Choosing the Most Important Survival Gear
More Articles Related to Survival GearWilderness Survival forum has a post “if you could take only 8 things into the bush” for a year. To some extent we always have limitations on what survival gear we take with us and what we leave behind, though usually not to this degree.
As an exercise the question has value; it forces us to think about what really is important, the relationship of each piece of survival gear to the others and how we may use our survival gear to its greatest potential.
Some considerations that will have bearing on the most important items of survival gear we should take with us are:
- Weight and bulk of our survival gear. Depending upon our mode of travel this applies to a greater or lesser degree but is always present. Hiking long distances on foot requires a different take as compared to four-wheeling or kayaking for example.
- The weather we are surviving in. Some of the basic survival gear remains the same anywhere: like fire making capability. Your survival needs in hot dry climates will differ from winter survival, for example. Some areas of the world experience a wide fluctuation in climate over the course of a year, for which you will need to prepare and provision.
- The geography of the area. Mountainous areas require some different survival gear than swamps and coastal areas. In a desert fishing, perhaps, may not be as important to the survivor.
- Flora and Fauna. What kind of plant and wildlife resources are available for harvest and what is needed to procure them? Are there dangerous animals that may threaten your survival?
- Survival gear cost and availability. What is considered by some to be the best survival gear on the market may be out of reach for the typical survivor in terms of cost. Or, as in the case of Becker Knives, no longer available or difficult to obtain. However I have found that the basic survival gear that is proven and dependable is often of the simplest and easy to find variety; a tarp fits this category well.
Some of the best survival gear serves multiple purposes and so reduces the load we must carry. For example, the ability to easily boil water on a lightweight wood burning stove like the Bush Buddy may mean we do not have to bring along a water filter or fuel. Carrying a good multi-tool may eliminate the need for a large survival knife.
Whenever the survivor travels into the wild he must make concessions on what he can and cannot take. The Wilderness Survival forum post causes us to really think about what we need to survive and how we can use our survival gear to its best advantage.
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