Hi all,
Gadgetaholic, You said in your post that you
do not have a
PSK.
I hope you do not mind if tell and show some items to put in one. This is mine as I have it now.
If you have any questions let me know I will sure try to help help you out.
Here is my PSK all packed up.
I have a few of theses types of little pouchs made up. As you can see there is quite a bit of gear there to give me a pretty good start to survival if need be. With knowledge and some gear you can really make a good go of it and keep the GRIM REAPER away.
Now you all said that you were thinking of sometype of fanny pack, Ok I am not a fanny pack kind of guy I really like shoulder packs. This shoulder pack that I have and carry some gear in is about what a fanny pack would hold.
Here are the contents of it.
As you can see it holds more gear.
Now getting back to what kuruptd said. Has any one tried to go out and survive with what is in there kit. I can say NO I have not.
I do have a Job and responsibilites.
But that does not mean that I do not
Practice with what is in my PSK kit or my other kits.
If I could take off and go for a week or two or a month and just live like that. I think that would be kind of cool. When I was a kid we camped for a week or more at a time, caught fish and eat plants we made bows and arrows and hunted with them. One of my first survial books was by Larry Dean Olsen. We read and practiced from that book all the time.
I do not know you or have any idea what your skill level is. But from what you posted not having a PSK kit as of now gives me a idea. I do not mean that in a bad way So please do not take it that way. But is sounds like you are one your way to leanring and wanting to learn about this survival stuff.
Way to go man this is a great place to learn and share.
Alittle about myself, I live in the middle part of the USA In a state called Nebraska. I grew up in a rural area on a farm. I learned to hunt, fish, trap, and camp. I have been studing and pracitcing survival and bushcraft and camping skills since I was a little kid. I have camped just about every way posssible and have tried this and that. Over the years ( I am 41 this year) I have assemble some knowledge of survival and survival kits. I have camped out in winter with just the clothes on my back as if I went for a walk and got lost and had to make a camp for the night. No blankets or sleeping bags just the shoulder bag with survival goodies in it and the clothes on my back. In this pic I used a survival blanket. for my leanto type of shelter and had a fire to keep my warm. I did this survivial camp out in 2009 in Feb. Winter time here in Nebraska.
This pic is of my camp at about 3:30 am. I had to get up and go pee and so I steped out of camp and then on the return to my shleter and my winter coat I took this pic.
In this pic I did it a month later but instead of a space blanket I used a canvas tarp. Again pracitcing with different items.
That night I had my cell phone with me and service and was able to call the local time and temp. When I called it was 4:30 in the morning and it was 27 degrees.
So can it be done? yes, it is like having a sleeping bag NO lol.
Over the years of praciticing I have tried different things some worked good other did not.
You might notice in my belt survival kit there at the left side and at the bottem there is a orange thing. That is a orange AMK space blanket that is instant shelter. and Water Proof not water resitent. I also carry some Tools that are for cutting a I have a pocket knife and a small fixed blade. making shavings and then using my firesteel fire is taken care of. I also have a bag and some water purifing tablets to clean up the water that I find so I can drink. That is one of the items that I said would not last long 24 to 48 hours by that time I will have burned out some wood or found a can or bottle to set next to my fire and boil water up from a stream, I have fishing gear for fishing or hunting with and some steel leaders for snares. As you can see I have a items to make a go of it if I had to. Again I said for my area, I also study edble plants and have eaten many different ones.
I was in the Marine Corps when I was younger and got to see and travel to many different places I also got practice survival skills while there to. so I am not just saying this kit is only for my area but for most of the areas of the world I have been in think this kit would work pretty good.
If you wonder if that little fixed blade works I can say it does on the wild turkey that a nephew shot.
It cuts just fine.
Anyways Gadgetaholic, I hope this gives you some idea of what i ment when I said yes I could go out in my are and practice survival. Does having a kit mean you will live for sure? No but with some knowledge and some items it sure can make it alot easyer.
Say if money was no problem for me I would love to fly you over and show personaly what going out in my area would be like and setting up a shelter and making fire and fishing at some of the local ponds and streams that I know about. You can hardly walk 1 mile with out find a beer can or a glass bottle that could be used for boiling water and cooking in. There are more places that have old shelds and land that has no on it. Yes the land is owned by some one but many a small farm family has left or lost there farms and so there are lots of places a guy could go and pracitce survival skills.
We have one area that is about 160 acres and the only time it every get used is during the summer. We put a bout 30 head of cows and some calves on it for getting paster grass. It has a about 50 or so acres of timber and 2 springs for water and two small ponds that have more small fish and fogs in it. We deer turkey and many smaller animals. Like I said this area is not for just anyone to come on and so when hunting season starts the animals do know where to go to stay safe.
So after all this I will say again YES I think with my PSK and the clothes on my back I can make a go of it. Would I like to have my bigger pack with me Heck yes. I really like using my little hand saw and my bigger knives and my steel canteen for cooking and boiling. I would sure miss my binos I love to look through them out in nature. But with my PSK It could be done.
NOW are we talking for ever? Just going out and living like that for a year?
Probably NOT, But practicing with it my PSK is better than not.
Anyways it will be neat to see and hear what rescue riley and Tony M think.
I am looking forward to hearing about there adventure with just using there PSKs.
Take care.
Bryan
, but before panic sets in and you do something really stupid, you remember you have that little kit which may help you
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) confidence, which in turn reduces my fear. I will also agree that skills are at least as important as that little tin.
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