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I know nothing about compasses. What if you realized you were lost all the sudden. You don’t know what way you came in. Would a compass be useful?

Ferrocerium rods (commonly referred to as "ferro rods") do not "go bad" in the conventional sense, but there are factors that can affect their performance over time. Corrosion: Ferrocerium is a mix of metals, including iron, magnesium, and rare-earth elements. If left exposed to moisture, especially saltwater environments, the rod can corrode. This doesn’t typically ruin the rod but may create a less effective striking surface. If you don't see shiny silver, you won't generate good sparks. Efficient technique is helpful as well.

Any recommend budget compasses that are reliable

Hi Greg, I like your old school, no-nonsense style! I think too that using a compass forces you to be more aware of your surroundings in a real sense - you are constantly checking landmarks, looking about you, rather than staring at the screen and saying, "I'm there", meaning "there on the screen".

Good simple tips. What is in season there at the moment? Nate

Another video filled with good information and simple, straight forward instructions. I really like your down to earth approach to things.👍👍👍

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I gathered a collection of compasses over my 70 years of using them along with maps of areas of places I hunted, fished, hiked and camped. A GPS is the greatest modern navigation tool since the wheel. Google earth is another innovation to use that costs nothing to learn to use. Simple navigation works however, precision navigation is worth every penny spent once you try it. Think about shooting a 200-pound deer and dragging it in a general direction to your car. I assure you that experience will make a GPS more important than you can ever imagine. You cannot hunt efficiently looking at compass constantly and looking for deer or any wild game. 🤔😆😅

I enjoyed that. Thanks for getting out in the rain to show us. My Silva is similar to yours but it's somewhere around a 1982 model. Type 3

If you get the small rubber bands put on the stick then the walking stick can double as a tracking stick use rubber bands to measure the stride of the animal being tracked toe to heel less likely to lose the trail

Just ran across your video, and I think it's great. Sound advice

Looking at getting a used one, anything I should look for when I pick it up? Gorgeous piece.

Excellent presentation of your well thought out kit. Customization is a great part to success! I took an early retirement in the Republic of the Philippine Islands. We are blessed with an abidance of water sources. Drinking that water without treatment is a bad idea. Your kit surely checks the box for pre-filtering and a means to pasteurize/sterilize water. In our humid and often soaking wet environment, we always have a supply of kick-@$$ DIY fire starters and multiple means of reliable ignition. Certain verities of our skeeters carry bad things such as malaria and dengue fever. Prevention is worth a pound of cure. Bug nets and repellants are the order of the day. You are correct, build your kit with your area of operation in mind!

I made my knife into a fire kit. i love your videos Greg!

Love your videos. No bs! I especially loved your video on how to create a fire without beating on your knife batoning. Thanx for the great videos.

Nice rundown of your knives over the years. some great choices there. Thanks Nate

I carry a smaller pocket knife, a large Japanese NATA, and a Silky saw-either the Gomboy or Bigboy model. Dismissing the value of different tools while pretending to know best is nothing short of pathetic. No, your knife of choice is not the end-all, be-all of knives, nor does it make everything else garbage. I’ve forgotten more about bushcraft across multiple ecosystems-jungle, cold climates, and desert-than you likely know. No single tool is perfect for every scenario; use several. And by the way, batoning a knife to make kindling is a useful skill. There’s no need for your Neanderthal, caveman attitude. Humans invented tools for a reason-adaptability and efficiency. To wrap this all up with a bow: you’re wrong on a lot of points-so many, in fact, that I don’t have the time (or patience) to go through them all here. All self defense is from a Firearm. No knife fighting necessary. Generally my EDC.

Nice work. Sometimes those in the "survival" world make things more complicated than they need to be. Nate

Not many things better than a good stick. Thanks Greg Nate

Great breakdown. Nice to go minimalist. Less stuff to have to worry about and or manage. Nate

Good points. I've used a belt knife, then switched to a horizontal cross draw set up and now I'm using a mora companion HD as a neck knife and am enjoying it thoroughly. Sometimes you just have to test things out for a while for yourself. What wood handle knife were you wearing as a neck knife for this video? Nate

Your either really passionate about Canadian Knife laws, or you not allowed to have anything larger. You are soooo anti "Batoning" it's weird. It's just another useful method, along with the others. God bless America 🇺🇲 and my Huge Nata and , Kukri Machetes and folding blades..

