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For instance, why would you take a 2 qt pot, when the main thing you'll do with it is boil water? You'll have to boil twice a day with that, since you need a gallon of water per day, and none of them have realized that the sleeves of their rainsuit jacket can become a gallon water container (each) in about 1 minute per sleeve. Fold back the wrist tied it off, if it leaks, tape it. Tie off the upper part of the sleeve at the armpit, and no, I do NOT mean cut the sleeves off of the rainsuit, either. Sit it in the corner of the shelter. Later, when you hole up for the winter, the entire rainsuit becomes a 7 gal container. It wont freeze if you've got a foot thick layer of compressed debris around you, cause of your body heat. in the 4x4x8 ft dugout, If they wont let you take a lid for it, MAKE one, out of clay and green vines. The vines are just to give the clay shape and support it while it dries, next to the fire. They will burn away as you fire the clay.

Take the snarewire, but take Stainless steel snarewire, cause it's twiice as strong as carbon steel wire. You'll have to camo-dye it before you leave home. i"m just a bot, don't you know?

Take the fishing kit, but as 25 of the biggest hooks allowed. so that you can cut them in half with the multitool, reshape them into 50 smaller hooks and then use the snare wire to convert them into 16 treblehooks, for catching fowl and predators, not just fish. Suspend them, baited, so that the critters are encouraged to gulp the bait. Rig them to a small drag log, so that they think that they are escaping (and thus, wont pull out the hook and be lost to you as meat). They will drown in their own blood.

Everything, for milllennia, was done with stone tools. So you're full of it to "think" that the Crunch multitool, modified, can't be many times more useful than a belt knife. The SS serrated blade has to be replace with a regular carbon steel blade, tho. The phillips and worthless file blades should be replaced with real file blades, made from Nicholson files. Put a gouge end on one, a chisel point on the other. Convert the flathead blades into a hook-scoop knife for carving a spoon and bowl, so you dont have to wait for the skillet to cool, so you can hold it and drink/eat out of it. Hardwood ashes and hot water serve well enough to clean utensils and keep you from getting sick from contamination.

Take the slingbow, not a regular bow. You have to have a projectile weapon, for finihing off a big critter when you snare one and for taking small stuff that you see at 10m and less. Forget stones as "ammo", they never fly straight. Instead, make baked clay balls for shots not worthy of an arrow. The duct tape lets you quickly make arrows in the field and such arrows will FLOAT, so the can be retrieved. with your pontoon outrigger raft. Rocks CAN be used to shoot into flocks of fowl that are swimming or walking in areas that you dont have net-weirs set up. Maybe, then, when they land again, it will be where you've set out baits and dead decoy birds. You are allowed to take one spare rubber for the slingbow. That can be used to power a snare loop, set inside a wooden "cage" baited for bears, attached by 6 strand wire cable to a 200 lb drag log. Vertically oriented jungle whips should be baited and set there for weasels and coons that come to the bear-pit, which is full of fish and fowl heads/guts. But I;'m just a bot, what do I know?

Take a 12x12 tarp and the two person hammock You'll eventually make 2 net-weirs out of them, but the tarp can serve as a blanket atop a net bag full of dry debris, put oveer you in the hammock and later, over you in the raised wooden bed that you make. The debris net-bag "leaks' a bit of your bodyheat if you dont have some sort of non-permeable cover over it. This lets you not have to waste a pick on a sleeping bag. The rope clews from the hammock give you immediate cordage, if need be, without having to cut-tear and twist strips of the half of the 20x20 tarp that you dont need for anything else.

At home, use coatings of iodine to heavily rust the ferrule of your Cold Steel shovel. Rust is a prime aid to getting friction fire with the fire-rolling technique. Use a short strip of your shemaugh for the fire roll. Once you have a fire, you can have ashed tinder and charred punk wood, which let you start fires with any carbon steel tool and any hard rock. So you dont have to waste a pick on a ferrorod, you see. Make some small dry bags out of the tape and chunks of tarp, for the rust that you've scraped off of the shovel, your salt, tinder, the spindle end and hearthboard insert (dovetailed in) and thus, keep dry what needs to stay dry. Beef up the ferrule and screws of the shovel, for when you use it as an axe, with the 2 ft long handle that you make on-site.. Rig the screws so you have more female thread and a T handle on the screw heads, so you can remove and replace the handle by hand. Ditto the dis and reassembly of the Crunch tool, of course. Make a 4 ft long handle for the shovel, so you can stand erect and use it, making it much easier on your back and knees, while moving a lot of dirt, sand, snow, stones, etc. Make a right angled forked sapling handle for it, so it can become a pick, adze, rake, hoe. This requires that you drill and deburr a couple of holes in the shovel blade,near it's top. But of course, I'm a bot, so what do I know about tools, right?

Picks 9 and 10 of course must be the biggest roll of duct tape you can find and the 3 lb block of sea salt (if you'll not be on a sea-shore). If you are on such a shore, then take the 2 lb ration of pemmican instead. The pemmican gives you a fat source to keep your bowels moving, fat for lubricant and a rust preventative, and it's instant bait, if you can't find any. You need a source of salt in the worst way, as bait, as a source of electrolytes, as preservative for meat/fish until cold weather comes. But remember, I'm just a bot, I dont know anything. You guys are SO much more knowledgable, it's astounding.

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