Critique my survival kit

[hobgob]

kit looks good, i learned the value of having a good knife(seatbelt cutter) last week. I was riding in the car with a buddy and got into a serious wreck, flipped out car multiple times and the car landed on the passenger side. Once we realized everyone was ok (2 of us were wearing seatbelts, the driver wasnt, he ended up in my brothers lap, who was sitting in the shotty position) i realized my seatbelt was stuck. Before i had time to panick i had my trusty and sharp pocket knife out and i was climbing out of the vehicle. Everyone made it out ok, but if the car had caught fire and i had been stuck, would have been a dif story.

 

[ilbob]

I'm a firm belliever in "live backups"... if you just seal up a bunch of supplies and never use them you can't really trust them, but if you actively use your emergency supplies as often as you can (and of course rotate and restock) you'll have a much better picture of how they will perform in the real world. Plus, of course, you get to enjoy the supplies instead of sitting on them waiting for a disaster.

yep. Just try making a fire some day using flint and steel. its not trivial even in the fire pit in your yard. now think about trying to do it out in the woods in the cold.

thats why i would not waste space with such things. a bic lighter or two is a whole lot better, but needs to be replaced now and then.

 

[wadeXD-40]

I would get a camelback hawg. Get a few MRE's and field strip them keep the main entrees and energy drink powder. a modern NATO E-tool is more compact. A first aid kit with quick clot packets and tourniquets. A good flaslight that is easy on the batteries and is bright enough for any task. a pistol you are comfortable with can shoot and reload quickly. practice field stripping it in the dark and learn all the features and immediate action drills if it jams. plenty of mags and ammo and a small cleaning kit a bore snake and a tooth brush and CLP would be fine. and rope and a nice fixed blade knife

 

[IDriveB5]

places like REI, HTO carry 9+ hour candles. I use these when out backpacking. They also have small lanterns that are made to use with these. They can add a lot of warmth and light to a tent in the winter.

Learned a lot on the tread.

 

[telomerase]

All good ideas, but a few thousand shares of QID or SDS would have been doing a lot more good in the kind of disaster we've been having