What's in your Becker sheath?

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Guyon

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For those of you with the Becker BK-7 or BK-9 (or Becker knives with similar sheaths), what do you keep in the outside pocket of your sheath?

In my BK-9 sheath, I did have a sharpening stone in the sheath pocket, but recently, I replaced the stone with: box of matches, mini-Bic, small fire steel, rescue whistle, Photon II.
 
I have the crewman and i keep a doan magnesium block in there with the flint, I have a sak rucksack, and a old shrade oldtimers knife in there because i was ruining the rucksacks blade with the doan so now i use the old shrade. the shardes sharp enough to get a spark but not for tough stuff. theres alot of chips in the blade. so its just a beater.
 
BK-7 Kit Knife

HANDLE CONTENTS – The handle scales of the knife can be removed to reveal two small hollow cavities. These are removed with a small hex-wrench and filled with a fishing/trapping kit: line, sinkers, hooks, wire.

SHEATH CONTENTS – The sheath has a pouch that fits an Altoids tin and there is room below it to attach items with a rubber sleeve. Paracord is attached to the leg tie at bottom of the sheath and the wrist lanyard hole on the handle of the knife.

KNIFE SHARPENER - US Army ceramic stone, Tied on, rides under velcro strap on top of Altoids tin

FIRE – The kit has both tinder and an initiator that are impervious to the elements.
- Sparklite fire starter, tin
- Sparklite tinder, 4, tin
- BSA Hotspark, in pouch alongside tin
- Straw of treated cotton, spare straw in tin
- Strike anywhere matches, waterproof, 6, under rubber sleeve
- Birthday Candles, 3, under rubber sleeve
- Rubber ranger bands, excellent fire-starters, various locations

WATER – The knife contains both a water container and treatment method.
- 5 liter galao de Emergencia, (five liter bag sold for gasoline transport here in Brazil) rolled tightly under rubber sleeve below pouch
- Potassium Permanganate, 20mg, tin
- Recently supplimented with Chlor-In 1 chlorine tablets, 15, 1/liter.

SHELTER – The shelter provisions are intended to make the construction of an expedient shelter easier, not necessarily to compose a shelter. There are three components, water/wind proofing, heat proofing, and cordage. In practicality only a space blanket will fit on the sheath, attached by wide black rubber bands below the pouch. The space blanket is waterproof/windproof and will trap body heat. The duct tape is used to seal leaks and join seams. The space blanket and rolled water carrier is no more bulky than the pouch and Altoids tin above them. I also carry a contractor bag in a jacket pocket.

- Space Blanket, under rubber sleeve
- Para cord, 7 strand, 2 meters attached as leg tie
- Duct tape, 1 meter, wrapped around space blanket
- Heavy needle and #4 waxed line for clothing repairs, tin

SIGNALS
- Starflash mirror, tin
- ACR Whistle, under rubber sleeve on back of sheath
- Inova Night Vision Red LED light, tin on braided neck cord
- Other signal methods include space blanket as reflector/marker, and fire/smoke
- Night signal reflector on back of medallion compass

NAVIGATION
- Medallion type liquid filled compass with braided #4 waxed-line neck cord, tin

LIGHT
- Inova Night Vison Red LED light
- 3 Birthday Candles
- Fire
MEDICAL
- Moleskin, inside bottom of tin
- 10 Ibuprophen, tin
- Salt, tin
- Potassium Permanganate, tin
- Sterile Scalpel Blade, tin
- Single edge razor blade, tin

Braided neck cord – The compass, Inova LED, ACR whistle, and Starflash mirror are to be attached to the neck cord and worn around the neck at all times during a survival situation. This leaves the compass readily available for navigation. It also leaves the day/night signal capability instantly accessible during the emergency.

BK-7 Kit Camp

With only the contents of this kit I would have the means to construct an improvised shelter and be able to wrap up in the space blanket inside it. I would have a fire and five liters of treated water, with salt to aid re-hydration in Brazil’s extreme heat. The signals group allows for some sort of signal capability, active and passive with sight and sound, day or night. If I had to walk out I would have a compass and foot care. I chose the Ibuprofen, as it is both a painkiller and anti-inflammatory. I believe the items in this kit will aid in actual survival and are not there just because they are nifty and small.

