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Pocket Survival Pak | 
 enlarge | Brand: Adventure Medical Kits
Category: Sports
List Price: $29.95
Buy New: $24.99
You Save: $4.96 (17%)
New (8) from $24.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 6406
Media: Misc.
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7 x 8 x 2
MPN: 0140-0707
UPC: 707708007071
EAN: 0707708007071
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Detailed, easy-to-follow information on survival, from building a shelter to distress signaling | | • | Waterproof kit floats in water | | • | Signal mirror, Safety whistle, Spark-Lite firestarter, Quick tinder, Scalpel blade | | • | 2mm button compass, Duct tape, Utility wire, Frensel lens, Nylon thread | | • | Nylon cord, Fish hooks, Sinkers, Snap swivel, Safety pins, Aluminum foil, Pencil, Waterproof paper |
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Product Description
Survive in the wilderness with this pocket-sized kit packed with vital tools and information on how to use them.Features: - Detailed, easy-to-follow information on survival, from building a shelter to distress signaling
- Waterproof kit floats in water
Tools include:- Signal mirror
- Safety whistle
- Spark-Lite firestarter
- Quick tinder
- Scalpel blade
- 2mm button compass
- Duct tape
- Utility wire
- Frensel lens
- Nylon thread
- Nylon cord
- Fish hooks
- Sinkers
- Snap swivel
- Safety pins
- Aluminum foil
- Pencil
- Waterproof paper
Tuck this multi-functional kit in your pocket whenever you head out into the great outdoors.
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| Customer Reviews:
Far Cheaper and more convenient than buying it piecemeal. Great Kit! December 9, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
No idea why anyone would think it's cheaper to buy these items separately as noted in some reviews with other sellers. That's just flat out wrong as far as both my experience and common sense shopping dictates. My guess is that the person doesn't like pre-packaged kits (and rightly so!). But this kits is an exception among the dross.
Doug Ritter and his foundation, Equipped to Survive, has come up with a very economic method to equip yourself and your family with an emergency kit. It is small enough to carry unnoticed in a pocket, yet fully functional.
Although you can control the amount of certain items if you put together your own kit (something of a rite of passage among the survivalists/emergency preparedness folk), I spent twice as much putting together a comparable kit. The military issue sparklite and tinder-quick, Fox-40 whistle, and Rescue Flash signal mirror alone could cover the cost of the kit and they are all top notch gear. This pack is extremely high quality through and through, from choice of equipment to packing and instructions. I recommend looking at the ETS website at the slideshow of how such a kit is put together and what Doug Ritter himself recommends that you add to the kit (the pouch can hold a few more small items such as water purification tabs).
The Pocket Survival Pack is an amazing value. I've purchased all of the items separately, and just the shipping or driving to pick up 3 or 4 of the items probably covers half the cost! If you are lucky enough to get everything at one store, you'd be hard pressed to get the entire kit as cheap as this. I know people who have purchased this kit to take the parts for their own self-built survival kits! That's how economical it is. Plus, if you buy this PSP, a portion of the proceeds goes to the ETS non-profit group which gives free survival consulting to deployed troops and is actively involved in improving survival equipment and standards. In fact, Doug Ritter is the only consumer advocate working with the governing body on personal locator beacons used in marine, aviation, and remote travel.
The kit itself comes in a waterproof container. I found it to be a bit tight when closing back up, but there is actually some room for more items. All components are of the highest quality. It's lightweight and I never notice it in a pocket. With the recommended ETS or similar keychain LED flashlight and a good pocket folding knife, you have a complete survival kit that rivals ones costing $100+. These are cheap enough to get one for each car and any camping/hiking/marine/aviation gear you might have. I highly recommend this PSP. I'm not affiliated with ETS, but I've come to appreciate their no-nonsense advice and forums. And if this was a bad kit, I'd still say so. I give it 5 stars, great value for the price and it really could save your life.
Quality April 1, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This kit is perfect.
Small enough to fit in your pocket, yet everything you need if your outdoor trip takes a turn for the worse.
Would highly recomend, and I will buy more.
Everything is very high quality, nothing looks or feels cheap.
Thorough, convenient, compact, inexpensive. May 22, 2007
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
I've been looking over Doug Ritter's website for a while and finally broke down and bought two of these kits. In short: this is a fantastic bargain, and is truly a useful set of things to have with you if the poo poo hits the fan near you. The spark-lite sparker and tinder is worth $8 alone, the signal mirror is worth another $6, and there's half of the purchase price covered right there. All of the components are very deliberately selected to be easily useful, to work together to improve your chances, and to be impressively affordable.
I found that there is enough extra space in the pouch for a keychain LED light, six hurricane matches with striking strip wrapped in foil, and 10 Potable Aqua tablets in a perfume vial. You lose the ability to fold the top over when you add these things, but I'm keeping my kit in a backpack pocket, not in a pants pocket. So, not a problem for me.
I also decided to make a more substantial survival kit for when I'm backpacking. After doing a little looking around and checking prices on the individual bits and pieces, I chose to use my second Pocket Survival Pak as the starting point. This saved me a bundle of time and effort, knowing that all of the components were very high quality and already configured to be compact and ready to go. The only thing I didn't use in the bigger kit was the tiny compass. Even the vinyl pouch became the first aid kit holder in the bigger survival kit.
In closing, this is an amazingly well-conceived set of items that you may need some day, packaged in such a way that you're likely to have them on you when that time comes. I can't say enough about this kit. Truly amazing.
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