Adventure Medical Kits Pocket Survival Pack
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Product Reviews of Adventure Medical Kits Pocket Survival Pack
Product Review: Years of experence, and it's waterproof!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been buying and building and updating emergency preparedness kits for over fifteen years now and this is a great package. Doug Ritter's put together a real wealth of stuff in a small package and it's all top notch materials. Individually the parts cost more than this total kit.
This is a great EP kit for all experience levels. The novice user will find the tools easy to use and the instructions appropriately detailed. The seasoned outdoor traveler will find this a kit they go to for the odds and ends that it contains.
This isn't an all inclusive kit and could use a few additions if you have the room. A small lighter is easy to squeeze in the bag. The kit does not contain a knife (there is scalpel blade) and I think that a deck of cards belongs in everyone's EP kit.
And important note is that this kit is not approved for carry-on luggage due to the scalpel blade included...
Product Review: What a great kit...
Summary: 5 Stars
In my quest to build my own 'perfect' survival kit, I've bought about 8 or 10 commercial kits and looked through every other one I could find for ideas and, sometimes, components. Most kits are very poorly thought out and equipped even worse. Every kit I've bought or looked through has had obvious weak points: cheep components, missing necessities or poorly thought out combinations of items (weighing down the pack with too much food and not enough water procurement or supplying several fire making components and no shelter components).
The AMK Pocket Survival Pak is the first personal survival kit that I've been truly impressed with. All of the components are well thought out and of high quality. The Spark-Lite Firestarter is top-notch. The Fox-40 Survival whistle is top-notch. The Rescue Flash Signaling Mirror is top-notch. Any of these three items would be first or second choice when building your own kit (all three were first choice for me). The rest of the kit is of quality general components, many of which will be making their way into my normal, larger kit. But, the beauty of this kit is its size. It fits the most important survival gear into a tiny (less than 4 oz), water-proof bag that easily fits into a shirt pocket, fanny pack, purse or glove compartment.
There are only three things I would add to this kit: a Leatherman Micra, a Bic lighter and a survival blanket. I already carried the Micra and lighter with me and a survival blanket or plastic poncho is easily added.
Of all of the kits I've bought or examined, this is the first one I would recommend and the only one of which I'll be buying more than one of; I'm buying three more of them so I can keep one in my truck, hiking kit and home and this one will supplement my larger pack.
Doug Ritter, the designer of this kit, also has a great site ([..]) with reviews of several other kits, if you want to see what they come with or just want to read reviews on survival gear in general.
Product Review: Far Cheaper and more convenient than buying it piecemeal. Great Kit!
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
Product Review: highly recommend for any camper
Summary: 5 Stars
This product is really great, I own three now - one for the backpack and 1 in each car. The quality of all the items is really excellent, and at $21.25 (for subscription customers) its a smokin' deal.
I would recommend this for anyone who wants to spend time in the woods, including boy scouts on "great adventures", kids who like to explore, and of course for more serious people like myself who like to get away from civilization on backpacking trips.
Buy this, and spend 15 minutes getting to know the parts and how to use them, and it could really save your life. Of course, you should add a small flashlight, small knife, and it would be useful if you were carrying a metal pot to boil water when you are out there in the woods...
But with this kit, you've solved 90% of your problems.
Product Review: A Pocket Full of Miracles!
Summary: 5 Stars
As a Volunteer Search And Rescue team leader and someone who has spent a lot of time of in the field, I recognize good gear when I see and handle it. The selection of items Doug Ritter personally picked (and in some cases worked with companies to have made) is incredibly well thought out and, almost more important, it is all of high quality. Perhaps the best thing about this kit is that you might actually have it with you when you need it - that part is up to you, but carrying this is no imposition. If you do need it, you can count on what is there to work.
You should consider also carrying a small first aid kit (into which you've put any personal meds). One of the Adventure Medical Pocket first aid kits will fill the bill for this purpose. With only minimal additional gear (knife, map, water, something to eat as a start) you'd be pretty well set for an active day hike - perhaps more.
But anyone can carry at least this small kit basically everywhere. Do your local SAR team a favor: don't get lost without these items! If you can be heard, stay warm, and attract attention you make it much more likely that you'll be found. This kit make all that -and more- possible!