Nice video as always. I would add one of the sol emergency 2 person blankets. Also add some needle and thread like other people have said. But a small plastic bag or altoids tin with fishing hooks , weights, swivels and a few small lures. Plus replace one of the cordage packs with fishing line. Maybe add a beef stick or cliff bar. That would round it one nicely.
Interesting set of choices. Personally I would add a larger Swiss Army Knife (real one) that has sissors & a saw on it. A tub of BCB waterproof matches & a couple of wetfire cubes.
I am glad you were interested enough to go through with my suggestion. I'm glad to see you liked it. If you ever need to resupply their website sells refills. I don't know if you do medical kits but their trauma kits and the world travel are awsome
...the tincture of benzoin is used to help secure the wound closure strips in place. Also, do you think you could review the Henry survival kit at some point? Looks like a good kit, but a review would be great. Thanks again and keep the reviews coming!
I wouldn't have thought a few zip ties and a few feet of Duct Tape would qualify as a gear repair kit, but other than that it's not too bad. Thanks for showing us this kit.
For roughly the same price, you can put a Gerber Dime in the same space as that Victorinox and it makes a real big difference. That kit is also a bit shy of personal defense, animal or whateverwise.
Neat kit. One more suggestion is that I would add 4-5 $1 bills and a few quarters into that blue removable pouch. A couple bucks can come in handy in a pinch.
I like the SOL brand of survival kits. I agree they are a great starter kit for the basics but can be customized easily to fit individual needs. I have a SOL kit in each of our hiking packs.
It's much cheaper to make your own kit buying similar items individually but I suppose these kits are good if you don't have the time or don't want to spend time making your own. I still reccomed adding some items here and there to make it more complete
Nice kit, I have had one for 3 years (Canadian edition (?)) With a slightly different content. Diffinitively, it needs extra, but it served me a lot during the northern Canadian winter.
Diphenhydromine can also be used as a sleep aid, rest is something often overlooked in a survival situation, lack of rest leads to more calorie needs, and bad judgement, an exhausted person rarely thinks things through to the best of their ability,
Fifty bucks feels a bit pricey for what is included here - the first aid part was definitely the star of this show. The curious omissions of storm matches, proper knife/multi-tool, water tablets and bag, sewing or fishing kit, and other common survival kit items left this feeling a bit skimpy after the strong start from the first aid side. I did like the fire striker, iodine vial, generous amount of antiseptic solution, and other items I don't think I've seen from any other manufacturers, but not enough so that I'd pay full price for this kit. Not horribly bad, but it would have needed a lot of help to push it over the top - fortunately, you kitbashed it with some good upgrades!
Excellent review and the add-ons are spot on. One thing I’d also add is a SWAT-T tourniquet or a compression bandage. Maybe some quick clot if it would fit.
Great choice of supplies to augment the survival kit. However, as someone else mentioned, a more comprehensive Swiss Army knife (to include scissors, awl, and saw) would prove useful. Thanks for the review.
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I bought one, and I thought a lot of the components were substandard, bag and medical components not waterproof or resistant, the diangle cut of the zippers for main pouches are awkward and you have trouble taking items out or in. Basically it's someone dumped in 2 cut down cheaper versions of doug ritter kit personal amk kits. Not worth the money in my opinion.
I am watching this video and reading all the comments about what people would add to it. I think the best way to use this kit, in my humble opinion, is to get a USGI Buttpack and stuff a military poncho, with or without the woobie, inside. You can also add in some energy bars or beef jerky whatever you like as well as all the additions that he mentioned that he would add to the kit. Then, if you aren’t packing the woobie, this will fit inside the buttpack with the rest. Otherwise you can attach the kit to the waist strap of the buttpack utilizing the handle of the kit. You can wear it around your waist, over your shoulder, or crossbody.
Another great video review! Again, your additions were spot on! I recently purchased two of these kits at $30.00 each! Great bargain. FYI, after cleansing a cut, and drying the area, the tincture of benzoin is used by applying the solution on each side of the wound, letting dry, then applying the wound closures by pulling on one side, which brings the two sides of the wound together and applying the other end of the to the opposite side of the wound
Also, with the "leave the large bag at camp, and go around with the small" is funny it isn't that big. That said is you realize you need to use the contents, it is wise not to keep everything in that pouch, but to spread out the contents of the kit about your person so as not to risk total loss if you were to have worse luck than what started the emergency that required the survival kit to begin with. Military survival schools preach this, point early on. The medical side could use some reinforcement, the Survival/repair side was in a nutshell a disappointment, I've seen better Altoids tin kits, granted it's a start. The water bag water treatment tabs were a great idea. Still Instead of two folding knives, a folding and a "small enough to fit" fixed blade would have been a better choice. I probably wouldn't buy the kit myself, but if given as a gift, I'd look at it as something to fiddle with and try to max it's potential. Thanks for the video.
