Green Beret's 2022 Wilderness Survival Gear Dump | Gray Bearded Green Beret

hey everybody this is josh here the great bearded green beret wanted to talk to you really quick about gearing up to head out into the woods [Music] if you want to get a copy of this packing list in pdf form make sure you click the link down in the description and i'll get that out to you no matter what type of wilderness you take yourself out into your needs are the same you have to have first aid for any life-threatening injuries you have to take care of that you also need to maintain your core body temperature that's a result of your clothing choices your fire and your ability to make shelter you also need to hydrate you need to consume calories and you need to rest all of those are your immediate human needs you also need to think about some things that are kind of preventative needs to prevent you from becoming lost to prevent you from ending up in some sort of emergency that's where your ability to navigate comes in and your ability your ability to signal if you can't navigate and find a way out then of course supplemental needs that you have are tools tools facilitate all the other necessities that you have so with that in mind anytime i'm going out into the field that's what i'm thinking of when i'm trying to put my kids together i put kits resources together to provide for those needs and that's how i pack every bag regardless of where i'm going if i'm going to the forest if i'm going to the desert in the wintertime in the summertime doesn't matter the same way i pack my go bags everything is just the eight essential kits i've got a fire kit i've got a shelter kit i've got a water kit a food kit i've also got a navigation kit a signal kit a first aid kit and of course i've got some tools and a way to maintain those tools so that's how i pick every single bag so i want to show you what i pack and for a trip heading out into the woods now when i'm thinking about a fire kit what i'm thinking about is four different things i'm thinking about ignition sources i'm thinking about emergency tinder resources i'm thinking about a way to collect natural tinder as soon as i hit the wood line and i'm also thinking about a way to set myself up for success for every follow on fire after my first one let's start with those ignition sources what i like to think of are emergency ignition sources which in this case is the normal bic lighter and some windproof storm proof matches i call this an emergency ignition source or convenience really if you want to think of it that way these are the most limited out of all the resources that i'm carrying as far as ignition sources i'm also carrying a ferrocerium rod and a magnifying lens so why carry all four well like i said these are emergency ignition sources they're sure flame i like to carry at least one open flame ignition source for those emergencies and i like to carry a different type of open flame ignition source that performs differently than this one does it would also perform better in certain conditions that this one's not going to do all that well in because this is my emergency and my emergency backup these are the life saving items that i'm carrying or i might just use those out of convenience if i want to but they are the most limited that i have the next two ignition sources are a ferrocerium rod and a magnifying lens okay how do i decide which one of those i'm going to use well one it needs to not be an emergency i'm not going to use either of these in an emergency when i have that open flame emergency plus a backup open flame emergency i'm going to use these for my everyday fires non-emergent not a big deal if the sun is out i'm going to use this magnifying lens it's a pretty big one i'm going to show you this one real quick pretty good size magnifying lens gathers a lot of light focus it really well and get a fire going with minimal effort if the sun is shining with minimal effort in as little as 30 seconds if the sun is not shining i'm going to use the ferrocerium rod because this isn't susceptible to rain this isn't susceptible to wind doesn't matter if it's wet it's just a really really durable ignition source that i can count on rain or shine now as far as emergency tinder resources those are something i want to have like as soon as i hit the wood line of course i'm going to start gathering natural tender but sometimes something happens and i'm limited to what i have in my pockets and my backpack on my persons if i had to just choose one gb2 tender tabs for sure would be my favorite one they've been my favorite forever you've seen them in all my videos in the past but these are essentially what we used in the military it's just a compressed cotton braid that's been treated so you just pull that apart fluff it up like so and you're ready to go you can hit that with pretty much any one of your ignition sources except for solar now you could even use a lighter that's out of fuel to get this going really quick so really good resource to have so i like to have a tin full of those and of course i can use that tent for charring material for my follow-on fire so it's kind of a back up to that so i'm not leaving home without these small compact fits in your belt pallets fits in your pocket definitely recommend these if i'm going to an area that doesn't have fat wood which is a natural resource that i can use then i'm going to do one of two things i'm either going to carry some fat wood sticks this is the loaded fat wood pouch it's got large sticks of fat wood and plenty of them and then if i don't feel like messing with that this is a little more convenient this is actually fat wood shavings where it's already shaved down i like these for kids most of all because that that's one less thing that they got to get their knife out to use if they should find themselves in some sort of emergency and relying on this tinder and this does work when it's wet so i do consider this an emergency tender resource but it's also a natural tender