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Review of the Off Road Survival Kit item by item clip 1 of 3

Tags: survival,swiss,army,knife,camping,hunting,magnesium,ferro,cerium,space,blanket,first,aid

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well perry peacock with wilderness innovation i'm here to talk a little bit more about our off-road survival kit and i've i've kind of been through this a little bit before but some people requested to go through it again i'm going to try to do this might be a little bit longer video than some of the others but it takes a little bit to get through it so anyway I just came up you know about a half hour above my house it's about 10 minute drive about 20 minute hike up into here up this Canyon and I brought my JanSport day pack that I normally I normally just carry that with me if I'm out just hiking about or whatever and I usually clipped my off road kit onto the onto the handle or onto the straps and just carry with me or I could shove it down inside of there but what out you know whatever I just do whatever I feel like at the time strap on my tripod and all that sort of thing for the camera but we're going to go through a little bit of what's in this kit here I think you've probably seen some videos kits made out of cordura nylon got double-sided velcro straps for for use to secure on to the handlebars a mountain bike or lash them down onto snowmobile a TV or whatever my son's got his strapped down the roll bar of his Jeep there's some pictures of that online at will dos innovation com we've got some YouTube videos on a few things and and it can also be carried with you like I can clip it on my pack this is not included but we can add an optional shoulder strap and you can carry the kit just like this hike around with it it's great i love it i come up in these hills pretty much every morning hiking around for some exercise and just scout around and all that sort of thing practice a few things

and typically this is all I bring with me other than my clip my camera to this to this carabiner here and I'm good to go I love this I love this thing on a shoulder carry mode it's great but you know you can you can unclip the shoulder strap and and just hook it with a carabiner it's also got a carry handle all that's oh it's stuffs all built-in good good heavy-duty fabric we get right into what's in the kit here one of the first things in the kid is is this is the fire starting kit and that's the same method that I've used since the early 80s and I I favor a favor using the magnesium magnesium bar and I like to use I prefer magnesium bars made by down manufacturing they're the original ones that made made these things for the military but you've got a you've got a blade hooked on to it that's on it on a shock cord and I like that better because a lot of times those little short things kind of get in your way you can also use your pocketknife or whatever the back of the knife but we include a little blade with it and you can just straight some shavings like this flip it over throw some sparks and light it off the magnesium burns about 5,000 degrees it's very hot there's a very nice job I've got I've got some videos showing actually starting a fire with it we include in it this may seem stupid but it's just a simple thing a little roll a flex paper that we make up and I just typically terror square of that and and I just form it into kind of a cone shape I don't want to get all too much into this guy got videos like this just a little cone like this you just stick it down into a little crevice or crevice or whatever little hole in the ground scrape your savings into their strike into there because it's cone-shaped everything concentrates that into there as soon as that fires off the wax paper is burning you got your other tender little kindling around there you blow that into a flame you gotta fire enough and flat to me it's one of the most reliable waster is to start a fire there's just there's really nothing to go wrong with the magnesium bar there's really nothing to go wrong with this with the striker I've got I've got one of these I've literally but I don't know how thousand over a thousand fires I don't know a lot of years a lot of fires I rarely i don't i don't know i don't even use matches or light or anything i prefer to prefer to use this all the time or my or some other methods so they can be practiced on those because i can always start a fire with a match or lighter so i figure if i'm starting when i'm going to practice and that's you always just practice all the time so anyway I mean to me this this thing is very reliable there's there just hardly anything to go wrong with it really if you lose if you're to lose the little striker you can use your knife I mean long as you got the bar I mean you can build a fire and one thing I like about using the wax paper making that into a cone is that you use very you need very few magnesium shavings to get it started usually 10 10 little scrapes and then flip it over and strike it and that's that's plenty to like the wax paper and really hot what you're looking for is a flame if you've got everything else on your fire ready all together your your other tinder and kindling and your small wood and everything all laid out if you got a flame you got a fire and that's what this is for and it and it just works every time if you do it right you just do it the way you're supposed to it will work so so I like that i've i've got i've got a blast match and I've got some of that stuff to you and I like and I like

I don't I don't have anything against those they work they work well also I I just say I just favor this if if I'm going to carry one thing I like to carry that the other thing I carry is a little in the kits a little a little baggie full of rope coated in a wax formulation and if I if I'm in a situation where I need a little more time to get something lid off and I'll get a flame going i'll just stick that in there get the get the wax cord burning and then I got you know I got 5 maybe 10 minutes of time with a flame to get something go and so you know it's just a little backup so anyway so I like I like that that's that's a nice part of the kit as a d-ring on it as a stick it on your belt heavy duty quarter a case I'll well made in the United States and then I used my nalgene bottle I had been using this particular bottle by nalgene all the people that make the gsi that makes a glacier cup has retooled their their cup and it's now a slightly smaller the only the only cups that fit in this anymore the ones made in china so and that's all right to like this but but i like i like the cup and it's handy and it works it works well most kids i keep using it so what I've changed for now 2 2 now jeans high-density polyethylene bottle I've used those that's what I first got introduced to nalgene years ago back when I worked at Eastern aluminum we used a lot of now gene products in the chemical lab and they just got some bulletproof stuff and that the polyethylene bottle is that thing is good to 148 below zero up to about 250 degrees so I mean it's got plenty of range you can throw the thing all over the place

step on it beat it around I mean if the things but unbreakable so whether you use this this bottle or the other one they both are they both are very durable very very well made and you know you're not going to break it if you break it send it back to me I'll give you that on I'm pretty confident in also in the kit I've got to get this bottle out the way here what I did is I hate to have a gazillion loose things in a kit try to start pulling these out so you can kind of see them what I will we've done here is we've made some tabs that go in the bottle and the tabs contain your loose items like I've got some first aid items some medicated pads for for cuts and cream antibiotic creams moleskine i even i even shoved my gsi spork spork in there too just to just have it out of the way I don't really need it in a survival kit so much but another thing we've got ibuprofen in here we've got triple ina by