Gear for around $10....

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PARKINGLOT

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Since everyone likes gear, I figured I'd start a list of gear for around $10. Stuff you could put in a survival tin, emergency kit, BOB, hiking kit, etc...

-Bic / Mini-Bic lighters - around $5 for a 4 or 5 pack
-Matches - I got a 2 pack (500) strike anywhere ones for $5 (walmart)
-Firesteel (GobSpark) - $12
-Swiss Volcano Stove (CTD) - $10
-VS-17 military signal panel (bestglide?) - $9
-Water Purifying tabs (my local surplus) - $10
-MRE's (same) - $9
-Emergency Blanket (same, 7'x4') - $2
-Swat-T Tourniquet - $10
-Titanium Spork (Snowpeak) - $9
Feel free to post up!
 
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Polar Pure (purifies much more water than tabs)
500 Petroleum Jelly Cotton Balls
100-200 feet of paracord depending on where you shop
Big spool of bank fishing line (great cordage for most tasks)
Gerber folding saw
 
Sparklite kit w/ tinders ~ $8
Fox Micro whistle ~ $5
AMK signal mirror ~ $8
AMK heatsheets ~ $4
Photon Micro light ~ $6
GSI Glacier SS cup (nests a Nalgene bottle) ~ $7
 
I would like to find a few boxes of the strike anywhere kitchen matches.
Very hard to find now.
 
Theres a few Victorinox SAKS at around $10 like the classic, Fiskars folding scissors, small Pelican box, MiniMaglite 2AA or 2AAA, magnesium fire starter, P51, P38, and lots of Coghlan's gear.
 
The best things for around $10 are firesteels, Moras, Opinels and probably the cheaper of the straw filters that is for up to 20(?) gallons.
 
u812 said:
Are you in Canada?
I don't think they can sell them in the US anymore.
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No, they can. I seem to find them just about everywhere I go.
-Hardware stores
-Walmart
-Grocery Stores

You just aren't looking hard enough!:D
 
I know they took them off the selves a few years ago.One box of kitchen strike anywhere were selling at gunshows for 6.00 a box,they were 1.00 a month or two earlier in the store.
I will keep an eye out,the only ones I have seen are strike on box.
 
My local Orscheln' S sells (3) large boxes strike anywhere's for $2.50. They are still made and sold in the US, just not everywhere.
 
Picked these up at Walmart today, all 3 for under $20!

First I'll have my thoughts upon opening them, and then later as I get to use them I will do more of review.

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First,

Packable day pack.


Pretty darn small when packed down

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Not too bad for its size, and the price of $5

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Nothing I would want to hike for days in, my should be great for throwing in my bigger pack.

Next up the pack cover,

Not my favorite color, but for the $4.88 it cost me should do just fine!

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And the 5x7 backpacker tarp as they call it.

6 grommets, which look pretty weak, but only time will tell and for the $9.98 I paid the nylon should be worth that price. At the size it is, I wouldnt be using it as my main tarp shelter, but would work great for a ground cloth or a quick shleter in day pack.

Comes with a decent stuff sack

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Skab Jr and I threw up a couple quick shelers to try it out

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All in all, so far not too bad of stuff for the price, and for someone just starting out these items would be great.

I will update as I abuse them in the field.
 
Been looking around,it seems the red and white topped matches have been replaced with a green and white top.I do remember something about the old ones could be crushed and made into something.
 
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