The other item that I always have belted on at all times is a US Army canteen with steel cup and stove sleeve. The pouch on the canteen carries two bottles of Potable Aqua, a yellow mini-bic lighter, and a small foil packet of KMnO4 as a back up water purification system. Most of the time I also have my Recta DP-2 compass and a bottle of Bens 100 in a pocket along with some snack food items. Mac
 
The pouch on my BK-7 sheath has a small diamond sharpening stone and a Victorinox Yeoman SAK. I may replace the Yeoman with an Explorer II because it has a small blade too.
 
Originally, I had secured a long, slim nylon zip pouch on the front of my BK7 (and BK9 & Battle Rat, too!) this held a very extensive kit, but I realised I was also carrying an equally extensive pocket kit too, so Ive gone the way of the Altoids tin kit too.
My contents are still being finalised, but so far Ive also ranger-banded a space blanket under the pouch then wrapped it in about 20ft of Paracord ending in leg-ties.
Altoids tin contains Sparkrite & tabs, Mini-bic, Vaseline/Cotton balls, LED light, Magic birthday candles, Water purifying tablets, vulcanizing fluid, dental floss, thin nylon cord, scalpel blades, superglue, button compass, sewing kit, fishing kit, large hook, heatshrink tube, matches, lifeboat matches, snare wire, duct tape, wire saw, whistle, aluminium foil, fresnel lens, plasters, mirror, mini-lightstick, dog-tag with my details on one side & small pic of girlfriend (bless 'er!) in her er..."skimpies";) on other side, p38 copy, plasters, piriton & nurofen, large needle, curved needle, safety pins.
On the elastic of the pouch Ive got a green traser glow ring with a short drilled section of hex-wrench to open the handle scales on a small split ring.
Inside the handle scales Ive got another scalpel blade, more vaseline/cotton balls, matches & short piece of flintbar.
Im toying with the idea of removing the centre of the handle to make one large compartment, maybe to hold a plastic vial, and obviously Id fill in the holes in the handle scales with epoxy & just secure the grips with 2 rather than three hex-bolts.
 
I have a Crewman, and keep the following in the sheath:

DMT fine pocket stone
Magnesium fire starting tool
a few bandaids
6' snare wire
a couple of feet of hemp twine for tinder
a piece of resin impregnated ponderosa pine which is the best thing in the world for catching a spark from a ferro rod. My buddy and I found an entire log of this stuff on an outing this summer. Unfortunately we discovered its properties AFTER we'd put it in our fire, but I did salvage a pound or so of various pieces...
 
My Crewman , BK7 ,BK9 , Ranger RD6 & RD7 are all stocked with 6 straws stuffed with PJ soaked cotton balls & sealed in 2 inch wide clear tape. Also in the pockets are a small ferro rod with a sawzall blade for a striker & a small triangular ceramic sharpening rod.
About 6 feet of paracord wrapped around the outside of the sheath & a couple of trioxane bars banded to the back of the sheaths.
Almost forgot ... on the Rangers I also have 25 feet of orange flagging tape banded to the bottom end of the sheath.There's a JetScream whistle & a photon light on them also.
Cliff
 
i'll be building a sheath kit soon as well. anyone have any pics they could post so we can see how you put it all together??
 
6 straws stuffed with PJ soaked cotton balls & sealed in 2 inch wide clear tape
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Cliff, that's a nice idea.

pict, something's up with that link. Not having any luck with it. Man you carry a *lot* of stuff in that little pocket. :D I'd like to see a pic a well.
 
Cliff Nieporte said:
. . . 6 straws stuffed with PJ soaked cotton balls & sealed in 2 inch wide clear tape.
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Straws? Like drinking straws?

Why and how do you put the PJ'd cotton balls in them?
 
I'd imagine you just roll the cotton balls in your hands and elongate them, then slide them into the straws. FWIW, McDonald's straws seem nice and wide to me--larger than your run-of-the-mill straw. Might be able to get a couple more cotton balls in one of them.
 
