We’re going to have some fun designing and building a survival kit together. Here is Part 8 in the series where each week we will vote on a new item(s) to add to the kit and see the results from the previous week.
Back when I first got involved in preparedness there were lots of discussions about “survival kits.” Nowadays, there are INCH bags, Bug Out bags, Get Home bags, and many more. I may be a bit old school but I’m going back to my roots and survival kit it is.
Here’s the bag we started with: The Paratus 3-Day Operator’s Pack. The Paratus is a popular pack and often considered the “Prepper’s Backpack” as it is high quality, rugged, extremely versatile, and budget-friendly. Cost is phenomenal at well under $100.
Here’s what we’re going to do. Every week(or so) I’ll post a category of products along with several choices to choose from. Everyone will vote on which items to put in the bag. When the voting is over I’ll buy the selected item and add it to the bag. With each new week, I’ll update what we’ve put in the bag until the kit is completed.
LAST WEEK: Last week we looked at adding a cook set, shelter, and tools. The winners were as follows:
Stanley Adventure Camp Cook Set
YODO Lightweight Two Person Tent
Good choices. I just received the YODO tent and I’m looking forward to checking it out. I’ll definitely give it a good spray of rain protectant.
THIS WEEK: We’ve got the bag, a water filter, a knife, a bit of food, some first aid supplies, a flashlight, a cookstove, an ax, cook set, and a tent – – so now I’ll list a few basic supply items most everyone would agree with to add.
Common survival kit items adding this week:
- Wet Wipes
- toilet paper
- hand sanitizer
- toothbrush and toothpaste
- hand towel, small
- Mechanix Wear Durahide FastFit Gloves/gloves
- Map of area
- Firestarting Kit: Bic lighters, matches, cotton balls & vaseline, charcloth, ferro rod
- Camping Spork
What else would you recommend for the kit? Comment below!!!
Putting this kit together weekly(or so) like this is going to take a while. I may throw up a few different items within the same article.
Also – we may explore why a kit such as this may be needed, or come in handy at some point. Time will tell.
Take care all –
Rourke
Here’s the survival kit so far:
Mountain House Chili Mac and a pack of Emergency 3600-Calorie Ration Bars
Stanley Adventure Camp Cook Set
YODO Lightweight Two Person Tent
Toilet Paper
Hand Sanitizer
Toothbrush and Toothpaste
Hand Towel, small
Mechanix Wear Durahide FastFit Gloves/gloves
Map of Area
Firestarting Kit: Bic lighters, matches, cotton balls & vaseline, charcloth, ferro rod
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Cordage, duct tape, a few diarrhea pills just in case (unless that’s already in your first aid kit.
Diarrhea pills are a must, I’d take a roll of medical tape with the small amount of duct tape. Spare buckles for pack inside a sewing kit for gear and clothing repairs, running through the woods could rain havoc on gear….mole skin is a MUST considering most of us have little to no experience hiking this many miles, blisters will end you at the wrong time! You should ALWAYS have two pairs of additional socks, your feet are about to experience a hell like they have never experienced before… boot gators will save you a lot of irritation in the woods…ass some salt pills 💊 in that med kit, we will need them! I personally think that a anti chafing stick could be worth its wait in gold, get the anti fungal. Foot powder, toe nail clippers, during the Vietnam war the one thing they constantly pounded in the troops heads was TALE CARE OF YOUR FEET, even when they made a short stop on patrol they were changing their socks…. A pair of flip flops or Sandals for when you stop is a really good ideal! I think some binoculars, compass, weather proof map or case for your map is a must in any bag. Collapsable water containers with some coffee paper filters for water catchment before treating is always good. I suggest having a way to carry at least three litters of water in your bag is a good ideal. Get a boonie hat with a bug net, the hat will keep the bug net and or sun off of you, if you sweet like me sun block is useless bug I do carry a combination spf 30 with deet built in, in a water proof formula. Add a toothbrush and paste for morals sake. Add floss to your sewing kit. Bar of soap?! Yeah it’s worth it. Electronic security alarm??? Vitamins couldn’t hurt, I know when I work myself to exhaustion there’s times I can tell my immune system isn’t firing on all cylinders it would a great ideal to have water supliments with electro lights and vitamins built in you can just add to your drinking water like nuun it’s light and great for you, check them out. Tweezers or tic remover? Bandanna, shamog, face gator?? Multiple reasons for those shush as prefilter, camo, skin protection, fashion a arm brace, or scavengers bag, use with charcoal, sand and gravel for home made water filter….. water treatment tablets, carry MANY with you. Half pint of 100 proof vodka, fire starting, disinfect, pain relief, moral….. raw honey, dress a wound with this, bacteria 🦠 CAN NOT grow on honey, it’s bacteria proof, modern medicine can’t compete with ANY other topical period. Hobo fishing kit? Smear wire? Yoyo reals? Emergency radio with Noah, hand held ham radio.
