I dont like little survival kits.

[Don Rearic]

The only thing we have a problem about is the way that you dump on people. It's not just hollow handle knives and the whole ludicrous rambo thing, it's other knives as well.

Other than that, I have oftentimes read many things that you have written that I agree with. I have not, for example, resorted to cyberpsychoanalyzing you as being "paranoid" or calling you the little boy equivalent of your real name - primarily because you don't use your real name.

Lighten up, stick your Busse in a Budweiser and see if you can turn it into Guiness or something.

 

[akennedy73]

I agree with shipwreck on this one - given a choice I'd take a tarp, metal cup, firestarter and knife over the contents of your average doug ritter-style psk. When your leg's broke, the temp starts dropping, and a cold rain is coming down - a tarp comes in real handy.
In general there probably is too much focus on PSK contents - who puts as much thought and consideration into their first aid kit (or skills)?
I still carry a PSK but I consider my tarp, metal cup, firestarter, cordage and knife to be what is actually going to help me survive. Some items in a PSK are invaluable like water purification tabs, compass, whistle, mirror, duct tape. But snare wire and fish hooks don't help when hypothermia sets in...

 

[skammer]

The only thing we have a problem about is the way that you dump on people. It's not just hollow handle knives and the whole ludicrous rambo thing, it's other knives as well.

Other than that, I have oftentimes read many things that you have written that I agree with. I have not, for example, resorted to cyberpsychoanalyzing you as being "paranoid" or calling you the little boy equivalent of your real name - primarily because you don't use your real name.

Lighten up, stick your Busse in a Budweiser and see if you can turn it into Guiness or something.

Look Don. I feel as strong about my blade opinions as you do about yours. People either agree or disagree and call me on it. The difference is most dont get offended personally by the straight and matter of fact way i talk.

I think I have something to offer this forum as I think you do. I just dont take s hit personally and dont attack on a personal level. I do argue merrits but never the person.

If they didnt cost a farm I'd send you my Busse to abuse. You absolutely have to try one of these friggin blades and pound it senseless and then shave arm hair with it. Its one of those things people dont get till they try it.
I hate the BS Knobs on the Busse forum here that never pounded a blade and make a living suckering in buyers at a tidy profit after market.

It doesnt mean they dont have a superior product though.

Skam

 

[Midnight Scout]

Getting to this thread a litle late, but here is my $.02...

I used to have one kit that was like the one Shipwreck proposes; it had all the necessary full sized items in it. Now, I have several kits.

I keep a PSK with me whenever I step into the woods. It is in my pocket and if I take off my pack I still have something to help me if I get lost or stranded without my pack. I have a medium kit too that I keep in my CamelBak Ambush. In my pack is my full sized kit with metal cup, a GI poncho, etc. In the car, I keep in the back a kit with even larger items in case I am stranded on the side of the road.

A few years ago I quit carrying the full sized kit when I took day hikes. Yes, I know that it would be better for me if I were stranded to have the full sized kit in my pack, but I like to walk sometimes without the pack (especially in the summer). Other times, on longer hikes, I have the CamelBak with me and it can carry power bars and some other larger items. I can even stuff a packable rain jacket in it. When I am hunting, in a more remote area, or it is winter weather, I take the backpack with the full sized kit.

Would I like to spend the night with only my PSK? No way! But the kit I carry is better than the one I left at home or in the car because I got tired of lugging around a bulky bag of gear.

 

[psy-ops]

You mention that carrying a mini kit is "for a totally different situation". A "totally different situation" from what? A totally different situation from when you were "lost at night while hunting"? Then what is the point of a mini kit? Sure sooner or later some tape, a pencil, three varieties of thread are going to come in handy (maybe for when the wife's sewing machine runs out?). But as I think you are saying here too, not for when you are lost at night while hunting.

as far as a cup, well a sierra cup is flat and can fit into a small maxepedition belt pouch. The pouch, goes on your belt when you go out to the woods. The mini kit..........well that is for those "totally different situations"

I Agree!

Sorry, it took me awhile to respond. I didn't catch this one.

The mini is one to keep in your pockets at ALL times. A fanny pack or a belt pouch is something else. I carry a fanny pack when I go into the woods usually. I always have my mini kit. It is just that sometimes I just decide to spontaneously go on a hike and I just don't always have the larger kit with me.

If I went out hunting, I would have more on me than a mini kit for sure.

The mini for is for Murphy.

 

[Myal]

I carry the bare basics on me everywhere , a knife and lighter .. I KNOW it doesnt cover EVERY situation , but it covers the things *I* need to cover most .
I usually have a bag with me that has the stuff I like to have as kit along , its not a mini kit , my fingers are too clumsy for delicate stuff , its got the stuff I use
someone was saying about giving their kids a whistle but not having ne themselves ... I got a whistle as well as the kids having one , means they can hear me same as I can hear them
I also hang glow sticks on the kids in the evenings too till they are properly trained not to go too far from camp , even then its not unusual to see green reg or yellow glowies hanging off the kids , its cheap fund an makes doing a head count SO easy ...