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HIKING H2O FILTER KIT...
stickbender:
Shooter, sounds like a cool idea. Justin, if that is how you feel, you just might want to buy a little bottle of water purification tablets. I used to just put a hand full of water, in my mouth from the sloughs, in the swamps, and never got sick, but my dad, did once, he broke out in spots, and the doctor asked him if he had been drinking bad water......Anyway, you are taking a chance, of having to do the " latrine trot " all the way home. Shooter, something you can put in their packs, is a magnesium bar with a sparking bar on it. You can get them at Wally world, in the sporting goods section. About six bucks. Also they have a combo whistle, compas, thermometer with F & C scales, plus a small magnifying glass. About 4 bucks. You can put them together, and for free, you can take an old hack saw blade, and cut it off at about three inches from the end, of the hook hole, and grind the back down to a one sided bevel, and do the same on the cut off end, for a chisel end, and leave the saw side alone. You can use it to cut nocks, etc. Now take the little chain on the magnesium bar, and put it through the hole in the hacksaw blade, and hook the clasp on the whistle combo, to the chain, and you have for about ten dollars, a very nifty, fire starter, and compass, magnifying glass, thermometer, kit. You can use the hack saw blade to scrape off the magnesium into a little pile on some wood, and then scrape the hack saw blade along the sparking bar, and you will ignite the magnesium, for a very hot flame, to get even damp stuff to burn. The sparking bar alone will start tender. But you can put the whole thing in a little pouch, or old knife pouch, or they can do a hands on kit making project, and make a pouch for it, to fit on their belt, or as a neck pouch. It sure beats the heck out of paying $20.00 for the " Swedish Steel " fire starter kit. That is where I got the idea. I thought what the heck, I have a couple of these magnesium bars, with striker on them, plus I have a couple of the little whistle combos......sooooo, and walla, a nifty little fire starter kit! ;D Now you have me looking for filters......cool Idea. ;) I hope the kids and their parents appreciate the effort and expense that you are going through for them. It is good to see someone do this sort of thing. Do you have a fishing kit in the pack also? Assorted small hooks, and some medium ones, with split shot, and some Pro line, 20 lb line. Strong as heck, and small diameter, and doesn't fray like spider wire. I was thinking of making a bow string from it. God bless, and good luck with the trek. :)
Wayne
Shooter_G22:
stickbender,
thanks for the tips... i have an abundance of ideas floating around in my head for for little suvival pack tools... and hiking iteams... i have wanted to post up a thread on it and put some pics of some of the iteams we have already put togather.. i have not put togather a fishing kit i might do that this week and do a little test run on some of the stuff and a little hike and bike trail that has a small little lake or very big pond in it... might do a little hiking training on it the trails this sunday and break out the fishing kit and see how practical it will be... and do some trial and error tweaking to get some thing that would be field expedaint and small enought to through into a pack...
i was allso looking at getting a recurve fishing bow take down from cabela's to add to my pack that way i could have a bow fishing kit and then maybe a few arrows with critter tips on them for some small game meat... but the only thing i dont like about it is it would be a fiberglass bow and maybe a little more heavy thatn i would like to have to hump...
but all things are in the works and little projects that we can work on and it should be fun exploring the options and seeing what we can come up with...
like i said we do what we can and improvise as much as posible...
thanks for the tips about the magnusim bar at wally worls i have one in my pack but i picked it up from cheaper thatn dirt and it was a lot more thans six bucks.. i'll have to look for t hem here at my walmart and pick some up for the kids... i also thoought of picking up some whisle's and maybe a samll mirror for there survival gear but was looking at maybe getting them for a dollar store or hobby lobby or something like that... and
hawkbow:
I have drank from many streams and ponds, springs, rivers even boiled water from an elk wallow in the high country.. but I did get giardia once, while in the high country.. let me tell you brothers, nothing worse in the world than being far from civilazation and that sick.. had to use every survival trick i know to survive the five days it too for me to get out .. i now boil almost all water and use water purification tablets religiously... unless the water is coming out of the ground at a high spring.. better safe than sorry.. hope you enjoy your wild adventures Shooter.... what a great thing you are doing for those kids brother.. ;D we need more warriors who are willing to help our youth find the great outdoors and all there is to enjoy...Hawk
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