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What sort of contents do you keep in your mk vii bag?

Compass, thermometer, extra poppers and a fall, Map Room brush from P.B.G. and lint.

I use my MK VII an a every day basis and normaly carry my

- wallet
- filofax
- mobile
- sunglasses
- small umbrella
- mp3 player
- and some other small stuff as needed

in it.

Mine also gets daily use.

Nikon D80 w/ 18-200VR Lens
Nikon SB-600 Flash
Pen
Moleskine notebook
(at times) iPod

- John

Depends on what's going on.

Usually a flashlight, moleskine notebook and "space pen", a knife of some sort, a "housewife" type kit for emergency repairs or clean-up, small 1st aid kit, cellulose towel, packets of raisins, cup-a-soup, sesame snaps or other snacks/emergency rations, a bottle of water, compass...

Sometimes a Space Blanket, ESBIT stove & fuel, sierra cup... for when I'm out in the woods.

Maps, ASP baton, pepper spray/bear spray..., for urban environments.

Whatever I need that day - it's me "man purse"

Demaroth wrote:Mine also gets daily use.

Nikon D80 w/ 18-200VR Lens
Nikon SB-600 Flash
Pen
Moleskine notebook
(at times) iPod

- John

Funny I have a similar load in one of my MK's
Nikon D40 with 70-300 lens
pens and sharpies
note pad
extra batteries and memroy
sometimes my creative Zen mp3 player.

In my other MK
LED converted maglight
compass and GPS
usually a trowel
shemagh
pocket knife
multi tool
watterprrof tube with matches
notebook
pens and sharpie
an old magnifying hand glass
a few empty sample bags
usually a water bottle will get stuffed in there also
and when need be a walkie talkie.

rebelgtp wrote: Funny I have a similar load in one of my MK's
Nikon D40 with 70-300 lens
pens and sharpies
note pad
extra batteries and memroy
sometimes my creative Zen mp3 player.

It's kinda creepy how they're better camera bags than 99% of the ACTUAL camera bags out there, huh?

- John

Demaroth wrote:

rebelgtp wrote: Funny I have a similar load in one of my MK's
Nikon D40 with 70-300 lens
pens and sharpies
note pad
extra batteries and memroy
sometimes my creative Zen mp3 player.

It's kinda creepy how they're better camera bags than 99% of the ACTUAL camera bags out there, huh?

- John

The man speaks the truth.

Photoss wrote:

Demaroth wrote:

rebelgtp wrote: Funny I have a similar load in one of my MK's
Nikon D40 with 70-300 lens
pens and sharpies
note pad
extra batteries and memroy
sometimes my creative Zen mp3 player.

It's kinda creepy how they're better camera bags than 99% of the ACTUAL camera bags out there, huh?

- John

The man speaks the truth.

Yep this is very true. Then my big camera bag is one of those german alpine packs that has a insert i made for it to hold everything in place.

Digital camera, spare battery and memory card.
Compass.
Sunglasses or regular glasses.
Pen and note pad.
Phone.
Altoids.
Pocket Knife.
Mini Maglite.
Lotto ticket.
Lighter.

Cellular Phone
Wallet
Car Keys
Digital Camera
Switch Blade
Anything else I feel the need to take at the time

Dave

I keep a pocket knife, a multi tool, a wall charger for my smartphone, whatever reading material I am looking at at the moment, orbitz whiting gum & a few spare bucks hidden away in a secrect popcket I sewed into my magnoli bag...

This is not funny. This is my fourth attempt at trying to reply to this post. I get so far and then the entire text disappears. Does anyone know why this is happening?

well thats a weird thing to keep in your bag Indiana MarkVII


- and nobody else keeps hearts from human sacrifices in there? - surely there is someone else!

Hang on, i'll check.

...Nope. No hearts.


I've got the bag on now and all that's in it are:

Wallet
Keys
Phone
Supanova convention tickets
and some random receipt.

Pretty boring, then again I use it every day.

Swiss army knife
Mini maglite
Small notebook of lined paper
Pen
Towel*
Camera
Extra battery for camera
Emergency bread and/or cheese
Extra magazine of .45 ACP

* "A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with."

stealthboy wrote: * "A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with."

QFT.

Although I keep a full towel in my trunk, I neglected to mention that I have a smaller kitchen-sized towel folded in the bottom of mine, to keep my DSLR from getting scratched on the "vents" in the bottom of my MKVII.

See how handy towels are?

- John

Normally: wallet, phone, camera, notebook, pen, pencil, water bottle, granola bars, wet-naps and emergency TP.