Interesting! The First Aid side is a lot more comprehensive than the Survival and Tools side, that's for sure. Not too much you'd need to add to the former. The latter could use some work! Your additions should go a long ways towards making it a useful kit.
Benzoid Tincture is never for putting on wounds. That is painful like you wouldnt believe! Benzoid Tincture is for gluing steri strips or moleskin to skin.
Medical part is well but I miss the triangle bandage. add on‘s are OK. I would have added a midsize Victorinox and magnesium Bar for the fire. (Victorinox Models Hiker, Farmer X, Camper Saw, Knife and Sissors, Opener bottle, can and a Screwdriver. Nice to have Ale)
It was smart of them to leave out a knife and or multitool. They'd have to include junk, and you should always have these things on you everyday anyways. If theres nothing else you need to add and you don't feel like you're making it bulkier than adding knives seems fine, but as always I just don't get the idea of having knives in a survival kit.
That compartmentalization idea is one that Cody Lundin stresses in his book "98.6 degrees, The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive". It makes things easier to find when it matters. I was thinking I'd use that little blue pouch for that purpose rather than detaching it and leaving the rest of the kit behind where it would be useless. It seems to me, the placement of the zippers off the corner to corner diagonal of the pouches makes the opening smaller and harder to use. In a survival situation where stress and hypothermia could compromise coordination that could be vital.
If you zip a heavy duty painters tarp, cut down to 5 x 7 with duct tape reinforcements in the corners and middles of the sides with holes punched in them and an energy bar in the middle it would be even better!
What's wrong with you? You forgot the most important component, TOILET PAPER. I know that's the most important item because people hoarded it several months ago!🤣
Very poor access to the components with the small quirky angled zips. Can you imagine cutting the tip of your finger and trying to get out a plaster (uk)? Hate the bag, like the kit. Cheers, all the best to you and yours 👍 👍 👍
I'm a pretty careful person, so fortunately I've never found myself in a life or death survival situation. I tend to view my kits as backup for my primary gear. With that said, I have had to tap into my survival kits on backpacking trips when my primary gear failed. For example, one time my primary water filtration system broke and so I had to go into my survival kit and use the water purification tablets for the remainder of the trip. The "kits" that I've actually used the most are the get-home bags I keep in my cars.
That's an expensive item to add, so what I normally do is I add the quick clot only to kits that I'm actually going to take with me (car, backpacking trip, etc). I may add it later when i take this kit on an outing.
There's other items out there that would be more inline with a kit like this, and not a blowout kit. You can google "BLOOD STOP" and all kinds of things pop up that are MUCH cheaper and geared toward a nasty cut and not a gun shot wound. This is one I kinda like. curad.com/product/bloodstop-hemostatic-gauze/
no offense but those kits are complete garp for real bug out or emergency situations. The first aid articles are for minor cuts and irritations. If you are serious about a survival kit ..you need to invest in a Trauma kit for emergency aid. the rest of the items are not only hyped up junk with no real emergency use, except for maybe just some minor one time use. All of the items on the emergency side can be compiled from a hardware store or seven -eleven for about 15 bucks top.The kit is literally 15 bucks of stuff , in a 10 dollar nylon bag that they are selling to you for 35 dollars. I'm not trying to be harsh..just realistic..it is overpriced bunk.A true survival kit should be ten times it's size and include useful items such as emergency fire starting gear , folding saw,good knife or two, water purification filter , and tablets,emergency rope, and lightweight compact shelter, emergency food and water ...etc etc...
I'll have to respectfully disagree with you. I have trauma kits and bug out bags and this kit is not trying to be for either of those. It's a general purpose kit...something fairly lightweight to take on a backpacking trip or a day hike or something of that nature.
Not bad! I'd add a chap stick and a small stick of Sun screen cause I resemble a lobster after about 2 hours lol.
good call Panda Bear.
