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[texastonydobbs]

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Must Be a Gold member or Higher & have RP# participate !

I want to see your Vehicle kit,contents and you using your kit. whether building a solo shelter(quality counts)making cordage,carving camp tools .Using your Truck/Car kit to it's full potential as if you were Stranded for a few days until help arrives (no cell signal ).
Good pics,detail description, no previous seen pics..all fresh content.
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[otis williams]

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[Mistwalker]

I don't really have a truck "kit" yet. I do usually have my back pack with me...

However knowing how things can go wrong, sometimes terribly wrong...I keep some items stored in the truck at all times also. I hope to consolidate them into a small pack soon...I'm thinking the ESEE pack when I can afford one...I want one that will fit in the cubby hole of my rear door but I haven't liked any I found locally or any I've seen other than the ESEE pack I looked at at Blade, and wish I could have bought. For now the items are scattered between two cubby holes in my doors and my console.

Together the items are a a Heat Sheet, a light powerful small light, one of my ESEE fire-starters, my RC-4S, a boonie cap, two pairs of safety glasses (yellow ones for night use), a bandanna, my coffee cup, two small fishing kits (still working on these), my Izula, The titanium nanostriker that stays on my key chain, a P-51 can opener, a small bar of magnesium, a few pieces of fatwood.

This is one of the fishing kits I'm working on, but not the one I used today. Today I just some line and a small hook from the other kit.

This is where I was at today...a dirt and gravel road out away from everything. It was reeeeally hot today with a temp of 97 and a heat index of 102 if I heard the disc jockey right. You can see all the clouds from all the moisture being sucked from the ground, river, creeks, and me I think. I know it sure was nice whenever one of those clouds would pass between me and the sun.

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[Mistwalker]

If I had been stranded in the middle of nowhere the heat sheet would have been good for making a marker visible from the air. Yes I'm using an older one I have.

As it was I used it to create a shady spot where I could stay near the truck without the green-house effect as i would if I were in the middle of nowhere. The amount of heat being reflected by the blanket was amazing. When I stood in front of it to take the one picture I felt like I had just stepped in front of a radiant heater...and the temp was already in the mid 90's. I have got to remember to try this thing as a reflector this winter. There was definitely a big difference in temperature under the blanket

Right off the bat I found some wild edibles in the area. I ate some Blackberries, I could have used to bandanna, the hat, or the cup to collect some if I wished.

I also found wild carrots, and used the RC-4S to whittle a digging stick.

I was also near a water course...as luck would have it. Hard not to be near one here really.

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[Mistwalker]

I did have the guyot with me today...on days like today I have to make sure I stay hydrated. However I went about this scenario for the most part as if I didn't. I guess some of you are wondering how much good my coffee cup could do me in this situation...maybe more than some of you think. It works somewhat like my guyot and cup, or canteen and cup. And I can use it to both improvise a filter and to boil water in if needs be.

I used the same stick I dug up the carrots with to improvise a "fishing pole" to make sure I didn't get cut by the spiderwire. I used some old crackers I had in the truck as bait.

The way I used the crackers for bait was to wet them and form them into a dough.

And it worked pretty good too. I turned those old stale crackers into some usable protein...though I really didn't like the idea of being near a fire long enough to cook them today.

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[Mistwalker]

In the end, just to prove I really am nuts...err, I mean just to show that I could do it if I really needed to purify the water or to cook the fish, I started a small sustained fire...barely sustained in this heat. For this I chose a piece of fatwood I found as tinder and used the Izula to both prep the fatwood and spark the ESEE fire-starter. Even with the showers we have had the last couple of days fire was easily achieved.

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[texastonydobbs]

667 views and only 1 person entered ? easy winner ,Mist PM me your address and I'll ship you an ESEE product !