So, what you get for for $11.26 is a five gallons of very durable, air-tight, waterproof, easy-to-open and easy-to-close storage, which, if you think about it, is one hell of a lot cheaper than ammo cans, or fake ammo cans, or Chinese fake ammo cans, or plastic fake ammo cans, or… just about any other option I can think of, if you really need durable and water-tight.
Early lessons on the Prehistory of Civilization and Survivalism from Gobekli Tepe
If true, this is huge.
This isn’t just “stones and bones”, folks, this is about understanding ourselves, who we are, and how we got where we are today from nothing. Every insight we gain into the progress of early man or proto-humans from being as helpless as any other animal (more so, apparently) to our current level of interconnected technologies adds to our “blueprint” of how it is done, should it ever need to be done again- whether it is just an individual caught without the support of technology, or entire peoples recovering from disaster, or human colonies having to deal with reduced availability of technology in starting the process over somewhere else, knowing how we boot-strapped ourselves as a species from no-tech to high-tech is knowing how to do it again if we have to- hopefully without taking tens of thousands of years, or longer, this time.
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.
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.