http://www.prosurvivalkit.com/belprosurkit1.html the contents have changed since the review that doug made.
any opinions, thoughts, comments?

Clever idea. You might want a lighter,flatter profile knife in a belt.

These a re a great idea. there price is a way too high for what they offer though. If I could buy just the belt (at a fair price) I would certainly buy it and stock it myself though.

Brian; Try REI or Campmor for the belt by itself, they usually have these belts in stock. I belive they are made by eagle creek as a money belt, I saw them at REI the last time I was there. Your'e right though, the price on this survival kit is way too high for what you get.

Just trying to save a dead horse. old post

Take care, George

George,

Am I imagining things (again) or was the old version of the belt also available in big/tall sizes?

No, you are not imagining things... at least about the belt. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> I used to make the belt myself, in the good old days when I had time, but now I have it made by a US company (I still pack every kit that leaves our shop). The first batch of belts they sent me are all about 46 inches. In the future I might order a few larger sizes, if I decide to keep the Belt Pro kit in our inventory. I brought it back recently because Doug told me he liked his and thought I should make it available again, but it is a pain in the butt to keep up with it while the other kits are doing so well. The other two kits have become standard issue for Navy Special Warfare personnel and other Special Operations units as well.

In the "very near future" we are going to make our kits available to the public through Aeromedix. This will allow us to concentrate on selling only to the military and other government agencies.

Sorry for the long answer to a short question.

Take care, George

I am not ashamed to admit when I am wrong and I think I need to go on record as retracting my statement about these kits being overpriced. I have recently been redoing my PSK and have looked at the contents a Dougs smaller kits as well as a couple other kits including Cody's and one from Pro Survival (the Master Pro Kit). After close inspection I find that the Master Pro, Pocket Pro and Belt Pro are all appropriately priced. As a matter of fact they are probably actually a bargain. I didnt really realize this however until looking very closely at the contents list. Since most of this stuff is stuff I have had laying around a while already, I forget what it cost me until I inventoried it all and I add it all up (as I recently did).

On a side note I am also impressed with the use of the SOG multi tool and optional RSK MK1. While this certainly drives up the price of the kit, it is a level of quality that I dont think I have ever seen in a completely preassembled commercially available kit before.

I'm not trying to kiss anyones behind here and I get nothing out of this posting. I just think what's fair is fair and since this is a public forum read by many people, when I am wrong I should admit it and give praise to those that earn it. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> BTW my new kit will probably greatly resemble the Master Pro when I am finished. Still trying to figure out how to cram all this stuff in a Maxpedition M-2. <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I hear ya

After taking things apart and counting it out, I've put over $180 into the SAS tin <img src="/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> it would have been even more had I not had some items already laying around, like the compass that was given to me

I never would have paid that up front for a kit, the only reason it ended up that way was because I bought a little piece at a time over many months

Yea, kits add up. I remember on another forum there was a lot of people talking about this emergency prep kit that was being sold on e-bay for like $1500 and the components were pretty cheaply made. They all kept saying how overpriced it was, I actually took the time to find the prices of everything and add them up. It came out to be like $1800, so it was still a bargain (even though most of the stuff was junk). I guess since we assemble and modify our kits slowly over time it doesn't seem to add up in our head how much we have actually spent. Then when you see someone charging what it actually cost it is pretty shocking.