Watch how close you keep metal (knife) to your compass as it will deflect the magnetic lines and have you going slightly off course. To help this, run the compass lanyard through your pocket button hole and run the compass through the loop. It gets the compass further from your body. Careful with the knife so not to conceal it.

👍👍👍 .. very good advice .. thanks. Around my neck .. my house key and a whistle, on separate lanyards .. always, no matter where I go. Those 'Emergency Blankets' .. not blankets but just Mylar Sheets and once deployed, they assume a space and volume of their choosing 😁. That said, years back, I bought a batch of Plastic 'Emergency' Rain Ponchos that were going on the cheap .. and they can be re-folded after use and put back into their bag. Combined with a Mylar Sheet, some Duct Tape wound around a card of sorts (to tape the ends of the slit cut into the Mylar Sheet for the head to go through .. prevents the cut from 'running') and some Garden / Mason's Line (for a Belt if required) .. one can hunker down for a perhaps uncomfortable, but functional over-nighter .. and this combo does not take up much space. A Swiss RUclipsr I follow, has demonstrated, sitting up against a tree on one's pack, knees up with a 'T-Lite' Candle down in the space so created that even in unfavourable weather, one's chance of pulling through will improve. On 'how much' to take with? That depends where and when. Down into the Marianas Trench .. a ten ton bathysphere would be useful .. it all depends 😏. A good one .. thanks once again. Take care ..

I also opted for Fanny pack to reduce back sweat. I bring back pack only to fit sleeping bag for winter if I want to be really comfy without fire

thanks for the link to this video. some great advice here. thank you

Don't forget money! Theoretically, absolutely not necessary for these circumstances, but a couple of notes/bills can come in handy for the unexpected. No volume, no mass.

Honestly, I have had good performance for several seasons out of the Ozark Trail Folding Saw from Walmart. It is basically a Silky copy for $10 made in China, but it holds up very well with constant use on limbs up 4-inches in diameter. The blade is thin, and can be bent if you get careless, but it is hard and the teeth pattern is aggressive. As far as performance, I’d say that it is a high-value folding saw… it cuts and it isn’t very expensive. JMO

Awesom video! Well explained!! I’m going to share this with my Scouting group as it’s great for Scout and Venture age youth. Thanks Greg.

I stumbled upon your channel this morning. I greatly appreciate your willingness to share not only the content of your kit, but also an explanation of why you chose to carry what you do. From my experience, it is easy to overload on the gear that we are carrying for a simple walk in the woods. Seems like my basic kit is always changing. In trying to figure out what my kit should look like, it always helps to see what others are packing. In this case, your kit isn’t intended to get you through a night in the woods, but it can if necessary. I appreciate the detail in your content. God bless and be safe. - Tennessee Smoky

You always have 2 compasses . If you are lost your brain is going to tell you the wrong way to go. Your compass will tell you the way to go but, your brain will not believe the compass so you use both of them to convince your brain that what the compasses are correct in their directions because they match.

I will have to test the wax paper fire starter material. Makes sense and thank you

Good to see a new vid brotha. Was wondering when we’d get something new about kit. My personal picks for a Fanny kit are a 16 oz nalgene with a soup can made bottle cup, ferro rod, yellow bic lighter, 70 ft bank line and a poly painter drop cloth along with Mylar blanket. Always keep a mora 511 around my neck at the very least and a leatherman wave in my pocket… Best wishes!!!! EO

nice video on the basics. and a good reminder, the goal is to survive, not to be the most "manly!" ... and also, practice. Watching youtube is not practice.

Thank you for sharing your ideas for a walk in the woods, with a minimal amount of gear. I like having a GPS for marking spots I find letting me find them again using a shorter direct route. It gives me less worry about getting back to my car and not wondering to far not to get stuck overnight. You don't need to keep it turn on all the time and waste battery storage. Having a map and compass still is important as you said.👍

27:15 "Looking at your eyes" (reference to the mirror) Maybe you and everyone else already knows about this, but I'll detail it, in the event it might help someone. Often times, if you have some foreign object in your eye, or on your eyeball, not imbedded but floating in your eye...an easy way to remove it is using the mirror for a good view, carefully touch it with a rolled corner of a dry absorbent paper. The paper will quickly draw the water from the object, which in turn pulls it free from your eyeball. The paper needs to be free of dies and perfumes...a bargain brand white paper towel is perfect, and toilet tissue also works. I have used this method to remove large saw dust from chainsaw, metal chips, wind blown vegetable matter, etc. Hope this may help someone. I enjoy your videos, you always bring practical suggestions and solutions to us. Thank you

Lots of pieces in a small space!