Nice video as always. I would add one of the sol emergency 2 person blankets. Also add some needle and thread like other people have said. But a small plastic bag or altoids tin with fishing hooks , weights, swivels and a few small lures. Plus replace one of the cordage packs with fishing line. Maybe add a beef stick or cliff bar. That would round it one nicely.
I think the blanket is. I know the one in the scout is a two person one. His review on it convinced me to get it. 25 bucks at my local Target
Interesting set of choices.
Personally I would add a larger Swiss Army Knife (real one) that has sissors & a saw on it.
A tub of BCB waterproof matches & a couple of wetfire cubes.
Kit: send SOL your videos on what you add. Maybe they will get the hint!
I think by and large, SOL do pretty decent stuff.
I am glad you were interested enough to go through with my suggestion. I'm glad to see you liked it.
If you ever need to resupply their website sells refills. I don't know if you do medical kits but their trauma kits and the world travel are awsome
Thanks!
...the tincture of benzoin is used to help secure the wound closure strips in place. Also, do you think you could review the Henry survival kit at some point? Looks like a good kit, but a review would be great. Thanks again and keep the reviews coming!
I will be reviewing that kit in the near future.
Mole skin. The one thing I always forget.
One thing I like about these kits is that they give ypu a baseline of a list of what to order in bulk to either make more kits or restock.
I wouldn't have thought a few zip ties and a few feet of Duct Tape would qualify as a gear repair kit, but other than that it's not too bad.
Thanks for showing us this kit.
For roughly the same price, you can put a Gerber Dime in the same space as that Victorinox and it makes a real big difference. That kit is also a bit shy of personal defense, animal or whateverwise.
It's also missing a gun. :)
Shoot, a fella can have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff!
Ha
Apologies to Colonel Kong.
I thought, it was Dallas, but it's been awhile.
Neat kit. One more suggestion is that I would add 4-5 $1 bills and a few quarters into that blue removable pouch. A couple bucks can come in handy in a pinch.
Not a bad idea. Thanks
I was surprised you didn’t add a Jolly Rancher. Love your reviews and kit additions!
Oh yeah, slipped my mind. I'll come back to it and add more stuff later.
I'd add water packets, and few Datrex bars. That, and more shelter elements.
I like the SOL brand of survival kits. I agree they are a great starter kit for the basics but can be customized easily to fit individual needs. I have a SOL kit in each of our hiking packs.
It's much cheaper to make your own kit buying similar items individually but I suppose these kits are good if you don't have the time or don't want to spend time making your own. I still reccomed adding some items here and there to make it more complete
Nice kit, I have had one for 3 years (Canadian edition (?)) With a slightly different content. Diffinitively, it needs extra, but it served me a lot during the northern Canadian winter.
Diphenhydromine can also be used as a sleep aid, rest is something often overlooked in a survival situation, lack of rest leads to more calorie needs, and bad judgement, an exhausted person rarely thinks things through to the best of their ability,
Good idea, thanks!
Fifty bucks feels a bit pricey for what is included here - the first aid part was definitely the star of this show. The curious omissions of storm matches, proper knife/multi-tool, water tablets and bag, sewing or fishing kit, and other common survival kit items left this feeling a bit skimpy after the strong start from the first aid side. I did like the fire striker, iodine vial, generous amount of antiseptic solution, and other items I don't think I've seen from any other manufacturers, but not enough so that I'd pay full price for this kit. Not horribly bad, but it would have needed a lot of help to push it over the top - fortunately, you kitbashed it with some good upgrades!
It's basically a medical kit with 5 zip ties, some string and a bit of duct tape on the side lol The survival part gives us NOTHING 😂
Excellent review and the add-ons are spot on. One thing I’d also add is a SWAT-T tourniquet or a compression bandage. Maybe some quick clot if it would fit.
Great choice of supplies to augment the survival kit. However, as someone else mentioned, a more comprehensive Swiss Army knife (to include scissors, awl, and saw) would prove useful.
Thanks for the review.
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Yep
I bought one, and I thought a lot of the components were substandard, bag and medical components not waterproof or resistant, the diangle cut of the zippers for main pouches are awkward and you have trouble taking items out or in. Basically it's someone dumped in 2 cut down cheaper versions of doug ritter kit personal amk kits. Not worth the money in my opinion.
you right!
I have to agree with you but it was a good vid all the same
Gréât vid. One things I always include in my FAKs is feminine pads as they are great to adsorb blood.
Good idea, thanks!
