Field Jacket Survival Kit | First Line Gear for the Outdoors
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- In this video I show a survival kit that is stored in my field jacket. #bushcraft
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There’s an old adage in the military that you thrive out of the gear in your pack, but you’ll survive out of your pockets.
My father always taught me no matter what have a mini survival kit in your pocket, no matter what belt knife on your belt folding knife in your pocket lighter chapstick small band aid kit and a few little snacks
Nice to see you guys coming across to our ways of thinking a bit (ie Brits). I have the same smock in OG, great bit of kit. I did a video talking about the first line of kit, ie Survival Kit, a little while back too.
It’s a concept that makes allot of sense. Thanks for watching. FYI Ive watched most of your videos. Lots of good ideas!
We were taught how to live out of our bergens, fight out of our belt kit's and survive out of our smocks, and know how to use all that we carried.
Great points! I would add a poncho to the back pocket!
As a british army veteran, I used a smock system just like this for many years. As time went on we used gilets with multiple pockets, this could be worn over a smock or waterproof jackets. From this idea loadout vests began to be developed into what you see now.
The back pocket looks like a great place for a poncho and poncho liner. Props for having emergency rations too.
I have used a system a bit like this for years in the army, a barrel liner with a newspaper inside and a woolen sweater is supposed to go in there.
@@hfrendal5374 May I ask what you mean by barrel liner?
Big plastic bag for trash that is thicker than the flimsy ones. This will also be your boat.
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@@williamwallace3780trash bag is for a 55 gallon drum
I use a German Smock, layered over a wool sweater ( I have a British police model) it keeps me warm well under 20 degrees F, the smock is water resistant and works well in snow.
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Yep, Varusteleka / Särma have good products. I have the 'Windproof Parka' some years now which has given me very good service to date. My version does not have the 'Poacher's Pocket' but the rest of the pockets as you describe .. and their capacity is phenomenal. That said, you are correct .. it is very much a case of 'not what to put in, but rather what to leave out'.
The contents of your jacket very much cover the '5 C's' .. a good basic choice .. mine is similar. A permanent resident in my Särma Smock (it never comes out .. actually, my German Bundeswehr 'Nato' Field Jacket has the same) is a package consisting of .. Lightweight Plastic Poncho in colour Orange (similar can bought here in Switzerland at any railway station Kiosk), Emergency Mylar 'Blanket'. Adhesive Tape (to stop the slit, when cut in the Mylar Sheet for the head to go through, from 'running' / tearing further) and a short length of Cordage to use as a belt / whatever. During the cooler months, four 'Tlite Candles' are added for warmth if one has to 'hunker down' for an extended period under the Poncho and Mylar Sheet (thanks to 'Taro Movies' for that tip 👍 .. it works! That Swiss guy knows his Winter Outdoors .. check gim out on You Tube).
The Poncho 'can' be reused (When still in South Africa, I bought a whole pack of them in Yellow and Orange on a sale, so have spare) but the Mylar Sheet .. 🙄 .. 'once it is out, it is never going back in' 😁. Weather-dependent, I carry with me then also, a lightweight 'concertina' umbrella. Goes (vanishes) into my Smock RH Chest Pocket. There if needed. The versatility of an umbrella is very much overlooked. Here in Europe, umbrellas are not considered 'sissy' and men, and hikers, use them without feeling shamed 😏.
Also in a pocket, stored in a ziploc bag marked 'Odds and Sods' is a little First Aid Kit, 'Loo Kit' for if 'caught short' somewhere and my Personal Details .. Name, Address, Medical and Contact Numbers.
Whistle and house key go around my neck on separate lanyards .. I seldom drive. The transport system here in Switzerland .. bus - tram train is excellent.
Swiss Army Knife and a Cotton Handkerchief (small bandana) in my LH Trousers / Sweat Pants / Shorts Pocket .. and a Mini-Bic Lighter in the RH Pocket .. ALWAYS / EVERYWHERE. No, I do not smoke .. never have. And, in 73 Summers, I have never 'blown my nose' into a handkerchief / bandana (ugh!). There are other ways for that.
