Making Your Own Survival Kit

Regardless if you use a fanny pack or a vest, you will need the items I have listed above along with these:
A plastic whistle, with a lanyard for your neck.
A large plastic trash back for water condensation.
A large plumber’s candle.
A bottle of water purification tablets.
About fifty feet of parachute cord, 550 cord.
An emergency strobe light.
A space blanket. A casualty blanket.
A first aid kit.
Soap, bar, small hotel size.
Needles and thread.
Powdered sports drink of some kind, in a zip lock bag.
High-energy bars, or a dehydrated ration, or Meal Ready to Eat.

Additionally, you may want to include items that you feel you would personally like to have. I have added a poncho (I hate being wet), a large piece of heavy-duty aluminum foil folded up, a small aluminum cup, and six beef flavored bullion cubes, snare wire, flexible thumb saw, anti-diarrheas tablets, and a small survival manual. For me, this kit does the job. Also all of the components will fit easily into a vest or a fanny pack, with room to spare. I have some suggestions for packing a vest that will add to the overall comfort level of the wearer. Place the soft flat items (casualty blanket or a poncho) on the inside pockets. Keep all bulky or items with sharp corners on the outside pockets. After a few hours, if your vest has been packed incorrectly the components will start to “dig” into your body. Keep the soft items near the body and this is not a problem. Also, keep the nice to have items to a minimum. Don’t get carried away, or your survival kit will become too heavy.

As you head out to the woods this fall, take a couple of minutes to prepare a survival kit. A fanny pack is the easiest survival kit to construct, while a survival vest is simple and inexpensive to make. All it takes is a vest, some very basic survival gear, and a sewing machine (you can go with just the standard vest pockets if you don’t have a sewing machine). In less than an hour you can have a survival kit you can wear. A survival vest or fanny kit is always ready to go and you can just pick it up as you walk out the door. Within no time you will even forget you are wearing it. While survival is never easy, it does get easier when you have the needed gear along with you. Prepare for emergencies and you too will survive.

Take care and I will see you in the field.

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