I am watching this video and reading all the comments about what people would add to it. I think the best way to use this kit, in my humble opinion, is to get a USGI Buttpack and stuff a military poncho, with or without the woobie, inside. You can also add in some energy bars or beef jerky whatever you like as well as all the additions that he mentioned that he would add to the kit. Then, if you aren’t packing the woobie, this will fit inside the buttpack with the rest. Otherwise you can attach the kit to the waist strap of the buttpack utilizing the handle of the kit. You can wear it around your waist, over your shoulder, or crossbody.
Thanks!
U should add a mini fishing kit or trapping to have a way to catch food
Added three snares, and a mini Altoids tin with hooks, line, sinkers, & stuff.
@@johnmoco3684 did u get it
@@Gameover-sg6sp oh yeah. It is a good little kit. But yeah, a few ad-ins will definitely make it better for an EDC.
@@johnmoco3684 do u know that I made only one kit in my life and it is going great
Another great video review! Again, your additions were spot on! I recently purchased two of these kits at $30.00 each! Great bargain. FYI, after cleansing a cut, and drying the area, the tincture of benzoin is used by applying the solution on each side of the wound, letting dry, then applying the wound closures by pulling on one side, which brings the two sides of the wound together and applying the other end of the to the opposite side of the wound
Love your reviews !You inspired me to create a channel review about survival tools ❤️
Glad to hear it!
Also, with the "leave the large bag at camp, and go around with the small" is funny it isn't that big. That said is you realize you need to use the contents, it is wise not to keep everything in that pouch, but to spread out the contents of the kit about your person so as not to risk total loss if you were to have worse luck than what started the emergency that required the survival kit to begin with. Military survival schools preach this, point early on.
The medical side could use some reinforcement, the Survival/repair side was in a nutshell a disappointment, I've seen better Altoids tin kits, granted it's a start. The water bag water treatment tabs were a great idea. Still Instead of two folding knives, a folding and a "small enough to fit" fixed blade would have been a better choice.
I probably wouldn't buy the kit myself, but if given as a gift, I'd look at it as something to fiddle with and try to max it's potential.
Thanks for the video.
Very informative, and very in-depth video...as are all of your videos. Thank you for the great content!
Interesting! The First Aid side is a lot more comprehensive than the Survival and Tools side, that's for sure. Not too much you'd need to add to the former. The latter could use some work! Your additions should go a long ways towards making it a useful kit.
Thanks!
Benzoid Tincture is never for putting on wounds. That is painful like you wouldnt believe! Benzoid Tincture is for gluing steri strips or moleskin to skin.
Yeah, that was my mistake.
That "blister stuff" is Moleskin. Don't leave home without it, or you may be limping home.
Medical part is well but I miss the triangle bandage. add on‘s are OK. I would have added a midsize Victorinox and magnesium Bar for the fire. (Victorinox Models Hiker, Farmer X, Camper Saw, Knife and Sissors, Opener bottle, can and a Screwdriver. Nice to have Ale)
Thank you for sharing, huge survival kit fan, and I just Subscribed $
Awesome, thank you!
I see Kitbashed Survival vids and I wanna start buying survival kits and battleboxes. Now this is influencing right here! love it
If you had extra water, food, and a little better medical kit, the 10 Cs. described by Dave Canterbury seems like it would be a good survival kit.
It was smart of them to leave out a knife and or multitool.
They'd have to include junk, and you should always have these things on you everyday anyways.
If theres nothing else you need to add and you don't feel like you're making it bulkier than adding knives seems fine, but as always I just don't get the idea of having knives in a survival kit.
I agree with you in that I'd rather supply my own quality knife than have them add a piece of junk knife in there.
Man. That medical kit was awesome.
If you want a combo kit, look at the survivewear survival first aid with better stuff and tons better organization
That compartmentalization idea is one that Cody Lundin stresses in his book "98.6 degrees, The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive". It makes things easier to find when it matters. I was thinking I'd use that little blue pouch for that purpose rather than detaching it and leaving the rest of the kit behind where it would be useless. It seems to me, the placement of the zippers off the corner to corner diagonal of the pouches makes the opening smaller and harder to use. In a survival situation where stress and hypothermia could compromise coordination that could be vital.
If you zip a heavy duty painters tarp, cut down to 5 x 7 with duct tape reinforcements in the corners and middles of the sides with holes punched in them and an energy bar in the middle it would be even better!