Going out .. I wear a belt, even if using 'braces' (pants suspenders). An Opinel Folding Knife in an unobtrusive synthetic sheath sits on the belt on my left.
Anything else .. dependant on when - why - where and how long / far.
Good point you raise regarding 'overloading' one's jacket. When not needed, then strapping it onto one's day pack or tying around one's waist can be a bit of a 'schlep'.
A good post, thanks for sharing. Take care ..
👍 Nice video. Thank you for sharing.
Very similar to what I carry in my M65 jacket. I have no fear pouch so don’t have a ground cloth.
I agree, the purpose is a minimalist kit that should be a back-up and/or available if a short walk unexpectedly turned into an overnight stay. If one wants more gear for this purpose they should consider a haversack or small backpack.
Arkris (in the UK) makes a smock like that. They also have a US branch that sells on eBay. Good products!
@@hootsmeister I can't find Arkris anywhere
Mini tip:get a O ring under the valve of the lighter to secure it,so no gas can get out if something gets on the valve"lever"
Since I already have a gazillion, I use a cable tie of the appropriate size. They'll
wiggle off over the top for use and can be slid back into place
I use a British army windproof smock, great bit of kit ,I'd add a sml lansky knife sharpener to your jacket, and rute in the rain pad and pencil personal, but cool set up ,good health and safe travels, cheers craig
I have several European jackets, don’t care for the reverse zippers, but they are built well as noted with large pockets…I carry many of these items myself and also a small flask with vodka, purpose of the vodka, antibiotic, fuel, and of course to drink although my flask isn’t isn’t something that I use it is there for emergencies..also carry an item by my medic, one of their hiker packs it, has a lot of items in a small pack too many to list…
Good one. Love this idea. Just throw your jacket on and go walkabout. 😊. Stay well
Well done! An excellent introduction. Would love to see a walkabout and see it all in action in the field. Thank you for sharing. Will be watching.
the spine of a Victorinox saw blade also makes an excellent ferro rod striker and is probably less abrasive to the rod
The EDC you had shown are all necessary while you are out in field,esp neck knife,what lacking is small pack of wet tissues to use it when the call of nature is necessary. Keep up the good work!
The poachers pocket is an awesome feature, you can even fit a one-person tarp in there. Heavy-duty trash bags are very multi-functional too. As a ground cloth you may look up the german military-issued "Elefantenhaut" (elephant skin) called extra-heavy-duty plastic ground cloth.
Excuse me, I'm a little pissed, how you talk about the Mora Companion - it's not a basic knife, it's one of their more advanced models (their basic model is the "511"). The "Companion HD" offers a 1/8" thick blade (in carbon or stainless) and with it's 3/4-tang it's a very capable survival and bushcraft knife.
As to your Victorinox Farmer, you can strike a ferrorod not only with the awl/punch, but with the spine of the saw too, it has a sharp 90° angle right from the factory.
Your NRG-5 ration bars don't have 260 cal, but 260 kcal, which is one thousand times more, don't be sloppy with the units, it may bedazzle viewers.
It's much more convenient to carry gear in a jacket than in a backpack or haversack, it's better distributed and you hardly notice it.
One downside there is about a field-jacket-survival-kit, it makes you too heavy to swim, if you fall into a river or lake - make sure to have a Restube at hand to keep you and your gear afloat.
Very useful as in all of your videos! I learn something new with every video you post. Thank you for the knowledge you share and impart!
Only two suggestions, would be to swap the blue bandana for a blaze orange one and tie a shemagh around your waist.
Great video!
Liked an subscribed.
IMO since this is a civilian survival kit and not a SERE kit, it couldn´t hurt to pack a red bandana instead of blue, or an orange contractor bag instead of the black one. That way you´d massively improve your signalling capabilities. Same goes for a lamp with strobe mode, or a mirror compass that can double as signalling mirror. You could also carry a few yards of neon color duct tape wrapped around some gear item for signalling/ trail marking as well as for gear repair and as emergency flame extender.
