Pictures of your survival gear

dizos said:
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-- Dizos
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absolutery nice stuff dizos.. I wonder if you care all these stuff together...when you go to the woods? hiking? jungle? and I still wondering especially about the photo that I quote you need those for what exactly?survival hunting self defense... ????? anyway I like the knife nice piece too..


plan no useless move, take no step in vain.

ishiyumisan
 
absolutery nice stuff dizos.. I wonder if you care all these stuff together...when you go to the woods? hiking? jungle?
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ishiyumisan -- I mix and match the kits depending on what I am doing and how far out into wilderness I am going. When backpacking I carry most of it. The case with the firearms is an "expansion" kit which enables me to decisively influence my environment out to about 500 yards. The case with all the firearms is quite heavy and not intended for lugging around long distances. The firearms are a .308 rifle, a 12ga shotgun and .40 handgun. I bring the rifle when hunting large game and the shotgun when hunting birds. The handgun is purely self defense and not often carried into wilderness.

Randjack -- thanks for the great tips. Do you have pictures of your set up you can post?
 
Dizos -- Sure, happy to do some pics. Give me a bit, i'm in the middle of a project right now.
 
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i carry a couple of items that few people mention in their survival kits but i wouldnt be caught without:

1. small plastic bottle of iodine, nested inside another small plastic container (because if it leaks youre in for a disaster). i can use this to disinfect wounds and purify water in a survival situation. sure, boiling works, but sometimes you need the water instantly. i dont bother with 'neutralizer' tablets, in a survival situation i could care less if the water has a slight iodine taste.
if you hate the taste, pack a small container of vitamin C crystals. the vitamin C crystals are extremely portable (you dont need much), can serve to take away the iodine taste and add an important vitamin to your diet.
i also carry a handful of foil packed purification tablets, but these could run out or lose their effectiveness (they have a short shelf life). always store your iodine and vitamin C in dark bottles and shelter them from sunlight.

2. an epipen. basically a portable, idiot-proof injection of epinephrine (in case someone else has to administer it). an alllergic reaction can kill you faster than you can imagine. i was camping with an ex g/f, and she didnt look in her beer before she took a swig, and swallowed a bee. it stung her throat. we were up on a mountain about an hour from any hospital. now she wasnt allergic to bees, but stings on her tended to swell up a lot larger than those on me. within a minute she was having a very hard time breathing, and was starting to panic. she was slowly suffocating as the sting swelled. i had a syringe and glass vial of epinephrine (before the epipen thing) in my FA kit, and gave her an injection - within a few min she was fine. i have no doubt in my mind that she would have suffocated to death had i not had it with me.

in canada you need a prescription for an epipen/epinephrine, but you can just tell your doctor you need it for a survival kit and i cannot imagine him not writing you one.
cheers,
-gabriel

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Very good idea about the Epipen. My son is allergic to several things, among them penut butter, which could kill him. My wife and I always have an epipen stashed in our cars, but I hadn't thought to put one in my pack. Great adivce.

Mike
 
I have looked around for Epipens, and haven't found any for less than about $60.00 US. Any better sources?
 
Dizos: These were referenced in Post #38, above, mostly.

First is a brass hand made spark lite with replaceable flints. No, I not want to make another one. Too tedious.

The line storage method described above, and Stanley awl.

Ziplock with about 50' worth of pre-made SS chokes with extra crimping sleaves, brass wire, and a tiny sewing kit (not much detail in photo -- it contains several curved needles,among other things

A small tool pouch from my FatBoy containing straight and curved hemostats, tweezers, jeweler screw drivers (white tube) dental probe, iris scissors; in ziplock:three sizes zip ties, wire ties, glue stick, tube with needles and safety pins, mild ductile steel wire. Not shown: tools bits for Wave, laser, diamond sharpening plate, scalpel blades, fresnel lens.

