Iain, Kool.
I'll have to compare your list with my 'Emergency Survival Pack'. I know I
don't have the sutures in the med kit.
My wife came up with the ESP idea for just that- emergencies- like Yellowstone
going up (volcano), nuclulur (lol) holocaust. and other disasters of the sort.
We each have one in our vehicles, but we have to keep swapping them between
travel vehicles. The list of what's in them would take two pages.
Our travel trailer is well-equipped if that is our survival mode, but if we
have to go on foot and rough it, we can grab the back-packs and whatever food
and water we can carry. We do have water-purification materials. And I'll
carry my Smithy for game/protection in any case.
For fishing gear (vest) and survival, I make sure I have water-proof matches,
food-bars, a rain-parka & space-blanket, my Swiss Champ, and if in bear
country, my Smithy.
One might say "I'm loaded for bear."
Biggest chance in Wyoming of being lost or stranded is travelling remote roads,
hiking, or hunting.
Being injured is the next survival situation, or snake-bit.
I know of flyfishers who spent a night in the wild after severely twisting an
ankle wading in boulder-strewn creeks.
Has anyone tried Frito corn chips for fire-starters? On TV they worked.
DonO
PS I did get a Harrington & Richards 'Handy Rifle' single-shot break-barrel
chambered for the S&W 500. Short, heavy, kicks like a mule.
Keeps knocking the rear sights off, tho, so I need a scope for it. With the
400gr. PSP rounds, it'll reach out 300 yds and knock down an elk.
With the 700 grain slug it will take down anything that ever walked. It was
very inexpensive ($170) and gave me a small (size-wise) back-up rifle to share
bullets with my pistol, but I don't take it fishing.
----- Original Message -----
From: iain short
To: VFB-new
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 12:38 PM
Subject: [VFB] Re: Knife for the backpack...
Dono
In my Bergen, apart from clothes, boots, waterproofs etc i carry
a three inch drop point fixed blade knife
a pair of Lucas electrical pliers (with wire cutter)
a Stanley hatchet with steel shaft.
2 disposable lighters & 2 hexi blocks
50 foot of parachute chord
compass, whistle, first aid kit inc' sutures
dry fruit, oat bars, kendal mint cake
4 very large trash bags (waterproof for you and gear)
In England there are few places you are more than a hour from shelter/help
but I like my comfort.
iain
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From: f...@tribcsp.com
To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
Subject: [VFB] Re: Knife for the backpack...
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:48:24 -0600
I've carried a Swiss Champ for 30 years (yes, the same one- never lost).
It's an inch wide with about evey tool I've ever needed -outside of mechanical
work (or matches). I consider it indispensible when camping, hunting, and
fishing, though I must say I have bigger and better tools for most of the knife
functions. But if I'm ever lost or stranded, it's on my belt and will get me
by.
Good idea for a new thread- our survival gear.
DonO
----- Original Message -----
From: Niclas Runarsson
To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:58 AM
Subject: [VFB] Knife for the backpack...
I was tying at a hunting and fishing show this weekend and one of the ones
having a booth there was Wenger... and I got a chance to see and feel their
cruel pocket knife. Not 'functional'... but 'Guinness Book of Records
functional'. 87 tools... 141 functions. Every tool they have ever put into a
knife... in one single knife!!! (Having it in my hand I saw a 142:nd function.
Without even exposing a single one of the tools, you can still use this beast
as a weapon... it's that heavy.)
I saw this on a picture a couple of weeks ago and the first thing I thought
of when I saw it was Bear Grylls and his program on Discovery Channel, 'Man vs.
Wild'. They drop him off in extreme places like deep djungles and deserts...
and from there he is going to find his way to civilization. At the start of
every adventure he says: "All I've got with me is a waterbottle, a flint and my
knife". This knife would be something for him. Talk about "always packing more
than necassary". Tools like 'shoe spike wrench'... 'cigar cutter'... 'club face
cleaner'... 'laser pointer'... even a 'junior round blade' (that you simply
CAN'T cut yourself from).
The guy in the booth said that the intention was to make one(1) of these,
but it turned out that people "just must have" these too (despite the price).
Well, I for one, sure can think of both one and two things I would rather spend
a spare $1200 on. LOL
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_17001.aspx
http://www.wenger.ch/scripts/Modules/Products/listOne.aspx?idProducts=319&idn=166
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