Besides SAKs, FAKs, BOBs, EDCs, PSKs, FSKs and CCWs what else do you try to work in?

hushnel

hushnel

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Ok, so we all carry SAKs and FAKs, stash BOB in strategic places, various EDCs and PSKs along with assorted axes, hatchets, rope, FSK (is that one?:) ) space blankets and etc. Man you guys and these acronyms, I’m still trying to figure out a few. All depending on the terrain, climate and duration but what non-specific to survival stuff do you manage to work into your kits.

Though not an everyday carry item I have to admit that I rarely go anywhere without a UKE and camera.
 
I keep a dradle dice game and a set of eight sided poker dice in my kit. :o;)
 
I imagine a flask of hootch would average high on the lists and even EDC for a few :)

Music is importaint to me, with a good sharp knife and a couple of other tools I made this one out of a gourd.

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If I could i would like to learn to play the harmonica.
I can't sing worth a darn but I can whisle pretty good and carry a tune. But I would still like to add a harmonica to my list of goodies. Then my pack would weigh in a 10.75 pounds LOL
 
That little getar is cool. Great job man.
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Thanks, it's very light too, the first one I linked is plastic with a plywood top, almost indistructable as far as exposure to the outdoors and sounds great.

Harmonica is a great choice, inexpensive and compact. I have a very small Native American flute that packs easily too. Some how this type flute sounds amazing out in the wild.
 
I always like having an ipod around.. helps the moral when the wifes around, she's not as much of an outdoors enthusiast as I am and the occasional flask of JD.

I've been thinking of taking some guitar lessons, or getting guitarpro.. that too would be something I'd like to bring along.
 
You know hushnel I like the thought of the little flute too. Music teachers are few and far between here. so I am suck with whisleing LOL

Bryan
 
Bryan, the Native American Flute is an instrument anybody can play, not that it is a simple instrument but it is first off a whistle, unlike a French Flute which makes it's sound simular to blowing across the top of a Coke bottle. Secondly there are no two notes that will not go together, it is not chromatic, you can't play it with other instruments at the beginner level but you can play it and it sounds good. You can easily invent melodies on the fly. I'm serious about the ease in which it can be played.

There are a group of instrument that are like this the dulcimer is one, they take out the frets that can get you into trouble, the strumstick is based on the dulcimer there are no wrong notes, the hardest part is in tuning it.
 
hushnel said:
Bryan, the Native American Flute is an instrument anybody can play, not that it is a simple instrument but it is first off a whistle, unlike a French Flute which makes it's sound simular to blowing across the top of a Coke bottle. Secondly there are no two notes that will not go together, it is not chromatic, you can't play it with other instruments at the beginner level but you can play it and it sounds good. You can easily invent melodies on the fly. I'm serious about the ease in which it can be played.

There are a group of instrument that are like this the dulcimer is one, they take out the frets that can get you into trouble, the strumstick is based on the dulcimer there are no wrong notes, the hardest part is in tuning it.
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I'd like to learn more about this. I want to learn the harmonica too.
 
sicily02 said:
If I could i would like to learn to play the harmonica.
I can't sing worth a darn but I can whisle pretty good and carry a tune. But I would still like to add a harmonica to my list of goodies. Then my pack would weigh in a 10.75 pounds LOL
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My grandfather could play pretty well and carried a Hohner with him all the time, all kidding aside, I would like to learn.
 
I like to bring some comfort items as well. I've got a small crank radio that also picks up weather alerts that I will often bring with me. Good for music and a couple of times the weather alerts have let me know I need to fortify camp.

A flask of some scotch will often come along as well, in the winter I like a bota bag of spiced wine.

A book often comes along as well. I like Hemingway for reading when I'm out in the wild. Nothing was cooler than canoeing the Two Hearted and reading Hemmingway's work about a trip he made down the same river.

Don't know if it qualifies, but I love to bring my dog along too whenever possible. He never quite got the hang of riding in a canoe (always wants to jump out of it and swim, thereby tipping it) but he loves being in the woods and I like the companionship if there's no other people with me. He sleeps fine in the tent as long as I make sure he is good and tired by the time we go to bed. I also keep a firesteel and striker with a capsule of PJCBs on his collar whenever we go out, just in case.

I've been thinking about picking up a harmonica and learning to play it too. Seems pretty popular around here.
 
Another vote for the Harmonica here. I have been trying to learn it now for about 10 months and can play a few songs decently well and Riff it up like nobodys biz. Going to take it on campouts this season. Try it its pretty easy to pick up and I suck at music.
 
The harmonica is the easiest instrument to be really bad at.
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Now now formerly known as GibsonFan :) lets not rekindle memories of jams and open mics gone bad. If any instrument was made for the backpack and to play around a camp fire it's got to be the harmonica. It's the wanking blues guys in the wrong key that make it the scourge of the open mic. Besides I would reserve that position for an instrument like the fiddle or banjo :)

A good dog is always an asset and can carry their own. After all they've been following our camps since before we settled into agriculture and society.
 
Always a dog and that's not an acronym before ya ask ! LOL !!!

A dog during good times....

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And during not so good.....

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Oh yeah and being an ex-brit a flask of tea is a must !!!

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hushnel said:
Ok, so we all carry SAKs and FAKs, stash BOB in strategic places, various EDCs and PSKs along with assorted axes, hatchets, rope, FSK (is that one?:) ) space blankets and etc. Man you guys and these acronyms, I’m still trying to figure out a few. All depending on the terrain, climate and duration but what non-specific to survival stuff do you manage to work into your kits.

Though not an everyday carry item I have to admit that I rarely go anywhere without a UKE and camera.
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I have an SOD! It's chopping sound is music to my ears.
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