Survival and Emergency Preparedness

I've converted all of my Maglites from incandescent bulbs over to the Niteize LED conversion. Got them from HFT with the 20% coupon so they were only around $7. Unfortunately, they don't seem to be selling that product anymore. Haven't seen it in their stores or on the website. Too bad. It is the o...

bdc wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 9:20 pm I am still seeking 18650 adapters. The last bunch was defective, my money was returned, and I tossed them (having sent pictures of 5 flashlights with the adapters sitting on top because they would not fit.)

What lights are you using? What caused the adapters not to fit?

Currently mine are: Maglite ML300 3D cell - has a good amount of throw on high, runs near forever in ”eco”mode on alkaline D’s. Maglite ML25 2C cell – great little light with a very useful beam pattern and a bunch of throw, the latest version has a low mode for lots of run time. A great value at $20...

It's a whistle:



....just used it to wrap some Spider wire fishing line around and to store a set of SAK tweezers.

The ear plugs are just in case I want to do some shooting or are around load noises.

Here's an altoid kit I put together a while back:

I think I used to have that on VHS back in the day....a very long video where they tested just about every product in the CS catalog - great stuff!

I think the LMF II was originally intended as Gerber’s entry into the trials for a new aircrew survival knife to replace the old Air Force bolt knife- I think the military decided to go with Ontario’s entry, but never really purchased enough to replace the old bolt knives. These knives were intended...

Survival Lilly's long term review/destruction test on the SRK:

The P38 can opener may be the US Army’s greatest invention, but I think the MPL-50 shovel is got to be the Red Army’s greatest (OK it was actually based on a Danish design from the late 1860’s, but it is an outstanding bit of kit, even if the Russians didn’t really invent it). These are great Etools...

I almost got an LMF II, but went with the prodigy instead mainly because it is lighter. The prodigy is an OK knife, but not really my thing. The serrated edge cut real well but I had to do some serious re-profiling to get the plain edge portion to cut., would have been better if they went with a ful...