Larger, book size kit from my EDC/truck bag. Partial contents: SureFire G2, Silva transit compass, SAK, line storage stick as described above, hacksaw blade, larger zip ties, Wet Fire tinders, orange backed space blanket, 30' military duct tape wrapped over plastic card stock, and almost invisible at this cotrast setting, 25' black 7 strand para cord. In center is CRKT Stiff Kiss velcro'd oin place. On the right are 3 Alksacks mounted shingle style with velcro on a sheet of plastic. Top shingle bag contains: Spark Lite kit, whistle, orange survey tape, lighter, bag with SS leader, bobbins of #69 black thread, 80# SpiderWire.

Second shingle bag: soda straw with leather needles and waxed linen thread, Nesbit fuel tab, tube with needles and safety pins, Arkansas stone, signal mirror, stick of fatwood, sheet of Katydin MP-1s, spool of mason's line

Third shingle bag: ductile steel wire, razor knife blades in plastic holder (contrast bad, sorry) assorted zip ties, large safety pins, two 4-0 hooks, electrical tape, screw eyes, screw hooks, finishing nails, barely visible: bag with small and medium fish hooks, swivel clips, sinkers)

Loaded FatBoy S. Visible are Fallkniven F1, Photon Freedom on retractor reel, Inova X-0, Wave; on other side, Inova X-5 with TID, LM Micra.

NiteIze Pack-It with Gerber Recoil, 5" hemostat, Mini-Mag with TerraLux LED conversion, CRKT Tanto Kiss, small screw driver, turbo lighter

Damn, that got to be too long.
 
Randjack -- Nice setup. The pictures really help. Amazing how much line fits on that pencil/spool setup. Is it a hassle rolling up the 30' cord? I use my cord pretty frequently (hanging food bags while camping, impromptu dog leash, lashing loads etc.). I see where you are getting at with the raw materials approach.

BTW - What do you use the hemostats and dental probe for?

-- Dizos
 
randjack,

Care to explain how you made the spark lite? I'd be really interested in making my own. Thanks :)
 
Dizos: Its not really a hassle outting that much line up -- but that it why I use the braided stuff rather than the tristed -- it doesn't unravel/untwist, and it sort of compresses. The hemostats I seem to use constantly like any other small pliers, and for holding things. The probe has a scraper end, and is also very good for removing/installing coil springs, untying knots, cleaning small spaces, picking things up, and so forth.

Powell: I ran accross some brass scrap tubing that was the right size and with unusually thick walls. I had access to a pretty good shop, and clamped it in a driss press vice, put a wheel cutting in the drill press and split the end of the tubing, put in a sparker wheel from a junk lighter, installed a pin and peened the ends, then tapped the other end, found a piece of larger rod, put it in the drill press and dressed it down to size with a file, then cut the 'knurling' with needle files, dropped in the spring from the junk lighter, filled it with flints to take up the etra space, and there it is. Believe me, it took longer to do than to tell about it. Not hard, just tedious. Don't try it w/o a drill press and a machining vice. Also, the key is thick wall tubing -- I have no idea what it came out of. I think it was used as a spacer in some piece of equipment.
 
randjack said:
I have looked around for Epipens, and haven't found any for less than about $60.00 US. Any better sources?
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no idea. i have a medical plan that covers all prescription drugs. they are all made in the US so unfortunately for this product i doubt there is a cheap canadian generic equivalent you could get online :(
if you ever do need one, however, $60 is a bargain. especially for those with asthma. i had (no wheezing for over 15 years now) asthma, and almost died when i slept in the country in eastern europe. they have down pillos, comforters, etc there, and most people keep them for decades. down develops a fine dust that many people are allergic to. i woke up in the middle of the night with the worst attack i could ever imagine: ventolin had no effect, i was suffocating. luckily i got an epinephrine injection and it went away very fast. now if im on the road or camping and im unsure about a comforter or pillow, ill sleep without it.

so $60 is cheap when you consider that it can easily save your life. the shelf life is also a lot longer than what they print on the bottle: the old ones were good for around 6 years. they just recently changed the printed shelf-life on them to something dramatically shorter (16 months), and i remember reading about pharmacies complaining about it. i wouldnt worry about that, i think it has more to do with drug profits than with the actual shelf life. it doesnt magically stop working at 16 months + 1 day just because the FDA lowered the shelf life, and spending $60 for 6 years of protection is reasonable, IMO.

http://www.calgaryallergy.ca/Articles/epipen.html
 
randjack said:
I have looked around for Epipens, and haven't found any for less than about $60.00 US. Any better sources?
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Depending on your health insurance, your doctor should be able to get you a perscription for them. That is how we got ours for my son. All I had to pony up was a $15 co-pay for each. If you insurance covers it and you have any history at all of allergy problems you would be able to get one.

