E&E giveaway contest....Good stuff here folks! WINNER ANNOUNCED!!

shotgunner11

shotgunner11

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WINNER IS JOSH K, CONGRATS!!​

OK guys, we have another contest on our hands here.

Jeff has asked Tony and I to put together a contest around one of his new Advanced RAT Survival/E&E pocket kits.

http://www.ratcutlery.com/survivalkit.htm

Now for this one, were going to use our heads. As far as I'm concerned, in an E&E situation, gear is a luxury. Your lucky to have anything left with you.

So improvisation is king.

Using what you have to accomplish a task, regardless of it's intended use. You need to be able to improvise. You might need to navigate, build a shelter, build a fire all by nonconventional means.

So thats how your going to win this contest, show us your ability to improvise. Use something you might be lucky to find while on the run to do something you would need to do.

Improvise camoflauge.

Improvise shelter.

Improvise a water filter.

Improvise an edged tool. (Can't always have a RAT on you ya know.)

Improvise a compass.

Improvise some food.

Use your head and come up with something cool, take some pictures of it and the next time you need to improvise, you might have yourself a spiffy new E&E kit.

Put your RAT knife in the pictures to enter, even if you didn't use it.

Thanks guys, looking forward to your ideas.:thumbup:
 
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OK guys. I can't help but notice that this contest just isn't getting the attention we had hoped for.

Just to fire it off a bit, I thought I would give you my example.

Improvised disguise. Blending in with the locals can be very important. You need to fit in or you'll surely stand out.

Hard to tell, but this is my youngest daughter. Imagine that she needed to blend in in, say, Sparta.

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THIS IS SPARTA!!!!!​

See, hard to tell she's not a 6'5" gladiator. She would blend right in.:D
 
Hrm...

Broken bottle or discarded cans would do in a pinch. Not sure about the heat treat though. :D

Do you want us to actually make something up around this or just hypothesize?
 
Thanks! Here's a couple more:

I started off with a standard improv cardboard sheath, and then decided to add some fabric from an old pair of jeans I had kicking around. Looks nice....ish. ;)

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Then I had the idea for what if you need to run around with you're RC-6, but don't really want to advertise the fact you're carrying a rather large knife strapped to your leg.
Take the standard sheath, cut some paracord, wrap the sheath in jean material, making cuts for the paracord, then rubber band that all together. Strap it on with the lower loop around the leg, upper ends tied on your belt. Take some scraps and add them in random places so you look like you just bought a pair of jeans from A&F or you're overpriced yuppie store of choice.

It might not hold up to a close inspection, but that's not what it's for. It's designed to break up the image of the knife so that a casual or fleeting glance won't notice it.

In a real improv situation, you could easily use a shoelace to substitute for paracord and cut some material off whatever pants you happen to be wearing.

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Went to a unnamed rock beach yesterday (among other places but I'll get to that later) and figured it was a perfect spot to try a little improv. :)
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I started off by trying to make a sharp something! A few taps from a big round rock against a thin flat one yielded some decently sharp cutting edges (as well as a needle-like shard)...but what to test them on?
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Some nearby hard-a** marine rope that was washed up served as an excellent medium. We all know how tough that stuff is--I tried cutting a little with my razor-sharp RC-3 and I still had a hard time with it! :eek: After a bit of sawing back and forth I made it through pretty ok.
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A little more scrounging yielded a decent-sized piece of sea glass...hmm...another potential sharp thing! Another few taps and I had a nearly invisible edge. Think of it as an incredibly thin single-sided-bevel hollow grind. :)
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And back to the rope! It cut better than the stone flake did, but it took longer since it was more difficult to hold. There were some other pieces of glass that would have worked better, but my lady and I decided to keep them since they looked so nice. :)
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Later I used the rope and some driftwood to make a bowdrill, and a literal drill by boring a hole in the end of the spindle and sticking the very pointy rock shard into it. Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures but it did a very good job of actually drilling a hole through the wood.
 
As for a water filter, a few days ago we were on a walk near Duck Brook Bridge and used a cotton handkerchief to filter the water from a little brook on the side of the trail. The water had already run through a lot of gravel and the like (it's a rocky granite area) so it was already pretty clean, but you can't be too sure!
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