I agree with most of what you said but…..I’ve hunted for over 50 years in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with nothing more than a firearm, a pocket full of ammo, a Buck folding hunter knife, and maybe a flashlight. I guess I was just lucky.
This is a brilliant smock. I would only add one thing. If you want it for cold weather you can get a liner (as with the M65 Field Jacket). Now Sarma do make their own liner, which I am sure - like all there other products - will be just great. It is modelled on the liner for the M65. However, there is a better liner (IMO) available. It is the liner for the Dutch Field jacket.
How does it fit in? If you get the modern Sarma it has buttons in exactly the right places for the Dutch liner. Of course, sizing is important. I had a large (regular) jacket which fitted the Large Dutch liner perfectly. In fact, and Extra-Large might have fitted as well (but that I did not test).
It makes it a heavy piece of kit, but a very warm one. Moreover, one which you can alter as the weather conditions change.
Despite the above, I totally endorse your philosophy about weight. It is almost as important to consider what you do NOT put in your pockets as what you put IN. I have a regular audit and it works something like this. If I have not used the item in six months, (unless it has real justification for an emergency), then out it goes. You have to be rigorous about this. Equally, it is always important to know exactly what you have and where it is. Otherwise you do not use it because you forgot that you had it, or you know you have it, but forget which pocket you put it in!
I love the idea of having a top pocket admin. line. Much as I love the Farmer, in my pocket I have, on the Admin Line, one of those cheap combination knife, fork, spoon and knives that they make. Old technology, much forgotten, but a cracking bit of kit. They are often called a 'tramp' or 'tinkers' knife.
Thanks for the great TH-cam clip and information. Keep up the great work.
Best wishes from the town 'with four thousand holes.'
Great kit, I know you said you don't want to add much more because of weight, the only thing I would add is a small roll of orange trail making ribbon for finding your way back to your camp.
I have 2 of these, one in camo and another in olive, and I use a similar merhod!
The jackets are polyester / cotton, and purposefully NOT waterproof, to allow pespiration to evacuate (30 km with a backpak or much more if you are a soldier ans must carry gun and ammo in high temperatures I have endured almost 120 F where I live... it's not easy!) If it rains that' s to be adressed by a poncho!!! (which I carry in the back pocket and may be used also as byvi, ground cloth, wind and rain protection, water collection and shelter!)
I feel like that Walmart backpacking tarp your showed a while back combined with a quick deploy Ridgeline would round out that kit nicely. Maybe toss in another garbage bag and you could put together a good debris bed
I run an older Vertx combat smock. It has pockets everywhere, with 6 ar15 mag pockets. It's wonderful if the weather calls for it. Unfortunately, I don't use it much anymore. The weather in the Midwest changes so often it was a pain to take it on and off full of gear and try to store it in a pack. I resorted to have a good layering system, and keep my gear in my pack.
Great points. Jacket carry is not for everyone in every area. Still, no one should have a problem with keeping a knife, lighter, and flashlight in pretty much any garment that has pockets.
Yes, it depends upon climate in your area.
Not a coat but I have had a insulated multi pocket vest made by a long defunct company called Camofax. 13 total pockets but too hot for about half the year.
I also have a reproduction French paratroopers smock and it's not insulated. I've been tempted to make a vest out of it as the sleeves are too short for my long arms.
@@canadafree2087 Exactly that! That's my absolute minimum, normally in my jeans pockets. I may not have my phone or wallet directly on me but always have those 3 things on me.
Hello friend.
Today also a nice video. That's cool. Thanks for sharing it.Have a nice weekend.👍
Finally someone gets it. You are not going to carry a huge bag or 15 different ways to start a fire. But a few items so you do survive the worse
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Hello 👋 my outdoors friend, greetings from Northern California. I still have my Army field jacket from the 60's. I will be making good use of it this spring. Thank you for sharing this informative video. All the best to you. Stay safe out there. 🤗
I have the same kind of jacket sir. Very nice piece of equipment. I added a small plastic trap very easy to fold up for a shelter in a emergency in the back pocket. A poncho would do the same job.
