Smaller kit ;)

This is a little kit I put together over the winter, and I thought I'd share.

The tin is about 3 x 5 x 1 inches, bigger than an Altoids tin -- I don't like the super-small kits, as the tiny size encourages you to pack what fits in place of what works. Actually, I don't like permanent kits in general, as the season and the situation will change, so this is really intended just as a backup to whatever else I might be carrying.

Clockwise from upper right:
- three needles, with tips in closed cell foam (protects things from being poked)
- four safety pins
- one large hook (1/0 Mustad 3366, if you care Wink

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- six split shot in a little baggie
- six small trout flies, hooked into closed cell foam
- 12 small hooks, in closed cell foam (six wet fly hooks, and six nice red Gamakatsu egg hooks)
- the tin
- the lid, with 24 feet of diamond braid nylon cord (wraps around tin when packed)
- oven bag (mylar bag, holds water)
- 2-inch framelock knife
- heavy duty aluminum foil, 18 in square
- signal mirror
- snare wire
- 100' of 50-lb test braided fishing line
- Fox 40 micro signal whistle
- button compass
- LED flashlight
- the mirror, etc., is sitting on a Gerber breast milk bag -- holds 350 ml, stands upright, makes an expedient cup
- duct tape, 48" blaze orange
And in the middle, top to bottom:
- 6 lifeboat matches
- striker for above
- firesteel
- striker for above
- jute twine
- vaseline & cotton balls in ziploc -- ziploc big enough to hold other tinder as I gather it

Putting that little kit together was a fun exercise, but obviously it doesn't do much for shelter because it's too small. A couple of large orange garbage bags or a heatsheet rounds it out.

Packed up:

The whole shebang, packed, with the aforementioned heatsheet:

Fits into a cargo pocket.

wow thats cool I need to do this. Very Happy

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looks good man good job

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Thats great Andrew. Well put together Cool

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Nice looking kit man, as long has you have means of fire and a way to make, or have cordage with you, your good.

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Nice kit........ Cool

	Fonly wrote:
	Nice looking kit man, as long has you have means of fire and a way to make, or have cordage with you, your good.

Some early learning in my army career was that some things you just can't do without:
- cord
- a pair of pliers
- gloves
- a knife, of course

Why pliers? Because when your hands get cold and wet, you can't grip anything with any strength at all. The multitool is the greatest invention in the history of pocketknives, in my opinion.

Here is the slightly bigger kit, which is my new ditch kit for canoe tripping. This one packs into a mess tin, which I'll actually use day to day, so the kit itself gets packed into a ziploc for easy removal. Like this:

The flashlight, whistle, lighter and firesteel I carry in my jacket pockets. Here's the rest:

Clockwise from upper right:
- large orange garbage bags, two
- recycling bag
- Gerber breast milk bags, about three (?), see above
- insect repellent, single application, two
- blaze orange duct tape, 48 inches
- vaseline coated cotton balls, 6, rolled up tight in a little ziploc, see above
- match safe with lifeboat matches and striker
- yet more jute twine
- diamond-braid nylon cord, 30 feet
- trail marker tape
- the aforementioned mess tin
- and its lid
- the stuff I mentioned before, in my pockets
- and finally, some more safety pins
- missing from this picture is a fine diamond sharpening stone

As you can see, I like plastic bags. Wink

I figure if you need shelter, it's better to have something that'll help you make one quick, so you can spend more time gathering wood.

That insect repellent is actually a couple of single-use pouches of Natrapel I got as a free sample a few years back -- it is probably degraded and useless by now. I know Ben's is available in similar single-use packages, but I haven't found a Canadian source for them. Normally I don't like that kind of packaging from a green standpoint, but for compact packing in a ditch kit they sure would be handy.