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I like the idea of putting together three survival kits based on the ones you've tested
1. Altoids pocket tin always in your front pocket always.
2. Day hike or away from home for more than 10 hours fits in your cargo pocket. Always in your outing jacket always
3. Over 12 hours away from home slip in satchel or overnight bag. Always in pack and/or car alway

All about the same size slightly growing each time. Ideally using the same size containers you tested
That way, as you go out and just naturally add layers, you add survival kits the further you plan on going the more they will just be there

More fish hooks, more needles, better strikers better whistles, tape added to surfaces, etc
each one decked out to add to the next. I'd love to see your style.

Ultimately three complete mini survival kits

Hi Mike! I’m really enjoying your survival episodes, I tried purchasing some items through your links and discovered that the UK Amazon doesn’t deliver to the USA. I was trying to support your channel, also, discovered that some of the survival gear from the UK can’t be found in the USA Amazon, anyway, my attempt was to show my grandson on how to use any gear and have fun with it. I love your channel and really enjoy when you’re working with your father, he’s awesome!! We enjoy watching you guys interact together!!👍🏽💯❤️ STRENGTH AND HONOR my friend, may you, your family and friends be well!! From Washington state 🇺🇸

Something to try. Instead of blowing an air mattress by mouth… I use a 13 gallon garbage bag, one bottom corner cut. Secured to inflate valve with a rubber band or hair tie and push air in with the bag. It’s way faster and will save the mattress long term, less moisture inside

Fun fact, that roll-top baggie with the wire top is called a whirlpak because you can grab both sides of the top and spin the whole thing to seal it up. They are used in evidence collection so they are sterile before you open them. You can open them, add the sample and seal it without ever contaminating the interior. They just also happen to be awesome for survival kits.

The best survival kit is the one you build yourself .

Here comes a helicopter.

Very handy in a survival situation! 😅

Mike, maybe it's just me, but I would love to see how you organize all your camping gear wherever it is you store it at home, and maybe even given us a sort of inventory.  You have SOOO many different stoves, tents, tarps, lamps, cordage, etc.  I would find it fascinating to see how you organize it all (assuming, of course, that you do, hahaha) and perhaps walk us thru how you decide which item of gear you choose for the many different conditions in which you use it.  I am horribly OCD when it comes to my own storage situations (hell, not just about storage!), so seeing how someone else keeps their gear organized would be very interesting to me.

I love seeing you setting up shelters, especially tying knots. I try learning but never remember... seeing you do them sort of makes it click.  

One reason I love this channel is you're the most "real" I've seen.

NO FISHING KIT??  Generally, the best quality kit you have shown so far.  The striker/Ferro rod work champion!

I'd love to see a survival kit for a family of 4. I always have my kids with me so that's something I'd need to consider in a kit.

I still have my survival kit (tin) from when I was in. We weren’t issued them then, we were just taught to make our own and we kept them in tobacco’s tins, which was naturally reflective inside (signalling) Mine has a small tin in the tin which was just where I kept and made char cloth. Fero rod (knife always on me so not in tin), puri tabs for water, serrated blade, wire saw, small button compass, fishing wire (not a fishing kit as I found no use for it, I never have been a great fisherman so I accepted why go with one if I can’t catch one with a decent rod and reel ffs). It’s still got the needles but the threads gone now - I probably used it or lost it). I do notice that these days Survival Kits seem to be all about surviving in a location where as ours we made were all about stuff to help you get back home and not stay put. So in mine I kept a bit of local currency as well in the form of some notes in a bit of paper. I keep thinking I used to have a small pencil in there too at one point but it’s not in it any more if I did. When I first made it I also had a small glass lense from a canabalised scope. Lost that too along the way. Finally my tin was packed out with toilet paper. Mainly to stop any rattle but also the luxury element 😊. And none of that razor sharp paper stuff either the Army gave us in our ration packs, the nice soft stuff 😂,

No I had no whistles or  fancy stuff you see nowadays in these commercial versions. Mine was just to help give me the chance of getting back to my side of the lines if the proverbial finally hit the rotating blade thing.

Im so happy my evil algorithm brought me here. Mike your videos are amazing you make fine art. As someone who cannot get outside to the mountains much anymore due to illness this chanel warms this old soldiers soul. Diolch

You should link up with the guys from @AllThe_Gear and show them how to really camp on a budget!

18:16  You don't need to fill the water bag and pour the contents into a jug to measure the bag's capacity.  Unless Mike has unusually small or large hands, the flat bag looked to be about 10cm by 30cm, which would give a surface area (front and back) of 600 square centimetres.  A litre is a 1000 cubic centimetres, so a one-litre cube measures 10cm on each side, and therefore has six 100 square centimetre faces.  Hence the bag, even though it is cylindrical when full, is going to hold about one litre.

I really love seeing winter camping videos. I live in Wyoming and the winters here can get down to negative -51 celsius, so it's always exciting to me to see survivalists like yourself go out into the elements (even if it's not necessarily -51 degrees lol)

Silverfire Scout is awesome.  That stove has saved my life.

Great spot you were at, loved the swan family !  This was a much better kit than the past few with several nice quality items.  I still think the best one would be one you make on your own.  Thanks for taking us along on another adventure ! Cheers 👍 🍻

That's a great kit. I'd rather have a handful of good quality bits of gear over some of the extra bits that you wouldn't need short term. If your goal is to carry something that can get you through 24-48 hours and then get rescued, it's fantastic.

Fishing and procuring food is not a big priority until you're lost over a week. Short term, protection from the elements and safe water are your priorities.

Y'know what's fun about those whirl-pak bags?  If you buy a pack of them, there's a note on the pack saying "Warning  This product can expose you to chemicals including Aniline, which is know to the State of California to cause cancer.", but when people buy a pack, split it up and sell it in survival packs, they often forget to pass that info on to the end user.