Colt 1911
Swiss army knives / multi tools
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Devils advocate, lets say you bug out do to gangs or whatever, You go to the mountains with what you can load in the car. How long do you think you can last ? You have a whole new set of dangers to deal with. Everything you have with you is exposed and you cant lock it down. Any type of scavengers i.e " hillbillys" joking on the term, are going to take all your gear while you are out trying to get some food. Then you have Mt lion, rattle snakes and the big one, weather to deal with. I dont know what your out door experience is, who knows all you may need is a swiss army knife. But i do know is most people are in for a real wake up call !! They have no clue or business being in the woods and end up in more danger than if the stayed home. I have found people lost, people with out water, people hurt, came across a booby trap THC farm. A back pack trip is one thing, but staying for a extended period of time with a car load of goods is another. It is just a tough call, take me for instance, I am going to stay at the house as long as i can but by then it could be to late to get anywhere, or gangs got my truck or there are road blocks or no roads, I just dont know. There are pros and cons to both situations. Just wanted to give you the flip side of the coin.theres plenty of reasons really, ill list a few here, mind you, i mean unless you have a home away from people or a bunker or such:
homes are hard to defend against roaming gangs, you can stock a full arsenal, but at the hight of it all, you and any other capable can only shoot 2 guns at a time (unless you have some rediculiously awesome gun rig to shoot more at once lol).
look at any police raid and you'll see what im talking about.
unless you've dug some kind of excape tunnel under your house (which is an awesome thought for HOME OWNERS, lol) you'll more than likely be breached, shot as well as any others that reside in your household. when this happens, everything you stocked up (food/guns/ammo) now belong to the enemy.
all in all, its just very hard to defend a home when roaming gangs come through, and be sure, they will come through.