RAT survival kit

[Don Rearic]

I would pack a better pain reliever than asprin. I keep four 30 mg Tylex (Tylenol w/ codene) in case I have to walk through a serious sprain or other non-life threatening injury that could slow me down...

...ETA - I understand you can't sell a commercial kit with "black lable" pain relief included. I only offer that as a suggestion for modifying it after purchase.

Our Canadian Friends can purchase Tylenol w/Codeine OTC so it's a real option for them.

I also keep several small commercially sealed foil flats of KMnO4. It is hard to use for purifying water (one possible use) but it is a first rate fungicide for treating bad foot or jock rot and it takes up no space at all in a PSK. On the subject of feet, the bottom of my tin is lined with a sheet of moleskin to treat blisters. Feet are important.

A very good firestarter as well. Can you list a source for the sealed foil flats of it?

 

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Don,

I buy it at my local pharmacy here in the neighborhood. Mac

 

[R.A.T.]

Feet are important.

No truer words have ever been spoken when it comes to the subject of survival. Most folks worry about dirty water more than they do their feet. As a stupid victim of foot problems one time many many miles form civilization, I can say that if you can't walk, you'll eventually die. Luckily I had a few days to get dried up and going again to get back over to the Brazil border and get in a boat back to home. Drinking bad water may eventually kill you if you don't get some Flagil in your gut but when the meat starts falling off your feet, you will cease to exist

 

[R.A.T.]

Well when I look at my small kits there is probably over $100 worth of stuff in them. I didnt see a water container, is there one??

The kit comes in a Ziploc bag and we're also including a small AlokSak now with the kit. One other thing not mentioned in the components is the two Ranger bands that go over the outside of the container to hold the lid shut.

 

[Don Rearic]

Don,

I buy it at my local pharmacy here in the neighborhood. Mac

Mac,

I didn't mean to imply that it would be a problem there. Here? Better have a Rx for it! Canada is OTC as well. Strange world, you can get a fifth of Jack Daniels and drink yourself retarded but APC or Ultra-Tylenol (IIRC in Canada) here will get you hairy eyeballs.

Drinking bad water may eventually kill you if you don't get some Flagil in your gut but when the meat starts falling off your feet, you will cease to exist

The constant metallic taste and associated magma-like runs might leave you feeling as if you should have curled up in a ball and croaked, too.