In short, it seems fine for pretty much any reasonable expectation. I’m pleased with the purchase, no complaints, and I’m picky. I’d love to hear from anyone else that has tried the brand.
A Great Bit of Kit, the USMC Watch Cap
These things are right up there with the venerable P38 can opener near the very top of the list of generally-useful stuff that the military has come up with. I buy mine on Ebay, I don’t know if they’re factory overruns, or “seconds” (I’ve heard that the USMC inspectors are really tough, and will fail a sewing job if there is one letter of the tag partially blocked or the USMC globe is distorted) or “fell off of a truck”, and I guess I don’t care, I’m just glad they’re available.
Sling Packs- The Best Type of Short-Term Survival Pack
‘m a pack junkie. I spent a large part of my spare time in my youth on trails with everything I needed on my back, sometimes for weeks at a stretch, and it made some sort of permanent impression. I feel sort of naked out-and-about anywhere without one, at least in a nearby vehicle. I’ve got a lot of the things, mostly smaller sizes now just for kicking around, not the huge ones I used to live out of, but I highly value a good pack and it seems I can seldom go for much longer than a year without acquiring another one for a specific purpose or feature.
Survival – The Magic of the Crooked Stick… and Why it Works
Even at that age, though, I had some rudimentary research ability, and I remember looking up “boomerang” in different references and finding out to my surprise that returning boomerangs were only one category of a larger type, and that larger type was in itself a part of the still larger category of throwing sticks as weapons, all of which seem to have been crooked. This puzzled me greatly, I understood that a fairly specific shape would be required of a throwing stick that would return to its owner (at least if it didn’t hit anything), but why would it be that throwing-sticks in general, that did not return to the thrower, should be crooked?
The Urban/Suburban EDC/Get-Home kit list
I’m a firm believer in versatility. The more detailed the scenario, the more specific you get in trying to predict the future, the more likely you are to be wrong, so I believe in just generally enabling yourself to handle more situations as they come up. Knives, flashlights, and multi-tools are among the most versatile tools there are, and can make you a whole lot harder to kill in a “collateral damage” sense. Insulation, water carrying capacity and the ability to make fire are almost universal needs.
Aquarium tubing as survival gear
This is an odd survival item in that I’ve never had any use for it in an urban or suburban or even rural environment, only in the woods and mountains, but for there I find it indispensable. I never go out for more than a day hike without at least six feet of aquarium tubing, preferably eight or nine feet, and I’ve used it for more decades than I care to count.
Gibbs’ Rule #9
“Never go anywhere without a knife.”
That’s Gibbs’ rule number nine, from the TV series NCIS, in its better days, when they weren’t afraid to discuss such things a little… or afraid to portray knives in a positive light, or afraid to portray men in a positive light, maybe even… gasp!.. as possible role models.
A multi-tool with a truly unique quality
To the best of my knowledge the SOG Powerlock Traveler is the only full-sized multi-tool available that has no knife blade. All of the full-sized multi-tools from Leatherman and Gerber that I’m aware of (and I have a number of them) have knife blades longer than 2.5 inches.