The added things are definitely a big improvement
Very nice kit. Looks like you might have been able to fit a small fixed blade in there as well
Yeah perhaps
No space blanket?
It's there
Great medical side but the gear side was a letdown they couldve thrown a decent little pocket knife in there
why not hooks and lines in case you're near water that might have fish?
I would add eather a disposable poncho or a trash bag.
Good idea
Good for $10 not for $50.
nice. But, that little zipper/opening, especially on the first-aid side seems like a bid idea.
Nice review Sir. Thank you for sharing. Blessings 👍🏼
What's wrong with you? You forgot the most important component, TOILET PAPER. I know that's the most important item because people hoarded it several months ago!🤣
True it's never talked about. Always carry a Dettol or /and Nivea wet wipes pack
I carry plenty of that in my get home and bug out bags. :)
I really miss a cutting tool in this kit and some water cleaning and gathering
I hope you're not in a hurry getting that first aid kit
Have to if these are still around I really like strong med kit survival gear your more likely to get hurt then lost.
Very poor access to the components with the small quirky angled zips. Can you imagine cutting the tip of your finger and trying to get out a plaster (uk)? Hate the bag, like the kit. Cheers, all the best to you and yours 👍 👍 👍
Got one just last week. $43.00 or so on Amazon. I like this one!
Nice!
Have any of these kits ever helped you in a survival situation?
I'm a pretty careful person, so fortunately I've never found myself in a life or death survival situation. I tend to view my kits as backup for my primary gear. With that said, I have had to tap into my survival kits on backpacking trips when my primary gear failed. For example, one time my primary water filtration system broke and so I had to go into my survival kit and use the water purification tablets for the remainder of the trip. The "kits" that I've actually used the most are the get-home bags I keep in my cars.
I hate that particular headlamp. Had a couple of them. Otherwise I don't think it's a bad kit
I like your additions. Not so much the kit.
In your opinion what are the best kits out there
I don’t think much of the bag. The two zippers are just weird and small making access hard.
To speak more carefully, the moleskin is not for application to blisters; it is for application to hotspots to PREVENT blisters.
KS, what you recommend, for a good gear-repair kit?
Know any place to find these? Walmart does not have them now.
I don't know if, you have. Create a kit from your knowledge.
No quick clot?
Nope. Those are a bit pricey, and this on its own is for the average person with basic wounds. I guess you could add one
That's an expensive item to add, so what I normally do is I add the quick clot only to kits that I'm actually going to take with me (car, backpacking trip, etc). I may add it later when i take this kit on an outing.
There's other items out there that would be more inline with a kit like this, and not a blowout kit. You can google "BLOOD STOP" and all kinds of things pop up that are MUCH cheaper and geared toward a nasty cut and not a gun shot wound. This is one I kinda like.
curad.com/product/bloodstop-hemostatic-gauze/
What are the zip ties for?
Quick way to fasten things without needing knots.
SOL needs to not have the kits and such so expensive
I can made better and cheaper kit with what I want at Walmart and dollar tree 3 kits in 1! The SOL Hybrid 3 Survival Kit
soon as i saw the half-way diagonal zips, i clicked off, this kit is joke. typical SOL mass-market weekend warrior BS
Well, yea. That's their target market. Folks that want something but don't want to spend the time to put a kit together.
no offense but those kits are complete garp for real bug out or emergency situations. The first aid articles are for minor cuts and irritations. If you are serious about a survival kit ..you need to invest in a Trauma kit for emergency aid. the rest of the items are not only hyped up junk with no real emergency use, except for maybe just some minor one time use. All of the items on the emergency side can be compiled from a hardware store or seven -eleven for about 15 bucks top.The kit is literally 15 bucks of stuff , in a 10 dollar nylon bag that they are selling to you for 35 dollars. I'm not trying to be harsh..just realistic..it is overpriced bunk.A true survival kit should be ten times it's size and include useful items such as emergency fire starting gear , folding saw,good knife or two, water purification filter , and tablets,emergency rope, and lightweight compact shelter, emergency food and water ...etc etc...
I'll have to respectfully disagree with you. I have trauma kits and bug out bags and this kit is not trying to be for either of those. It's a general purpose kit...something fairly lightweight to take on a backpacking trip or a day hike or something of that nature.
JEEZ. Make your own. I have better in the trunks of my 2 cars. Not difficult, unless you were indictonadited by public education.
Thank you!
*indoctrinated
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@@fearsomefawkes6724 may have been a catholic school?🤭