Watch: don't get a compass one, carry a separate compass. Nice watch is the Casio Forester FT200 ( http://www.bythom.com/casio.htm ) which is about $25 on ebay. Its cutest feature is it tells you the time of sunrise and sunset, which is very handy outdoors. They have some other watches with that feature too, which I don't like as much. YMMV.

My impression of diesels is they really want to run hot, so they make the most sense if you're going to drive them all day. They're inefficient and polluting if you use them on short trips so the engine is usually not warm. On the plus side, if your home is oil heated (probably an insane choice to make these days) you can run the truck on fuel oil in an emergency (Fuel oil is dyed and inspection can find dye residue in the tank, but in bad enough circumstances you do what you can).

$600 for a bow and arrow? That sounds nuts, I'm sure there's decent ones a lot cheaper.