👍 Nice kit. Contents would be useful during the day even if one did not get lost. Surprisingly what useful inexpensive gear you can get in a small easily carried container.

Greg, it’s good to hear from you! I always look for your videos.

Around the house the little knife is better ... Even if its a pocket knife. Out in the garden and yard a bigger knife is better ... even if its a machete.

I've got a beater axe like that but it's nothing compared to my granfors small forest axe. One swing would have gone through that tree you were removing, it's pretty remarkable. My cheap one gets uses to chop roots.

Thank you for your content. I love the fact that it is straight forward, makes sense, safe, and saves energy. Especially your fire makign, batoning, widow maker videos. Any tips for someone new to camping/sruvival/bushcraft

I can't believe I found this video, this is exactly what I was thinking about.

A guy I worked with preached the virtues of the 16 Ga. His motto was "It carries like a 20 but hits like a 12..." I'm doing a restoration job on a 385T Mossberg 20Ga. and once I get it straightened out it seems like it would be a decent starter gun for a new hunter. I'll have to take it to the range and fire a decent spread of ammo through it. Everything from bird shot to slugs, then clean it up and set it aside. I know a few guys with younger kids who may be interested in borrowing it in a few years...

Great clip, exactly what i was looking for. Thanks for the knots too. I would likely want 100' of rope, with the 50' and multiple pullies i would be frustrated to only get a few steps before i have to set it all up again (and in case of large gaps between anchors)

I heard Mors tell the story, and I may be Misremembering. That he got the idea from a group of nurses he was training, who in turn got it from the indigenous people they were treating. And the reason the indigenous people did so was because they did not wear belts. And the reason I think the nurses were not themselves indigenous was surely you would not have to teach an indigenous person how to live of the land. But like I said I could be wrong Great videos, thank you.

Much respect for this video. If you dig into the arguments you make about nature at the end of the video, you may find there's not as much solid ethical ground as you might intuitively feel there to be. In absence of a biological necessity to eat meat for health, almost all killing and eating of animals becomes gratuitous. It falls into the same moral category as fishing for entertainment. It's fishing and eating for entertainment. Or lifestyle preference, or whatever you want to call it. It's optional. I'm satisfied that meat consumption is not mandatory. Hope this doesn't read as preachy, I just held your exact position for a long time and I think you're right on the cusp of seeing things differently, maybe.

This is 21 minutes of crap, it's an opinion man

I baton wood. There, I said it. My use case is canoe trips, we love our campfires. It is NOT for survival. Since we are on backcountry campsites, surrounding "choice wood" is already picked over, so we have to use what we can find. We'd be gleeful to find any one of those fallen trees in your video, I dont want to cut down live trees. Gear-wise I want to go light weight and safe. I bring a folding saw and a good knife instead of an axe. In my opinion sawing and batoning is generally safer than swinging an axe (or worse, a hatchet), especially when you're tired at the end of a long day of paddling and portaging, and those two tools are more light weight than one splitting axe. I'll baton wood open when it's wet, to use when the fire is still a juvenile, before you can just throw cylindrical wetter logs on a mature fire. The two-tool setup works for me. That said there are plenty of folks who carry axes instead. Also, I just bring a BIC lighter (4, actually, in various locations) and some bits of fire starter.. no need to featherstick and make life harder for oneself. Anyway, nice video, I enjoyed it a lot.

I picked one up at a gun shop a few years ago that I don't think was ever fired. The magazine tube and follower have zero visible wear, and the bore is 100% perfect. Sadly though it looks like it was stored and forgotten about. The barrel was at one time covered in rust and has lost a bit of bluing to clean it off. It also has a little bit of pitting all down the length of the barrel. It could easily be removed and redone it's so minor