What's inside AMAZON's Best Selling "Survival Kit?"
This week we’re opening up Amazon’s best Selling Survival Kit to see what folks are actually getting when they buy this thing. If I recall it cost around $42 US. I go through everything inside this cheap survival kit and give my opinion on whether or not the survival gear is useful and how it might be used in an emergency. Overall,it was mostly cheap junk whic is to be expected. Nevertheless, in a future video I’ll take it out for an overnight survival challenge and put it to use.
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I’m starting to hate the American accent.
I would consider buying a Clay Hayes Survival Kit!!
It’s not bad. I’m gonna watch the video with you using it. Thanks for the review.
you can use q tips to start a fire
Like almost all Amazon Survival Kits, it’s complete TRASH and you’re unlikely to survive …. SIGH
hahaha, i got exactly the same thing from Temu for like $30NZ
I got a very similar medkit as a gift about five years ago and it came with that same glass breaker pen. It’s become a part of my daily carry. Its oversized, Knurled, and awkward and I absolutely love it.
ruler is to check how far your ego shrinks after the clay hayes tears apart my sweet new bug out kit.
Great content, Clay 👍
I make my own first aid kit. I purchased a Ronco Pocket Fisherman outfit to carry in my pack for fishing.
Build your own. It will always be higher quality and fit your needs better.
My current EDC survival kit is a multi solar charger, because a phone is a useful tool, a dust mask because I’m allergic to the indoors and the outdoors, an upgraded mylar blanket, a sawyer mini with water bladder, and a tube of glucose tabs because I’m diabetic. Fits in an ankle medical kit, which balances out the trauma kit on the other leg.
I love the credit card sized multi tool. I use it to strike sparks from the ferro rod. It’s pretty much useless for anything else.
Honestly not horrible for $45. It’s not great, but I’d rather have all those things than not.
90%+ of premade survival kits and also ones made by YouTubers as well never seem to have a Northern winter in mind lol. 👎
I’m so glad I never wasted my money on those kits and just put one together myself. Was cool watching you review it.
I bought the $20 pack took half of it out and put things in it that I thought was needed for an emergency and keep it strapped to the back of my head rest in my truck. Keep up the good work man! I enjoy your videos.
I bought one of the small ones just see what people are looking for in minimalist gear since everyone is so set on surviving like military!!!!😂😂🤣😜🤪🤨🧐. Most people or hikers or day hikers and carry enough gear. But everybody wants to play navy seal, or recon marines. We don’t do those things period. But building a kit for my daughter because she travels long distances to various sites. So I took the mechanics of the ap-duh-rap-tie of there did-vice and built a good kit for her to use because she lives out of state she’ll only have videos to learn from besides what I put on her Facebook wall. Knowing her mode of transportation is by highway. She has the right tools to make to a truck stop or rest area if having to foot it. But thanks for showing it 😅😂
SEMPER FI
its really not the best selling, amazon favors certain items and only shows them as the top selling, you can rarely find a high quality product through their search and it does suck cause im sure there are a lot better made ones
It’s for glamping. LOL
More cheap Chinese junk most likely
you`d do better with a fire steel and a mora knife.
Thanks for the video!!
I love how you convey information so clearly and engagingly. I hope your channel continues to grow and becomes an inspiration for many nature enthusiasts!"
Looks like a very confused kit.
I have an old small axe head an 4lb lump hammer for most splitting duties around camp, saves wear and tear on my standard axes.
At a pinch i can make a new handle for the old axe head too.
I hate the snobby tone of the video. We get it A $40 kit is not for end of the world. But it’s still good for 24 hour survival emergency
ahh see ..you could treat a 1/4 cup of water ..they gave ya some iodine lmao
I made my own fro an Esee mess tin.
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Ooh! Alcohol pads! Those might work as fire extenders. Some bandaids burn pretty well, too.
