Week Long Training Loadout

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morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance outfitters in the pathfinder school I'm going to do a video that I think is very similar to one my buddy corporals corner Sean Kelly did one of my instructors either at the Pathfinder school this past week we trained 21 military personnel out here last week for a week-long survival training class and we kept them in the field the majority of the time working on core survival skills so I kind of wanted to walk through my loadout and what I carried in the woods for that week in my ruck and it's going to be right down the line pretty much the 10 C's with the addition of some food but almost everything that I have in my kit falls into that category I have the 10 C's and you just end up enhancing on certain items within a 10 C's or duplicating or replicating those items depending on how large or how long term your kit becomes if it's a simple overnight you can get away with very little if you're going to be out there for 3 4 5 days or three to four nights something like that then you want to expand on that a little bit if you're going to be exerting yourself quite a bit you may want to expand on that a little more to have more capacity for water that's been disinfected so that you can consume it and also food since you get calories in your body to sustain yourself for ruck marching and things like that

2/3 5k at a time and then working making bow drill fires out 95 degree heat and things like that you're going to need more hydration more food and things of that nature

so I thought I would walk through this kit with you real quick so you can see what I packed and first what we'll talk about is how I packed it I recently received and I say recently it's been 2 or 3 weeks ago maybe a little bit longer than I received Malcolm from hidden woodsman's new woodland ruck and it's basically a little bit larger than a medium Alice pack in size and it fits on the regular ALICE pack frank and he sent me the straps and the pad and all that stuff with it and it doesn't have the pouch in the front instead of have a slot for a tool whether that be an axis shovel something like that and the side pockets are actually quite a bit larger but it's got an orange panel on the inside and a zippered panel here for you to be able to put your Maps things that you need immediate access to compass headlight things like that so that's what all of this was packed into and I'll kind of repack it in here as we go through some of these things okay I'm gonna try to stay out of the way the camera so I can kind of show stuff as we go so let's start with cutting tools I had my Craig roost chicken hawk which is basically just a modified plum roofing hatchet with a Scandinavian grind and more of a beer do you could choke up into with a riggers handle put on it with measurement marks on the back and this is probably my preferred knocking around hatchet because I could pound steaks and things like that with it because it has a hardened pulp so it's not a big deal if I hit metal on metal with this thing as well and it can be choked up on for fine carving working things like that down the pack blast on the outside a silky gone boy saw and I get a lot of questions about the silky versus the Baco because I was never a big fan of the silky saw I'm becoming a bigger fan although I have seen and have recently seen one of these brick in a class just the week prior to the military training and a pioneer Scout class that we got I hear a guy snapped his in half right here at this area where the hole is in the blade and that happens when you're trying to push through a kerf and it bends the blade now that's never happened to a Baca saw I've seen them Bend almost 90 degrees you can just bang him back straight again and you're ready to rock and roll the difference is this thing is much more aggressive when it comes to cutting and it will cut very very quickly so as long as I'm careful with it and I don't rush to cut wood with it it does a better job at stacking up firewood for the night then the backhoe does but for crafting work things like that I prefer the Baco so that's kind of my take between the two the silky and Ibaka so I had a silky table with me as well I had a Leatherman super tool 300 everybody knows what those are

on my belt beside my more agar burg same one I've always had here the carbon steel wants the original prototype that has my name on it I've been using it all along it's got a notch cut out on the front right here and really there's nothing that you need to use the front of that knife for and that notch has been cut in there just to lift pots up off of the fire okay somebody's curious why that notch is in there yeah that takes care of the cutting tool so I had telling tools to run a gamut if anything I needed to demonstrate or show to the students out there combustion devices we kept it pretty simple for the military guys because we wanted to teach them more primitive techniques we had them do bow drill fires off the landscape which we demonstrated cutting tools obviously make that as a cordage and then we also had them do flint and steel off the back of their carbon steel garb herbs that we provided them for the training and they took them with them when they were done and they found flint off the landscape use next fire mentality to create charred material in their container which will go through those two items in a minute and then flint and steel fires from the time they made a bow drill fire on so the combustion devices that I personally had besides my garber that I could use flint and steel besides my compass that has a magnifying glass on it or just a waterproof case bic lighter from exo tack with a bit lighter in it and a six-inch Ferro rod and I didn't use either one of these always thank you that takes care of our cutting tools and our container now cover I was a little heavy on cover this week I want to make sure I could run the gamut

