Kit Mentality Updates

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Dave Canterbury, David Canterbury, The Pathfinder School,Bush Craft ,Survival skills, Historical Lore, Primitive Skills, Archery, Hunting, Trapping, Fishing, Navigation, Knives, Axes, Fire, Water, Shelter, Search and Rescue

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morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance Outfitters in the Pathfinder school what I thought we discussed this morning is what I consider a really robust tent piece kit and it's just an example of one that I put together and then how that 10 piece emergency kit or scouting type kit develops or what's added to that to make a longer-term kit for a hunting camp similar to the one I'm in now let's stay with me and we'll start with our 10 piece kit ok so let's talk about this 10 piece type scouting kit for a minute because I consider this probably a very robust 10 piece kit with a few redundancies in it and again 10 C's does not necessarily mean 10 pieces it means you cover those 10 C items and if you have multiples of some of those items that's fine two is one and one is none if you've got multiple ways to affect fire if you've got multiple cutting tools all those things are fine and as you build your kit out from the smaller emergency type kit you're really going to only build redundancy into your kit on a larger scale and we'll talk about that as we get further into this video so this kit is really built around a military but time this is just a standard camera military but back so this is a good all-around hunting type scouting kit if I were out hunting for the day or hunting for the week I would set up my base camp and this would be my scouting kit away from camp to make sure I had my emergency applies with me now I have just a standard military but packing this thing cost me like 10 bucks at an army surplus store or a gun shell I can't remember which one it was I have an aftermarket camouflage pouch for 32 ounce water bottle this was about 25 bucks I have my knife attached to it I have a roll of one inch duct tape attached to it and I've got the Mora gar burgers what I've got attached to it now simply because it has a nice closed flap sheath and it's a heavy robust knife and I don't have to worry too much about maintenance of it if I leave it laying around things like that it's not high carbon steel and stainless so it's not going to rust up on me that's okay now one thing I want you to realize with this kit is that when we talk about the 10 piece kit we talk about the 10 C's really more than anything else and I want to differentiate that a little bit because a 10 piece kit doesn't necessarily mean it's only ten pieces it means there's ten similar type pieces or ten categories let's put it that way so you've got the 10 C's that we've talked about lots and lots of times you know you've got cutting tools combustion devices containers cover cordage and on down the line and you may have multiples in your kit especially in your emergency kit of some of those items like combustion you may have three ways to start fire cutting tools you may have multiple cutting tools within your kit but a 10 C kit or an emergency kit that's built around the 10 C's should be fairly lightweight like this but pack it is so let's talk about what's in this kit so that you understand how robust and the kit this really is for something so lightweight that's built around the 10 C mentality and that's what's important so our cutting tool first of all we have again the Mora garber knife stainless steel full tang not gonna have to worry too much about that knife it's going to do I need to do in the short term I have a 1 inch roll of duct tape for simple repairs and first aid attached to the belt and then I have the containers attached to the belt or a container carrier attached to the belt that holds my 32 ounce water bottle and cup and what I've done with this one is I've got a custard on top and a cup nested in the bottom so I've got the 32 ounce water bottle I've got two of the 26 ounce cups one on top of the other one on the bottle and they fit just perfect inside this thing now this front pouch for my kit for my needs I don't use water filters very much but I do have a water filter in here and I have some iodine in here as well liquid iodine 2% tincture of iodine and that is just simply drop dead emergency items if I don't want to boil water or if I'm walking around and I want to get a drink real fast and I don't want to take the time to boil suck it up out of the tree it can be done with it they're not necessary but they don't add much weight so I stuck them in the kit because a lot of people like to carry filtration items and water disinfection items with them in Louisville and now the main pouch of this thing has every other piece of kid in it it's very very simple but it's very effective and remember that all we're talking about here is I got stuck before I got back in my base camp we're going to talk about our base camp kit a little bit more in a minute this is hey I twist an ankle I'm misguided myself and got lost whatever the case is I'm not going to get back to my base camp tonight I need something for an inconvenient camping trip so the first thing I've got in here for a cover element is just a Hennessey backpacker you've got tarp a bug net and hammock right there boom it's done all right I've got my cotton material a big large piece of cotton material a roll of cordage a secondary cutting tool and a folding saw bahco laplander folding saw my compass my headlight a 55-gallon three mil trash bag and emergency reasonable space blanket I have a 10 liter waterproof bag if I need to store more water or make sure that my gears a little more waterproof than it is in these bags all of this will fit inside this bag and one Ferro rod I have a lighter in my pocket I have a magnifying glass on my compass so I have three ways to start fire again duct tapes attached here nice attached here sail Neil to the back water bottle and cups are here a very very simple kit very simple but it covers all the bases if I walked out with this kit and knew I was not coming back till tomorrow morning as long as the weather's not going to turn too bad this time of year which it's not I'm comfortable with that if I think I'm going to suffer from conduction problems I do have some things that can take care of that I've got a trash bag I can stuff with leaves if I needed you to put a mattress in the bottom of my hammock I've got a reasonable emergency space blanket like a flip upside-down in my hammock with the reflective side up so I do that thanks to battle convection if I need to but for a fair-weather and I mean down to like 55 60 degrees at night this kit is phenomenal there's nothing wrong with this it's an easily built kit it's a very robust kit and it has a lot of redundancies built into it has redundancies in the cover element it has redundancies in the container element it has redundancies in the cutting cutting tool Department as well as the combustion department so almost all the first five sees there's redundancy built into this kit and it's a very very small and not very heavy kit at all I guarantee you this whole kit if the water bottle is not full probably weighs I would say any 8 to 10 pound range at the most ok so we've got our basic 10 piece kit set up on a butt pack belt system we can wear that sling fashion we can wear it on our waist doesn't really matter it's easy to carry it's a little bit convertible and it's easily adaptable to different pieces of gear or add-on pouches and things if we pop if we were to need them so that piece of kit is a really good starting point and that is the whole basis really of this 10 C's and 10 piece kit and all of that is to give you a baseline to build your kit around this is your emergency kit how you build that kit what items you put in that kit that fall into those 10 categories is really up to you

