Pitchfork’s Blog, SURVIVAL GEAR 2

Survival Tool Kits

Tool Kits – 1/person

• Baton http://www.survivalstore.com/security-self-64.html
   

• Camo net

• http://www.omahas.com/product_info.php?cPath=13_46&products_id=1705&osCsid=kivc31j900fj9cq0nj2njppq87
   

• Connibear traps

  • E.g., http://www.snare-trap-survive.com/Trap-110-Conibear-S.htm
     

• Fiskars "Multipurpose Snips" (formerly "Super Snips) 
   

• Garden tools

  • http://www.easydigging.com/Store/azada_USA_Canada.html
     

• Hatchet/Boys axe w/sheath

• Check stash – 1/person

• E.g., SOG Specialty Knives & Tools F01T Tactical Tomahawk, Black Hardcased

• Be extra careful to assure sheathing integrity
   

• Gerber Gator Exchange-A-Blade Folding Saw, w/ second alternate fine-toothed blade
   

• Knife – hunting/skinning

  • Skinning - GERBER GATOR WITH GUT HOOK EBAY, Smith & Wesson Hunting Skinning Knife Hunting Knives; Havalon Piranta-Edge Knife; Smith & Wesson S&W Hatchet & Skinning Knife Combo, Fixed, Plain, Gut Hook; Drop Point Hunting Knife (drop-point or straight, DD); Wyoming Knife; Gerber E Z Zip Hunting Utility Knife with Sheath EBAY etc.

  • KA-BAR

    • Full size or modified

    • Kyvex sheath only

    • Straight edge only

    • Black only

  • Fixed blade knife (in addition to the KA-BAR): RSK MkIII fixed blade knife by Benchmade, 4.5 in. blade, with sheath; RSK MK1; Bravo 1, Norse Hawk, RC3 or 5 or 6, Becker BK-2, etc.

    • Kyvex sheath only 

• Kukri a/k/a khukri or khukur (watch out for incomplete sheathes)
   

• Leatherman "Super-Tool"
   

• "Pocket Chainsaw" survival saw

  • Supreme Saw Pocket Chain Saw Pocket Saw NEW – EBAY, US.  ALSO POSSIBLY http://greatescapessports.com/catalog/sven-p-172.html?name=Sven%20Saw
     

• Shovel The Gerber (Fiskars) "Fiskars Folding Spade" (made by Fiskars in Finland) is a modern rendition of the G. I. style folding spade and is NATO approved
   

• Stainless steel snare wire, 20’ Stainless Steel 0.020" Snare Wire HAVE – MAY GET MORE W/ PARTS  http://www.snare-trap-survive.com/survival_snaring_dvd.htm
   

• Stanley Minihack
   

• Stanley Prybar
   

• Stanley Wire Cutter
   

• Sven saw
   

• Victorinox Swiss Army Pocket knife

  • Have 1, get 1

  • For the survival tools (‘Fork’s no fan of survival folders, even spring-assisted . . . at least one extra step to use relative to a fixed blade – skinning excepted – and may require not one but both hands)

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