I had my Dutch wear chameleon hammock and tarp and these things have almost no weight to them so you're only talking about bulk really when I say almost no weight I mean probably less than or write out a pound for both of them for a tarp large enough to cover an 11 foot hammock with a bug net I carry those so that I get up off the ground as far as in the hammock I just carry a standard military-style poncho liner this one happens to be camouflage and has a zip in it so that you can actually use it for sleeping bag if you choose to do so and those are available from one of the people on eBay and I keep that in a waterproof bag and I've got a inflatable pillow attached to that waterproof bag I'm a firm believer in comfort when it comes to sleeping if you could possibly get the only other form of cover I had with me was a poncho you can see the brand on this this comes from Poland but it's a us-spec military woodland poncho get it full rain gear but also for an emergency shelter we also taught the students this last week how to make a hammock from this poncho as well so it can be used to make a hammock and emergency to get you off the ground if that's the only kit you had so it's a very preferable type of item to keep it like a haversack kit or a Scout kit because it's so versatile it can be a shelter it can be rain gear and it could even be a hammock in an emergency if it needs to be you would just need a second one or a tarp to go with that to keep you out as they come to weather so that takes care of the cover and then I had some steaks titanium stakes and straps from a handlebar and I kicked all of that stuff and just the hidden woodsman like a ditty bag it just makes it really easy to put those items all in one bag and be able to get out there as well some of my other small things and I try to get out all the time on the trail so that takes care of my cutter element and what I do is I just put that I slide down down to one side of this rock and I stand it up I've also got an orange shemagh and here we'll talk about that in a few minutes and then I take a mat excuse me I forgot to talk about that I've got a snug pack mat here that just blows up I didn't use it at all to be honest with you I got it with me just in case it was going to get cold or the weather is going to change and it just never happened so I never end up having to use it so it's just a piece of gear that I didn't use and I generally keep the hammock and tarp on the top of the kit as best I can so I get to them very readily if I need to poncho goes on the very top now let's talk about containers real quick I'll fill these combustion devices in this back get them off the table and out of the way throw these hangers I generally keep right here at the top of this zip portion of this rock so that I can get to them very very quickly if I need to to set up a shelter on the floor and then other small bits and pieces I keep in this back so we talked about cutting tools we talked about our combustion device was talked about cover that brings us to containers I told all of the soldiers that we trained to bring a 2 quart canteen collapsible so they would have extra water and on top of that we issued them or gave them I should say all a pathfinder canteen and cup set although when I carry because I had the 2 quart canteen I was like Gary - single Pathfinder water bottles and cups one with a wool cover for evaporative cooling and one just by itself and the reason I did that was because they fit perfectly in the side pouches basically side by side in Malkin's ruck it's kind of the pouch they're a little bit large on the side that's rough or just a canteen set it kind of gets swallowed in there so 2 32 ounce bottle I'll put in there really good nested next to each other and what that gives you is that gives you that ability to have with this to court and those two 1 quart bottles you've got a gallon of water with you all the time and you've got metal containers that you can boil cook and things like that and make sure that one of the one of Rob Simpsons cup lids from lost wild outdoors and just a military setting tencel's which brings us to cordage and I have the straps obviously for my hammock system and then I have one extra ridge line that he used with the poncho and I also have 150 foot Hank of paracord and about a quarter of a roll of number 36 bank line that's the excess of chords that I carry with me just so that I have extra cordage if I need it and I usually just stuff this in the top here this zippered container case I needed and I put the remainder in that pouch all right so continuing down the list cotton material large orange smog works as a waypoint trail marker for self mapping which we taught Paul methodology self mapping as well as solar navigation to the military last week so we use things like this as trail markers not only just a white to sweat off her face and also for carrying kindlings and things like that very versatile item but also because it was orange we used it for a waypoint marker for both camps to begin with before they went down for the night as well as a waypoint where they can explore around on their paul mapping and i'd really keep that right on the top of my package yeah and as far as the navigational tools go i have a map of the area topo map of the area that we use the plot quarters on and a compass mc2 is what we talk with this week that's what all of those guys were carrying because we gave them to them to carry to introduce them to the cinco mc2 and then i have set of pacing beads actually on the strap of my backpack as well so that i had a way to keep track of my own pace so that takes care of two of those last five seas I carry a half inch roll with duct tape on a loop on my belt that I've got a pair of cord loop on I did not have a two inch roll in my rucksack I only had the one inch roll I have the cloth sail needle taped to the back of my knife sheath where it always stays and a headlamp with spare batteries goes inside this top hat this catch-all pouch as well and then that pretty much takes me down to you anything that fell outside the 10 C's which is food because everything else so far I fell into one of those 10 C categories so extra food wise I just had as far a snack quick snack stuff I had three licorice bars and a couple Snickers and I had three or four coffee packs just add water Coffee tax or quick stuff on the trail that went on the top of my truck here with the poncho on top of that smart beside dot map the compass in the top house in the net house where it's easily accessible just like that and that left me with a large pouch on one side that's unused and I just shoved my saw down on the side here just like that put these on the belt carry this with my shoulder the large pouch it's on the side of this it's just exactly the right size that external pouch it's on the other other side for two full MREs so I kept two full MREs in my pack all the time in case we didn't go back to base camp or keep it in couldn't get meals and things like that outdoor order working out that day and we stayed for the night I had two extra MREs in that pouch the whole time and I know somebody's gonna ask me what this pack weighs and I have not weighed it so I'm just going to close it back up here real quick you know the tools back in it and all that and then I'm going to take a guesstimation for you it's gonna be pretty close because I ruck quite a bit I'm used to carrying 35 to 40 pounds on my back so I know about what that feels like

if I had to guess I'd say that's probably right around 30 pounds somewhere in that neighborhood without water weight 30 pounds without water waiting alright guys well I'm Dave Canberra her self-reliance outfit in the pathline school

I appreciate you joining me today for a look at my training loadout for a week out in the wildlife area training folks I think it's a good thing to look at because it incorporates things that you wouldn't normally carry every day necessarily extra food extra snacks excesses of water for hot weather environments and those type things that you wouldn't normally see me carrying a video that if I were actually planning to be out there for a few days this is what I would carry would be something like this loadout and it all fits really really well and Malcolm's new wilderness ruck I believe it's called and I'm really really impressed with this ruck it's really heavy-duty in construction it's comfortable the suspension system that he created for the Alice pack frame is very very comfortable as well as the waist belt so good job on that now and I would just throw that one with two core canteen and drive on appreciate your views I appreciate your support I thank you for the thing you do for our school for family for business of our sponsors instructors affiliates and friends I've got to leave for Japan tomorrow be going on for five days six days and I'll be back for the Pathfinder gathering and hopefully I'll see you there it's pretty much sold out at this point so if you've already bought tickets can't wait to see you if you haven't bought tickets you can still come and mosey around the gather you just can't spend the night and you can't take any hands-on classes that were pre-sold but you're welcome it is a public event that everyone is welcome to join and attend we have about 20 vendors that are going to be there I'd love to see and shake your hand