Mike
 
WARNING: For many conditions for which an Epipen is used, the relief is temporary (minutes). Unless follow-up drugs are administered, the reaction will still take place. Consult a professional.
 
Thomas Linton said:
WARNING: For many conditions for which an Epipen is used, the relief is temporary (minutes). Unless follow-up drugs are administered, the reaction will still take place. Consult a professional.
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definitely.. but aside from being followed around by an ambulance and a team of paramedics, its the best thing to have in the wild (or when just traveling). in both cases i have used it, however, it was enough to completely avoid suffocation without further drugs or medical aid.

it will save you from bee stings, allergic reactions to things such as down, etc... but its not going to give you immunity to eat snickers bars if youre allergic to peanuts, however. but even in those cases where it does not completely alleviate the condition, many times the difference between life or death can come down to the half an hour it takes to get to the hospital.

but definitely - i would speak to your physician about any type of drug that you are unfamiliar with. ask them about when to use it - the 'how' of using an epipen is pretty straightforward, a chimpanzee could do it :)
an epipen is essentially a shot of adrenaline, so i can imagine these things having other uses as well in a survival situation. the harmful side-effects are quite low.
 
Don't get me wrong. I agree that the only responsible use for the Epipens for the kind of use we are talking about is acute anaphylaxis. Chronic/known asthma is a totally different animal.
 
Hi... dizos.
here is what I carry:
strike force flint and steel
6 extra wet dry tinder
1 bic lighter
1 mangnesium firestarter
2 of the key chain mini styles
1 quart foldable bottle canteen
1 of 5 foot sheet of plastic
1 spece blanket
3 coffees filters
1 bottle stabilized oxygen for water purification
1 bottle iodine water purification tabs
1 small set of stailess eating utensils
1 collapsible cup
2 garbage bags
1 reynolds oven bag
4 zip lock bags
3 foot of heavy duty foil
3 magic candles
3 of 9 hour candles
1 cheapo survival whistle match case filled with nato matches
80 ft of 550 cord
30 ft nylon cord
1 bobbin of military trip wire
1 pair of tweezers with magnifier attachment
1 chain saw in can
2 thompson commerciarl snares small
2 // // snares medium
1heavy medium commercial cable snare
1 survival straw
1 multi tool
1 tube deet insect repellent
1 snake bite kit
120x monocular
1 box trioxane fuel bars
6 towelette type insect repellent
1 medium sharpening stone
3 different types of compass
300g of high-energy carbohydrate bars for short term rations.


on my belt
40 ft of 550 cord
1 pouch
1 Tomahawk
1 Heavy Duty knife
1 small kife
1 fishing kit can
1 survival kit can
1 medical kit can
1 as "expansion" is Excalibur Crossbow "EXOMAX"
dizos sorry about not puttin the picture but I think you'll get them anyway..


plan no useless move, take no step in vain.

ishiyumisan
 
pastorsoup said:
I too think this is a great thread. I seem to learn so much more when I can see and visualize the information being provided. So that got me thinking. I have a website, and I have been purchasing a lot of new gear lately. Why not make a new page on my site dedicated to survival gear. This is just a start and I'm not even sure if it is working exactly as it should. I'm no web design expert. Check it out at:

http://www.soupcampbell.net/survival.htm

I'll be adding much more when I get time and I would love some feedback positive or negative on how I can make the page better and more informative.
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i love my talon!!! I am so glad someone else uses it, your mods definatley have got me thinking! thanks for the post soup!
 
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