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Best Survival Kit I've Ever Seen! First Look - Lynx Go Bag from Stay Ready
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Mar 12, 2025
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how much would you spend on a pre-made
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survival kit If Money Was No Object
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we're going to be taking a look at
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probably one of the most extensive well
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put together pre-made survival kits I've
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seen stick around it's going to be an
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interesting
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video all right right off the bat I need
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to make the statement that stay ready
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Outdoors provided this kit to me to
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check out and it's pretty nice of them
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to send this um really an interesting
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company uh they stay ready their
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background seems to be more in the
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Overland camping realm but the store
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that they run online the web store has a
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lot of different products Survival
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Products camping products Bushcraft and
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then this pre-made
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survival kit that just seems to have
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everything you can think of but what's
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interesting about it is and what sets it
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apart from all the other survival kits
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that I've reviewed over the years and
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I've looked at online this thing is made
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from the most well-made premium items
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you could source and we're going to go
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through and see what's in this
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particular kit and talk about the
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different levels of survival kits you
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can purchase from stay ready so let's
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get into it right
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away so what we're looking at is this um
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pre-made or put together survival kit
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from Stay Ready Outdoors it um is called
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the lynx go bag and there are three
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different levels that you can choose
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from currently so the different levels
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basically determine the items that are
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in the kit and then also determines
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which knife you go with now the one
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we're looking at today is the adventure
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um it is middle of the road for the
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three different kits the survivalist
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which is the top tier that actually
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comes with an se5 knife and then the
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lower end one which still isn't really
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lower end um that comes with um a cold
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steel srk and then the middle one that
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that I have this comes with the Gerber
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strong arm so as you can see three
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different knives three different price
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points um the gear changes just a little
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bit um for each of the bags but we're
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going to be taking a look at very
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closely this one so a lot of the
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pre-made kits are always just a bunch of
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junk you know they're uh sold on Amazon
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or Ebay uh they usually contain a lot of
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cheap um filler kind of gear that really
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doesn't make a lot of sense not very
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well made it's not going to hold up very
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well I've I've reviewed a few of those
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kits including the Ozark Trail survival
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kit which was just a complete piece of
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garbage um but you know it was like $4
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right so the price point on the um
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Adventurer uh links go bag is uh
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currently it is
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$59.99 now that's a big chunk of change
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um but when you break this down and you
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actually go out and try to buy all these
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items
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individually um it comes out to $61.99
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um but that does not include taxes or
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shipping um for all these different
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items so what's happening is um Stay
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Ready Outdoors is sourcing this material
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they're getting price points from their
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suppliers and then they're building the
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kits um one at a time and then shipping
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them out to you so they're curating all
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the items personally and that allows
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them to get a little bit of better price
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point and then also do a bit of a
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quality control control check everything
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out make sure everything's good and then
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Source really good products to put in
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this kit all right there it is this is
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it all laid
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out and I think you can see right away
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that there are some very nice quality
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items in this kit this is not your
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typical
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junky survival kit that you find on
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Amazon or
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some other Big Box
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store so here's my list of everything
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that's in the kit now I actually went
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through and I I priced these out online
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at different retailers I tried to go to
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the cheapest retailer that I could find
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so Amazon for me would be the cheapest
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because I have a membership and then I'm
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not going to have to worry about
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shipping and their pricing usually is
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usually the cheap the cheapest you can
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find online but there's some of the
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stuff you can't find on Amazon so
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immediately we have of course the prot
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Versa pack from Max Edition that comes
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out at
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$69.99 you can get that in black or tan
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we have the exotac poly strike Ferro
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Rod which is this very nice quality item
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that's about
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$225 we
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have
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UC stormproof
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matches uh match kit that's $3.99
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this little tin is something that they
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put together it comes with a ranger band
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of course it's got the link survival
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System logo in the
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front but in it there are um Tinder
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quick Fire Starting tabs 10 of those and
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that's $8.95
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couple hand warmer packs um those are
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698 of course we have our Sawyer mini
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water filter system that's $16.99 and it
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comes with uh I think it comes with one
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bag usually or two bags but then they
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also include extra bags a three pack for
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$170 and then we
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have the solo or so emergency V for
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$24.99 we have the snake staff uh
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systems etq and ifac bundle and the
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snake systems uh etq sleeve so the etq
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is snake systems uh tourniquet and this
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is the sleeve that it goes in kind of
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keeps it all together keeps it clean and
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packable and and then this is their
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ifac and as you can tell it's got some
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pretty high quality stuff in it it's got
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a high fin uh chest seal from North
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American
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Rescue there's some compressed gauze so
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it's just a really nice emergency first
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aid kit or I would consider more of a
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trauma
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kit inside the tin there is also a
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floating signal
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mirror and that's coming out at
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$10.49 um we
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have a
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windstorm safety whistle that is
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$9.90 stto A10 Compass of course this is
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a quality Compass a good uh base plate
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compass for
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1999 we
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have the SE
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navigation card
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set and if you're not familiar with
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these you've got uh your grid reader in
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here but also you have some uh cheat
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stuff to kind of tell you how to do Land
