Mini Survival Tin - Pocket-sized tin, loaded with an impressive amount of outdoor survival essentials. UK-made.

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Genuine 550-lb breaking strain paracord has a number of internal strands that can be stripped out and used for tasks such as sewing repairs or making a fishing line.

In fairness, you will likely rely on the fire starting elements of your kit first and foremost before the other methods if you find yourself using it at night.While a knife with a fixed blade is stronger, a folding knife is a useful tool as long as it has a locking blade. Some brass snare wire, or snares already made up for the most likely small game, are a sensible and realistic addition to a survival kit.

you can also take the principle that you are likely to have stuff on your body anyway so reduce what you stick in a tin. That being said, there are still a wide number of other tasks that demand a sharp edge for which the smaller knives and blades that an Altoids tin could house are appropriate. These lights can be exceptionally small at about the width and length of your thumb and come in at about the thickness of two quarters.The sparks produced are over 3000 degC and it will strike in damp or wet conditions, making it the ideal tool to start a fire with. Polymath suggest filtering through clothing and that can work but unless you have clean spare clothing available it can also add extra contamination, though the puritabs should deal with most of those if what you are wearing is all you have. If your thinking of making a Lofty type survival pouch then something that is about the same size as a mess tin (with lid) works well.

Never laid hands on a SureFire so I my baseline for comparison will be a pimped AA maglite (LED bulb and lithiums). Description A fully-featured survival kit that provides life-saving functionality, packed into a sturdy and practical ‘mess tin’ container. In wild and remote country, you should certainly add some more serious cutting tools such as a bushcraft knife and folding saw. I have two fire steels, one that I use and practise with and one in the kit to be there in perfect condition should I ever need it. It’s great if people can bring things they already have from home to personalise and adapt their kits.

While it is possible to light a featherstick with a fireflash, you need to be good at making fine feathers and be precise enough with you firesteel to make it work. Food is not needed for 30 days, at a push 40, and you are likely to waste more energy, unless you have a very extensive local knowledge, trying to acquire it than you get from it in a ‘real’ survival situation. If space allows I also carry a small spinner or Toby with a treble hook just to add to the kits flexibility.