Survival Basics Loadout | Tools Everyone Should Own

I am a lover of hiking and been going to the mountains alot (I was born and live in a mountainous area). For many years I have been obsessed with survival, prepping, "tactical stuff", etc. A couple of times I went to such remote places where I got lost, and had to stay there more than I expected. When I saw Josh's rifle and huge backpack at the beginning of the video, I knew right away that there was too much stuff there). I'll sharesome of my survival kit. I won't list something as trivial as a kit for fire and the like, but for example, I use a sniper's mat in addition to a sleeping bag for sleeping. I am a Ukrainian, so I don't have a "gucci" rifle, instead I use a good proven single barrel 12 or 16 caliber. And from my experience, the main rule I've come to is to have a minimum of stuff. The heavier your backpack, the worse. And the second rule is that even if you have a whole vanload of stuff, but zero skills, it won't help you. First skills, then equipment.

Saws guys, Saws. A lot of people are not bringing those and for processing firewood and building shelter it is far more usefull then axe and also safer. Sometimes, I am also bringing hatchet, but good saw like Silky Bigboy Outback together with chopper like Skrama 240 goes a long way and is far more versatile.

The more I see your videos on camping/outdoor survival, the more I can tell you guys don't have much experience backpacking. It will be interesting to see how that changes in the future

It's so funny that Drew brought all his tactical stuff. That would be me. I'm glad we gun guys are getting out of our comfort zone and taking classes like this. Thanks for the great content, guys!

random little top for you, to help keep your water from freezing overnight put powdered drink mix like Gatorade in it and it lowers the freezing point by roughly 20 degrees. Also store your bottles upside down as water freezes from the top down and if its cold enough where its still gonna freeze some at least you'll be able to drink some of the water assuming it doesn't completely freeze

Before bed, fill a water bottle with hot water and put it in your sleep system by your feet. Will help keep your feet warm all night. Good video.

Huzzah to whomever brought their son to participate! I miss the America I grew up in and it's great to see it still survives in some places.

Cold Steel shovel is my #1 tool. Refinish the handle with linseed and keep the edge sharp, it'll dig, cut, or chop just about everything.

When I went through tom browns tracker school we went into the woods with nothing but a knife and not even at first we flint knapped our own knife made fire from ice, friction,bow drill,and a few others plus making a fox nest I remember it was 20 below up there that winter and I stripped down to my boxers climbed insidey nest packer FULL of leaves and stayed warm all night long when real survival situations kick in y'all had sooooo many luxuries we didn't even have a back pack just our person we made our own snares , axe head and handle, hammers, and rope from tree vines and bark peelings and dead falls to catch and kill game studied will plants and locating ginsang what bugs and small lifeform u can cook and eat or even eat raw. primitive skills are so important because I know I'm my heart that if someone is coming up my driveway me and my family could run out the back door with NOTHING and I could keep us alive for weeks and when I say NOTHING I MEAN NOTHING I have thermal,nods, suppressed weapons,gear out the yang gps plus my own off grid wifi server that runs of raspberrie pie software but although this stuff is nice u guys should really get more in touch woth nature thw hard reality of survival it will truly change thw way u look at life 🧬 as a whole amd can change u as a person for thw rest of your life people from the city get out in survival situations all the time and the ones who make it out Alive usually mive to the mountains and retire up there living off the land

The husqvarna forester’s axe is a good bang for the buck. I don’t leave home without it.

These goobers brought NODs instead of a silky saw and decent poncho lol

I'm in central Kentucky, I'm gonna check it out. I have a 350 acre farm that could be a good place to do a class. Thank you guys for keeping us informed on cool shit like this

Top notch content, gentlemen. Thank you. Just a couple of thoughts I had about water and weapons: in my time on active duty not once did I ever complain about to much water, or to many bullets. You may not need all the water you carry, but someone else might forget a container or have a failure in the field. Plus, when things do go bad for really real, that day scout might easily turn into a multiple day crisis. I personally believe we should carry a full load for any training. It helps ingrain item accountability, and awareness of what to do when you're trying to balance defense and survival. Train how you'll fight, because your first mistake will be your last. Godspeed, gentlemen.

I went hammock camping in Upstate NY at 30 degrees for my bachelor party the night before my wedding. Got married right when the Salmon run started. I got the GI cold weather sleep system. I used the green bag and let my brother (from NC) use the black bag. Needless to say, I was cold all dang night, but it was a great time.

being totally blind, I have dressed my own game, birds and deer, built and maintained my own fire solo, and used my 30.06 to fend off a would be animal attack at night. Trakcs were destroyed by the rain next morning when the guide came to my campsight to get me for the bear hunt, but he figured by the damage to the shelter, small bear or mountain lion. so if a guy uses braille and cane can figure it out, you can too. All can be worked around with thought.

I know tourniquets are something that everybody carries now, but I don’t understand why that’s everybody’s first go to item to prevent bleeding. If you talk to combat medics or people who spend a lot of time in the outdoors, you should have an Israeli bandage on your person first and foremost, secondary would be a tourniquet. Most wounds that you would encounter in the field are not going to be bullet wounds. You don’t need to apply a tourniquet you need to apply a bandage first.

Great videos not everybody is born knowing how to do this stuff and it's good that you guys are teaching people like myself

Something we used in Alaska was put your poncho down (if not using as shelter), then sleep pad, then woobie, then sleep system (which ours included the goretex bivy) and that system worked pretty good when we had to sleep outside in the open one night when it was like -21. Or put poncho, then bivy, then the rest and it works good as well.

"The big thing here is, we didn't die," haha

This episode flowed pretty well! Didn't feel like 28 minutes