Posted on 02/10/2014 12:30:55 PM PST by Kartographer
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Backpack in the car is also ready for the dog to eat for over 24 hours. My First Aid Kit is an old round top lunchbox and has had many uses when other people along the road needed the supplies or my skills with them.
Glad to hear you feel the same things are important. How about at home?
As always, thanks Kartographer for the information.
I have to do some checking to see if there is duct tape in ALL my packs! Water straws were finally available locally so that is now covered too!
>> It’s called a Richard Petty road tube when deployed in a motor vehicle. <<
Definitely news we can use!
>>the $100 I always kept stashed in the back of my wallet “for emergencies”.<<
Add another 10 bucks to the C-note.
Got a Cousin who had to chase down her horse when it broke through a fence, she was wearing three inch heels at the time...
Woman are amazing, they do what they got to do, when they GOT to do it.
If you mean first aid supplies at home, I'm a few items short of an equipped emergency room and I mean that. I have enough supplies for me and for other people to treat many medical problems. I'd just put on my white coat with my EMT badge on it and go to work helping others. Understand, I would not do that unless it was safe - the first rule one learns in EMT “school”, is safety for one’s self FIRST.
Not far, but damn we would look good doing it. :-)
“But who would have thought there were so many simple minded on FR?”
You can get attacked for just about anything here. Aside from legitimate posters who disagree, there are a lot of leftard moles lurking about.
Reference your “Would like to ad one of these [Henry survival 22 rifle] too (though I always carry a Kimber on my hip)”, I was highly interested in one myself, a few years ago.
That is, until the salesman tried to unjam the pieces from the previous demonstration. Couldn’t get the doggone thing out of the stock.
I dunno, just seemed to me a little too flimsy to rely on *while experiencing my worst moment ever.* YMMV
Maybe one of KelTec’s folding handgun cartridge PS2000 carbines matched to one’s pistol’s magazines, if a compact rifle must be had. Having never held one, I can’t say as to flimsiness.
(Were I to drop the current car carry to a .22LR/MWR, I might revisit the notion of a matching rifle or one that at least shares its ammo.)
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I should have qualified my statement. I have a Henry Survival rifle and love it, but was thinking of buying a second one specifically for the car.
It is a great gun and is highly recommended.
I tried that, but with a wife and three teenage kids the only thing they couldn’t touch was the 100, anything else was fair game it seemed.
Nope, that would be too easy and would defeat the purpose of trying to beat into their heads the fact they need to plan and do this for themselves, and not just trust dad to always do their thinking for them.
I like the excuse, “I’d rather die than prep.” It’s doubtful the weather has made any change their minds.
I have one of those. He eats everything out of the bags.
Sounds good to me...I stop at a well trained first aid level.
I was thinking of the broader readiness at home and evacuation level supplies. I am still working on planning to live without power and to shelter in place.
This week I was making the tin can stoves and refills as well as fire starters. I will be able to collect driftwood but it takes a long time to dry!
I gave my youngest son one of those.
Problem with me is my idea of emergencies always seemed to fluctuate, coming home from the airport at 2a.m. a Wendy’s Frosty could be considered an emergency sometimes too.
Hopefully the guy at the local Quicky Oil Change doesn’t appreciated you doing it too! :)
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