Saftey Pins

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Wanderlust

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Okay so these things seem like they would be great in a kit. You can use them to hold together ripped clothing or anything cloth really, or you can use them as fish hooks. Now the question I have to you is what else can you use them for? I am stuck on these two purposes but they seem as though they would have a million.

Any Ideas?
 
I've used them to dig out splinters that broke off too deep to be reached with tweezers.
 
awl for punching holes to sew things back together with fishing line.
quick connect for lightweight snare.
frog spear (safety pin tied to each fork of a branch with the sharp ends pointing in towards the V)
way to organize other items by threading them onto the pin and closing it.
 
If you needed them, I bet you'd think of something!

To each their own, but I've kind of started leaning toward a repair needle in the kit to be used with fishing line or strands out of paracord. If I tore my clothes, I'd prefer to fix them with needle and "thread" to close them up as opposed to safety pins. As for using pins as fish hooks, yes they could be, but if you already are carrying fishing line, a couple of hooks take up zero additional space.
 
You can use them to make an arm sling with your t-shirt. These things are like duct tape.
 
I find that, for what they weigh, I may as well toss a few in my kit. They're useful for temporary clothing repairs, and they came in really handy once when I busted a zipper on a pack of mine.
 
Actually, just so no one carries some of these as fish hook replacements...

They make poor fish hooks guys. I've tried it. They make a good gorge hook but you can make them out of fire-hardened sticks and other things as well. Finishing nails and a little bit of filing to point the other end and notching in the center...makes an excellent gorge hook.

Besides fixing stuff by pinning it together, they are really good for carrying fish hooks en masse! They keep them very organized. You need the smaller, more commonly available, safety pins for organizing fish hooks.

If you carry a multi-tool, and you should, you can make a tweezer-type turning tool (tension wrench) out of one but it has to be a really sturdy one like you see for pinning horse blankets. The military safety pins you usually see pinning the stripper clip guide to a cloth ammunition bandoleer are the same type issued in Tracon (Survival) Fishing Kits as well. They're good but not as good as the "horse blanket type" mentioned above.

With those heavier types of safety pins, you can actually pin your Izula to the inside of your coat similar to Bud Nealy's Rig you can see here on one of my webpages.
 
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