Essential parts of a BOL

[dannytsg]

Just after getting some advice from people about the essential parts of a BOL, and what you have or looked for when choosing yours.

I have a place in mind for mine where I have been over the course of my life, wild camping and it is within 0.5 miles from my home. It is a well wooded area located next to a river that swells but doesn't dry out. There are deer known to live in the area along with ducks, rabbits etc.

What ideal things would you be looking for when choosing a BOL that you do not own?

[24942895]

I have a few places in mind, primarily old wartime buildings that very few people know about and are hard to find, they are rural and have nearby water sources as well as being defendable, though the means of defense it's mostly due to concealment and advanced warning of approaching people, things would have to get pretty bad for that to become relevant.

As well as my BOB I have a Big Out Bag which has tent and a huge camouflaged tarp which would allow me to disappear into any woodland with reasonable density from anyone more than 50 or so meters away, I know of several such places within an hour or two from here with water, wildlife (fish and game) & farmland with a variety of crops (should the timing be good).

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[Steve R]

I have a wooded area nearby picked out should things ever get so bad, pretty much the same 'facilities' as you Danny, except there is a stream, river is further away.

From there I have various routes planned toward the coast, in easy increments. I have a few areas marked which I have visited and are suitable. I see avoidance being the best plan if things really get out of hand (WROL).

[poppypiesdad]

The thing is, no matter how remote , off the beaten track it is , you may find out that more than a few people are going to use the same location , so your perfect spot is busier than a kebab shop on the high at at chucking out time with less food there than a tesco value burger shelf in the freezer aisle.

Just saying

j

[badgersden]

[quote="poppypiesdad"]The thing is, no matter how remote , off the beaten track it is , you may find out that more than a few people are going to use the same location , so your perfect spot is busier than a kebab shop on the high at at chucking out time with less food there than a tesco value burger shelf in the freezer aisle.

Just saying

your exactly right,be even funnier when the owner turns up and tells you all to go away or something on those lines lol

[dannytsg]

The thing is, no matter how remote , off the beaten track it is , you may find out that more than a few people are going to use the same location , so your perfect spot is busier than a kebab shop on the high at at chucking out time with less food there than a tesco value burger shelf in the freezer aisle.

Just saying

your exactly right,be even funnier when the owner turns up and tells you all to go away or something on those lines lol

I take it that you both are advocates of bugging in?

[junmist]

Nope just realest we are a small over crowed island and you can bet your life that if you think this is a good place for a BOL someone else will think it is too. And before you ask I have about 3 BOL's in the line depending on the emergancy

[24942895]

Bugging in is always preferable to bugging out unless things get really bad.

Bugging in gives you shelter, utilities, water, sewerage, security, food & knowledge of the local area. Those points would have to be severely eroded to make bugging out preferable.

A bug out location ought to fulfill as many of those points as possible.

If your prepping is focused only on major events then you may bugging out is the only thing to do if IT happens, which is fair enough

(Those points aren't written in any particular order)

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[Plymtom]

I take it that you both are advocates of bugging in?

It's more about being a realist from my point of view, there's nowhere within stabbing distance of Plymouth (same goes for many places) which wouldn't be crowded with wanabe survivalists wandewing awaound like Elmer Fudd on crack filling one another with lead pellets and crossbow bolts, to think that the countryside will escape the WROL madness in a SHTF scenario is daft, you would need SAS type evation training to have a hope, much of England is just too densly populated, Wales, Scotland, maybe a much better chance.
A BOL a la "Doomsday Preppers" is a remote home from home in a bunker, the UK examples are more like a shed or a caravan in a field, better than nothing, miles better than a Bergen, Bivi bag and Tarp, we're just normal people here for the most part, many too long in the tooth to consider camping, never mind the survivalist route

Not that I'm knocking you guys who have a chance out there wild camping and laying low, living off the land, in the worst case scenario it is better that some make it through it, and that would be less likely to happen if we all backed the same horse.

[poppypiesdad]

The thing is, no matter how remote , off the beaten track it is , you may find out that more than a few people are going to use the same location , so your perfect spot is busier than a kebab shop on the high at at chucking out time with less food there than a tesco value burger shelf in the freezer aisle.

Just saying

your exactly right,be even funnier when the owner turns up and tells you all to go away or something on those lines lol

I take it that you both are advocates of bugging in?

Yes and No , i live in a small town , but we own 10 odd acres with a bit of woodland , on which we have just been given planning permission to build our house , so we would bug out to our own place , but ask me again in a few months and well be bugging in . but personally i'll be raiding all the empty house in the town ,becasue they will be empty as everyone will be living in the country side ..... apparently

J