twigs and grass in an attempt to quiet those hunger noises in your belly. You could try to forage for food but it's fall and anything you think you should eat has died off anyway. What do you do? Hunt! That sounds like a good idea but you don't have a gun or a bow. Not to mention it would be hard to take a deer down with that ripped up backpack /shield you've been carrying around with you. There are plenty of rabbits and squirrel around and you even have seen some birds pecking at the ground looking for their own food. Question is how do you catch them?

Practical Thing to Know #2 Hunting with a Throwing Stick

Weapons Wednesday Post #2!

Good Morning!  Our second installment to Weapons Wednesday is based on Optics for the AR15...Thanks again KrisK for a great post....I'm starting to get gun envy...

-What's up TKZ, welcome back to another Weapons Wednesday. This is KrisK back again and if you missed it last week, I've been talking AR-15's. This week I'd like to talk about optics. Three to be exact. The Aimpoint Micro, EOTech XPS2 Tactical, and the Vortex Sparc. Lets be honest, open sights are good. They're reliable and fairly easy to get on target. The optics I'm going to talk about today though I think, can help give you greater accuracy while allowing you to get on target quicker. There's one main reason why I like these red dot systems. With a conventional open sight, you have to close one eye and look down the barrel to acquire a sight picture of your target. With a red dot, you don't. You simple shoulder your rifle and look down the barrel with both eyes open. This allows for quicker rounds on target, and quicker elimination of the threat. Alright, lets dive in.

Safe, clean drinking water.

If you find yourself in a situation (specifically a zombie apocalypse) where the drinking water is questionable, you have several options when it comes to making your water safe and clean.  There are water filtration systems, purification tablets, UV lights and the old stand-by... boiling it.  All of these options work and all have there place.  So here's a quick primer on making water safe to drink.

Practical things to know.....

So the unthinkable has happened. You have awoken to a new world.  The apocalypse has actually happened! You’re prepared though, right? How could you not be? You’ve seen all the movies and you never miss an episode of walking dead.  In fact you’re even up to issue #77 in the comic. Truth of the matter is, you’re not a sword welding blind man with the will of God backing you like in Book of Eli. Nor are you a genetically altered super being like in Resident Evil. You’re not even a certified gun instructor named Shane who’s trying to bed your “dead” best friend’s wife! Truth of the matter is you’re in the worst shape of your life. You’re 20 lbs over weight and can’t do a single push up. The only thing you ever shot were Nazi’s in Call of Duty. So what do you do? You start by throwing out 90% of what you think you know from movies and try to think practically.  First thing you need to throw out is the idea that most of these movies and or shows seem to take place in the warm months when staying warm isn’t an issue. Reality is, the apocalypse could happen any time.

Practical thing to know #1 HOW TO START A FIRE

WEAPONS WEDNESDAY...Experiment #1

      Good Evening good readers of the world!  This is our first 'Weapons Wednesday', and it will become a normal weekly occurrence.  Yesterday we heard some pretty decent information from a dedicated reader specifically oriented towards firearms.  So, we asked him (he'll be known as KrisK) to help us out a bit and this is what he came back with...our first weapon build (sweet).  Follow along and please comment...