Best products from r/Survivalist
We found 20 comments on r/Survivalist discussing the most recommended products. We ran sentiment analysis on each of these comments to determine how redditors feel about different products. We found 27 products and ranked them based on the amount of positive reactions they received. Here are the top 20.
1. Gorilla Black Duct Tape, 1.88" x 35 yd, Black, (Pack of 1)
- Heavy duty and double thick, Gorilla Tape offers over-the top results; It's like duct tape on steroids
- Great for indoor or outdoor use and made to stick to Rough, uneven, unforgiving surfaces like wood, stone, stucco, plaster, brick and more
- Double-Thick adhesive; grips smooth, Rough and uneven surfaces
- Tough, reinforced backing; the tight weave contributes to the heft, but Gorilla tape can still be ripped by hand
- Rugged, weather-resistant shell; withstands moisture, UV rays and temperature extremes
Features:
2. Good Hemp Protein Powder Natural 500g
- Intel Core i3-4030U 1.9 GHz Processor
- 6 GB DDR3 RAM
- 500 GB 5400 rpm Hard Drive
- 15.6-Inch HD (1366 x 768) Display
- Windows 8.1
Features:
3. Trim & Cut Hair Trimmer By Barber King
- Will pay for itself many times over!
- Eliminates costly salon visits
- Controls length of hair
- Removes burrs & tangles
Features:
4. When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency, 2nd Edition
- Supplies and preparations
- Energy, heat and power
- Low-tech medicine and healing
- Water quality and treatment
- Food, shelter and first aid
Features:
5. The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created
- Steel Material
- Seashell Shape Knob
- wholesale price
- Furniture Cabinet Knob
- Screws include
Features:
6. Gregory Baltoro 75 Technical Pack
Technical backpack designed for the backcountry adventurerResponse AFS suspension system with rotating waist-belt systemZippered front pocket, twin side pockets, and dual hip-belt pocketsRemovable top lid converts to fanny pack; hydration-compatibleComes in small (73 liters), medium (75 liters), and...
7. Cold Steel Spetsnaz Tactical Camp Shovel Tool for Camping, Survival and Outdoors, Special Forces Shovel
Thickness: 2mm (Shovel Head)Handle: HardwoodOverall Length: 19.68"Material: Medium carbon steelSheath: Not included Overall Length: 20.50" Carry System: N/A Weight: 1.60 lbs.Overall Length: 20.50"Carry System: N/AWeight: 1.60 lbs.
8. Sven-Saw 21 inch Folding Saw
- Special 60th Anniversary Edition Sven-Saw features the signature of the inventor, Richard E. Swenson, engraved on the handle.
- All metal - Crafted from the highest quality materials. Built to last
- Made in the United States for 60 years!
- High-visibility red, so you won't leave it behind
- Under 14 ounces
Features:
9. Spearit 50FT 1.7MM Braided Kevlar (Yellow)
- ENOUGH ROOM - The full set-up size of the tent is 140" X 70"X 79" (L x W x H). It can accommodate up to 8 people.
- HIGH QUALITY - Sturdy fiberglass frame is strong enough. 300D quilted interlayer provides a warm shelter to keep you from cold wind.
- LIGHTWEIGHT & PORTABLE - Weight 42 lbs. light and easy to assemble. The design of a carry bag makes it can be taken wherever you go.
- SET INCLUDE:1 ice shelter,12 ice-anchors, 6 two-meter guy ropes, 12 transparent PVC windows and a 51" long carrier bag. No floor.
Features:
10. Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE1T0BW
- UPC: 887276851402
- Weight: 0.140 lbs
Features:
11. Condor 3 Day Assault Pack (Olive Drab, 3038-Cubic Inch)
Large load cargo capacity compartmentDesigned for easy access and organization (7 pockets)Hydration-pack compatible (2L or 3L bladderBody contour shoulder straps with D-Ring for equipment attachment, sternum strap and removeable waist beltIndividual foam pad back panel for extra comfort and maximum ...
