Everyone is embarrassed to say it, but tampons are an excellent addition to a survival kit. I have a whole box in mine. Not just for women who might need them, but they're understandably excellent at plugging puncture wounds.
For fire-starters, I have cotton balls soaked in vaseline I keep in a little baggie. They haven't gone dry in years. Throw a couple in your fire pit and light them up.
If you get MREs, the penne pasta and vegetable manicotti ones are good. Avoid anything with whatever they pretend is cheese. Peanut butter also carries an enormous number of calories in a pretty compact package.
Also, no paracord in your list? I have literally traded lengths of paracord for a knife before. That stuff is fucking gold. :)
Some old fashioned white birch bark is amazing. You can put it in water and hit it with a flame and it will burn due to the oils in it.
Also pine pitch. It's Amazing burns like model glue ( old world model glue ) when you see a pine with a natural break or old cut and it's thick and white. Use a blade scrape it onto a piece of birch bark. Shits amazing
Nature provides so much for us
Enough to start wet wood. Depends how much you use. The bark you can scrape and make like a dust to hit with a flint rod
Pitch needs a flame to start .. search bushcraft " fatwood "
Lighter and matches should be in a kit ( just remembered that )
Everyone is embarrassed to say it, but tampons are an excellent addition to a survival kit. I have a whole box in mine. Not just for women who might need them, but they're understandably excellent at plugging puncture wounds.
For fire-starters, I have cotton balls soaked in vaseline I keep in a little baggie. They haven't gone dry in years. Throw a couple in your fire pit and light them up.
If you get MREs, the penne pasta and vegetable manicotti ones are good. Avoid anything with whatever they pretend is cheese. Peanut butter also carries an enormous number of calories in a pretty compact package.
Also, no paracord in your list? I have literally traded lengths of paracord for a knife before. That stuff is fucking gold. :)
Some old fashioned white birch bark is amazing. You can put it in water and hit it with a flame and it will burn due to the oils in it. Also pine pitch. It's Amazing burns like model glue ( old world model glue ) when you see a pine with a natural break or old cut and it's thick and white. Use a blade scrape it onto a piece of birch bark. Shits amazing Nature provides so much for us
How long will it burn for
Enough to start wet wood. Depends how much you use. The bark you can scrape and make like a dust to hit with a flint rod Pitch needs a flame to start .. search bushcraft " fatwood "
Lighter and matches should be in a kit ( just remembered that )