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PSK | A Pocket Survival Kit That's Easy to Carry!
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Jan 25, 2025
In this video I will show you an easy to build pocket survival kit that can be carried in a variety of ways. #bushcraftgear #survivalgear #survival Father Nomad Survival Gear: https://fathernomad.com Viperade Pouch: https://bit.ly/3C1C1N4 Streamlight Microstream: https://bit.ly/42mUAG6 ESEE Survival Cards: https://bit.ly/4g49nIY Victorinox Forester: https://bit.ly/3WaqlOD Gorilla Tape: https://bit.ly/40DArub
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in today's video we're going to be
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putting together a pocket survival kit
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that anybody can do stick around I'm
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going to show you how to do
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[Music]
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it all right today's video we're going
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to be looking at this uh pocket survival
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kit that I put together and um pocket
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survival kit may be a little bit of a
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misleading term um but I really couldn't
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think of a better term for it
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because it's a pouch a small pouch
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that's going to contain a lot of basic
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survival items um that you could carry
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in your
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pocket uh in a BDU pocket jacket pocket
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but the way I'm going to show you how to
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use this I've set it up using this
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baldric rig which is basically just 550
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cord um tied into a dou double
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fisherman's Bend and I'll talk a little
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bit about why I did that and how I used
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utilize that but the pouch that we're
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looking at today is actually a pouch I
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already did a review on about two videos
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back um I was talking about some great
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EDC pouches that I found on Amazon and
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this is one of them this is from
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viperade uh I guess this is like the vp8
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or something like that it's a great
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little pouch uh that can hold a lot of
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stuff but what's really cool about it is
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it has these Loops that are sewn into
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the top of it
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and as one of my viewers pointed out
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that's probably a great place to put a
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lanyard through and carry it around your
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neck which makes a lot of sense uh but I
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kind of took that one step further with
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that suggestion and instead of making
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this like an EDC pouch that you would
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carry every day I've turned this more
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into a mini survival kit that can be
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carried in multiple ways and that's what
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we're going to look at and I'm going to
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show you the items I in this thing to
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see what it can actually carry all right
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here's the viperade pouch pretty cool
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pouch uh I went over this uh two videos
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ago but basically what it is all right
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here's the viperade pouch pretty cool
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little EDC pouch but can easily be
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turned into a survival kit or even a
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dedicated uh Bushcraft kind of fire kit
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that you can always carry with you and
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since it has some different ways of
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carrying it with these loops or just
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slipping it into your pocket of your
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jacket or BDU pants uh this becomes a
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pretty handy little item now what I've
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done is I've tried to cover all the
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basics with this as much as possible and
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of course there are shortcomings anytime
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you put together kits of this size
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because you are limited on the amount of
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stuff you can carry and that's why a lot
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of times these Altoid tin survival kits
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that we all kind of started building
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when we first got into survival
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Bushcraft really turn out to be kind of
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ridiculous and carry very little items
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that are usable because everything's so
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small so upgrading to something a little
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bit bigger like this will give you a
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better chance of being successful and
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give you some more usable tools so on
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this side we have two slots and then a
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large slot in the back and then we have
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this Molly webbing on the front um light
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source always a good item to have this
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is a Streamlight micro stream it's a
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fantastic little uh
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flashlight uh what's nice about these
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micro streams is that you can actually
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clip these to the the bill of a ball cap
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and now you have basically a
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headlamp and then cutting tool always
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important item to have and I really
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think um there's a lot of different
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options but I feel that the Victorian Bo
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is probably one of the best options you
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can get uh lightweight affordable this
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is the Forester model and what's nice
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about the Forester is that it is a
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locking blade it has a saw and let me
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tell you these Victorinox saws are
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pretty handy for doing small camp tasks
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and then of course we've got can openers
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bottle
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openers wine cork remover which is
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probably the most unimportant item but
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it can be utilized for other things if
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you're are
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crafty and then you've
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got a couple different screwdrivers and
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of course those can open or bottle
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openers but I really like the Forester
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just because of its size of the rubber
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grip on it it's got a good feel to it
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and that locking
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blade you can open that up with one hand
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pretty
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easily becomes a very effective small
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tool can do a lot of chores with this in
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Camp
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then we have a nice small right in the r
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notebook always good idea to be able to
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take notes or leave notes um if you are
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going off somewhere on trail and you
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want to leave a note um you can do that
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with one of these and then very unique
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little item that I have here this is
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from a small maker by the name of Father
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Nomad he does a lot of 3D printing and
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this is his Design This little uh
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miniature
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light stick holder that will slip onto
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Molly webbing or any kind of one-inch
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webbing you have and these little glow
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sticks actually you can buy these in
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fishing
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departments they're for night fishing
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but you break that open and you will
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have a good light source for marking an
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area or your
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gear they work pretty well and they last
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a pretty good long time on this side
