What are some of the more unusual items you have in your survival kits ?

Bernoulli said:
When I was in the USAF, I spent some time riding in the helicopters at Sea Survival School. That convinced me to forget about the smoke flare - worthless The projectile flare for night will work only if the rescuer is looking right at it when you fire it, unless you have a pretty big one. A mirror is the best day attention getter if you're in the open and you have sunlight.
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This is one reason why I carry a rather powerful laser pointer...
Now let me say first off that this is NOT to be used in anything other than an actual, life or death type survival setting!!
A laser pointer can be seen by aircraft miles away, day or night... Currently the FAA and local authorities have had a hard time with idiots flashing these lasers at aircraft, and I do believe it's a felony to do so.

However, if your family is sitting on the roof of your house (which you accessed with a hatchet THROUGH the roof) and the water is rising quickly, the bloated bodies of your neighbors are floating by, and another storm is on the way..... Helicopter after helicopter pass you by... something a like a powerful blue or green laser might be the ticket to get your family out alive. Disaster settings is the primary idea here...
 
I thought of something else that others may not have...I carry 2-3 Rat (not mouse RAT) traps in my gear. They are a lot easier to set-up then commercial snares or bushcraft snares/traps, and they weigh almost nothing and take up very little room. Little idea I got from a Dave Canterbury video. I haven't tested them on a live animal, but I feel confident they would kill a squirrel-size critter.
 
kmurray72 said:
This is one reason why I carry a rather powerful laser pointer...
Now let me say first off that this is NOT to be used in anything other than an actual, life or death type survival setting!!
A laser pointer can be seen by aircraft miles away, day or night... Currently the FAA and local authorities have had a hard time with idiots flashing these lasers at aircraft, and I do believe it's a felony to do so.

However, if your family is sitting on the roof of your house (which you accessed with a hatchet THROUGH the roof) and the water is rising quickly, the bloated bodies of your neighbors are floating by, and another storm is on the way..... Helicopter after helicopter pass you by... something a like a powerful blue or green laser might be the ticket to get your family out alive. Disaster settings is the primary idea here...
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I like that, never thought of a laser-pointer as emergency equipment before. Good Idea!
 
Get one from Wicked Lasers and you could have one that can start fires or seal wounds! :eek:
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
Get one from Wicked Lasers and you could have one that can start fires or seal wounds! :eek:
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Wicked is a good source... but the laser is more important than the source... Arctic Spider are about as good and as powerful as you can legally buy, the Arctic Spider III has a strobe in low and full power, as well as filters for shapes like am 'X' (shine that on an adjacent building or cliff face and it can been seen for MILES at night).
It can certainly start fires bud I'm not so sure I'd try sealing any wounds with it?? Ill stick to quck clot and a tampon thanks ha ha
 
Yeah I'm pretty sure I would just end up hurting myself worse if I tried it. :p
 
In my full kit I carry 2 pair of pliers ( medium- ish sized ) and a small old fashioned pair of tinsnips .
There is a lot of metal around that can be salvaged and used / reused usually if you got the means . Primitive metal smithing to me is a valid and valuable survival and bushcraft skill . its my main kit , the one I throw in the car not the carry in pocket one ... the little extra weight doesnt worry me that much .
 
2 fruit rollups

don't take up much room, last forever, give a burst of energy, reflective wrapping.
 
I get why people like gold and silver because the dollar can lose value but they keep there's but I can personally say if the world went to hell and survival was the main idea. I wouldn't trade a you a can of tuna if you gave me an entire brick of gold the size of a cinder block. I mean you can eat it, cant use it as a weapon unless you throw it at someone and it has no real survival value. I'd rather trade things like ammo or food or medicine. I think that's what most people would want if things got really bad. But if it was just financial collapse or something I guess it's better then cash
 
Syphon hose with little pump ball in the middle. In case you need to get gas from abandoned vehicles to keep yours going after gas stations run out or close.
 
I also like the forklift key, I know CAT keys are all the same and work in just about all their equipment. I used to work drilling and blasting when I was a teenager and my boss would give us all cat keys so we could use all the different stuff he had made by CAT. That's a really good idea
 
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