If you cuold take only one thing with you.

[hunter63]

So stuff happens fast, you can only take one thing with you WTSHTF.
What would it be?

For me it would be a knife.
Tool, protection, act as steel for flint and steel fire starting, etc.

[longshot]

my jacket it usually has a knife and a lighter in the pocket ;D


ls

[wy0mn]

My wife. What I don't know... she does. Between the two of us we have a vast amount of survival related knowledge, both practical & theoretical.

[American_Infidel]

My BOB, of course. ;D

[hunter63]

I guess I was hoping for a little more in the order of "just one thing".

Obviously, if given my druthers, the truck, w/BOB stuff, including the portable bob would be my 1st choice.
Drive that out to "The Place", and could probably hold out for a pretty long time.

As luck would have it "stuff happens" at the most inopportune time, may be at work, school, home destroyed, truck destroyed etc.
So now you "Had" everything thought out, planned and prepared, but it's GONE.
Now what?
At least nobody came up with "My cell phone and credit card" DUH.
So how about it?

[lostinthewoods]

I too have thought about this senereio over and over again myself. The likely hood of only being able to take "one" thing is a little small. I would have to agree with the knife being my choice too.



lost

[Toad_Sticker]

BOB
thats the reason it is there.
The ONE thing you grab.
if it is destroyed so are my knives or any one other thing.
.....aside from that a knife is a survival kit in its own right if you know how to use it.
my $.02
TS

[Archangel]

A knife.

As long as I have agood knife, I'll get by.

My

[RangerRick]

One thing uh, hows about my Whitman's Tin, I carry it in my vest pocket at all times. *

Within the recesses of the magic little box I keep 2 band aids, antiseptic, 2 aspirins, 2 safety pins, 2.5" nail, needle, dental floss, 2 fish hooks, split shot, *20' of 10 lb test mono-filament line, AAA flash light, large paper clip, P38, pencil, small knife, fingernail clipper, magnifying lens, compass, magnesium striker, small bic lighter, petroleum jellied cotton ball, 2 lock pics & pressure bar, signal mirror.

Semper Paratus - Always Ready. * ;D

Rick

[docjered]

I would like to see a picture of that, Ric!!! ::) :o

[tx-woodsman]

I would take a knife. No doubt.

[Mark_and_Nicole]

a good knife.
even a bad knife. and the knowledge to use it.

Mark

[Mark_and_Nicole]

oh! that! and a battery powered vibrater.

[hunter63]

One thing uh, hows about my Whitman's Tin, I carry it in my vest pocket at all times. *

Within the recesses of the magic little box I keep 2 band aids, antiseptic, 2 aspirins, 2 safety pins, 2.5" nail, needle, dental floss, 2 fish hooks, split shot, *20' of 10 lb test mono-filament line, AAA flash light, large paper clip, P38, pencil, small knife, fingernail clipper, magnifying lens, compass, magnesium striker, small bic lighter, petroleum jellied cotton ball, 2 lock pics & pressure bar, signal mirror.

Semper Paratus - Always Ready. * ;D

Rick

Have carried a similar "kit" in a plastic cigarette box, the kind that has 2 halves and then slips together.

You would be suprised how much stuff you can carry in one of those.

[RangerRick]

Sorry it took so long to get back to ya but I just plum forgot about the post. OK here's the kit, updates include 2 nails, 3 safety pins, 2 water proof matches, duck tape to keep it kinda water tight and a pack of Stiri Strips. *Seems you can always find room for a little extra. *The kit also makes a fine counterbalance for a spare 45 cal 1911, 8 round mag.

http://i16.tinypic.com/4hvfa0m.jpg

;D

Rick

[hunter63]

Thanks for the pic.
Makes me want to go out and get mine out of my hunting coat, probably need to be up dated as I have carried it around for 25-30 years.
Bet the aspirins aren't much good? LOL

[Rama_das]

just ONE think.

shotgun even with just the ammo on it, 8 tube, 1 chamber 6 side saddle. . . i'm better off then anyone else.

i was talking to a friends father who's newer to the food storage. less then a year into it. i'm a little over 4 or so. . .