BK7.

In the sheath's pouch a Gerber Diamond Rod, Winchester Multi-Tool (it's no Leatherman, but it's pretty sturdy), Bic lighter, a packet of fishhooks, an excessive amount of fishing line wrapped flat around a piece of cardboard, several long pieces of tinfoil folded up, and a SparkLite and 8 pieces of tender.

On the outside, I looped one length of paracord around the swollen pocket, tied a knot at the bottom, tied another on the back, and that's now the leg tie, maybe two inches higher so it doesn't ride down below the knee while I walk.

Then I took 40-50 feet of OD paracord, wound it up long around my elbow and thumb, then wrapped it all in a U-shape around the pocket, and secured it with several "Strac Bands" from Brigade Quartermasters.

Not quite as thourough as some of the awesome kits described here, but it serves its purpose for my region. I didn't know ranger bands could be a good firestarter though, now I need to experiment and maybe throw a few more on. :D Hehe.
 
In my Crewman sheath I keep:

a bic lighter

a ceramic sharpener

an allen wrench for the handles (nothing in there yet)

a Gerber multi tool -- I forget what it's called, but it is like a jackknife with a hinged, removeable cover that has a built-in LED light and a small compartment. In the small compartment are a few wooden matches and needle and thread.
 
rhino said:
Straws? Like drinking straws? Why and how do you put the PJ'd cotton balls in them?
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Yes, plastic drinking straws such as are found at fast-food joints. The bigger the diameter of the straw, the easier it is to pack the cotton ball fiber into it. In the link below on Fire Straws by our own Last Confederate, he recommends using a Q-tip as a ramrod to push the fiber into the straws. To make Fire Straws you pinch shut one end of a straw section with pliers, leaving a bit of the straw sticking out. With a match, melt shut the sticking out part of the straw. Stuff in your pj soaked cotton fiber into the straw, then pinch & melt shut the other end of the straw section. The straw section can be pretty short to start a fire, about an inch IIRC. To use the Fire Straw, slit it open, fluff out some of the cotton fiber, ignite with a spark, and use the burn-time of the cotton+vaseline+plastic to ignite your larger tinder/kindling pieces.

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=291476

Below is another thread on tinder that has info on them.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=331796

FWIW when used on a cotton ball, beeswax creates longer-lasting flames and, being a solid at room temperature, packs with less mess than vaseline. However, you can daub chapped lips with a vaseline'd cotton ball to coat them with the greasy stuff. This is harder to do with beeswax.

To answer the "What's in your sheath pocket?" question: Firesteel and Dog Bonz triangular sharpener.
 
Dang, guess I need to grab my BK7 out of the bottom of my ruck and check out the kit. I've replaced and added over time and can't remember exactly what's in it anymore.:rolleyes:
 
A DMT diafold red/blue sharpener, doan mag block, bic lighter, Victorinox Huntsman with Photon 2 and Fox 40 whistle on fob.
 
Let's try that link again.

http://img206.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bk7nrgsonrock4an.jpg

In profile from the side the lower ranger banded portion is no thicker than the pouch with altoids tin in it.

Under the ranger bands are: 5 liter water bag, space blanket, treated cotton, 3 birthday candles, ACR whistle and a single edge razor blade.

The pouch contains: Altoids tin, saw blade along side tin, stainless steel wire loop, sharpening stone on top, hex key along side under elastic band.

(Note: stainless steel wire was recently added for roasting grubs and grasshoppers the next time I get the chance. Thread them on and prop them up until golden brown and crunchy)

Between the top of the pouch and opening of the sheath I have it wrapped with copper snare wire covered with half a ranger band.

The handle will contain a fishing kit when I get around to deciding on the exact contents. Trouble is that there are no fish where I go so I'm thinking about a bird and lizard kit, whatever that may be. Mac
 
RokJok said:
Yes, plastic drinking straws such as are found at fast-food joints.
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Thanks for the info! This is a new idea to me, so I'll definitely check the links!
 
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