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I've got
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a right in the rain pen for my
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notepad and then really a fantastic
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little item this is fire ribbon so
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basically this is kind of a almost like
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a wax impregnated uh paper that you tear
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off a piece and you
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scrape this material fluff it up a
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little bit and then hit it with a spark
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and it will burn pretty good long time
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really good stuff for starting a fire
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and since it's flat
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it really doesn't take up a lot of
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room the velcro field here I've added
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this patch which I think kind of adds to
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the ho being able to see uh and and
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signal with this is um a patch that
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glows in the dark but also is reflective
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and let me show you how that
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works so there you can see it's glowing
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pretty reflective
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item here's the glow stick
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pretty
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cool in this
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pouch I have a few things first item is
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this little pouch that
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contains uh some survival cards and a
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couple other small items so I've got
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these
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SE Zulu survival cards
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um I forget how I obtained these I think
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they may have came with a kit um I
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believe that comes separately from SC
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knives but they're really cool because
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they have a lot of useful information on
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them and they're very small lightweight
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laminated
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cards but you've
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got a lot of different information that
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could be
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handy in a
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situation and then of course um uh
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magnifying glass for Starting Fire but
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also for reading maps and uh inspecting
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wounds taking out slivers out of your
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finger this can come in handy for that
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and then we have a couple of water
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purification tablets to add to a water
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bottle or a canteen and then this very
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nice little miniature signal mirror that
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I got from Best Glide Best Glide if
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you're not familiar with them they saw a
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lot of survival
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supplies and survival
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kits and this all
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fits this little
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sleeve that the magnifying glass came in
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from Best Glide so makes for a nice
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compact card
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kit then of course you're going to have
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to have a whistle for
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signaling and then a mini Ferro rod
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just to show how effective these little
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Ferro rods can be if they're if you have
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the right tools and know how to use
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them it's even
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got small
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magnesium bar on it
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in the main pouch I have a couple items
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I have some stere strips and a few
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Band-Aids that I've sealed up in a
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plastic
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bag and then of course Gorilla Tape
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which Gorilla Tape actually um is great
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for repairs but you can also tear off a
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strip of this do your magnesium shavings
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onto it and they'll stick to it so
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they're not blowing all over the place
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in the wind and then you can strike that
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with your feral rod and get your fire
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going so this becomes another method of
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Starting
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Fire and then of course got to have a
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big
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lighter now people ask me why I do this
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why is there a zip tie on here well
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is
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actually
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protecting uh or helping conserve the
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fuel in the lighter and then when I need
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it you can move it to the
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side and get it to work if you press
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hard enough but this is not going to
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accidentally the pouch and I'm not going
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to lose all the gas in this lighter so
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this helped conserve the fuel so it's
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ready to go when I need it now mini
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compasses uh they're they're problematic
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because there are tons of them on the
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market most of them are junk uh this one
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I don't have really high hopes for uh
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most of the small ones button compasses
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that I've purchased in the past they all
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develop bubbles pretty quickly and they
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stop working this one is still working
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it's a zipper
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pull Compass so this would be nice you
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could throw this on your jacket or your
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shirt or even on one of these loops on
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the pouch and that would give you at
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least a method of getting a bearing and
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knowing which direction you're going to
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be
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walking but that is it that is the
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contents of this pouch and obviously I
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would love to carry more items but I
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think there's
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enough of the basics in here that you
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should be able to
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get
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through a bad
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situation a little bit more comfortably
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you can obviously sterilize some water
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you can do some basic signaling you've
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got a light source in case you need to
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hike out of an area so the Baldrick rig
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is something that I utilize to carry
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knives when I'm out in the field in the
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winter time and um like the last video I
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did I actually did a winter hike and I
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was talking about how to set up a a
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simple Baldrick rig and be able to carry
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your field knife on your person um
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without it being on your belt and that's
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the whole point of it
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because um carrying bulky heavy large
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items underneath a jacket in the winter
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can be proved difficult to get to you
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have to undo layers you have to kind of
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grab around underneath your jacket to
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pull stuff out and a Baldrick rig allows
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you to carry
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items over the
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shoulder so you can lengthen
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this get it around your
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shoulders and take your kit
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flip it
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in now can
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hang down by your side all right hope
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glow stick holders he has some other
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