What's the smallest, lightest, most important item in your bugout bag?
>>30164092
OP's penis.
be safe porker
>>30164092
>>30164092
Knife.
Excluding that, I personally find high strength fishing line very useful. Not just for fishing, but for snares and cordage.
>>30164092
Bag of dryer lent. I also keep a 9volt and a copper scrubber to make fire anywhere. I used it in a decent amount of drizzle and it worked like a charm.
Lighters/matches
>>30164426
Still using matches in 2016, c'mon bruh. Seriously tho, try it at home in the sink or something, 9volt battery plus copper scrubber yields instant fire when used with lent as a starter fuel, it's like magic. Learned that one back in the cub scouts and never forgot it.
>>30164425
In boy scouts I was a wizard with dryer lint.
Magnesium fire starter.
>>30164462
I maybe took away a dozen useful things from the scouts early in life.
1. How to make fire easily was taught from day one at camp
2. Archery is awesome
3. My parents were boss for letting me take target practice when most of the kids couldn't
4. A tarp can make a cheap tent 10x better and making a ridge of soil around the tent helps keep temps down in the summer.
5. First time making homemade camping snacks taught me basics of survival foods like peanut butter and oatmeal mixed with dried fruit.
6. Keeping a pebble in your mouth makes you far less thirsty on long hikes.
7. A swiss army knife is not as handy as a Leatherman and a regular 4" folding knife if you intend to do some wood working for props.
8. Keeping aluminum foil to cook things in moisture pockets inside fires if you don't have anything to cook in like a metal cup or pan.
9. Fishing using tree sap as bait with leaves stuck to globs of it as a makeshift lure.
10. Its all about good footwear, broken in old hiking boots with rubberized heel socks are dope when compared to the other rich kids in fancy new shoes and crappy cotton socks.
11. The importance of keeping dry, first day of hiking in Oregon as a kid was hard in the constant rain, even with a poncho.
12. And buying any snacks sold as "camping food" is a waste of money since it's all salty bullshit that makes you thirsty.
13. Also never drink from water with alge growth on the water even if it's flowing, moss is fine, but boil anything with alge floating free in the stream.
>>30164450
Does it create sparks? Does the battery blow up?
>>30166287
No it just burns or at least steel wool will. You can also make char cloth which is a great use for old cotton shirts besides using them as shop rags.