Also sometimes diapers, formula bottle, small baby blanket/towel. It's pretty handy when traveling with two little girls and a baby boy.

I usually carry...

Mini-MagLite
Moleskin notebook and pencil
Military canteen
Wind & waterproof matches
Compass
Eye glasses
Black crayon (for rubbings)

- Indy gloves
- Second Indy pistol that will soon have a new holster
- Leather parts for my new Indy S&W leather
- Multiple latex Indy chin scars

mole skin
pencil
poppers
pocket knife
gloves
coin
hanky

Mine is about the same as the rest:

Indy gloves
Wallet (my back feels ten times better since I started doing this)
Phone
Keys
Notebook and pencil
Tissues

And then I seem to differ here:
Small container of Gold Fish Crackers
Wipes
2 Diapers
Juice bottle

What can I say. The trials of a stay at home dad.

OK, I'll try again. I use mine daily and it holds a ton of stuff. A 0.5 liter water bottle, cloth tape measure for when I need to order yet another hat, an AA MiniMag flashlight, a pair of reading glasses in a slim case, a blank Indy red spined notebook with my passport secured to it with a rubber band (anyone know where I can get a black band?), a toothbrush and toothpaste, and a tube of sunscreen, some skin lotion (cuz it gets so dry here in Arizona), a photo wallet of my kids in their youth, some US coins and Euros clanking on the bottom, a set of noise reduction ear plugs for use out at the range, and a #2 pencil, a book of stamps, my checkbook that rarely gets used (so I know where to find it), a permanent marker and some highlighters for use in my Franklin Planner, a credit card holder that also holds a COW Challenge Coin, small bottle of eye allergy drops, a package of tissues, a small bottle of instant hand sanitizer, the key ring with the non-priority keys I don't want riding in my pants pocket, and a pill case with a one days' supply of my prescription medications. Hopefully this will stick this time.

gosh, we had this question some years ago aswell. Much has changed by now so at this moment... my bag... is... empty.
When I'll use it I'll put in my smokes, a lighter, a little bottle of AA-drink probably, my notebook, a pencil, a reserve pencil and that's about it I think... ah, oh yeah.. a pack of bubblegum too.

Has anybody tried to fit a laptop computer in their bag by undoing some of the stitched compartments?.........If so, is it safe enough even though there's no padding?

PSBIndy wrote:Has anybody tried to fit a laptop computer in their bag by undoing some of the stitched compartments?.........If so, is it safe enough even though there's no padding?

euhm... I won't do that if I were you... it's not made for a laptop and I don't think it will fit. Maybe a pocketbook from Apple? Or what are those things called anyway?

Doctor_Jones wrote:

PSBIndy wrote:Has anybody tried to fit a laptop computer in their bag by undoing some of the stitched compartments?.........If so, is it safe enough even though there's no padding?

euhm... I won't do that if I were you... it's not made for a laptop and I don't think it will fit. Maybe a pocketbook from Apple? Or what are those things called anyway?

It would be cool, though, if somebody did make a large Mark VII-style bag (with padding) for a laptop. I would buy that in a second!

Altoid kit
SOG multitool
Inova X1
emergency poncho
space blanket
550 cord
paperback novel
plastic flask

Key's
Mp3 player
camera
notes
pencils
deoderant

Wallet, Moleskine -Notebook + Calendar, Swiss Champ Timekeeper SAK, Ear Plugs, Pen, Matches, Lucky Charm LED Zippo, Sony Ericsson Z770i, iPOD Nano 1st gen, ... Basically.

Oh, and some general junk.

The compass is in my PRG80T Casio and the Nikon D70 in a padded camera bag as I don't dare bring it in a non-padded gas mask bag, yet.

Yes, I'm a gadget nerd too!

Regards,
Swindiana

One of my MKVIIs holds my bible, a notebook, and a couple of pencils. My other, a couple of small books, some notes, and reference materials.

But, I've been thinking. What items would you have to carry in your MKVII before it would be considered a purse? I purposely avoid carrying certain items to avoid the comparison.

Uhm... Lipstick?

As a matter of fact, I've already carried nail polish in it in order to tighten a couple of "bolts" on my bike.

Regards,
Swindiana

Swindiana wrote: The compass is in my PRG80T Casio and the Nikon D70 in a padded camera bag as I don't dare bring it in a non-padded gas mask bag, yet.

I felt the same; I got around this by using a smaller-sized kitchen towel, folded into thirds length-wise to pad the bottom for me. It gives a good couple inches and has worked wonderfully. I'm trying to find another way to do this permanently, but I think I'll buy a new bag from WPG or something, and then take it somewhere to get it professionally done.

- John