Setting Up A Carry Bag

[Talyn]

Mindset Of A Carry Bag​

The purpose of a a messenger-style carry bag would be to carry the bare essentials you will need to either heal yourself or protect yourself.

When starting to use a carry bag as a regular item, it’s important to remember the key idea that carry bags are all about finding a balance. Finding that perfect balance of having what you need without making the bag so heavy it’s difficult to carry around daily.

Concealed Carry Corner: Setting Up A Carry Bag

Welcome back to another edition of Concealed Carry Corner.Last week, we discussed some of the most popular carry positions and what works best for people.If you happened to miss that article last week, be sure to click the link here to check it out.

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[UC_Guy 1971]

I think, after reading this, that I will be putting together an enhancer(?) type of bag. Something to carry extra items for times when you want a little more but don't want to lug it all on your belt or in your pockets.... an off-duty go bag. Maybe something to compliment a too big GHB.

YAY! Project! Now I have to start this by ordering mags

 

[HayesGreener]

Many years ago I worked with an officer who worked off duty as a store detective. He carried his gun, handcuffs, speedloader, radio, a sandwich, and a Big Tex sap in a shopping bag from the store. We kidded him about looking like Ruth Buzzi from Laugh In. He was good natured about that like everything else. Larry was killed by a drunk driver while pulling out of the PD parking lot to go in service on the midnight watch.

 

[Sld1959]

More...Building a Bug Out or Get Home Bag

perspectives from Uncle Zo. It’s a never ending process based on principles and calls for rigorous repeated testing and practice in going about putting together a get home or bug out bag. https://unclezo.com/2024/10/07/building-a-bug-out-or-get-home-bag/?

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[The Night Rider]

When I was working I carried a Go Bag with me to work everyday. I mostly carried extra pens, an extra note book, a battery pack for my phone, Charging cable for my phone. Winter Gloves, Beanie hat, rain coat and the like.

I have my get home bag that I used to carry hiking and every time I leave town in the car it's in the car with me but I'm not walking around Colorado Springs with that thing on my back all day.

When I worked at FedEx (for Allied) they moved out of the building at the end of my first year. At some point after they moved out they had a cleaning crew come in and go through the building and picked up all of the trash that the FedEx employees left behind and threw it in a dumpster.

One of the things that got thrown away and was sitting on top of the pile was a 26 L Embark Jar Top Day Pack.

This one was pretty close to what I had except for mine was black and the inside bright yellow.

I'm not sure how good a quality Embark is I've never heard of it before but for the price I paid for it it was damn good backpack.

I kept my work coat in it. I hated that Allied coat and I never wore it unless the Field Supervisor showed up and made me put it on. I kept a raincoat in it, I kept a bunch of extra pens and pencils in it and I think two small notebooks. I think I carried an extra pair of socks in it and an extra pair of underwear. I also had a set of waffle tops in it

Because, true story, it does that in June in Colorado.

I basically carried anything in there that I thought I might need at work and especially if my relief didn't show up and I had to stay for a double shift.

Actually kind of made out when FedEx left. Every night the first thing I did was walk through the loading dock to make sure there was nobody out there because you couldn't lock the doors to the loading dock and the main reason I was there was to keep on the squatters out of the building. Anyway, I found six or eight pairs of these gloves laying on the floor most of them fit me so I took them home. I found a pair of Wells Lamont Thinsulate Gloves, I found 2 travel mugs that my wife still uses.

But now that I'm no longer working I really have no need of those things. I've said this a bunch of times before, I generally wear Wrangler cargo pants and a camp shirt and the things that I carry with me on a daily basis is enough to fill that and I don't really have anything else that I carry.