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Hi all,

When cleaning up my workshop yesterday, I found an old box full of crap stuff, and at the bottom, I found this little round metal box:

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This is my survival kit I made when I was 13 yo :eek: (I'm 34 now)...Now, I had NO idea what I could find inside...take a peak:

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That is soo funny to see what I had in mind @13yo for a survival kit...Here's the details:

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1- If I go by the tickness if those alu packs, 3 or 4 razor blades each :eek:
2- 7 (yes...seven) roof nails; why? I have NO IDEA :confused:
3- a quarter - to phone mommy I guess :D
4- 4 (yes...four) sewing needles...
5- 1 pin
6- 4 fish hooks
7- fish line
8- More fish line & cotton tread
9- Crappy line saw with rings
10- Brass wire
10 (oops 2nd "10")- The container

OK...stop laughing now! :o I like to think I'm slightly better prepared today (yeah, right); here's my current kit:

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1- Kit pouch
2- Emergency blanket (shelter)
3- XLarge ziplock bag (water storage)
4- Iodine tablets (water treatment, disinfectant)
5- Small bic (fire)
6- Spark thing (replaced by a ferro rod now) (backup fire)
7- 3 Fire straws (PJ-cotton balls) (fire starting)
8- Fresnel lens (backup fire, other usage)
9- Photon light
10- 6 Aspirins
11- 4 Antihistaminic
12- 2 Alcool swabs (disinfectant, spark catcher in a pinch)
13- Fox40 safety whistle (signaling)
14- Mirror (signaling)
15- Aluminum foil (water treatment, cooking, anti mind-control hat)
16- Different fish hooks, split shots (food)
17- Different pins (many uses)
18- Scalpel blade (in the field surgery, Rambo-style :))
19- 80 lbs test fishing line around a custom arrow head (food, shelter)
20- 12 lbs test fishing line around another arrow head (food, shelter)
21- Wire (food)
22- Pen cartridge wrapped with duct tape
23- Leatherman micra
24- Canadian&American money
25- "Rite in the rain" paper & mini survival guide
26- Button compass
27- White line roll with a big sewing needle
28- Spectra line roll
Not shown in the picture - Some sort of knife (you won't catch me without one)

Feel free to comment/criticize my kit - it's a very good way to improve!

Thanks for looking!
 
What made you decide to build a survival kit at age 13??
Just curious

My survival kit at age 13 was my knife and some cheap wire "saw"
That is pretty impressive for a survival kit at age 13!!
 
Trent Rock said:
What made you decide to build a survival kit at age 13??
Just curious

My survival kit at age 13 was my knife and some cheap wire "saw"
That is pretty impressive for a survival kit at age 13!!
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That's exactly what I was thinking. It's actually pretty good to even have had some thing at that age. You can see our hobbies start at a young age:thumbup:

ROCK6
 
Trent Rock said:
What made you decide to build a survival kit at age 13??
Just curious

My survival kit at age 13 was my knife and some cheap wire "saw"
That is pretty impressive for a survival kit at age 13!!
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I was in the boy scouts; that's where I got the concept of a little kit always on yourself when wandering the woods. Obviously, I had a pretty vague idea what I would need in a "survival" situation (no "easy" way to make fire, for example, but 7 roof nails...go figure :))
 
ROCK6 said:
You can see our hobbies start at a young age:thumbup:
ROCK6
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How true...It's also at around that age I can say I made my first knife; grounded frantically on a kitchen knife :eek: No need to say my mother wondered for a while where the heck was that handy boning knife she had :D
 
I bet the nails were to make a trap or snare. Besides the bent-sapling variety, you could bore a hole in a log, bait the bottom, then partially hammer the nails around the hole at a 45-degree angle. Raccoon reaches in to grab bait, but is held by the nails. I'd use small finish nails if I were in a survival situation, though. Maybe those roofing nails are for panthers? :D
 
That is a cool find! I used to make little PSK's out of these small tupperware containers my mom had. (Yes she'd throw a fit when she couldn't find them!)
 
RobbW said:
I bet the nails were to make a trap or snare. Besides the bent-sapling variety, you could bore a hole in a log, bait the bottom, then partially hammer the nails around the hole at a 45-degree angle. Raccoon reaches in to grab bait, but is held by the nails. I'd use small finish nails if I were in a survival situation, though. Maybe those roofing nails are for panthers? :D
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Errr yeah! That's it! That's exactly why they were in my kit :D nah...I don't even think I knew what a snare or a trap was at 13... Heck, even today, traps are not something I'm comfortable to rely on, for lack of practice :o
 
A great psk container is a plastic snuff/chewing tobacoo can. It looks very non threathening to sheeple even in your office pants. I get them free from a friend who chews and used to toss them out! Waterproof, tight and light!
 
1Tracker said:
A great psk container is a plastic snuff/chewing tobacoo can. It looks very non threathening to sheeple even in your office pants. I get them free from a friend who chews and used to toss them out! Waterproof, tight and light!
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Thanks for the tip :thumbup:
 
No Prob! You can make a sweet city version of a psk with a tobacco tin and no one is the wiser what's in it! Never had one opened by any LEO in 10 years of carrying it; ya' think a sheeple is going to even look twice in the office?!Grin!
 
ROCK6 said:
That's exactly what I was thinking. It's actually pretty good to even have had some thing at that age. You can see our hobbies start at a young age:thumbup:

ROCK6
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Totally. I remember, by the age of 8, I had made a bow and arrow set out of sticks and a rubber band, as well as a throwing spear. :D I even cut knocks into the arrows-all this without a knife.:eek: The spear I made with a stick, and some "stabilizers" (empty water balloons) help on by a twisted rubber band. I made a point by scraping it on a rock. Both were deadly accurate.:cool:


Course, I just started making a PSK a couple months ago...:o:p
 
I made a psk when I was 8. Why? My dad was an avid hunter and had a book on hunting and bushcraft. (must have read it about 900 times, cover to cover.) Inside it was a chapter on survival and psks so I decided to make one. Mine had fishing line, hooks/sinkers, about 6 matches, 2 needles, sewing thread, 8 nails I dont know what kind but I think I put them in there to build a temporary house :o which is probably what you did too, some string, snare wire (actually my older brother's lamp cord, cut and stripped of its plastic casing. boy did I ever catch it for that.:D) and a little compass that never worked. I wasnt allowed to touch razor blades and I only had one knife (Buck stockman) and I couldnt dream of leaving it in there and not using it so my kit was bladeless. (though the stockman was always in my pocket.)

I guess I am the only one of you who can ever say he had a loaded kit when he was 14?:D:D
 
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