resource so you probably don't need to carry it with you if you're in an area where this is really abundant like the southeast but up here in the northeast it's not very abundant a lot of places out west it's not very abundant so those are the type those are the times that i'm going to be carrying that resource with me so i can pull it out and use it when i need it and of course as soon as i get to the wood line i'm going to pull out my tinder pouch and i'm going to start collecting natural tender as i see it that's one resource i will never pass up never pass up a natural tender resource because you can use that to get the fire whenever you need it you don't know what you're going to have when you get to your campsite you don't what you're going to have when you run into some type of emergency you only know what's in front of you when it comes to tinder that's going to be something that's a little more challenging to find than your other types of fuel like your kindling or your sustaining fuel so you never pass that resource recommend a good tender pouch is the gb2 waxed canvas tender pouch and this is just a roll top you can fill it up roll it down tie it secure keeps everything nice and dry and ready for when you need it of course with that first fire i want to set myself up for every falling fire after that all my follow-on fires are going to come from charred natural material so i carry a charring and storage tin so that i can make that happen with that first fire so always have a charring and storage tint in your kit highly recommend what i'm putting in my shelter kit i'm thinking about three things i need something to sleep under something to sleep on and something to sleep in when it comes to something to sleep under what i like to use personally is my 10 smith's oil skin tarp this is an eight foot by eight foot tarp a lot of different tarp configurations that i can put this in because there's a plethora of grommets a lot of different ways you can set this up so this is my favorite tarp for sure something to sleep on i like to use the gb2 bed sleeve this is a really versatile piece of kit you can use it as a browse bed you can also make a raised bed out of this and you can also improvise a hammock out of this so no matter what the conditions are where i get to where i want to set up camp i can set this up in a variety of different ways make sure i get a good night's sleep as far as something to sleep in i personally like to use a wool blanket because there's a lot of different ways that i can get in this and get warm so that's my personal preference they're a little bit heavier than a lot of the other options they are bulky but so are sleeping bags in my opinion and you know i'm not a small guy so crawling into a little tiny sleeping bag and being confined is not my idea of comfort i like to have the wool blanket i just think it's a lot more versatile that might not be the way you like to go what i will say is you know oil skin wool blankets that's all traditional gear that may not be your the way you like to do things there are a number of lighter options that you could use instead of an oil skin tarp you could choose to take a poncho this gives you the versatility of being used as your rain gear you can also set this up in a shelter i got plenty of videos on that so that may be a lightweight alternative to that oil skin tarp maybe you don't want to use a wool blanket so i recommend it will be you know this is a military poncho liner i've slept under these in some really cold nights so also an option a lot more packable and a lot lighter than a wool blanket so that may be something that you're interested in now when i'm thinking about water i'm thinking about one where to find it but when i do find it i need to have some sort of container put it in and i also need to make it safe to drink so that's what i'm thinking about when i'm putting this kit together so what i like to have is a way to carry that bottle on the outside i can quickly take a drink without taking it out if i need to but i have a single walled stainless steel container on the inside and this is the toggle to pull it out of the fire but this is my clean canteen this is a 40 ounce i prefer that capacity because i don't use water purification tabs i'm either disinfecting this thermally which this gives me the ability to do or i'm using a grail the grail is great it's got its own container i can use this to filter until this is full and then i can leave this container full after it's filtered as well now i've got two water bottles this is just the way i like to roll what i also like to have in my water kit is a gp cloth and i'm saying that it's in my water kit because that's the first thing i think of using it as is a pre-filter for that water to get kind of the big stuff out of it so that it doesn't clog my filter as quickly but this has got a number of uses i usually get my whole fire lay with this i can use the first shade it's got a ton of different uses just a five foot by five foot cotton cloth this one's really dirty you can tell i use this one every day but anyway gp cloth along with my water bottle and the carrier and a grail and i'm all set for water as far as food goes as far as my food kit goes what i like to have is some sort of bush pot with a lid i like to have some sort of small stove and of course a spoon so that i can eat i just use this to cook in and i eat right out of it cook it over the campfire that's the way to go my particular one that i usually carry is a stainless steel model wood pot i could also use this to make my coffee in the morning there's a lot of things i can do it's a very versatile pot it's really well made so this is a castle pot mine's in stainless they also come in titanium which this one is but you can see this one's still in the case it's got a really nice waxed canvas case so a lot of times you'll get a bush pot or you'll get you know a water bottle and it just has a cheap carrier and i just think that's that's just come on man like i need i