I've studied Doug's evaluation of personal survival kits enough to have an idea of what is a good or poor survival kit. What I got out of it is, it takes more than just quality items to make a good kit, a good kit must have all the right items. Over the past few years I have seen kits with a lot of stuff but the quality was not there. Just recently I came across the
Deluxe Survival Kit and it does not fit with anything I have seen before. All of the items in this kit would probably be rated as "Excellent." However, this kit covers two areas: fire and signaling. It also addresses shelter to a point.
How does one judge a kit with such quality items but lacks so much?
Jeanette Isabelle
It's not really a "personal" survival kit. "Personal" being defined as something that you slp in a pocket. DRSK, Altoids tin kit etc.
This kit is more for use with a car/boat/aircraft based kit. As far as it goes, it is an excellent kit. It needs adding to. Shelter items, waterbottle and something to boil water in but I have - and have used- every item in that kit. My only real concern with it is that the saw requires two hands to use.
If I was building a bail out kit for use on a boat, RV etc then I would give this kit very serious consideration.
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