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Alright, today's video is going to be a little different than normal, because you're not
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going to see my lovely face, but what I'm going to do is I'm going to walk you through
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a belt kit that I put together today. I've been home down with some flu, and I've been feeling really bad, and finally I've
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started feeling good, and I was tinkering with this belt kit, and I got this idea off
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of Instagram. There is an excellent feed on there, Ravens Wilderness Survival School, and this is a
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belt kit that he put together that he showed on one of his posts, and I kind of took his
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idea and expanded upon it with equipment that I had in storage that I've been using
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in other kits that I've put together, and decided to assemble this one, and I'm pretty
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darn pleased with it, because I think it's going to work out pretty well. So it's a pretty basic kit
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The premise of it is that this is a wilderness, backwoods, scout rig
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Something that's low profile, has just enough necessities to get you out and do what you
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need to do for the day. What's great about it is it's modular, so you don't have to carry all these components
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if you don't want to. If I wanted to, let's say, take the pistol off, because I don't need that, that's fine
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I can do that. That comes off very easily, and then that leaves the core components, which is my IFAK
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my survival kit, my canteen kit, and then some of my tools
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So let's walk through this thing real quick, and see what you guys think
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Now first thing is, this is built on this MOLLE belt pad that I got from One Thief
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If you've watched my videos, I've shown this in the past. It is the Digital Air Force Tiger Stripe that I dyed green, so it has kind of a foliage
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green color now, more of a ranger green I guess. It's a great belt pad, very inexpensive, but I just added this pistol belt to it
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Works great, stiff enough, easy to get it on and off. It's a great platform for building a kit
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On this side here, I've got this MOLLE adapter. This is the K-Bar adapter
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So this clips onto the MOLLE panel, and then you're able to take your knife sheath that
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has a normal belt loop, and slide that onto this webbing, and then Velcro it shut, and
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then now you have access to a belt knife, but you don't have to permanently attach it
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to the MOLLE rig. You can take that on and off, so if you want to change knives, you can
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Then of course we have a Gerber multi-tool. In this pouch, I have my canteen setup
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When I'm out and about in the woods, I always want some water with me
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I like military canteens. This is the Nalgene Oasis canteen. It is the exact same size as a military canteen
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So, it fits my stainless cup perfectly, and I've got the stove stand on that as well
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so I can heat water if I want to. Side pouches, I've got some coffee, there's some Folgers in there, and a couple other
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things like sugar packets, stuff like that. So, that gives me the ability to heat some water, make some coffee if I have to
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And then this pouch is the Marine Corps utility pouch. I think this was issued with the filled pack system
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It's a great pouch because it is a nice long pouch, it's narrow, it doesn't stick out a
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lot, but it holds a lot and has a little bit of organization built into it
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You can get quite a bit of stuff in here. So, I have my Aspit stove, I have a Mylar space blanket for emergency shelter building
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to keep me warm in case something happens. I've got some wet wipes, canteen cup lid, my spoon
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Here's a great little tool that I just picked up. This came from Lester River Bushcraft
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This is a little saw that he's been putting together. Here, I had to unfold it off camera
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But there it is. He's utilizing this wood and metal Irwin blade and then putting it in this kind of custom
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Kydex sheath or handle that he makes. He puts that all together
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And then on the end of it, it comes with one of these fire starting cords
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So if you pull that rubber back, there is some material in there to start a fire with
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So it's a nice little emergency fire starting backup. Lester River Bushcraft sells these saws and it is a nice little piece of kit that doesn't
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take up a lot of room. It's very lightweight. So we'll do more testing on that when I'm feeling better and I'm out in the woods
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And then this pouch has a back panel to it. And I've got a whistle built in here because there is a tie down loop
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So I've got that tied in. Over here I've got some bank line
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Gotta have bank line. Just as good as 550 cord. Takes up a lot less room, weighs a lot less and I can do a lot of stuff with this
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So for, you know, just primitive shelter building, this would be enough
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Then a very lightweight, easy way to filter some water quickly is a Frontier
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This is the, let's see which one is this, Frontier Emergency Filter
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So basically this is the kind that you would just basically stick into a puddle or water
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source and then suck out what you need. This would be definitely a last ditch kind of thing
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And then in this pouch really is all of my survival stuff
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So I've got my AquaTabs for water purification. I have a magnifying lens from Survival Resources
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It's a 2x3. A great little item to have. I like to keep some fire starting tabs
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I just get these at the hardware store. Of course I have some Whirl Bags to add those tablets to, to purify water if I need to
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I have, and this is a military issue signal mirror. I'll take that all out, but there it is
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It's a nice one because it has a heavy duty kind of rubber, plastic edge to it
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And then I've just got it in this elastic band and of course it's got a cord on it
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So we've got that. Big lighter with some duct tape
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A brass match safe. And this has a good compass in it that actually works
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And these match safes, I'm not even sure they make these anymore, but it contains the waterproof
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kind of lifeboat style matches that you get. I think these are just the UCOs and there's a striker inside there, but it's a great
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great container. And I like the fact that it actually has a gasket with that backup compass
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And then of course there's a tether cord with it. And then little fire bellows, pocket bellows
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Always have one of these in my kits. It really helps in getting a fire going