All good stuff Mr.Hancock, however, I need to be able to carry my bag. In a truck or vehicle, not a problem. Weight is a critical specification and for me, I work to keep it to a. minimum so mobility and speed are optimum. Utilization of a game cart, grocery cart, or something similar would certainly help under the right conditions.
Remove the hand sanitizer and charcloth. Add a bar of Ivory soap, a bandana or two, and some cordage. And I’d rather have the extra weight of a real fork and spoon than try to eat with a spork. If that’s too much, I’ll eat with the knife or make myself a set of chopsticks.
A couple of bandannas. Nail clippers. Small mirror. Tweezers.
At least 50′ of 550 paracord, or 100 ft of the smaller size cord. Stomach, headache, and pain (aspirin, etc) pills.
1 bottle vitamins.
Multitool.
Backpacking/camping soap. Small bottle no-rinse shampoo.
I just obtained a brand new French army tent for 50 clams. It’s fairly awesome. It’s part of my general kit, now.
Reply button must have a glitch JR, just wanted to respond by saying everyone is different, everyone has a specific picture in their mind as to what the situation they will face might look like, and those situations are so different from one person to another person it’s literally limitless on the differences from one persons imagination to the next persons imagination, take for instance the name of your bag “survival bag” because everyone has a name for their bag, and when you think about it a little closer what they call that bag tells you a great deal about how they envision their Scenario, in their imagination each persons “bag” is more so different than each persons DNA, or fingerprints, it’s their imagination that dictates the outcome right? So how can they be wrong? Well in “THEIR” scenario they CANT BE.. now if we look at your bags name “survival” meaning minimal, “kit” small and minimal, taking the name into the equation we can better understand each other’s “BAG” that being said you are making a minimalist bag, just enough stuff to stay alive for very short time and In my “bag” I am not, I’m making a trying to be prepared for anything kind of bag that leads me off in a world without rule of law that will never return to the modern society we have today at least not in the little time I left on this planet anyways. So I’m trying to build a bag that I can lean on for months to come like a everyday EDC for the apocalypse minus of course the consumables that will run out and need to be resupplied as I go. But this is in my “bag” and in my “imagination” the weight has been oh so very carefully considered and deemed worth it, BUT I could be completely wrong and NOTHING happens the way my imagination said it would!!
But that’s ok because I did stay in a holiday inn express last night!
From my military time, foot care is a must so some tweezers, nail clippers, moleskin, and foot powder have to be in there. I didn’t see cordage, but I’m assuming you have plans for that elsewhere. So a few other items would be water purification tablets, sewing kit, a pair of compact binos, a lightweight small camping shovel, homemade fishing kit in an altoids tin, duct tape, electrical tape, zip ties, and a few lightweight climbing carabiners. Just my thoughts.
I love what your doing with this series JR looking at the comments and seeing what everyone else is adding or thinking based on their experience knowledge and even location are making me rethink a few things.
Keep it up and thanks!