Cut body weight. You may not have control over the gear you carry, but you do have control over your fitness

A sure fire way to cutting down weight is to leave the wife behind! 😂

I'd say caches along the way to your bugout location is ideal, that way you can start off with minimum gear and pick up your supplies at your cache points to restock on the various items required, or add gear that you'll only need at a later stage compared to having to haul everything from the get go 🤔

How about bugging in instead? For me bugging out is a last option. I believe in a bug out system with multiple kits but if we had to only take the things we need to survive. Having a family with small children could be a death sentence for them and the only reason you would leave your house is because your life is more in danger at home. Finding like minded people and people you can trust will help your family survive. If we had to go we move as a group and everybody is ready for what’s to come. Being ready mentally, physically, and spiritually.🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Certain items actually come in very small, lightweight, travel sized variants such as with hygiene products.

regular cache points to resupply?

Use cargo pants pockets, carry pouches attached to belt and use a molle backpack in order to attach small pouches. Redistribute the weight.

Watch an ultralight backpacking video for every bug out video you watch

Pack the right stuff and don't over due it. Know how to multipurpose things you have

Carry a smaller pack and in this case half the size of your regular pack and to stay fully supplied have multiple caches in you area of operation.

Comfort items. You don’t have to be comfortable, you just have to stay alive.

Bury a few stashes along your route

Cache points.

The more skills and experience you have the less gear you need.

Get someone else to carry the other half?

I probably would bring this up, as a martial artist, but if you train in your gear and add a weighted vest to it without the weighted vest you will feel way lighter. Might be a bonehead answer but figure I'd enter it into the conversation

Instead of carrying a lot of things use half of those things but know how to adapt to your surrounding and use things from your area for alternatives

Salt instead of food , multi tool items, mini items

Consider using something like a Ranger Vest where you can transfer some of your gear (fire making, water treatment, repair, IFAK...) from your pack to your vest so that it will lighten the pack on your back & redistribute the weight to the front of the vest. This might also help to keep the most important gear closer & readily accessible to you. If you're wearing cargo pants you can use those pockets to carry even more gear thereby leaving your pack to mostly carry your sleep system, shelter, spare clothes & water

Do a lot of small things to make a big thing something I would change about my dad’s bug out bag is that he has his holster for his 9 mm handgun on the bag which it would be smarter to put it on your belt because you can access it faster and it will take away weight from the bag . Also, I suggest getting even a fake armored vest just for the storage on your chest for things like ammunition so you can have more space for other things in your bag. Also wear cargo pants for all the little pockets.

Titanium items, bushcrafting tools instead of chairs and tables. Multi use items. And collapseable water containers. That could help.

It doesn't really matter what the storage weight of your bug out kit is. However, you do need to minimize what you need. Once deployed, you should empty your kit and spread it out over your body. Weapons and tools can be put in pockets, connected to the outside of your kit, and your belt. Spreading out your essential tools, will get them out of your pack, allowing for more cargo space for food and other supplies

Knowledge is the best survival skill

do not pack water..rather have waterfilter straws..also have buried cache where you are going..

Pick a lighter weight bag 🎒

Simple carry small bag with your main cmruck hidden near the operating area

Only carry what you need.

Preposition supplies in anticipated AO.

Stop watching videos and go spend time actually living in the wilds. Learn to minimize your need for ammunition, by --increasing situational awareness --learning to live stealthily --learning to hunt effectively, especially with primitive weapons --be a scarce and hard target Reduce the need for food, by maximizing the use of wild food sources. Reduce the need for cash by wildcrafting as much as possible. Learn to scrounge and re-purpose. Mend your clothing. Remember that your "bug-out" kit is simply a crutch to help you adapt to nature. It buys some time. Use it up, wear it out, make it do, and do without. Adapt.

The best way to cut the weight of a bug out bag is to use the same survival techniques that native Americans used before the white man came to America

The backpack itself.

Easy use your items in your bag

Take out the frame of the pak

Cache, Cache, Cash

Plant cashes everywhere you may be going

Become skilled on hunting trapping tracking learning what plants you can and can not eat how to build and start multiple different style fires and shelters learn how to utilize Bush crafting learning how to craft spears knifes bows like our first ancestors did learn how to utilize your surroundings know your area and the activities of animals and humans for the area your in

Knowledge

Cache points leading to multiple bug out locations.

CACHE'S of kit along your chose escape route..

Spread gear between the unit you are traveling with

Id say get a friend to come with you. Split up some supplies with them and yourself. 4 hands is more than 2 :)

Caches can help as well

Multipurpose items instead of dedicated items

Keep in your jeep

Caching

Its pretty much impossible to cut weight without losing capabilities, get fit. Depending on the scenario i might leave gear on my car.

Knowledge.

Survival caches along your bug out route

CACHE CACHE CACHE!

Caches to restock along you travels

Hire a Sherpa to carry your heavy gear. 😅

Partner

Lock pics with those you can get into places and acquire all the gear you need

Arrange storage locations even if it's just a friend's house along your route and then have the hidden cash or buried cashe. Conceptually and logistically it's the same thing but if you have stuff stored at a place then you can arrange to have perishable items and you can change about your equipment or clean and reload your firearms and refresh canteen or bladder bag. Now that's my answer but I would try to bug out on a bicycle and have a small cart attached to the bicycle that i could pull by hand and if necessary it can be abandoned.

cache's

Bugout chaches are the answer

Survival cache

don't take tarp or other stuff like that, I'm going to use Helikon poncho instead of that.

TRAINING. If you have the knowhow, you will not need most modern day gadgets that substitute for skill.

Having Cachets

Ounces equals pounds

caches

Make caches...

Cashes

Learn primitive survival skills. Allows for less tools needed.

Caches buried in random forested areas.

Simpe Dont Carry more than 1 or 2 of the same item and otherwise put in light weight food like ramen and so one thats where some preppers are making the mistake but water is also something to find in the Forest and in the nature so also stuf you can Easy find in nature dont put it in !!! Then

Shelter

Cashes!

Leave the heavy gun, belt, holster, and ammo behind. You will be able to move faster, longer, and get away sooner.

knowledge and practice

Enhance your bushcraft skills so you’re only carrying the actual bear essentials; survival knife, ammo, food, water. Even possibly trading out food & water for other items which are environment specific (e.g. respirator)

Bring you daddy and mommy they will take care you everything.

Caches

Amount of water... rather carry good salts / or purified stuff?

Cache system

Having stashes

Bury stache at various locations

Water

Improve your marksmanship, cut body weight start bringing sweet treats to your liberal friends to fatten them up and memorize the recipe to Soilent Green

Water Filtration

CACHE

Training

Gain skills/learn how to use one tool multiple ways

Stashes.

Your tent.

Cache

Carry the right gun and ammo...no supplies needed. 😊

Knowledge.

Caches

Water

Knowledge.

Caches

Caches