What do us Widerness and Survival folks Carry everday?

Victorinox swiss tool & mini maglite on belt. Pocket includes nail clippers, chapstick, elastic bands. Wallet contains emergency arsewipe. I always have a few coins in the pocket too, they can be useful for many things! :p
 
My EDC setup:

Everyday, everywhere, I have these items:

EDC knife, wallet, cell phone, and Moleskine notebook with pen (and my keys, not shown)

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And these items are added, depending on what I plan to be doing:

PSK (attached to my satchel), cigar and lighter (in the summer, if I expect to find myself on a patio), iPod, digital recorder (for work, if I'm conducting interviews), Spyderco double-sided stone.

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All the best,

- Mike
 
Typically, when I go out the door, I will carry my keys, a Fenix L0D flashlight, and some kind of puukko (or sometimes a small knife like the Busse Game Warden or a Ka-bar TDI if I expect some 'rough' use of the blade). Often I will carry a cellular phone, too. That's it. If I'm going out to buy something, I'll obviously bring my wallet along.
 
jds1 ... on your 2nd pic what is the blade under the paperclips?

On me:
phone
wallet
keys with - vic classic, a quater of a mag firestarter with flint
still looking for led light.
 
ROCK6 said:
This was my Holiday's EDC :D


For my more common minimal EDC, I always have:

Marathon GSAR Watch
Oakley Half-Jackets
Hat (Fleece watch cap, Filson Packer or ball cap)
At least one folding knife (lately it's been either an Emerson or Spyderco)
Burt's Bees chapstick (always!)
Swiss Spirit multitool (or the SAK Farmer)
Space pen
Either a Windmill butane lighter or the little peanut
Fenix P1D LED, or if just pocket carry, it'll be the little AAA LOD
Off duty, I'll have a pistol
Crackberry

ROCK6
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The Emerson in your pic, what model is that? Looks remarkably like my BT Rijbak, cept the handle is a lil different towards the bottom.
 
Do believe I've got the record for most crap carried on my person, not in a bag, pouch etc.

Heavy-duty leather belt starting at 1 'o clock holding up my windows mobile pda, janitor-style keychain w/ janitor-sized amount of keys plus SAK Classic, p-38, and photon light. Next, is a LM Surge, Buck 110, and followed up in the rear right pocket is the wallet w/ long chain. That's my side side on the belt. Still going around at 8 'o clock, LM bit set w/ 3 extra saw blades and then SAK Farmer in a leather sheath courtesy of a forum member here in WS&S (thanks!) In my right front pocket is: change, minimum 2 bic lighters, cigs, Buck or Boker trapper depending on mood, and clipped on the pocket either my millie or Bladetech Rijbak. Left front pocket has usually my Leek clipped on w/ 2 pens inside the pocket, some sort of candy, and chapstick. Left front cargo pocket has a remington flashlight, handkerchief and mini usb cable. Right front cargo pocket has breath mints of some sort, my homemade firekit, an altoids tin of diff materials to play/tinker with at work, and something else to fiddle with, usually a knife to sharpen, in that case theres a pocket stone as well in there. I'll try to find the pic on photobucket and post it tomorrow in the am.

Total weight of pants according to the bathroom scale: 6.3lbs.
 
Wow Screwthe49ers, thats alot. You are prepared. I have been thinking of getting a small camera pouch to carry stuff on my side, like my SAK, bic lighter, Cell phone and PSK and some medical supplies. That away I can keep it all in one pouch. What do yall think?
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
I always have my wallet in my left front, Case swayback in my right front, BM 530 in back right, and my keys on an S-biner on my belt loop. The keychain has a houdini rescue tool and a victorinox emblem led light.

Most of my gear is in my Malaga gearslinger, which goes with me everywhere. It has a couple of ferro rods, a vic. Spirit, and abundance of paracord, pjc's, a few cotton handkerchiefs, guyot standard and stainless cup, first aid, cutting board and CS k-4 necker, RC-3, Opinel no.8, lighter, sharpening supplies, jiggler key set (it's actually come in handy a few times), mil-tac pen, space blanket, and a few other odds and ends.
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How do you like the swayback? I've been thinking of getting the navy blue jigged bone one, since I want a single blade. How well does it cut?
 
Wildone39 said:
Wow Screwthe49ers, thats alot. You are prepared. I have been thinking of getting a small camera pouch to carry stuff on my side, like my SAK, bic lighter, Cell phone and PSK and some medical supplies. That away I can keep it all in one pouch. What do yall think?
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Camera bags are great , imo. Great price compared to anything else for the same functions.
 
screwthe49ers said:
The Emerson in your pic, what model is that? Looks remarkably like my BT Rijbak, cept the handle is a lil different towards the bottom.
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Yeah, it does look a little like it...it's the CQC-10; a spear-pointed design with the funky chiseled bevel that you kind of get use to.

ROCK6
 
Not including a man bag, just on my person:

Busse BAD or Ka-Bar Mule (if I'm going to/from work, they don't allow fixed blades)
Gerber 600 proscout
MagLite Min Maglite LED
Glock 21
spare magazine
nail clippers
watch (pocket watch)
Bic
Matchcase
 
My typical EDC:

on keychain: keys, photon microlight, peanut lighter, SAK classic, and pocket pry-bar
In Pockets: Spyderco Delica, Polymer kubotan, Cell Phone, Wallet

I think I might add a mini-mag bar to my keychain and start pocket-carrying my Vic Farmer as well.
 
Im gonna get a camera bag at Wally world tomorrow to carry my stuff in. I started carrying Kershaw Storm II instead of my Spyderco Native today. I like to rotate my knives.
 
Fonly, you're a man of good taste :D :thumbup:

I'm considering making a square leather pocket sheath that will hold both my EDC knife and a cigar + lighter. The only thing stopping me is the knowledge that, having such a sheath, I would feel compelled to keep it stocked with cigars. And that could be pricey.

All the best,

- Mike
 
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