so sharing some ideas etc. i asked if his neughbours had food storage, or if they knew about his. one had storage, a couple knew they did it. i asked if any of them hunted. . . one did, but he didn't keep a storage. i said, so he's got guns and can hunt, and you have food. he's got guns. . . you got food. . .who's got food?

so either keep quiet, or be ready to protect it.
he said if anything ever happened, i was welcome to come up there. lol, like i could move all my stock to his little place lol.

but i got a gun, you have food, or kit or car. . . .hmmmm

[TNDadx4]

Sorry it took so long to get back to ya but I just plum forgot about the post. OK here's the kit, updates include 2 nails, 3 safety pins, 2 water proof matches, duck tape to keep it kinda water tight and a pack of Stiri Strips. Seems you can always find room for a little extra. The kit also makes a fine counterbalance for a spare 45 cal 1911, 8 round mag.
Rick

Thanks for the insight. I'm going to make a few of these.

[JAK]

40' Sailboat,
to Labrador most likely.

[RazorBack]

Hard to say.
I guess if I had to head for civilization, a knife, because of concealment.
If I was heading to the woods, a hatchet. *It can do everything a knife can and several things a knife can't or really sucks at.

[LeatherneckPA]

MANY years ago, when I was still in the Corps, my DM bought all 4 of her sons (all Marines) one of those Rambo survival knifes with all the stuff in the handle. I'd either grab that one or the one I bought in Norway. Nothing fancy about it, but I watched a guy shop firewood, skin a carcass, and fillet a salmon all with the same blade.

I think I'm going to like it here!!

[Mac_Muz]

If I get one thing and only one thing I want pants... This is gonna suck, because instead of pants i would prefer a pair of mocs on my feet and nothing else.. Does that count as one thing?

If I can be dressed then I would pick a carbon steel knife in a fixed blade of a decent size, as my one thing..

The problem with me is I have stuff for this in everything I have.

I keep safety pins in my wallet because I tend to pick up splinters working in woods. And about 6 feet of linen thread.

My Balmora Scottish War Bonnet is a survial kit, in a hat... it has coiled linen behind the liner, fish hooks, needles, and a carbon steel knife about 1 1/4 inch long stuffed in the ribbon band hem, an is tied. That blade was bigger but it cracked in the heat treating, so I reforged the tip to have a pot hook handle big enough to pinch with 2 fingers and a thumb.

Don't even giggle, as I use this to slice 9/16" ELK neck all the time...

I carry a NAA mini mag every second of every day these days, so I have gun in a holster, and IF I wore under pants and that was all YOU STILL would not see that gun... I tip the scale at under 150 pounds, and that gun ain't up my butt! (Don't go there with me..)

Now I know as well as anyone else tha little .22 mag ain't much good unless you stick it in the bad guys ear, just to wake him up, so when I can I carry something bigger in .45, so I get 2 guns in a bind..

I smoke and can't keep my crap straight so I always have 2 bics...

When I get cut no band aids are going to deal with it so I don't need them. Rags and or leaves will do what band aids can do for me.

Most of the time sooner or latter I just quit bleedin all over the place and I do tend to bleed when I knapp.. I don't know I have been cut till I see blood. odd huh, could I be dead?

Ya know maybe I don't want that knife at all, and just maybe a big Jug O' Jack would be what I wanted if I needed only a knife! ;D

[idris]

A warm, wooly hat: *the rest I should be able to do from scratch.

[flatwater]

My surviver spear/ walking stick I made. It has an area where the fishing hooks , line, magnesium fire starter are hidden. And could I take my dog? If I got hungery enough one of us would not starve to death.
Flatwater

[clarkshomestead]

one thing? well I'd have to say as much rope as i couldget my hands on. (only cause im a fairly proficient stone knapper other wise it would be a knife). Sure you can make cordage fom many plants and animals but whith plants it takes a while to get enough to do anything with and with animals well, they are pretty hard to come by with out cordage. You will need it to make a bow/spindle fire starter, very usefull in shelter building, trapping, fishing and any number of other survival musts. Thats my take on it.