First Aid Kit For Hunters 

SOOOOO glad to see this. Most hunters I know don’t carry ANY first aid/trauma supplies and there are multiple mechanisms for serious injury beyond the obvious gunshot. Falling from heights, reactions to stings/bites, limb entrapment, injury from cutting/power tools, ATV crashes, etc, etc. To compound the problem, hunters are often in areas with weak or no cell service. I carry a full trauma IFAK in my daypack along with a more comprehensive kit in a Pelican case in my side by side. The only things I would add to your kit in the video is a triangular bandage and an Ace-type elastic bandage along with moleskin for the boo boo kit. You can use the Ace for sprains/strains, immobilization, and along with the gauze as an additional trauma dressing. Great video!

"Keeping the red blood cells on the inside is super important." - SkinnyMedic 2018

Great reminder for those of us who like to hunt. I normally carry a pre staged TQ in a belt holster and H&H compressed gauze, a 4 inch NAR trauma dressing and 2 triangle bandages in a front cargo pocket I haven’t typically carried a chest seal but after listening to your video I will start including the chest seal and some aspirin. Thanks for sharing.

I carry a IFAK built from your products. Never travel or go into the woods without it! I made it so it will fit in my hunting kit and my walking around daybag. Thanks for all your doing to spread knowledge and provide good products we can depend on.

I carry all that in the ankle holster I just got from you during your sale. Really love the holster! I had enough room, so I added another pocket by resizing an old Iphone belt pouch and sewing it on to the Velcro I didn't need. That allowed me to add a chest shield, a Benchmade rescue hook knife, and a space blanket. I also added some combat gauze, 3' of duck tape, and some gloves. The holster is really comfortable, and still weighs just under a pound (15.7 oz.) People are shocked that I can carry a full blow-out kit on my ankle. I do wear mainly overalls, which fortunately have a large pant leg. ( I forgot I added an NPA, a 14 gauge needle, and a sharpie inside the CAT ) Thanks Dieter, really love what you do!

This is a great video for the discussion that needs to be had, especially with fellow hunters that meet up every year. I began carrying the always-evolving trauma (or something like it) kit ever since the first time someone told me they'd ID'd me coming across a field because they saw me in their scope. (!) I've also seen more than my share of self-inflicted knife wounds by people field-dressing game and losing track of their positioning relative to where the blade was going. All your vids are great resources - and your sense of humor is enjoyed immensely.

Also, I carry a TQ and an Israeli bandage on my chainsaw chaps. Maybe you could do a video on chainsaw first aid.... Thanks again.

I carry TQ, mil compression bandage, 2 quikclots, abdominal pads, 4x4, EMTP shears, Med tape, space blanket, booboo kit, acetaminophen, ibuprofen, benadryl. Need to add chestseal. 3 days of personal meds and bottle of nitrostat SL. Good video Skinny. CEU for the day. Best

Funny that I didn't see your video when you first released it; I was thinking along the same lines last year. In July of 2018 I built a compact trauma kit for carrying when hiking/hunting/trapping for myself and about 30 other people. It is vacuum sealed to make it compact and keep it clean. It consisted of: SWAT-T tourniquet, QuikClot hemostatic gauze, HyFin vent compact chest seal twin pack, and nitrile gloves. This year I updated the kit to include a H&H mini compression bandage and the H-vent chest seal instead of the HyFin, and H&H was kind enough to package it all for me. Now I'm building the "second line" of first aid for us, including all of the things you mention. Great job and thanks for giving me some ideas that I might have missed!

I carry a TQ and first aid everytime im in the woods now ... your videos and others really make you think about what could happen. thanks.

Hunted All My Life. Never Thought Of a Trauma Kit. I Will now. I Started Carrying A Soft T Wide On a Philster Flat pack on my Belt

Where I struggle the most is how many of each do I really need.

i always carry a trauma kit while hunting. tourniquet celox and an Israeli bandage minimum

Nice! This is very helpful. It’s good to know that there is something I could do if I had too.

Knock on wood my family has hunted the same property since 1978 without an incident. We have always stressed safety but you never know. Great info in this video.

May I suggest that day hikers and short distance backpackers (particularly those who hike in hunting zones) carry the same in their day pack.

Great idea for a video. This has always been my gold standard, and I didn't even know it. It's all well and dandy to have what you crucially need for a gunshot wound, but there is SO much else that can go wrong when away from civilization. This is also a great kit for preppers.

Very similar to mine. I added a Sam splint as most injuries although they are not life threatening at the time. If you can't walk you are screwed. SAN splint folded I'd jicelybandninserred

Awesome information. Thanks for the video.

I carry an IFAK everyday! It consists of a SOFTT, combat gauze, compact Hyfin, and large nitrile gloves all stuffed into a 3x7 loksak. When I am hunting, at the range, biking, or doing anything else that could possibly hurt me, I always have a fully stocked trauma kit in a backpack.