so now beyond that what do we do to add things into our kit or build redundancies for a longer term or more comfortable hunting style camp or just a base camp that we're going to spend four or five days at well what I would do that in that case is first of all I go to a bigger pack I would add a pack to that system and that would just be something like the regular Alice pack is a very good add to that they're not that expensive they're a good external frame pack they're heavy duty and they're gonna last a long time so that's the first thing I'm going to do that's going to be my first container redundancy if you want to call your backpack container because it really is is going to be that and then to that I would probably add an axe and in this case it's just the wood craft axe by council tool so now I have the knife the saw and the act and the axe sits comfortably outside this larger pack and the butt pack can be attached to the bottom or it can be left around my waist I really don't have to put those items within this pack it's a separate unit altogether so thinking about a little bit longer term or more comfortable sleeping element will cover element I'm going to go with a larger tarp probably something like a 10 by 13 like this 10 by 13 defender targets camouflage that matches the theme of a hunting type kiss and it will fold up in the bottom of this Alaa stock very very easily and again it's in addition to remember this 10 C kit so now that hennessy hammock that backpacker hammock is a unit of itself that stays in that butt pack and it's not going to be used in our base camp because it's going to be in the kit that we take with us if we leave camp to go out on a Scout a long ways a way that we may not make it back or if something were to happen so I've got the 10 by 13 tarp in the bottom of that Alice pack and then another hammock which is this one is a dream hammock with a built in bug net they're really large double hammock and again it's got that same camouflage theme for the hunting type camp I don't want to be seen I want to stay with a you know more closed in footprint work everybody in the world doesn't know I'm here I'm not trying to be rescued I'm here on purpose camping and hunting and I want to keep my footprint to a minute that gives me a really good sleeping system or shelter type system that's redundant to my emergency kit but will fit easily into this Alice pack and not add a lot of weight so then I'm going to talk about or think about comfort levels and I'm probably going to put some type of either a lightweight sleeping bag or 100% wool blanket in there depending on the season hours all right so what I've done here is I've just added a sleeping bag into the bottom of this kit and this is an e-coat a sleeping bag this game against my military surplus store it's a fairly lightweight bag that's convertible it's got the bottom of it is drawstring so you can sleep in at boots if you want to it's got a poncho feature in it where you got a split top that you can open up with velcro to wear it as a poncho liner underneath a military poncho so it's a good adaptable type system for this type of kit and it is feather down material inside there it's not per Milan so it's pretty warm and it squashes down pretty small but it's actually pretty warm down to in the 30s no problem in hammock I've slept in this thing a lot of times and it goes right in the very bottom of this Alice pad in sits in there very very nicely now the next thing I'm going to redundantly add is going to be larger cooking items so I've got a drawstring bag here that's got my pass on your folding skillet in it and I have a drawstring bag that has my path under Bush pot in it I'm not going to pull all this stuff out and show you what is in all these bags and things like that because I'm not sure the death as important as understanding that what I'm doing when I'm adding to this kit to build on that initial 10 C kit is I'm just really adding redundancies that fall within that 10 C category I've added two more containers I've added another larger backpack which is a container I've added another cutting tool I've added more robust or more comfortable cover elements in a sleeping bag a larger tarp a larger hammock and things like that so I'm not really adding things to this kit that are single-use items or anything like that I'm really building a redundancy kit within that 10 season I think that mentality is what a lot of people miss when they start to build their kits I see lots and lots of kits posted on the Internet

lots of kids posted on my Learning Centre boards and things like that that have lots and lots of things in them that I would really consider not carrying if it were me you know I think the simplest thing for us to learn from a video like this is don't over complicate things by adding a few redundancies that are still within this 10 C's I drastically increase my ability to function around a camp more things I can cook with more things I can process wooden with a larger surface area underneath my camp to keep myself dry more items to keep myself comfortable to get a good night's sleep then I can add clothing and food because I have plenty of room up in this that and still be able to stay well under that 3035 pound range so I think that's important to understand is that when we build a kit and we start to make a larger than emergency-type kit we're really only expanding on those tendencies

other than food and clothing and clothing goes back to cover anyway so really the food is the only add-on item beyond those 10 C's that shouldn't really be just a redundancy that falls in that Tennessee category anyway if you keep that simple mindset you'll be able to make a pack or set up a kit to take into a longer-term scenario or a hunting camp or a fishing camp or a backpacking trip that's not going to weigh you down but it's going to give you all the elements that you need for core temperature control comfort and convenience and that is how I pack my bag we'll talk about that another video okay folks I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance offers in the Pathfinder school and I hope this video made a little bit of sense to you it's kind of hard for me to articulate to you how important it really is to keep things in line with that 10 C's and keep that simplistic mentality of just building redundancy to make our kit longer-term or more robust and the only thing you're really going to add it isn't following that tendency category is going to be food and you've left yourself plenty of room to do that by using a larger pack and adding only a few redundant items that are more robust that will add to your company convenience I appreciate your views I appreciate your support I thank you for everything you do for school for family or business or our sponsors instructors affiliates and Friends and I'll be back to another video at cinema king like