An interesting addition to a survival kit...

x39 · Jun 25, 2005

I'm a hunter safety instructor. Today we just graduated a class of twenty students, ranging in age from 10 to 60 years. As part of the course, each student is required to assemble and bring in a survival kit, to be checked by the instructors for completeness. Today I was going down the line checking kits when I got to a young fellow about 11 years old. He had the usual stuff, but he also had a very small hand held electronic game. I asked him if it were part of his kit, and he replied that it was. He told me the reason he had it in his kit was if he got lost, he'd be less frightened and less apt to panic if he had something to take his mind off the situation while he was waiting to be found. I thought that was a pretty astute observation for a kid his age.

longbow50 · Jun 26, 2005

Great thinking on his part. I got a couple of cassette tapes that I made up of my favorite music and my rucksack has a walkman and spare batts. That along with a warm fire and hot brew will keep me happy.

rayfloro · Jun 26, 2005

Photos of loved ones.....wife, dog, kids.....etc, help jog the memory of WHY you want to make it out alive....

HK2001 · Jun 26, 2005

I carry a CD player/MP3 player with 3 or 4 CDs.. about 500 songs, and my batteries for it are solar rechargable..

A decent pair of water proof headphones are a must... the player can be kept water proof in a ziploc.

StuToffee · Jun 26, 2005

I have a little Panasonic player that uses SD cards, it would almost fit into a tobacco tin kit, NEVER really used it much but gonna carry it in the field now. Hooked up to a little I-SUN solar panel.
Smart kid! I guess he'll be okay in a SHTF situation.

lumpymike1 · Jun 26, 2005

Reminds me of the scout that was lost and found in Utah. After he was found, ate and drank a bit, he wanted to play games on his resucers mobile phone.
Personally I always have some small light book on me (book nut) and a deck of cards (play way to much solitare)

crawfordew · Jun 27, 2005

lumpymike1 said:
Reminds me of the scout that was lost and found in Utah. After he was found, ate and drank a bit, he wanted to play games on his resucers mobile phone.
Personally I always have some small light book on me (book nut) and a deck of cards (play way to much solitare)

Me old grand daddy always said if you were lost the surest way to be found was to lay out a game of solitaire. He said in less than ten minutes you'd have somebody looking over your shoulder saying, "Put the red nine on the black ten." Hopefully they weren't lost too!
Gene

thatmguy · Jun 27, 2005

Call me old fashioned, but I would prefer to be able to HEAR potential rescuers, not have distant noises (or close-by animals) masked by my favorite jams.

I think headphoned toys in the field are dangerous.

Ghost93 · Jun 29, 2005

thatmguy said:
Call me old fashioned, but I would prefer to be able to HEAR potential rescuers, not have distant noises (or close-by animals) masked by my favorite jams.

I think headphoned toys in the field are dangerous.

I agree, once i was hiking in the Senca Creek, Spruce Knob backcounrty area in WV with a coupke friends. I was in the lead and saw a deer and froze looking a him, my friend walked right by into me and asked why i stopped, i then asked him to remonve his headphones, that same trip by our camp we hear a pack of wild dogs about 200 meters away moving west to east behind my families properity. When we went outside to check things out my friend was confused why we were going out in the cold, in the told him to put his muisc player in the truck.

scalesandtails · Jun 29, 2005

That isnt to bad,I once went hunting on horse back,we were crossing a wood bridge with two horses that were shoed,there were two hunters crossing the bridge at the same time,they were going the same way,they had there orange vest on,and everything,we caught up to them and said,coming by.they both about jumped out of there skin. we scared the crap out of them,I looked at my hunting buddy and we turned around and went some where else,away from these guys.We thought for sure,given the chance they would shoot are horse with us on them,thinking they were elk.They were not aware of there surroundings.