I put q tips in my personal kit, cheaper than cotton balls and just as good as kindling
I’m so happy to have run across your channel. I’ve seen these ‘kits’, even had several students bring similar (Walmart aka: Ozark Trail) has an identical kit. I taught a combination wilderness fitness/survival class, before I got smacked (hard) by Lyme 15 years ago. I’m still dealing with it now.
Anyway, on top of it, I’m recovering from Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, spinal cancer. No woe is me – I’m in rough shape, but grateful to be in remission.
While I was laid up in Mass General Cancer Center, I had nothing with me (was rushed there by my sister a year and a half ago). All my kit, my EDC bag (aka man purse) was back at my cabin. I tried ordering just folding knife from Amazon and they wouldn’t ship. What they would ship, however was a mini survival kit that had a folding knife in it. The kit was cheap, came in a small padded plastic pelican style case.
The folding knife was actually decent, the brass compass as well, the flashlight same as yours is actually pretty great and that spoon knife whistle combination comes in handy. It also came with one of those Paracord bracelets, and that thing was handy as well, the rest of it was redundant junk.
I haven’t seen the video where you put this to the test and I’m looking forward to it. Sorry for the ramble. I was just very happy to run across someone I could relate to.
The first aid kit definitely is useful for small wounds, like cutting yourself with a knife etc. better the bleeding everywhere.
Favorite!
4:05 "Multi-purpose-survival-pocket tool. It’s got a can opener on it…….. if you happen to find some canned foods in the woods"
Q-tips could be used as kindling.
Thats not even fair to take that kit out and use it. You have a extraordinary skillset way way higher than most,i think it might give false hope if you go out and make it work,because honestly most people that would buy that kit have no knowledge of what to do with 90% of it except put a bandaid on their finger after that cheap knife closes on it because they are using it wrong🤔
Survival doesn’t always mean deep wood
Cheap China Crap made to sell to naive Americans with no idea what they’re doing!
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Why will it not let me like this video???
No spare socks? Wheres the bic or ferro rod?lol
I have that same ax multi-tool, paid like $7. I have small hands so I can use the little ax pretty well for small tasks. I love the little double-toothed saw, it works surprisingly well, I use it more than anything else on it lol.
I bought a kit from menards. I paid $20.00. It is a lot better than that one. Still needs help.
the "quick clip" is a grimloc. they are very handy if your bag has molle webbing, to hang clothing items that need to dry, or lite weight items you want quick access to, such as gloves, or protective clothing. since they are practically weightless, and do not take any room inside the pack, I tend to have a couple on each of my bags, as a just in case item. not life changing, but sometimes they come in handy. those "survival cards" are 100% worthless in any real world application. if I am outside of my house, I have ( usually 2) a multi-tool, and a pocket and/or a fixed blade knife. that combination would do everything the card claims to do, and a whole lot more. I have reviewed a couple of these pre made kits, and so much in them is just filler, to raise the item count. another good use for a grimloc is to hang a paracord doughnut on the outside of your pack. this gives you a very easy access tangle free way to carry cordage. just a tip, for the bracelet ferro rod, you can pull the striker out, so you have an easier time getting it to spark. they are not my favorite, but as a back up to my back up they do work. you and I seem to have similar opinions on these pre-made kits. I have 50 years experience in the woods, and know that the gear you rely on in an emergency is not the place to skimp or to just trust someone in a factory to make the best choices for you.
I just started watching after a few videos I noticed this one. Unless you have already, it would be cool to see a video on exactly what you would have in a survival kit for yourself and maybe where to look other than amazon
qtips could be used as kindling
I’m looking forward to seeing how you handle this kit in a survival style scenario. It might be interesting to see you attempt to use the gear as intended, then see how you could make the best of the gear with what you know. Ultimately, knowledge can make up for a lot of marginal gear, but I share your worries that most people who buy this kit won’t have any experience in using any of this which just exacerbates an already bad situation should someone find themselves in need of relying on a kit like this.
Q-tip are very useful for fire! Especially if you don’t have dry material available.
I’m a second on would love to see a kit that you build.
I knew it was not going to be a good survival kit as soon as I realized there was no crowbar. For the zombies.