[Jack Aubrey]

I was in a gift shop in Georgia a few months ago and picked up one of these: Whistle Creek survival kit. This is my pocket kit that goes everywhere with me.

[kevin]

cool. kinda like the altoids kits someone recently posted about (sorry for bad memory!)

[George]

Looks that this is single use kit, once opened is throwaway item as cannot be resealed.

[rogerstevens]

I purchased one of these, its okay, but they cut corners to make profit. Just remember not everything in there is quality, something that I would trust with my life. but its better than nothing! (I recently seen something like this at walmart for 5.99)

[Celticwarrior]

It's a last resort, better than nothing kit for sure. I have one in the glove box, and one in my tackle box, for those "oops, didn't see that coming" moments, but I wouldn't trust it to save my bacon during a night outdoors in anything but slumber-party weather. Good as a starting point though. Add a few items on top of it, and you get a decent set up. Space blanket, water filter straw, emergency poncho, some powerbars, a good knife or SAK/Multitool, a FireSteel and FireSteel scraper, and a few other items and you are doing ok.

[Erickmo]

Cool idea. But I'd much rather use an altoids can and pack my own. In those you an fit a pup firesteel from Ron and a firesteel scraper, one of the small sak's, a razor blade, button compass, a bit of duck tape, a whistle, plastic lunch bags and alum foil for water boiling and storage, and fishing hooks and line. Throw in a pack of matches and a cotton ball or two an you'll have a great kit with quality materials for about 5 or 6 dollars more. Something else I'd do is to wrap the outside with more tape to seal it up and make it water proof. I'd say this would be a bit more reliable due to better products within the kit. And with every kit it's all about knowing what you have and what to do with it. Making your own kit u get the chane to become familiar with how to use what you have and can even practice different survival scenarios without ruining the kit since a home made one is resealable.

[Chris Kavanaugh]

You can take the aluminum foil out now and avoid throwing it away in disgust later. Contemprary foil is such thin guage it literaly WONT HOLD WATER and after a stint in a PSK comes out splitting on the fold lines. If you want something lightwieght and packable to boil water in buy a small disposable aluminum bread pan. You can fold the thing flat and stash it in a pocket.

[Baldninja]

I ordered one of these from Amazon just last week, just as something I could quickly throw into my truck "just in case". At under 4 dollars it just seemed almost crazy NOT to buy it....lol

[bltjr1951]

Check out ETS site. They look at parts of kits and what's good or junk.
Look at kits and pick stuff to make your own to fit your life style.

Personal / Pocket Size Survival Kit Reviews - EQUIPPED TO SURVIVE (tm)

My fav part about the sardine can, tab broke off, couldn't open can.

[Chris Kavanaugh]

The majority of ETS PSK reviews are very old and most are not even being made anymore. Commercial kits are a very difficult sell in the first place and in the real world many components will be sub par or just adequate. This includes the Ritter kit <Doug shrug>
A few people have made stellar kits and the price reflects it. Keep an account of what your own assembled kit costs and reallity sets in.