** Gear Pics and Check List
**
Over the course of my travels through the
wilderness I have been known to carry many different types of gear
The kits listed below are inteded as
an aid in your planning of primitive wilderness trips and lightweight backpacking
trips. Please feel free to print these out and by all means change them
to suit your specific purposes. It might be that something I chose is not
something you would choose. Make your own choices based on your own capabilities
and needs.
My Basic Wilderness Kit
List
Below are listed those things I carry or
recommend,
or have been recommended to me by others.
Add or remove as you see fit, Use at your
own risk
* what I am presently carrying
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U.S. Mil Spec Web Gear with converted Ammo
Pouches, shoulder bag or Multi function Hunting Belt bag from Blackhawk
gear *
Mil Spec 1 qt Canteen with holder, Canteen
cup and Trioxane stove (Stove works Well with with small twigs, Pine cones
and knots as well as Trioxane tabs
Sheath Knife: Cold Steel SRK® ,TOPS
Anaconda 9.5 *, Schrade Golden Spike, USMC K-BAR, Benchmade Nimravus Cub
Swiss Army Knife (Rucksack*, Pioneer or
Ranger )
Gerber Pocket Saw (Very cool tool!)
Spark based Fire starter: Gerber Strike
Force *, Mil Spec Magnesium Fire starter etc.
Bic lighters*
Match safe with strike anywhere matches*
Uke Lite * (Mini Flashlight, Very Bright,
works on AAA Batteries, Navigated a Dark trail at night with one, worked
as good as my 4 cell Mag light and fits in a shirt pocket!
Trioxane Fuel Tabs * (make Great Fire starters
and work with the stove above
35 mm film canister stuffed with cotton
balls soaked in petroleum jelly (Vaseline: makes great tinder, lights quickly*(
Thanks OLGriz)
emergency poncho *
emergency "space" blanket *
Heavy duty "Space" Blanket *
Water Purification Tablets *
Solar Still Kit: 3ftX3ft clear plastic
sheet, Boy scout type folding cup, 4 ft of rubber tube for drinking and
other tasks
Compass (Silva Style or Lensatic *)
50 ft of 550 Parachute cord *
1- ICBM Missile Launcher with extra missiles
and warheads (just kidding)
100 ft high test fishing line, hooks and
sinkers *
tablespoon (multiple uses) *
$50 Cash
ID (Extra Drivers License works well) *
JUST ADDED!
1-Heavy Duty tube Tent
2-Heavy Duty Contractor grade Garbage Bags
*
1- M6 Scout Survival Gun with 100 rnds
of 22 ammo and 20 rnds of 410 gauge #6 shot , 20 rnds slugs *
Click on the Images below to view them at
full size.
This kit includes the following
items:
List of gear
shown above
This kit is one of many I have been known
to take into the woods.
I took these pictures just prior to a short
trip into some local woodlands,
I also carried a friends Cell phone in
case of Emergencies
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Shown in picture:
US military ALICE pack (No frame)
TOPS anaconda 9.5
Cold Steel SRK (Survival Rescue Knife
cheapy bolo Machete (good though!)
Victorinox Rucksack
Home Made Polar Fleece sleeping bag
G.I. Canteen cup
Headlamp
Survival Belt (Blackhawk gear)
Trowel (Sears)
Springfield M6 Scout .22LRcal/410ga
Poncho
Space Blanket (The green thing everything's
on)
emergency space blanket
Water purification tablets
2 heavy duty contractor grade trash bags
Magnesium Fire starter
Matches in waterproof case (Striker inside)
Gerber Strike Force Fire starter
Knife sharpener
Uke Lite
Note pad and pen
$5 in quarters
Inside the pack, not shown:
12 power Bars
5 packs Carnation Instant breakfast
6 lifeboat rations
TANG small box of individually wrapped
servings
sharpening stone
100 rnds .22 lr, 20 rnds 410 ga #4 shot
3 pair wool Sox
1 Fleece shirt
3 pair underwear
first aid kit
Tobasco sauce(Gotta have that!!)