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And then a ferro rod. I did a review of these. These are the Firefast ferro rods
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They're kind of nice because they have the built in magnesium bar on the back that you
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can scrape off magnesium so it gives you another source. And then also this wood handle, you can scrape off of that and turn that into tinder for
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your fire. And then it comes with a really nice carbide striker so you don't have to use your knife
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if you don't want to. But it's a fantastic little ferro rod combo
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And then a couple of fat wood sticks. And that's it. That is all the survival goodies in this bag
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Put that all out of the way. And down here we have this first aid kit
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I don't know who makes this pouch. I've had it for a little while. I got it in a trade or something from somebody
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But I really like it because it is specifically a first aid pouch but it is very low profile
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I've added this patch panel on it so I can identify it as an IFAC
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But it has MOLLE on the front and on the sides so I was able to put this Air Force tourniquet
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pouch that I dyed green on the side of it. See that
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There's MOLLE on the sides. Of course I've got trauma shears. And then here it has a pocket that you can open up
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And I've got gloves. And then in a plastic bag I keep alcohol swabs, triple antibiotic
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There is a syringe and a needle. There is some pads, larger pads, gauze pads
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Just a variety of items. Some MOLLE skin. Some general first aid stuff
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And then on this back panel here you can see down here there's compressed gauze
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There's also quick clot combat gauze down there. So there's a variety of items in here
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I think the only thing I would like to add to this is probably add a chest seal to it
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I think I need to do that because that does not take up very much room
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So we'll throw a chest seal in there. But that is a good standard IFAK for treating major wounds and some minor stuff as well
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And then last but not least is this pouch. This is the M12 holster
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It's the military issue holster. It was designed for the Beretta M9
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You can pick these up pretty cheap all over the place. Now in here I have my Smith & Wesson Victory 22
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I really like a 22 semi-auto pistol for woods carry. You can do some hunting with it
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I mean if you have to, I guess you can use it for self defense but that's not really
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why I carry it. I carry it for if I want to hunt with it and take a rabbit or a squirrel I can absolutely
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do that. Now the M12 holster does not fit this pistol very well
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Let me show you why. As you can see the Smith & Wesson, it protrudes a little too far for this holster so the flap
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will not close down and latch down here where it's supposed to
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That latch is supposed to go right in there. So what I've done is I've put a piece of webbing, ran a piece of webbing through this
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and created another spot for the latch to go to so now it's going to catch on that webbing
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right down there and that still allows me to have a protective flap over my pistol
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Now the heart and the soul of this kit is this MOLLE pad that I got from One Thief
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It's a really nice pad because it has decent padding on it, it has this kind of mesh ventilated
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material for wicking moisture but it does have slots, one right there and one right
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there so if you want to put a drop leg into it and attach it to the belt, see the belt
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in there, you can run a drop leg out of it. So you got two of those and then it has loops with metal rings, D-rings on it for your straps
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your harness strap, same thing on the back right there and there's one and there's one
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so it's a three point strap system and then I got the straps from One Thief as well
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I think this is the Marine Corps issue webbing strap but you put this on and now you have
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a really comfortable, lightweight, low profile belt rig that is set up for wilderness, bushcraft
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scouting, hunting, survival type situations. This is not a war belt per se, even though you could certainly turn that into this by
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taking that holster off and putting a dedicated tactical holster, like a drop leg of some
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sort or a kydex for your Glock or whatever but I have this set up for scouting around
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the woods when I don't want to carry all my gear or heavy pack and I just want to go out
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and explore a little bit for the day. I'm constantly reevaluating these types of kits and perfecting them and working on them
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and since I did this one, I'm pretty excited about it because I think it's going to be
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a great kit just to run around the woods in the summer
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I can't wait to get out in the woods and try this thing so hopefully when I'm feeling a
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little bit better and this rain stops because it's been raining non-stop for the past week
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I can get out in the woods and do a full review of this with you and show you some
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of this gear in use. Oh and the knife, of course you guys want to see the knife right
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Everyone wants to see the knife. This is the SE4HM and it's a really cool knife because the previous owner actually did some
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nice work on these scales to give it some grip and then he put this cool bead on it
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But it's a fantastic bushcraft all-purpose survival knife, the SE4HM. I think in one of my short videos I actually called this the SE4PR and that's incorrect
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it is not, it is the HM. So there's that and of course the SE comes with a Kydex sheath but this I believe is
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a sagewood gear drop leather attachment so you can see that in the back how that attaches
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to the Kydex but fantastic knife. That's great because now with this setup I can add different knives
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If I want to go for a bigger knife I can do that, if I want to use my smaller knife I can but I'm not limited or stuck with one blade always permanently attached to my MOLLE
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belt rig. So I hope this video gave you guys some ideas on how to set up a belt kit
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It's pretty easy to do with military surplus, there's plenty of options out there so just
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go out and try some different things, see what works for you
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You don't have to spend tons of money on gear to get out in the woods, I certainly don't
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I try to build and scrounge as much stuff as I possibly can and then save my money and
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spend it on the things that matter and count like knives, stuff like that
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