wheelgunslinger
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Arfin, what about the henry survival rifle? What do you think about those?
http://henryrepeating.com/h002_survival.cfm
http://henryrepeating.com/h002_survival.cfm
While I agree that skin staplers are amazing, here's where "multiple function" comes in again. Super Glue. Will close up gashes and can be used for other functions as well. It's lighter and takes up less space.And one more item for your Med Kit: a Skin Stapler - easier to do than stitches, but does take up a little more room.
As a smoker, I have one gripe about the disposable Bic-type lighters. If the weather is cold, the damn things don't always work. CARRY ANOTHER FIRE SOURCE! Matches would be good. I'm not saying don't go with the disposable lighter, just make sure you have a back-up.
For the medkit I would also add: 2-3 plaster cast
packets (some pharmacies carry them) and large cotton
in the event that you do need to ditch the vehicle and want to be found, paint a ring around a tree and then walk in you intended direction until you almost lose sight of the first tree, continue as needed
Funderb said:1. Always bring a towel.
Under what circumstances do you imagine you would want to leave the road, and wander off through the woods?
A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very, very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.