need a good way to carry it not something that's going to fall apart and leave the important part out in the forest somewhere so wax canvas really nice really durable containers this one's titanium inside here this is wax canvas with titanium pot inside it this is the stainless pot that i've got out just to show you they're both the same just once lighter than the other so whatever one you want to go uh depending on how weight conscious you are really then as far as the stove this was put together this is a titanium version uh super lightweight but i've also got a stainless steel version that's in here i just want to show you how small that packs and it's also got a nice waxed canvas pouch that it fits in so can't go wrong with either one weighs more than the other it's your choice whichever one you want to carry don't forget your spoon otherwise you've got to make chopsticks which is also fun to do but sometimes you just need a spoon all right now let's talk about those preventative needs that you have to take care of you need to pack resources for those things as well first aid for life threats is the most important thing you've got to handle if you have one if you don't first aid for routine injury is still nice to be able to handle so for my first aid kit at a minimum i'm always going to be carrying something for a bleeder kit because that's the most dangerous thing i'm going to run into in the backcountry most the time is is a bleed a life-threatening bleed that's the most time sensitive that's the one i gotta take care of right so i'm always gonna carry a cat tourniquet i've also got some wound packing gauze and i've got a trauma dressing that's my bare minimum bleeder kit that i always have with me all the time when you're going out into the woods you're going out into the forest you're either hunting or trapping doing something with firearms running around with sharp well you shouldn't be running walking around with sharp objects like knives and axes like a lot of things can happen so it's best to be prepared don't improvise when it comes to something like a life-threatening bleed have the resources you need to take care of that get yourself back to safety and live to go out into the woods another day in addition hypothermia management i'll also keep an emergency blanket i can supplement my shelter kit with this emergency blanket and get some of that reflection down when it's really cold and just make my shelter kit that much better so good resource to have as far as navigating goes i like to have a means of navigating from point a to point b really really efficiently if you never get lost you're never in an emergency you can always find your way back out so i like to facilitate that by having a compass i like this particular compass it's a sun2 mc2 and i've also got some paste piece to keep track of how far i've walked so definitely essential in the nav kit also need a way i don't know if you guys can even see that there's a military square protractor that i use or coordinate scale you could call it it's basically used to plot coordinates and plot your asmus plot your routes it's used for now you need it for your nav kit as part of my route planning and keeping a good log of everything that i see out there waterproof notebook for sure and this is the best pencil for that notebook super thick lid doesn't break as often and it's perfect for these they're both made by right in the rain so these are the ones that i like that's what i'd have in my napkin along with a map of the particular area that i'm going to be in i get all my maps from mytopo.com and of course we always need to think about emergencies we need to think about getting hurt to where we can't fix it and self-rescue we need to think about getting lost and not being able to find our way out so we need to think about making ourselves extremely visible for rescuers so they can find us our search and rescue team is like looking for a needle in a haystack so make your needle that much bigger all right so you need to think about active and passive signals and what i like to start with is a large passive signal which is this this is the gb2 signal jelly it's actually a pouch that you can use for all your other signals you can strap it or tie it to the outside of your rucksack flip it around in an emergency then you have a passive panel like on your backpack as you're walking your way out or if you're sitting stationary you can hang this up and it becomes a flag so i really love this thing it's a heavy duty canvas with a zipper on top really versatile piece of kit and of course for active daytime signaling always have a mirror if you don't have one on your compass that is if you do have one in your compass there's nothing wrong with having a backup mirror in your signal kit for your passive nighttime a headlamp this is not just used for signal of course you can use this this one has a strobe function this is the princeton tech that i like and recommend has a strobe function on it right now has a strobe function because i'm pushing the button look hands-free strobe function so that could be a good passive signal but this also allows you to handle tasks at night when the sun goes down because just because the sun went down doesn't always necessarily mean all the work's done so this is a good hands-free way to be able to do things at night finish setting your shelter up and get a good night's sleep what have you and also a very large very loud safety whistle is important in your signal kit so there are those are kind of the minimum things that i recommend is you have uh you have active and passive signals for both day and night another thing you could do is a boss which is a bug out survival supplement these are the boss kits that i carry on the website this is a large signal boss and this is a signal mini boss right so both of them have are chock full of active and passive signals this is kind of more of a minimalist kit that's a lot more smaller a lot lightweight a lot lighter weight this is a much