I have a fisherman's vest that I put on every time I go out the door and it had basically everything that you have in yours except the type of food bars you have their mind is like boat squares and my knife is not on my neck although I could carry it there I just never have carried a knife around my neck but it's smaller than the one you have but serves the same purpose. I also have a way to fish made out of a section of Cain Pole I need large enough around to carry weights and hooks and the string is wound on the outside of it. It's pretty lightweight and doesn't take up that much room. Also have a small Hank of paracord and a larger Hank of bankline besides that they're both pretty much the same although I like that yours is in that jacket as opposed to a vest.
I wear a Safari vest that cabelas used to sell. It's been pretty durable for a long time.
Lots of pockets for way too much gear. 😂
A sawyer water filter is about the only thing I would add, an maybe a full size space blanket
Good job bud like your vids
Good job Sir
We ( the British Army) were expected by to survive for 24hrs with the contents of our smock. 72 hrs with our belt rig and indefinitely with our bergens (rucks)
I like the comment about limits to what you carry on your person before using a backpack.
Haven't seen that style of awl in a long time.
First time seeing your video, interesting take on carrying on your person. Looks like cooler weather. How differently would you carry in summertime? A lot of edc carry vids look like they swiped Batman's utility belt.
Like the coat smock idea with the built in butt pack in back. Wonder if that stemmed from the medieval tent cloak poorer people and monks wore? I noticed there's no inside pockets. Closest I have is a large regular, coat cold weather field, woodland camouflage, John Ownbey Company, 4 pocket only, with attachments for a liner. Zipper on collar hides a thin hood & big open space. There's some botton holes around it and a couple pieces of velcro on the ends of the collar. By the way, what's the shoulder straps for?
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may i suggest to dump the nrg-5 and replace by convar-7? tastes way better! great review of an outstanding jacket in a really good pattern. maybe a field dressing + israeli bandage in the armpockets?
Poncho small tarp or both
ALWAYS a USGI poncho
Most useful non-cutlery item
you can have
good video
Always be careful of necknkife lanyards… always incorporate a break point to avoid asphyxiation in some freak accident.
I’m building mine around a canteen kit, want that water and ability to boil.
I always carry known pure potable water everywhere
Bases you need to cover
Shelter something to sleep under, something to sleep in and something to sleep on.
Fire a BIC to light a fire asap is useful and then a ferro rod for backup and a fresnel lens in your wallet. Wrap some duck tape around your lighter for emergency tinder or to make repairs to your trash bag.
Water something to filter it with ( Millbank bag, bandana ) something to carry it, something to boil it in a metal pot or small tobacco tin or wide neck bottle.
First aid kit obviously something lightweight.
Food emergency rations and some sachets of your preferred beverage.
Knives you’ve pretty much got it covered.
Flash lights your fine.
How do you like that jacket? I like the european pockets over the American ones. I agree with the zipper placement, but I think that the US is the only one that does it different, as even the Canadian parka has that zipper pattern :). I find that the pockets in European filed jackets are MUCH more useable. That being said, all my time in the Army, they NEVER encouraged us to use pockets to carry things, which was odd. In garrison, we werent allowed to put things in our bellows pockets on the sides, or anything in our jackets. This, of course, is counter to pretty much the rest of the world....
