Belt Pouch EDC

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afternoon guys I'm Dave Canterbury what's up reliance Outfitters in the Pathfinder school and I've had quite a few people ask me to go over the contents of my belt pouch I carry a belt pouch from most of the time with whatever belt knife I happen to be carrying that day and I do switch things in and out quite a bit as far as what axe or hatchet I'm carrying what belt knife I'm carrying depending on the day of the week really because I like to try a lot of different things I work very closely with Mora so I use a lot of more knives

of course I'm part owner of the Pathfinder knife shop so we do a lot of testing at Pathfinder knives as well and so those things lead me to try different equipment but the contents of this bill pouch stay relatively the same so let's talk about this is kind of like an EDC for me because I spend most of my time in a woodland environment I don't have to worry about walking through you know Walmart or a city park or a high school or anything like that with something on my belt so for a woodland type environment this is pretty much my EDC I get up in the morning throw it on my belt my belt knife I wear it throughout the day no matter what I'm doing most of time so stay with me we'll break it out okay so my combo today is the TIE fighter scorpion and this belt pouch so this is my belt knife and I would always have a belt knife in conjunction with this belt pouch of some kind and then the pouch itself so this is just a leather pouch it's probably if I had to guess using something to measure with I'd say it's probably four and a half inches by five inches something like that and it's gusseted and inside this pouch I carry lots and lots of different things but most of them are really fire-starting implements in some way shape or form I have just a Swiss Army Hunter style pocket knife in here the reason I carry this knife is because it's small and compact as opposed to like a truck or something like that it has the tweezers on it and it has the pic on it it also has a small saw blade on it which I really like because that small saw blade is very very effective as striking a ferrocerium rod you can take a small ferrocerium rod like this more nice Ferro rod and that little saw blade really throws the sparks off of that dude

and I like that so also for any small intricate cutting I need to do if I'm making a fire board for a student demo or something like that I've got a small saw to cut that in really quick and of course you have to can't open the screwdriver and of course a spare knife blade at the same time and then I've got the ferrule right in there and I always keep a small one my belt pouch and a bigger one either on my haversack or in my pocket or something like that I have a magnifying glass in here that's just the bottom of a pair of binoculars you can see the glue around it where it was in a binoculars but I find this type of magnifying glass works really well for me and this is just a 10 that used to have fish hooks in it and it just happened to fit that magnifying glass perfectly I have a flint and steel kit in here basically for demo purposes with some char cloth some punk wood to be charred a char of a shard of sliced agate which basically is just a quartz type material a piece of Flint and then a fire steel on the bottom again this is really just a demo type kit that I use when I'm doing stuff for students or if I'm just practicing starting fire with flint and steel until the point now we're on to practice starting fires too much with primitive means I pretty much can do it so my go-to most of the time to be honest with you is a cigarette lighter I keep one in there all the time that's always going to be my first go-to for a fire I think that nowadays in this community we've gotten too hung up on the Ferro rod and everybody thinks the only way to start a bushcraft fires with a Ferro rod I disagree the way to start a fire is the fastest possible way to start a fire and oftentimes a cigarette lighter is the way to do that I also carry a small tube of matches in here and really this is more for the traditions sake than anything else or for demonstration purposes and I've got about eight or ten strike-anywhere matches in there in an antique match case ok now let's talk about some more less conventional things that might be in a belt pouch I have a hand forged blanket pin in here that I can use in conjunction with my wool blanket to make outerwear or a garment or cloak of some kind if I need to and then I carry a piece of chain in here that's very lightweight chain but it's got a

hooks on what that does for me is a if I use one-inch sticks it gives me a quick tripod that I can use to hang my Bush pot off up over a fire very very quick very easy I can also use this for pulling my bush pot off the fire now I've also got in here a small piece of twisted metal

I found this idea originally the original idea for this in a nineteen I want to say it was somewhere between 1913 and 1920 article reprinted by Nemec in a boy's Life magazine might even have been a Field & Stream magazine but he carried a piece like this that he would use for a fish stringer he would just tie a string to it shove it down the mouth and through the gills and he would carry this as a fish stringer when I saw that I thought that's a pretty cool idea but it's much more multifunctional than that because it's made of metal it's heavier than just a toggle would be so I can use this to drop down the muzzle of my 12 gauge and a t-handle to pull a rag through to clean mud barrel I can also use it on the end of one of these hooks and now I can drop it down into my water bottle on my canteen to catch on the shoulders to lift my water bottle or my canteen out of the fire so I can use this very synonymously to the way I would use a toggle but because it's made out of metal it's got a little bit more weight and it's got a little bit more durability to it and then I carry that link of chain it's probably about a foot and a half long with two hooks on it and it doesn't really weigh very much at all so it's going to bottom my pouch and then I have a small bundle of Tula bark tinder in there that just sits in the bottom of my pouch all the time in case I were to ever need that just emergency quick flame or a quick small bird nest to effect a fire with that's in there and all of that stuff fits in there pretty conveniently I generally run this just like this to the center I put this in on top somebody's using approximately shotgunner they're hunting turkey and just shot one recruiter it is turkey season right here in Ohio I believe those guys out hunting out here shot guns going off your that are practicing there's lots and lots of turkey in this area so all of these items fit in this belt pouch very clean and very neat and tidy to where I can just shake it all down inside there stand that fire kit up separate from itself just like that pull everything nice and tight and shut it's got a nice leather strap on it that can just be tied in a bow with knots on both ends it don't pull through and a flap and that really is like my everyday carry situation okay guys what appreciate you join me at it real quick for that video just on the contents of my belt pouch and I'm sorry that I haven't had time to shoot a lot of really intricate videos on going out and doing overnight or camping and things like that but right now I'm at my busiest time of the year and really kind of my busiest time in my career I'm riding for three different magazines right now I'm writing for American frontiersman I'm writing for Western sportsmen magazine over Washington sportsmen news and I'm also writing for bushcraft magazine and I'm also writing for backwoodsman magazine so I guess you've got four magazines that I'm writing for intermittently on and off so I'm doing that I just finished a fourth book with Jason Hunt that would be releasing in June and right now I've got classes almost back-to-back we talked to classes back to back in Georgia two weeks ago we taught a basic class and a blacksmithing class simultaneously this weekend next weekend we have a wood crafting camping class the weekend after that we have bushcraft 101 the weekend after that I have a free youth event I heard the Pathfinder school that's full with 30 years in it and then I leave for Sweden too the more of an I'm going to be gone until right before blade show so right now my time is kind of at a premium and I apologize for that but I'm doing the best I can I'm on social media sometimes during the day just about every day or every evening to talk to people on Facebook and things like that and I try get to comments as I can on YouTube as well I appreciate your views I appreciate your support I thank you for anything to do for our school for family for business or our sponsors and structures affiliates and ferns I'll be back to another video as soon as I can thanks guys