a disaster has struck!!!

[TheDaddy187]

well cash would make good tinder...

maybe in large amounts you can ball it up and use to insulate your clothing...

coins i guess could be shaped on a rock into arrow heads...

no other things i can see cash being helpful in this situation...

 

[JAG009]

A brick ...................................... to smash the window of the nearest gun and knife shop

 

[Clouston98]

I don't have a survival kit But if I had to chose one thing it would be my recently received custom tomahawk from Dave Budd. I chose the specs I wanted and so on so naturally it suits me great. Because the head can come of the handle it would make smalls tasks such as food prep, feathersticks or what not much easier. Because the handle isn't wedged it would be much easier to replace if it ever broke. Other than that it would most likely be my Rob Evans Bushtool as that knife suits me great for many tasks and is always with me when I'm out but the hawk has the extra power for chopping wood/boughs etc If I needed to build a shelter. Here are some photos of the hawk (taken in poor light sorry):

To an extent this is hypothetical as it is with my other gear in my bag like tarp etc so I would grab the lot of it and that what I always take but if I was to chose only one it would most likely be the hawk .

 

[British Red]

I'm already in the countryside and have nearly everything I need. So I'll grab a petrol tanker . We could manage pretty well, but more petrol for the chainsaws, rotovators etc. would surely ease the workload a little

 

[sunndog]

I like that cameron. Off the top of my head i don't think I'v ever seen a bearded hawk quite like that before

Looks a good length of haft on it too

 

[Clouston98]

I like that cameron. Off the top of my head i don't think I'v ever seen a bearded hawk quite like that before

Cheers! It's different to most and it's a lovely bit of kit, beard is handy for carving too

Edit: yeah the haft is 22 inches and e head is 440 grams so it's a long handle to head weight ratio I guess and I've really grown to like axes that way. On a side note with it being a hawk I could make different handles of varying length and change them depending on what I'm doing with it

 

[mountainm]

Let's face it. A fair few of us would have to grab our medication.

 

[JAG009]

Let's face it. A fair few of us would have to grab our medication.

Yeh ! Scotch whisky

 

[Stevie777]

If chtf the first place i'm heading will be the Chemist, While everyone else is in Tesco and ASDA battering lumps out of each other like it's black friday over the last Loaf, I'll be taking every antibiotic, Insulin and various other essential drugs i can get my hands on. It doesn't matter how well stocked your larder is. If you have a family member who needs meds you will trade everything you have for a 14 day course of whatever just to keep them alive and that's where i come in.

I'll also nip into Poundland and take all the lighters i can carry. People with lesser skills would kill and probably have done for a way to achieve fire.

After that i will head back home for the Bug out bag.

 

[Damascus]

As Arnie wanted, a Plasma rifle in the 40watt range, can I keep the telescopic sights!

 

[British Red]

Just what you see pal!

 

[sunndog]

it's a long handle to head weight ratio I guess and I've really grown to like axes that way.

longer haft lighter head is the thinking man's axe choice

 

[TheDaddy187]

well i would take my trailhawk

i have sharpened it to a razor edge and the head is removable therefore making it a tool for cutting lumber to fashion into a shelter, able to make stakes, cutting parts for deadfall traps or simmilarly effective traps/snares...

i can then remove the head to use as a knife to process anything i have caught...

i would find flint and use the hammer end at the back to make sparks... teamed up with feather sticks or horse hoof fungus to make fire...

it would also be a decent weapon to fend off any walking dead at a reasonable distance... away from teeth

it can easily be sharpened on a flat stone and if the handle ever breaks, i can make one in the scrubs easily using just the head to make it

i can use it to strip birch bark for either kindling or in thicker strips to make a waterproof roof for my shelter... or flat surface for my bed

 

[santaman2000]

Let's face it. A fair few of us would have to grab our medication.

It's not often we agree, but this is one of those times.

 

[mountainm]

It's not often we agree, but this is one of those times.

There should be some sort of celebration!

 

[Andy BB]

A large knife (khukri/survival tool) so that I can make a quarterstaff and use it to steal from those less-well armed.....

 

[demographic]

As much as I like the hills...remind me why I am heading for them now?

Is there more food there than here?

 

[TheDaddy187]

it is your only chance of survival... staying behind will result in capture/death

 

[sandbender]

I'm already in the countryside and have nearly everything I need. So I'll grab a petrol tanker . We could manage pretty well, but more petrol for the chainsaws, rotovators etc. would surely ease the workload a little

I used to get on well with the chap who delivered the heating oil to my place in Scotland, all of these vehicles oil and petrol are fitted with tracking systems, sometimes multiples thereof, so if as the OP has suggested Urban areas are under the control of an invading force or martial law it is likely that the tracking systems are in the hands of the 'enemy'.

So, i'd suggest having an old bedford truck filled with bowsers (something owned communally with your neighbours), rendezvous with the petrol truck some distance from home and drain as much as you can before hoofing it.

As to the OP's question.

I'd take my leatherman. All the other tools I'd need I can pick up as I walk or drive out of the city.

 

[demographic]

it is your only chance of survival... staying behind will result in capture/death

I'm one of those people who has to question everything (maybe you've noticed) and make up my own mind, what's happened and why am I legging it away like a big jessie?

But, If I absolutely had to go off somewhere at a moments notice, I would be driving my shelter/means of making a living/van when I do it.

Captured/killed is mostly fantasyland round these parts and I'm no prepper.