PSK Personal Survival Kit Challenge 

Back in the early 80's, a Mountain Rescue Org out West sold a nice little kit in a tin the size of a Prince Albert Tobacco Tin...had tea bags,sugar,a tube tent and such...was designed to keep a stranded hiker alive overnight anywhere...I have pretty much based all my kits since then on their ideas....

This is an awesome kit. I like your philosophy, tin kits are cool but this gear actually looks usable. Well done.

Great video, thank you for sharing

Thank you for your reply.

Wow. I was going to take you up on this challenge but you just showed me my mini survival kit. I like the way you think.

I like your video. Fanny (or whatever) packs are fairly common now. I got rid of my water purification pills and added a Sawyer filter to my kit, and a comb. I gave your video a ‘like’.

The altoids tin doubles as a char tin. I would throw some small items in the tin and then throw the tin in the pouch, and only use the tin if I needed to make char. Great vid!

Knife is made by Victorinox and model is Swiss Champ. 😁

the blanket comes as a poncho now too, or a bag

Swap out the paracord for survivor cord as it contains tinder and flexible wire for no extra weight. It also has around 7 strands inside, which gives you many options from fishing line to sewing and sutures.

Yep i feel the same way

Anybody can make a kit. But using it. Now that's another story. MAJOR CHALLENGE : spend one week a long in the Deep Woods with nothing but your kit and the clothes you got on nothing additional no additional food weapons guns or anything like bows and arrows except for what's in your kit only and survive off the land using only that kit for one week or long be even better now if you can do that without making excuses then you've done something

Growing up on boy scouts we used alice gear, my first personal first aid kit I stuffed into an altoids can, same with my emergency survival kit! Both fit in my compass pouch. I always use that as a basis for when I make people kits for gifts and whatnot.

Is the compass a backup? You must have a Cascio with one or a Silva watchband compass?

Without question all that should be in a tin that only just goes into the bag, so you can cook, boil water, and even carry water in it

You could save a lot of room and weight, or give yourself several times the length of cordage by swapping the paracord out for kevlar cord instead. 100lb line is all I've ever needed, and that's just 0.48MM diameter in kevlar. 500lb kevlar is 1.5MM in diameter versus 4-8MM for paracord (different brands and strengths have different diameters) and the only use I've ever seen for 500+LB line is climbing. If that's not a likely problem you can do more with less by using kevlar cord.

I need to make a psk. Right now I have a nice altoids kit, but I want to make a bigger one.

The pocket knife is by victorinox

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I love these challenges... great idea, great challenge, great channel... subscribed. ... challenge accepted. Ill post a reply soon.

Actually it would be a good idea to carry a few items on your person. I don't go for all the gimmicks that most of these kits are/have. One should already have the proper gear/equipment with us, but things can happen. Set your pack down and lose it, now what. I like to carry at least a map, compass, lighter, matches, whistle on my person when out in the woods.

what do you have for holding water

Can you say where you bought the bag from? It was a nice size. Thank you.

Would it be cheating if I did my Suma Pro Large PSK? Component List: SUMA Container - large (3" x 5" x 1 1/2")-Nylon Zipper Pouch - 7″ x 5″ x 1.5″-Emergency Fishing Kit-Emergency Blanket 1.5mil Coyote Brown-Emergency Sewing Ki-tDuct TapeP-38 Can Opener-Kevlar Line-Mini Multi Tool, Leatherman Squirt PS4Steel Wire-Thread/Line, 14 lb. test-Cotton Pad-Antibiotic Ointment Packet-Personal Medicine Vial-Emergency Signaling Mirror-Photon II LED Micro Light-Emergency Whistle-Pencil with eraser-Fresnel Lens Magnifier5 Sheets Rite in the Rain Paper-Emergency Matches4 Fire Tinder Tabs4 Fire Tinder Cubes (FastFire)Sparking Flint Rod8 Water Purification Tablets-Waterproof Bag - 9" x 6"Type III Nylon Cord-Folding Razor Blade and Saw18mm Baseplate Compass (Replaces Button Compass)Waterproof Bag - 9" x 10"-Curved Sail Needle-Mini Bic Lighter-Bogota Lock Pick- Ceramic Razor Blade-Lock Shims-Handcuff Key-Diamond Wire

You can do dat

fail my will not fit in cargo pocket, on belt omly

Couple of Questions. Are you carrying an IFAK in another pocket, because I don't see any First Aid in there. Also, what are you writing on that you need a Sharpie, because I don't see any kind of Paper. Finally, I'd go to the Fabric Store and get some Bright Orange Cloth for a Signal Panel and Thread it through the MOLLE. That way you're not swinging a Bag of Water over your head if you need to Signal a Rescue Chopper. Food for Thought.

Add some bandage medicins and bandana

compass will be useless... (especially without any maps to go along with it). Better replace it by some bandaids, gazes, alcohol prepad and few pills... First aid actually.

Now I want to make a vid about mine :D

Lmao i have more in my kit that i wear on my belt and its half that size. Bag that size should be way more and youve prolly never tried just living off that kit.