12. Pandigital Handheld Electronic Encyclopedia (WikiReader)
Palm-sized device contains the entire English WikipediaPre-loaded content, no internet connection neededReady to go right out of boxTouchscreen controls and keyboardUses 2 AAA batteries
13. Quikclot Sport Brand Advanced Clotting Sponge ,Stop Bleeding Fast, 50 Gram Package
- See Description
- See Description
- See Description
- See Description
Features:
14. Adventure Medical Kits Trauma Pak First Aid Kit with QuikClot Sponge
- Includes QuikClot gauze, trauma pad, triangular bandage, and other key supplies for your trauma kit
- Nonallergenic QuikClot first aid gauze speeds up natural clotting and stops bleeding within minutes
- Used by hospitals, EMS/first responders, military, law enforcement, general public & outdoorsman
- Fits perfectly in any first aid kit, suture kit, medical kit, iFAK pouch, EDC pouch & survival kits
- Travel safely with QuikClot in your car first aid kit, camping essentials & backpack emergency kit
Features:
15. Sawyer Products SP128 Mini Water Filtration System, Single, Blue
- Ideal for outdoor recreation, hiking, camping, scouting, domestic and International travel, and emergency preparedness
- High-performance 0.1 Micron absolute inline filter fits in the palm of your hand and weighs just 2 ounces; 100% of MINI units individually tested three times to performance standards by Sawyer
- Attaches to included drinking pouch, standard disposable water bottles, hydration packs, or use the straw to drink directly from your water source
- Removes 99.99999% of all bacteria (salmonella, cholera, and E. coli); removes 99.9999% of all protozoa (such as giardia and cryptosporidium); also removes 100% of microplastics
- Filter rated up to 100,000 gallons; Includes one Sawyer MINI filter, 16-ounce reusable squeeze pouch, 7-inch drinking straw, and cleaning plunger
Features:
16. ASR Tactical AHSK-5 American Universal Handcuff Keys, Silver, 5 Pack
- Universal Unlocking Handcuff Restraint Key for all Professional Double Locking Handcuffs and Standard Restraints
- Material: Heavy Duty Stainless Steel Handcuff Keys and Key Ring; Will not Rust; Highly Durable; MADE IN USA
- Backpin for Double Locking Hand Cuffs
- Handcuff Keys are Magnetic, Easy to Handle and Locate when Needed
- Made in USA
Features:
17. FireSteel Miniature
Size: 3/20 inch diameter by 2 inches long (3.8 x 50.8mm).Weight: .13 ounces (3.7 grams)5500 F (3000 C) sparks that will start a fire in the toughest conditions.Composition: FireSteel premium firesteel metals.Premium Firesteel formula that creates excellent sparks for a rod of this size.
18. P-38 Can Opener and P-51 Can Opener
- Combo Pack that includes 1 x P-38 and 1 x P-51 Can Openers.
- P-38 is approximately 1.5 inches long
- P-51 Can Opener is approximately 2 inches long.
- They fit on a key chain.
Features:
19. Emergency Survival Food Supply 275 Meal Pack
275 Emergency Food Supply Kit includes NEW RECIPES:Cheesy Rice Casserole/Veggie Alfredo/Hearty Potato Soup/Italian Tomato Pasta/Black Bean Burger/Tortilla Soup/Multigrain Cereal/Brown Sugar Oatmeal/Non-fat Milk/InstantOrange DrinkWeather Proof Bucket - 20 year shelf lifeWeather Proof Bucket - 20 yea...
One thing you'll want to do for that type of store is keep an eye out for product close-outs, discontinued products, inventory clearances and that sort of thing. Auctions too. If you have the opportunity to get items that your market base would want at clearance prices, even if you can't keep them in stock, it's a good idea.
For advice on specific items to stock, separate from the above advice, I would advocate for Four Sevens for flashlights: they have excellent quality products - they keep up to date with the latest production CREE LED emitters.
Hmm, what else... paracord, obviously, every military surplus type store needs paracord - get quality cord: mil-c-5040h type iii is milspec standard. There are a bunch of manufacturers of '550 cord' but mil-c-5040h type iii is something you want to be able to have labeled on your cord.
CR-123a batteries are another good item to stock. Search around online for the best bulk deals - well, you know the drill.
Various types of tape: 1000-mile-an-hour tape, Gorilla brand duct tape, Self-fusing silicone tape - these are all excellent products and go well with your market.
Look through other suppliers in the same & similar line of business: check out CountyComm, LA Police Gear, Cheaper Than Dirt... there are a bunch of them.
Edit: oh, products to stay away from (only one came to mind right now but I'll update if/when I find more): These Kind of 'ration bars' - please never buy or sell this crap: the only thing good is the quality of the packaging. These 'ration bars' should never be relied upon for emergency nutrition: all they are is cookie bars, nothing else, empty calories with no vitamins/minerals/nutrients - your typical Power Bar that you can get at any supermarket has far, far more nutritional value.
I don't know much about it to be honest. I bought some back in October, I think it was, and I use a teaspoon in my protein shakes now and then and it's still good, from what I can tell, nine months on. I've nearly run out now though. It's the seeds that have most of the protein in which need to be dried to be turned into a ground-up nutrient rich powder anyway so if they do need to be dried for next planting, the process would probably be similar (apart from the grinding). It probably wouldn't hurt to buy a small tub, open it, shut it again (to remove the factory sealing) and leave it out in the shed for a winter or two, just to see what becomes of it. I'm not sure how you'd test protein levels chemically but if it's not rancid or looking any different, I'd say it's probably alright.
I've just checked the container of this one I got last October and the 'best before' is Aug 2014. So they're saying, once opened, it'll be good for just under a year. That's probably them being conservative too. I don't know what the drop-off rate would be. It could be 90% as nutritious another year later, or 10%. If we could find that out, just having a big tub, factory sealed and professionally processed, would probably be a good thing to have stashed away in case. I bought the small tub (500g) but I reckon the larger one (2.5kg) would last a man a year (or three if rationed to survival levels).
