Some good ideas. If you want cheap sturdy gear, surplus is useful, but supplementing it with some blaze orange articles would be smart. I’ve seen evidence of even off season hunting in my woods, so I wear an orange t shirt when I’m back there in the summer and an orange hunters hat and sometimes a vest in the winter. I’ve been thinking of replacing my brown cloth sun hat with a brighter one.

My survival kit only has a 3 ft 1 inch wide strip of orange marking tape so I’m thinking of adding an orange trash bag or two to wrap around it.

I got religion on not buying camo or black colored knives when I lost one too many. Now I carry a cheap ($20) kabar orange dozier hunter.