I too have been trying to aquire a used copy of the SAS survival flickbook to no avail...
So lemme throw this out to everybody.... anybody have a spare copy they are willing to part with for a reasonable price? The only time I've found one it was over a hundred bucks.....
P.M. If ya have one and are willing. Thanks all.

-Bill Liptak

I'm going to give the confounding answer: yes. It, like everything else in this field, as Walter Mitty as it's owner is.

I find that it is a much more complete and up to date item than the timeless (and dated) DoD 21-76. It suffers from the focusless breadth of it's USGI counterpart, but it does have more depth. I think it is a little more focused on the primitive survival/bushcraft aspect, but once you've covered the basics, pretty much every manual over a quarter inch thick will have that problem. *Laughs*

I like it. I have a copy of the original British version, and the Pocket Books version. The later, I think, is the best form factor for a pack, although it is printed on simple, cheap paper, not waterproofed. *shrugs* Ziplocks. For the bookshelf, it should be joined by others- I rather like Lundin, but he is far from the only one.

Bu flickbook, do you mean the cards on a button that fan out?

I have the over-sized version. It was one of my first survival books and really got me thinking about survival and kits. It is one of my favorites. It is kind of a classic. I also have the flick book, which I picked up on ebay in the book section. There is a lot of stuff you won't use, but it definitely gets you thinking about different ways to do things.

If I had to pick another it would be Cody Lundins book (The Art of Keeping Your A** Alive).

My latest manual I obtained is kind of a home-made job. It has some good info but generally made for SERE guys.

http://www.usrsog.org/index.htm

Yea, the waterproofed cards attached by a grommet or some other fastner-thingie (that's the high tech word) so that they fan out

-Bill Liptak

My copy is from 1986. I don't agree with everything in it, but I agree with a lot also, well over 50%. For someone starting out from square one it should be very useful...

For me personally, it has too much information that I don't need. I don't envision myself ever being in the Arctic, so that stuff can go. I don't even go to the beach, let alone in the ocean. So that stuff can go.

True, but I figure that it is a "one book does all" kinda thing. Much easier than having an Arctic book, ocean book, jungle book (no offense Walt), etc...

I agree. There are multiple copies of the book in my BOB, hiking and fishing kits for years. I have tried many of the techniques (with vary degrees of success) in the book while I was in the Arctic, near desert and on or near the ocean.

Although some of the ideas and techniques in the book are outdated and or esoteric, I still think the book is one of the better references out there...and for the current $7.95 price and the very small size of the GEM edition it is a bargain.

I own the big one...it's kinda heavy. Not very good for a BOB. But makes for some ok reading.