Best Survival Gear

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Just Machete

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Hi All,
In your opinion, which is the best survival gear that you list as first choice in any survival situations?
 
Just machete, what do you currently do? You looking to assemble some stuff or a kit? The topic is discussed from time to time over in the Great Outdoors/gear sub-forum.

Lots of variables on what gear makes sense.... climate and season of the year, terrain, a time element. Starts with a knife, fire starting materials, first aid stuff, rain gear, WATER.
 
I’d add a tarp and a survival bag. Much as we all relish the notion of hacking away at saplings to make a picturesque, comfy shelter, in reality, a bright orange survival bag weighs next to nothing, takes up a minute amount of room, and will make any shelter that much better. Same goes for a tarp.
 
Probably a Shirogorov.

When emergency services fail, nature unleashes a hurricane over an earthquake, a wild fire is raging, and ISIS coordinates a massive trans-oceanic rowboat attack, the one thing everyone will want to have is...

That flipping action.

Don’t we all want our last thought to be, “It’s so smooth! Wow!”

That’s the best I’ve got, pre-coffee.
 
This is a difficult question and the answer required is very lengthy, it could be a book. I have been working on documentation regarding survival for more than a year, covering many situations and the list is incomplete and runs for hundreds of pages.

YOU NEED TO CREATE AN INDEX TO A BOOK THE SCOUR THE INTERNET FOR ANSWERS

Now that I have a working document and am sure of what the problems are I am starting to buy things that fulfill missions within "survival." But my lists are incomplete b/c research in to any of these areas takes a lot of reading and video watching and years of knowledge.

Your best bet is to
- join many knife related forums and learn abt steels and manufacturers.
- join many survival forums and start to develop your own lists.
- follow as many knife, primitive living and survival accounts on YouTube as you can find.

Surviving what exactly?
- survival by sheltering in place vs on the move?
- the cold or heat?
- lack of water or food?
- an earthquake, civil war, tsunami, radiation, nuclear war, conventional war, political unrest, riots?

Start to buy books on
- edible plants within 1,000 miles of your home.
- bushcrafting.
- hunting, fishing, trapping with little/few weapons.

Take lessons on
- shooting, hunting, using weapons / small arms
- survival.
- camping, trapping, hunting, self defense...

Weapons?
- what weapons
- home made weapons
.
.
.
and it goes on and on.
 
Best survival gear? For any situation?

Your brain, and its ability to adapt and improvise. Everything else is secondary, and be replaced with something else.

- an acquired kitchen knife or old axe can replace the best survival knife I'd need be
- garbage bags can be taped together to form a tarp OR rain gear

Anything in your kit is replaceable. Your ability to adapt and overcome is not.
 
A couple garbage bags is a handy item. But using as a tarp is more difficult since there are no eyelets to tie a rope to. You can improvise if you have to obviously. I carry a small tarp with me on hikes that are over a couple miles each way. I need to buy a lighter tarp just to have available for this purpose. Add a little 550 cord (like 15 feet) and some jute cordage.
 
for 24 hours survival kit I would include.

large heavy duty poncho
25 feet of Paracord
Sisal twine
my favorite bushcrafting knife
fire starting kit + accelerator
2 reinforced mylar blankets
LED head light with fresh batteries
compass
mirror
whistle
pencil
stainless or titanium GI canteen or small billy pot
gorilla tape
lots of calories
 
Tommy-Chi said:
This is a difficult question and the answer required is very lengthy, it could be a book. I have been working on documentation regarding survival for more than a year, covering many situations and the list is incomplete and runs for hundreds of pages.

YOU NEED TO CREATE AN INDEX TO A BOOK THE SCOUR THE INTERNET FOR ANSWERS

Now that I have a working document and am sure of what the problems are I am starting to buy things that fulfill missions within "survival." But my lists are incomplete b/c research in to any of these areas takes a lot of reading and video watching and years of knowledge.

Your best bet is to
- join many knife related forums and learn abt steels and manufacturers.
- join many survival forums and start to develop your own lists.
- follow as many knife, primitive living and survival accounts on YouTube as you can find.

Surviving what exactly?
- survival by sheltering in place vs on the move?
- the cold or heat?
- lack of water or food?
- an earthquake, civil war, tsunami, radiation, nuclear war, conventional war, political unrest, riots?

Start to buy books on
- edible plants within 1,000 miles of your home.
- bushcrafting.
- hunting, fishing, trapping with little/few weapons.

Take lessons on
- shooting, hunting, using weapons / small arms
- survival.
- camping, trapping, hunting, self defense...

Weapons?
- what weapons
- home made weapons
.
.
.
and it goes on and on.
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That is a most well thought answer !!! Worth pinning imo.
 
SteelJunkee said:
That is a most well thought answer !!! Worth pinning imo.
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I've spent the better part of two years working on such a document and it's huge. It is still incomplete b/c I don't spend every waking second working on it. Maybe some year I'll take it upon myself to investigate all of the areas of the document to see what there is on the Internet that has been discussed.

Prepping for "everything under the sun" is not cheap.
 
People really need to maintain a decent level of physical fitnesss too. I was thinking about the Battles of Lexington and Concord. The British soldiers marched close to 40 miles round trip and saw combat in a short period of time. Many Americans today couldn’t hike 8 miles without their hearts exploding.
 
DJC72 said:
People really need to maintain a decent level of physical fitnesss too. I was thinking about the Battles of Lexington and Concord. The British soldiers marched close to 40 miles round trip and saw combat in a short period of time. Many Americans today couldn’t hike 8 miles without their hearts exploding.
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Many policeman can`t ride 2 miles of bicycle. (eye witness)
 
Tommy-Chi said:
Prepping for "everything under the sun" is not cheap.
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ohhhhhh Yeah!!!

I have always thought prepping as "Having the best chance for the situation" so it is not a real big investment, if the Earth tilt out of orbit or your nuked right on top of your head at this point "prepping" sounds like a joke. Even the toughest bunkers wont withstand that, so your better of dead even if you have a million .50 rounds or a slingshot, it wont change anything.

I just keep with the three 3.... 3 hours without shelter, 3 days without water, 3 weeks without food.
 
Knowledge and physical fitness. You can have all the 'stuff' in the world, but it is worthless if you don't know how to use it or carry it for long periods of time.
 
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