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Here some accessory ideas for different scenarios depending where you live and what you wanna prepare yourself against. I own some of the stuff here myself, if i linked products i thought they are worth looking into it. Feel free to contact me for more ideas.
Some of the Items here can be pretty expensive because i picked fairly high quality products. You, of cause, do NOT need to buy those. They are just there as examples or personal recommendations from my side.
¶ Bug-out location
This is a place you pick and should be secret. That location is a place where you go to when everything goes to shit and you can't stay at your current place. It should have at least some Food and Water supplies (maybe also some backup stashes with loot around).
To reach this place 'Prepper' often have a so-called "Bug-out backpack" which holds stuff for 72h, to be able to bridge the time till you reach your Bug-out location (Don't forget, travel light!).
'Preppers' also don't like to leave a chance of failure to get there, so there is a "3 way rule" in place, where you work out 3 different ways and routes to reach your location. Also actually try the routes and see if they work out well + do keep yourself fit to be able to reach it (e.g. by foot).
¶ Food and Water
- Water filter (Sawyer)
- Water purification tablets
- Gas cooker or similar (e.g. (Jetboil Zip, Jetboil MicroMo )
- 4 in 1 Camping cutlery (Fork, Spoon, [...] in one)
- Drinking Bottle
- Pot/Pan/Can
- Water bags (those exist in like 20L, 40L, [...] up to bags for bathtubs)
- MRE's or other Long-term food (There is food made for specially those cases which lasts 15+/30+ years. At bare minimum have at least two weeks of food at home)
¶ Sleep
- One man Tent CARINTHIA OBSERVER PLUS BIVY BAG
- Hammock with Mosquito net
- Tarp
- Sleeping bag CARINTHIA DEFENCE 4
¶ Cosmetics
- Toothbrush
- Toiletpaper
- Tampons (very good fire starter)
- Blister plaster
- Medicaments
¶ Tools 'n Gadgets
¶ Knifes/Saw's
- Utica SURVIVAL S4
- Wuiderer SEPP 1.0
- ESEE-4
- ESEE-3
- Eickhorn KM 2000-BW
- Kukri machete
- SILKY BIGBOY 2000 FOLDING SAW
- Multitool e.g. Leatherman WAVE®+
¶ Standard stuff
- Paracord (pretty much any paracord should do it)
- Flint Steel/Jet lighter
- Power Bank (You can charge it via a solar pannel)
- First Aid Kits (Can likely be found in pretty much any car or office building, if needed because of an accident)
¶ other stuff
- Solar panel attachable to backpack (Anker 513, BigBlue 28W)
- Folding spade
- Lock pick
- Faraday Bag (to Protect all your electrical gear against e.g. and EMP)
- Duct Tape or similar
¶ Backpacks
¶ Long range
¶ Mid range
¶ Short range
¶ Pouches
In general browsing the Berghaus and Tasmanian Tiger stuff can be pretty useful, this is gear for professional use.
Some sort of 'rain poncho' for the backpack can come in pretty handy too.
¶ Clothing
¶ Shoes
- Lowa Tibet GTX (winter)
- Lowa Zephyr GTX Mid TF
¶ Jackets
¶ Respirator mask
3M 6000 or Sundstrom SR 200 with Scott Safety Pro2000 or two 3M 6099 Filter.
For communications with the respirator mask on you could use a 3M Scott EPIC 3 RI Voice Communication System. This is cool but unlikely needed. Additionally a Chemical Suit [1, 2, 3].
¶ other stuff
- Rain poncho
- Rescue blanket (can mostly be found in first aid kits)
- 5.11 Tactical Belt
- For gloves checkout Mechanix
- In general browsing this store
¶ Flashlights
- Thrunite TN12 V4
- Acebeam X75
- Wurkkos TS10
- Emisar D4
- Acebeam TK16
- Emisar D4V2
- TACTIKKA Headlamp
Don't forget extra batteries and charger (In best case you can charge via USB on some solar-powerbank, i got myself some iEGrow 18650 charger, couldn't really find a link, sry)
Consider a Flashlight with mutliple brightness modes for various reasons (saving battery, don't reveal your position too easy) or some flashlights with red/green light.
¶ Money
- Other currencies (Can be helpful if you need to flee to anoter country where your currency is worthless)
- Gold/Silver/[...]
- Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin/Monero)
- Toiletpaper, Water, Food (tradeables, everyone needs those)
Consider having at least a bit of cash at home, in case you need to leave everything behind or the digital infrastructure collapses or similar events.
In some countries there are law's for a cash limit, i think in Germany you are only allowed to have 10.000€ in cash, so please do some research into that before hording money at home.
As example i want to show you this.
This happend in the time of Russia attacking Ukraine and some diplomat fled with a lot of cash, which got them arrested.
Consider alternatives like cryptocurrencies, they allow you to transport unlimited money accross borders or basically anywhere with only remembering 24 words or having some file/device which stores the seedphrase. If done properly no one could ever find out that you ever owned/own cryptocurrency.
¶ Digital Stuff
Have Encrypted (e.g. VeraCrypt, KeePassXC) Backups of your important data! (Whatever it is, pictures of your loved ones, your drivers license, birth cert, your Crypto wallet, [...]). You can easily keep it up to date by picking a day in the month to update your backup. Good storage mediums are USB-Sticks or external m.2 NVMe drives for larger storage (alternatively also encrypted cloud drives in different countries).
¶ Offline Maps/Navigation
- Garmin GPSMAP® 64sx
- Organic Maps (In best case download your country + bordering countries)
¶ Communication
- Baofeng UV-5R (USB-Charger if you have the big battery -> to charge without docking station)
- goTennaMESH Mesh
- Meshtastic (Open source alternative to goTennaMESH, own device needed)
- Biar (P2P chat app, allows near by comunication via the Tor-network or without internet e.g. Bluetooth or Wi-Fi)
¶ Self-defense
This should always be the last option, try escaping the situtaion first!
- Flashlight (at night a Flashlight in strobe mode can be pretty powerful, tho don't forget that a flashlight also reveals your position)
- Pepper spray (works on distance with likely not causing persistent damage or death)
- Taser
¶ Signalling Pistol
I personally have a Zoraki 906, it's a very small handgun with a 6+1 magazin. You can carry it with a license and a civil belly holster around. Alternatively you can use irritant gas amunition.
Again, this should never be used in the best case, i advertise against it!
¶ Useful Apps/Links
- TV-Series Doomsday Preppers
- Offline Survival Manual (There is likely similar apps for iOS)
- German website's to get some stuff 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
P.S. Always remember to run faster than the Zombies