I must say that you and I are brothers from a different mother. Not in looks but in survival interests! Wow, everything you cover in your videos I have done before or think is a really great idea. I have even taken your ideas in this video and am applying them to a photographer's vest which I just ordered from Amazon. I have an M65 field jacket and also a Gortex field jacket which I looked at using, but they are too hot in the summer months, so I thought I would buy a vest with many pockets that are a size larger than I usually wear so I can tailor it to the weather. I'll let you know how it works out for me. The problem I have is that I tend to overpack. When I was in the Marine Corps, I was told many times that I pack like a B**tch. Lol! Anyway, I am 62 with health issues these days, so weight is a major issue. I figure that with a vest I can wear it year round. What do you think? Great videos. You have me running around ordering new stuff all the time. Thanks a lot!!! Lol. It is a lot of fun. And you're right about getting out and practicing with all this gear. Keep up the good work bro.
I work in a state park and I upgraded to an upsized fishing vest to carry the stuff I need. Originally started up with an (overdone) waist pack with extra attached bags, but it's working better with the vest. I still run the waist pack (slimmer profile neoprene-ish runners type), but without the extra bags and other items redistributed to the vest.
I got mine on Amz for about 25 bucks. They have the same vest on Temu for like 15 bucks but you have to wait longer for delivery with them. I needed mine fast, but am planning to get 2 more as I get kinda dirty throughout the week.
@@wmluna381 Sounds great. My vest is working pretty well. I did overload it a bit at first, but I have paired it down to bare essentials now and it is much better. I find that by spread loading my stuff in the vest takes the weight off my hips. I am glad it seems to be working for you as well. I find that if I designate certain items to certain pockets and don't keep moving them around, I am a lot happier when I go to use an item. Trial and error I suppose. Cheers!
@@gud2go50 Sweet, vests for the win! 😊
That NRG-5 looks like a soap bar. Since it's rather dry, i wonder how it would work adding to whatever you're cooking out there?
I thought about that. Add it to hot water for porridge
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Whatsss it got in its smockettses?? :-D
I must've had my head chopped off, been hanged, or been strangled to death in a past life. I can't wear anything around my neck like that knife despite liking the idea and handy accessibility of a mini neck kit.
A small wad of toilet paper or some dude wipes. You never know when nature calls and when you gotta go. A little TP can save your butt. . . Pun intended
Very good video do you have a link for the jacket?
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Lighter, whistle , light and blade in pockets everyday and backed up in every jacket. Very difficult to replicate those functions without the right tools.
I would add a small candle and a disposable mylar blanket.
...he showed a mylar blanket!!!
@@GAUROCH2 i missed it, thanks
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Nice... thanks for answering!
You managed to demonstrate how useless the saw on a SAK actually is...any branch it's capable of sawing is more quickly just broken off. Great video though...good info!
Most US ration bars are just hard sugar bars. Yuck!. Buy Seven Oceans made in Norway, Wheat, fat, vits., no excessive sugar and not thirst provoking. Shelter items, fire items, water items, food items will get you through most lost hiker situations until SAR finds you.
Is that the story with the US zips? In Europe male and female zip from different sides. Recently got a ACU UCP Jacket and thought it was a female version.
Zips in europe have the moving female part in the left side and the male part in the right side. The dexterity needed to put in the male part into the female part is much easier if you are using the right hand...especially in cold or wet conditions!
To me the energy bar looked like a piece of drywall
I see from the video that you are carrying large plastic garbage sacks. I think you are missing out on an oppurtunity for better shelter. Mattress stroage bags can be purchased at Uhaul or similar moving store for under $28. They are 2.5 mils thick or at least the ones I have are. Full or twim size weight under a pound. The can be pitched like a trekking pole tent with some small rocks or marbles, a slip knot and a couplt of sticks. If you take both the mattress and box springs bags you will also have a tarp you can pitch for even more shelter. Cannot do anything about the white color but maybe you do not want to. Addotonallu a Thermorest Uber Lite air matress packs down to smaller than a quart water bottle and weights less than a pound. Put the mattress bags into the backside pocket and the Uber Lite into one ot the lower fromt pockets. You are oder like me, take care of your own comfort.
Toilet paper.......
THAT DESIGN REMINDS ME OF A WORLD WAR 2 PARACHUTE JACKET USA BULKY POCKETS
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I would aways go with us military gear clothing it is proven and tested