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Navigation there's some signaling things
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in here so it's a nice handy little
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piece of gear to have with compass and
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just good reminders of how to do
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signaling how to do navigation and those
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run about $16.16
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of
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course we have the made in the USA
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Gerber strong
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arm those are going for looks like
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$89.99 very quality knife um you can
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look at the reviews on these online if
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you don't believe what I'm going to say
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about this because everything I've read
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about the Gerber strong arm um has
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always been very positive it's just it's
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a beefy knife it's wellmade it's made by
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Gerber which a lot of people don't like
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but it is made in the USA say Gerber
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it's not um their Offshore Manufacturing
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this is actually made in Portland so
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very good quality survival
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knife then we have a silky saw this is
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the uh f180 I actually did a review of
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this saw a long time ago when these
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first came out and it was a fabulous saw
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really liked it and um the fact that
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they're giving you a quality saw I think
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uh speaks volumes about this kit
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and those are going for $39.99 then we
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have
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um another great item that a lot of
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survival kits don't even think about but
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they're giving you this nest out
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waterproof uh power bank it's 10,000 M
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uh these run about $41
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$42 um it's a
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quality battery bank or battery pack but
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also it's got a covering on it so helps
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keep the moisture out and since we have
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a rechargeable headlamp uh this is great
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to have but also everybody carries a
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phone nowadays and sometimes a phone can
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be useful in the back country to get you
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out of a bad situation then we have 50
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ft of the Atwood um battle cord as you
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can tell this stuff is a lot thicker and
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heavier Duty than 550 cord it's um very
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stiff uh much thicker um I'll have to
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look up and put down in the captions
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what the rating on this is but I believe
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it's much more than 550 cord and then um
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they're also giving you a rat uh Essie
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rat locking Carabiner that's about
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$12.48 the Battle cord is running about
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1280
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um also get a pack of mini chem light
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from snakes St systems there's 20 of
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those then we have the SE survival card
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set so this is more signaling
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information how to cross
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rivers
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uh there is some e camouflage
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information and that's running about
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$10.79 right and Rain nope book and Pen
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about 15
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bucks Atwood micro cord
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$6.90 great item here this is the exotac
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um rip spool this has
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um thread in it for
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sewing but
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also a good size size needle and then
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all that is
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tape and then there's the there there's
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the thread for selling but that's
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actually been heat sealed with some
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shrink wraps so it it stays good until
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you actually need it it's a very handy
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little tool to have love these things
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have these in a lot of my
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kits and those are those rip spools are
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actually running about
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$31 and then we have uh the 42 gallon
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contractor bags um couldn't find a price
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on those we've got a marac or
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marac
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afterburner glow tag which these things
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glow really well it's just like a glow
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dark rubber um tag but you put this on
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your bag and that way you can find your
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bag um when you set it down in the dark
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it's awesome and then last but not least
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we have a very nice quality night core
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headlamp this is the new 25 or nu25
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these are running about 40 bucks it's a
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rechargeable headlamp it has a very nice
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lightweight
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headband that's adjustable so you can
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put that over a cap or a
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helmet um it's a good quality
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light I've been messing with it a little
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bit at home and I've like I like it
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quite a bit um I don't have a lot of
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night core stuff so I was really
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surprised
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it's even got red light so nice nice
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light so if you're unfamiliar with the
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Maxpedition Proteus it is a very high
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quality um THD Cordura waist
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pack that has a very generous um belt on
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it you can actually wear the surrender
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waist that's the way I hiked in here
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with it around my waist but you can also
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extend this out and then wear it
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crossbody it's like a sling pack um of
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course keeping this in your vehicle is
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really I think the the intention of this
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kit this is something that you're going
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to leave in the back of your vehicle and
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then when something happens and you need
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to to strike out uh you gra this and go
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another great feature on the Proteus is
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that it has d-rings on the sides so you
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can add a shoulder strap um and I've
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done that too I've added a shoulder
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strap to mine that way it's even a
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little bit more easy to carry the um
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belt actually will tuck in back
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here see that so that's there's a tunnel
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right there and that belt will tuck in
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so that gets out of the way but it also
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has the Molly webbing so you could
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attach this to a larger pack so if you
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wanted to make this into a system and
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then um what they've done is uh they've
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included the knife and they've strapped
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it to the pack and what I've done is I
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put it um actually on the front of my
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pack with this cord and that way it's
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always on the pack um I'm never going to
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lose it it's going to be there now with
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the Gerber strong arm there are other
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attachments that come with it that
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actually make it so you can wear it um
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on your belt um or Molly it to a bag um
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that comes with it I have all that stuff
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back at home but I don't feel I needed
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it um so I I attached it with this
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elastic cord to the front of the
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Proteus and it makes for a nice Scout
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carry when I'm wearing that that fanny
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pack or waist bag around the back I can
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reach
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around grab that knife and pull it out
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and it's in here very secure I think
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so that's the
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silky that is dry seasoned
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wood that went through that pretty darn
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quick it's actually a pretty good baton
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I would say good club
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I really like that silky saw that thing
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is
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smooth and it's not as um doesn't seem
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as flexy as some of the other silkies
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that I've I've used in the past it's a
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good economical saw from a really
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quality company
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so that's Factory Edge I haven't I
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haven't done anything to this knife