Thank you!

I carried an IFAK with me in the field in South Africa last year and anytime hunting.

I really like your stuff. As things settle down from the holidays I'm going to binge watch and take notes. Thanks!

Might be a good idea to invest in a Personal Locator Beacon (PLB) Especially if you spend a lot of time outdoors in remote areas with little to no cell reception. I think ACR makes some great ones. If you get some major injuries and you become immoblized at the same time, you might not make it back on your own. With no way to call for help and with the temperature sinking at night, that can be deadly.

Everyone is all about tactical, but who would have thought about in the woods? Thanks.

I think if you carry a weapon or something that can cause harm, you should have something with you to treat the damage of those weapon's. I love your vids and I like that you keep doing videos even though RU-vid is demonetizing your vids. Keep up the good work I hope they will do something about this

I have been a bow hunter for decades. We always have long sticks with razor sharp points. People get cut, poked, and stabbed by accident all the time. I was in camp with a guy who had an arrow fall out of his bow quiver and he stepped on it in stocking feet. What a mess! It took 3 of us to get him bandaged and get him to the hospital! Only a 4 man group! I also worry about burns in camp too. Hunters need a good FAK!

Good advice, all of it! I always carry a good first aid & trauma kit when I'm in the backcountry.

I carry a SAT Phone, a Spot Gen 3 SAT GPS, Locator Strobe, Locator Smoke Grenades, a personal nurse, 3 body guards, and a mutt dog for security too.

Sweet vid, thanks!

Helpful!

You should make this into a kit...i would definitely buy a few of these for my buddies who need them

Always learn a lot from u

I carry a trauma kit while hunting! Man, if only you could have seen the face on the game warden who pulled up behind me while I was getting my hunting gear out of my car. He walked up and asked to see my paperwork. I opened my backpack and the first things to show are some of the medical supplies that I have purchased from you! “Woah! Chest seals, tourniquet, gauze and survival gear”! He was laughing but said that it was smart!

That was a no go for BoBo-Situation, you need printed stuff like Hello Kitty what is also waterproof, because when a child is wounded its like a mass-extinction event, you need then a purple heart equivalent plaster.

I know some guys who hunt boars with spears. Injuries to them and their dogs are common. I will forward this to them.

Well done. Sharing.

Great video! btw sick truck! Enjoy your new range.

OK. you got shot ( maybe ) kit is in bag. chest seal, tourniquet great. Shock sets in and you us what you need. in a perfect / perfect situation you my be ok. Hope you are not alone.

Thanks for making this video....very helpful. Cheers

basically a sm FAK with Trauma kit is perfect, but my kil needs a litte more Burn and broken bone supplies.

Great kit. Thanks!

Good stuff, SM. Funny, I was cutting something as your video started playing and I cut my finger! Got to find the FAK in my house now.

When I went hunting our kit had a blood pressure cuff & scope & Atari strips

Thanks for the vid

I all ways carry toilet paper with me when go out hunting and fishing it works great for small cut and scrapes plus a bathroom is not around the corner and it's supper cheap

Is that your new property? Nice!.. Great idea to carry trauma supplies and the boo boo essentials for those that hunt and anyone really that spends time out in the wilderness. I personally never really put a lot of thought into getting attacked by freakin animals and what damage they can really cause. 🦍🦏🐆🐗

Great video!

Great video 🖒

Good video. You'd be surprised how many hunters here in New Zealand don't carry so much as a band aid with them when they go out hunting. I tell my brother he can us some of my shit on his dogs if they were torn up by a boat cause they need first aid before they get to the vet as well

Always carry a trauma kit when you venture into the "woods, forest, weeds, desert (like me) or backcountry, remember the most dangerous thing you'll meet is a "Biped Mammal" with a handgun or long gun and also "Mr. Murphy", he is always a worry!

Hunting or honing ?? Sounds funny

Do you sell those medicine pouches on your website

So... Is there a "Bo-Boo" addition option with your kits... I'm thinking of and looking for a motorcycle/outdoors, always in the tool bag type deal...

I just watched this video, I have a couple of questions, How come you kit does not carry a triangle bandage, elastic bandage and some extra gauze rolls and gloves?e

What would you say the average cost of your kit is

Do you have this kit for sale on your website?

Where do you get those single dose medicines for your boo-boo pouch?

Hey, I've got a question. Is it possible or feasible to woundpack your own shoulder or groin injury? I imagine that would hurt a lot. Maybe so much that you'd pass out and bleed to death? What do you think Skinny?

Chest injury deer attacks hunter.

Most Hunters NEVER carry anything to handle trauma ALL Hunters have One thing on their mind its not medical.

"...They thought you were a deer.." lol.. You have to be really weird looking! lol ... JK... I know that could happen like Dick Cheney "accidentally" shot Harry Whittington in 2006! lol...