more robust kit so a couple of those would cover you for anything that i showed you for signal as well take one of these throw it in your signal jewelry and then you've got everything you need in that now as far as tools tools facilitate everything else that we need to do when we're out in the forest or in the wilderness you might not be going to the forest you might be going to desert i don't know so what i like to have at a minimum is a good belt knife and some sort of folding saw so this is the gb2 metzapuko which is forest puuko it's made by hoboforge this is my absolute favorite knife this is the knife that i designed and it's made by my buddy jason over at hobo forge jason and i were in ranger battalion together we were also on the same oda nsf so he makes an excellent knife the grind on this is perfection it's razor sharp it's got a lot of character with the bird's eye maple and the hammer marks it's got both his stamp and my stamp on it exposed tang like i like really nice contoured handle fits my hand really well and i've got large hands gb2 mezzapuko it's my choice but of course it's my design so i'm a little biased on that so you know then for a folding saw at a minimum this is a silky pocket boy 130. this little guy can do some work right the silkies cut faster than anything out there as far as folding saws that i'm aware of that i've ever used anyway uh the pocket boy 130 is as you would expect a pocket boy it's pocket sized so it doesn't take up a lot of room but man does it do a lot of work so highly recommend at a minimum of having a pocket boy 130. and of course a way to maintain that knife is to have a paddle strap with some compound in this particular compound is just a green micro micro fine honing compound that i rub on the leather and then one side of the leather is there but talking about stropping whenever you do damage to your knife in the field you know that's when you really need a stone but you know can it wait until you get back do you have to carry a stone with you to the field me personally i don't have to i'm really careful with my knives at worst you know i've kind of you know misaligned the edge over use and i'm going to be able to strop that with the leather strap right back to where it comes back to that perfect angle and makes it razor sharp again you can do everything you need to do with a leather paddle strap a little bit of compound to polish it as well as long as you don't damage your knife this is all you'll ever need now let's talk about gear repair the minimum i recommend you know kind of to couple with your cordage your bank line some sort of large needle and some duct tape you can do a lot of things you can patch a lot of things with duct tape and you can get through some heavier duty material like your canvases with a large needle so one solution to that that i like because it's so compact is the exotec rip spool this has some braided fishing line around the outside that you can use for thread you could also break down that number 36 bank line into the smaller strands and use that to sew something up if you really needed to but on the inside of this machined aluminum tube on the inside you've got a needle right very large needle that you can use so you can take that off use it by hand or you can leave it inside and use that as an awl to kind of be able to push it through that harder material really high speed piece of equipment right here it's basically like a sami repair kit where they made it in the bone with the needles and thread inside it but this is machined aluminum and then the outside has got duct tape wrapped around that so really versatile really small compact repair kit that you can get a lot of things done with in a really tiny package so really like that now as far as carrying your gear most of the time what you'll see me using is this bow raven this is a stubborn pack i've got the two external pockets on it uh really like this it's a wax canvas with some leather uh and it also has a built-in frame that you can sit on so best seat in the woods plus i can put my stuff in it this is kind of the instructor pack you know i definitely highly recommend this if you can find them uh they're kind of scarce these days but if you can get them get the side pockets gives you that extra capacity this is what you'll see me using most often then of course when i've got camp set up and i'm just kind of out on a scout i've always got a waxed canvas hammer sack with me along with my water bottle and carrier this is kind of my scout kit just put minimum things for fire shelter water food first aid nav signal and tools in here and go on about your marion county go about your scouting do your things out in the forest without your big backpack always have some resources available to provide for needs take care of any emergency you might run into when you're away from camp so that's it that's what i'm thinking about when i'm putting together any kit to go out into the wilderness i'm thinking about what my needs are and i'm thinking about what resources i need to put together to provide for those needs while i'm out there fire kit shelter kit water kit food kit first aid kit nav kit signal kit some tools a way to maintain tools and a way to repair some gear i'm all set i can go out into the wilderness indefinitely with that and for everyone that's going to ask yes i do take hygiene items take a toothbrush with you take some toothpaste take a little bit of soap take away to dry yourself off use the gp cloth for that but yes i do take that also if you don't know what moan is take toilet paper take some take some dude wipes take some take all the stuff everything you need all right if you want to get a copy of this packing list in pdf form make sure you click the link down in the description and i'll get that out to you so remember what your needs are and remember to pack resources provide for those needs hope to see in the woods [Music] you

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Published: Thu Dec 30 2021