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yet just got it started using
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it I think as far as things that I might
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add um one thing I would add to this kit
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is some means of sharpening my knife or
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maintaining it and that's something of
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course you can add to it the kit has a
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lot of extra room in it to add some more
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stuff if you want to customize it even
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further but I like having the ability to
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sharpen my tools when I'm out because if
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you really are relying on this knife as
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your kind of one tool option to get
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things done um you want to be able to
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maintain it
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have a nice fine Edge on it so you can
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do keep doing these nice
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curls so I've never messed with one of
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these I've seen them I've just I've
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never owned one so this is the first
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time I've used this the
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exotac see oh yeah
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okay so it looks like the striker is
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built into the handle and that pops out
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nice that's clever design and then that
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separates so you can strike it and
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really
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nice looks like
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carbide
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Striker and that's sharp it's got a good
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Edge to it and that's what you want with
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Strikers of course the Ferro Rod's brand
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new okay looks like the key to this is
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placing see how that it looks like a
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little I beam or an
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H it's kind of fitting that in the
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groove and then there we go all right so
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we got the exotac and then we
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have these little
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guys and I think these are just cotton I
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don't think they have any kind of stuff
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on
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them usually with these you want to
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fluff these
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out um that way you can catch a
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spark easier so you can us usually just
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use your hands and kind of start tearing
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it apart fluffing it up a little bit cuz
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it's they're very
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compressed and then you just add your
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material as this thing catches
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right there there it goes and then you
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add your curls of course and then start
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adding your bigger pieces of wood your
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Tinder so this is the so emergency bivvy
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um I don't think I've used this one
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before we're going to open it up take a
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look at it now it has a whistle built
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into
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it um you know a good backup whistle
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it's probably not the best whistle on
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the market but it's better than
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nothing so comparing this to let's say
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other emergency um myar blankets or tube
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tents I've reviewed those before um
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these are much heavier Duty um they are
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they have they have a plastic type
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material or feeling on one side and then
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of course you have the myar material on
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the other um and that just gives it a
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little bit more durability they'll
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withstand a little bit more abuse than a
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standard myar blanket now I'm going to
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save this I'm not going to open this all
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the way up and and start using this
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today because um one of the goals with
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this kit is to take this kit out again
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um and actually do a complete overnight
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out of the bag um with out um any other
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items added um except maybe some food
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that's one thing this kit doesn't have
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is food but you should have you know
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Trail snacks with you
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anyway um so I want to retain this for
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that um that exercise because what I
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want to do is I want to take those
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contractor bags and build some type of
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temporary shelter and then use the bvy
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bag and sleep in that and see how that
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goes and one thing I wanted to look at
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is this battle cord I'm not familiar
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with it I've never owned any of this
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before so there's that locking
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Carabiner this
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stuff my gosh it is this mean this is
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only what was I say 50 ft it's heavy
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there's there's some weight to this
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thing and the thickness it's it looks
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like it's almost double of what 550 cord
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is see if I can get this
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untied which makes me think
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um if I look at the specs that you would
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actually be able to use this possibly
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for um some type
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of maybe a Swiss seat um like an
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emergency repelled down a short distance
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certainly looks tough enough uh to drag
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equipment or gear up and down a tree or
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down a hillside or whatever but what I
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wanted to do
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is I wanted
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to cut a small
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section and see what this stuff looks
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like on the
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inside so we have it looks like
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strands but they're um they're thicker
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strands see that
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but unlike 550 which the strands are
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very uh tightly wound you can actually
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use those independently of each other
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this looks more um
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fluffy
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um so I don't know like how much you'd
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actually be able to use those inner
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strands for
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something I'm sure you could probably
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improvise something with this stuff um
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but as you can tell just opening that up
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they're coming
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apart and then of course look at that
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just that's one strand that's all the
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Little
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Fibers all right so that's the first
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look at the Stay Ready Outdoors links
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survival system this is the adventurer
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uh
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level shown everything it comes with um
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of course there are things I would add
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to this um you should have a water
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bottle of some sort and particularly a
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stainless steel one so you can actually
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boil water in it but some people don't
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always think about that and you know
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this kit doesn't have absolutely
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everything of course you could go to a
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bigger bag um but I the intention of
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this kit really is just kind of a quick
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grab and go or something that could
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supplement a larger backpack system or
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this could be actually vehicle based so
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there should be other items that you
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would need with this water bottle um
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knife sharpening system um I would add
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some Band-Aids uh just for small cuts um
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of course you could get by with the duct
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tape and use that as emergency bandage
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um I would also probably add some type
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of signaling panel or marking tape um I
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like blaze orange items for uh signaling
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and um there really isn't any signal
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panel in this and there are some very
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good lightweight ones you could throw in
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there that would I think um boost the
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signaling ability I'm going to get out
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of here look for another video where we
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actually go out and use this thing
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overnight and test this thing to its
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limits and as always thanks for watching
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27:52
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