another take on 'handy stuff to have around'.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
image #9 - bug out bag #1
Sorry, I don't have the captions. This is a fairly serious bug-out bag. Probably what is known as a '72-hour' bag.
image #8
Less firepower, but more sharp things in this 'pocket dump'. I'm sure he/she has a very good reason for the emergency single 'lifesaver'. I love this stuff.
image #7
From edcforums. These folks tend to be fairly serious about being prepared for the vicissitudes of daily life. If you were to ask this person why they carried not one, or two, but three separate pocketknives, they would probably be able to give you a very well-articulated rationale. Seriously.
image #5 - how to carry stuff
How do you carry your stuff, like Kwai-Chang Caine, as you wander across the ruined landscape? A modern high-tech backpack is probably more practical, but the dusty heavy-duty leather shoulder bag, like the ones formerly issued to mail carriers, definitely has more panache.
image #4
No food, no water, but his two swords are all he really needs. The extremely violent-capable drifter with a hidden heart-of-gold, which really gets him into trouble.
The late Toshiro Mifune was made for this role in Akira Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo', from 1961. Clint Eastwood played the same role as a western gunslinger in one of Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns ('For a Fistful of Dollars'?), and Bruce Willis played the role again in 'Last Man Standing'.
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