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What's going on guys welcome back to the Field Craft Survival Podcast.

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Now I don't have to read you like 10 things which means you don't get to hang out with me at the beginning of the podcast for as long but that's okay because the podcast is for you not for me but for me but for me and selfish I guess but anyway that sponsor is Black Rifle Coffee and because of Evans and Mike's relationship they go way back you know working together and because of their relationship now we have an awesome business relationship where I get to just get a chance to do this.

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If you're listening to this you probably heard of survival kits and coffee which is a course that feel craft survival has put on a couple times maybe you've heard of coffee and go rigs which is a course we've put on even more well

what I want to do today is I want to talk about the survival kit side of things I want to talk about survival kits in general and the ones in particular that you can carry inside your pocket guys this is Kevin Estella with feel craft survival I'm the director of training

you might know me from 72 hour challenge or some of the crazy crazy stuff that we've done here maybe from the ricky hunt maybe from repelling off the roof of petzel or some of the other stuff that Mike lover my boss my buddy my friend my fellow Asian has asked me to do.

Well Mike is said in the past that your vehicle is an extension of your backpack and true words have never been spoken I mean you can definitely carry more water inside the trunk of your car then you can side of your back back you can definitely live a lot longer out of your vehicle when travel further and faster with a good vehicle then you can with just your feet

but if it's true going one way right where your vehicle is an extension of your backpack it has to be true the other way that your backpack is an extension of something well your backpacks an extension of what you carry on your person on your belt and in your pockets

so what I want to do is I want to talk about that very very final layer that that first line of gear that you go to in your everyday carry loadout and if you're not already carrying a pocket emergency kit or a pocket survival kit I'm going to encourage you to do just that.

Coffee and survival kits is a course that we've offered a couple times here I feel craft and it's been really really popular and I love the engagement that we have with the attendees I bring out ideas of pocket emergency kits that have morphed in my own personal everyday carry for the past two decades

and I also get a chance to talk to people about what they carry and why I'll tell you I've learned a lot from students over the years and I found that there are so many items that make sense for some people but not everyone but then there's something every so often that a student says hey check this out and I immediately throw it into my kit because it just makes sense it's something that balances a solution for what's both possible and probable well.

To kind of kick this off let's talk about these pocket emergency kits or pocket survival kits if you look at books from the 20th century you're probably going to see examples of various survival tins and I'm talking about like the lofty wise man British S.A.S.

and the survival guide I mean has an example of a pocket survival kit that you can carry the instead of calling flashlights flashlights they call them torches right in the way that British people refer to things like that but long before the pocket survival kit that became really popular in the 20th century we could look at the

pouches of long hunters and outdoors men and frontiers men from the 19th and 18th century so if you look at what they carry they carried items that made sense that were frequently used right they carried spare ammunition maybe a fire

or a spare knife cordage these are all items that those early men decided were valuable well now we move back forward to the 20th century and we look at the items that were carried in those pocket survival tins and we see that as technology improve the items got smaller smaller kind of like the way that cell phones get smaller I mean if you remember early 2000s where we had those razor phones that were super super thin but then as technology improved and we wanted bigger screens and more

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