Here's the one I got: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Hemp-Protein-Powder-Natural/dp/B003VJKT94/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
If you, or anyone else reading, finds out additional info on this stuff, I'll add it to the main post.
Don't know if you are still looking, for I had the same quest and came up with a few things.
Razor Comb This is the only razor comb I've found that uses the same DE blades as everything else out there. There are also numerous ones that take "shaper" blades, such as
this , this, or this. Also there are plastic like this. As mentioned previously the only one with moving blades is the Bressant which I am sure works fine, but probably easier for a second party to operate. There are a lot of patants out there for exactly what I would like to see, but there doesn't seem to be any products of that type, with an adjustable standoff/guard or set of standoff's that just holds a razor. Both Playtex and Barber King produced a a very similar product, back in the day, both of which can be found on eBay, and especially the Playtex ones in really good condition. However both of them take custom blades. They look very similar to the same double edge blades used everywhere else, but of course, their not quite and standard blades won't fit.
hope some of that helps
I totally agree with this book it is excellent especially with the hunting and trapping. For other things I also have When Technology Fails it had everything i needed including things that you don't exactly need to use for the end of time. It includes things such as at home water distillation as well as useful ways for farming with small plots of land. It also has a huge section on insulation and home design. One of the best buys I saw!
Ever hear of the book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond? Yeah, skip it and get this book: "The Birth of Plenty" by William Bernstein.
The latter does a much better job of answering the same questions, summed up as "why have some societies survived and thrived and others haven't?" Bernstein nails it.
TL;DR: four factors.
I've had great success with the Gregory Baltoro 75. It is good for 3-5 day hikes and ~$220 on Amazon. REI will sell it to you for $350 (before sales tax).
I couldn't agree more on having something like paracord. I also wrap about 6 feet of duct tape on itself (so its small). However, on the paracord issue I have found something that I think is better.
this stuff is great and lighter and its also much thinner and more concealable for traps and boundary warnings.
Did you know that if you eat asparagus and pee in the water, fish will be attracted to it.
not going to argue about the tablet (much better IMO for reading on) as for the storage issue 1TB SSDs are a thing, and will fit in a chromebook.
What worries me most is how much more likely you are to damage a tablet than a laptop and how are you going to power it? I cant think of anything that would need more processing power for day to day living (doesn't mean there isn't anything). and 16 gigs of storage (stock in most chromebooks AFAIK) even if half of that is saved for the OS is a lot of books (even non-OCR PDFs)
Ultimately it will boil down to personal preference and use case, just books? i have a 1st gen nook that is nigh indestructible (ok i need to replace the eink, but that was deliberate.)
need some pictures and video, and maybe have some semi reliable infrastructure? tablet would be a better bet,
making your own infrastructure? that will be a laptop.
Edit: a few words.
TL;DR: depends on what you want it for
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004VRKWQK?vs=1 this is my current bag I have 2 1 for my B.O.B the other for backpacking love it recommend black for gray man or olive green
I've never used one, but WikiReader seems like an interesting product. With everyone being able to just pull up live Wiki pages from your phone, there isn't much market for this little guy, but when SHTF, being able to use AAA batteries and not having to rely on a network connection would be pluses in my book.
I don't think you can use your own SD cards though. They sell yearly updated cards (about $20), but they may be using one of the already available offline wikipedia downloaders/formatters.
You have 'hooks and fishing line' in food then 'needle and thread' in medical. Couldn't 'hook and line' do the same thing here? (It's a non-issue for me because I'd pass out if I tried to give myself stitches) So the one addition that I've added to every pack I have, the BoB, the car, the truck, hunting packs, etc. is Quickclot. That and duct tape will have to suffice for me in place of stitches.
Edit: This TraumaPack may be better. I use this one when I want to carry as little as possible.
You shouldn't rely on that Camelbak device, I've seen anecdotal reports that the don't actually do much of anything to sterilize water.
Not only that, but you can get the Sawyer Mini for about $20. It will filter 100,000 gallons, can be used in all sorts of ways instead of just a bottle, is more compact than a bottle, and actually works.
And you don't have to charge it.
Get something like an Anker battery pack, then you can do away with the solar charger and the camelbak bottle.
I would have a P-38 or P-51 military style can opener. They are small, and can also be used as a small blade or box cutter in case of emergency. I keep one on key ring. I also have this tiny flashlight which you could make smaller by removing the clip that hooks to a keychain. It is tiny and bright. A universal handcuff key, a tiny firesteel you can scrape with the P-38 can opener, and a tiny compass. Those are nice places to start.
It wouldn't hurt to have a small emergency food stash in some back corner. Here's something that's fairly self-contained. This type of thing is good for people who wait until the day before a hurricane hits to go out to the grocery store.
SAS Survival Handbook I just found out there is a 3rd edition as of Nov 2014. I just ordered the new one (linked).