The Topeak Alien II had better be good, because it's 10.21 ounces of steel to hang on the bike. But, with even more tools than the original Topeak Alien multi-tool, this compact toolkit could be the key to riding home instead of pushing the bike. It's a little extra ...
The Original Piranta Pro Skinning Knife from Havalon Knives offers outdoorsmen the quick blade changes and razor-sharp edges preferred by surgeons. Carry extra blades instead of a whetstone, and you'll save weight.
Designed for skinning and caping large and small game animals, the 6-3/4-inch open-length Piranta Pro starts with a strong ...
With a handle sized for a better grip and an even lighter build than the original pocket-sized Piranta, the Piranta-Z comes closer to the hunting and skinning knife design we find familiar. You'll find all the unique features that made the Piranta popular, but in a knife that's a little ...
Wenger of Switzerland holds the current Guinness World Record for the Most Multifunctional Penknife, and the Wenger 16999 is the reason why. With 85 tools and a total of 141 functions, the Wenger 16999 includes nearly every option ever offered by either Wenger or its sister company, Victorinox. Obviously ...
The Havalon Baracuta-Edge is a great idea and a good knife, but five inches of replaceable high carbon stainless steel blade comes at a higher cost than the smaller Havalon Piranta system. You might want to keep that whetstone handy and recycle blades instead of throwing them out.
The Havalon concept ...
Spyderco's Resilience is that company's largest knife in the Spyderco "Value" series. With an open length of 9-3/8 inches and a blade 4-1/4 inches long, the Resilience has the size and heft of a small hunting knife. The Resilience's reasonable price might make you wonder where the company cut costs, ...
Still available from Swamp Rat Knife Works in 2011, the Ratmandu knife comes in a variety of handle colors but always uses the same blade style and high quality materials. You'll be impressed by the way it cuts and by the way it feels in your hand.
Designed by Jerry ...
The Swamp Rat Knife Works Hairy Carry was designed as a high performance fixed blade in a size matched to everyday uses. Made to wear on the belt, this full tang knife features the rugged design details of Jerry Busse's tactical knives.
The Hairy Carry's 154CM high carbon stainless ...
The M6 isn't part of the Swamp Rat Knife Works current production but is sometimes available in new or used condition as a pre-owned knife. Made from SR101 high carbon steel, the M6 has the superior edge-holding ability of older carbon tool steels and makes up for lower corrosion ...
Mad Dog Knives makes the Pygmy ATAK knife in two versions, distinguished by different thicknesses of the high carbon tool steel stock. Originally designed for military users, the smaller size of the Pygmy ATAK makes this model popular with outdoorsmen who want a lighter knife with the best performance characteristics.
Overall ...
Mad Dog Knives produced the Para Raider knife for elite members of the Dutch military, but a few pieces did find their way to the civilian marketplace. This full-sized knife meets tough standards and provides the essentials you'll need for either urban or wilderness survival.
Military versions of the ...
Bowies large enough to suit Crocodile Dundee were common on the American frontier but are much harder to find now. Today, if you're shopping for a Dundee knife, you might have to settle for a cheap movie replica or something practical but smaller. Fortunately Down Under Knives, a knife company ...
The Panther from Mad Dog Knives was built to military standards but literally with a Crocodile Dundee flair. Mick would feel right at home in any desert, swamp, or urban jungle with the Mad Dog Panther in hand. Maker Kevin McClung even included a Dundee sling for outfitting the Panther in ...
Ancient Celtic blades inspired the design of the Cold Steel Boar Hunter, but modern tactical materials make this new hunting knife better than the old battlefield blades. Lynn Thompson of Cold Steel Special Projects built the Boar Hunter for real hunters and field-tested the design on real Australian wild ...
The Cold Steel Special Projects Indian War Club uses solid polypropylene to reproduce one of the most effective weapons on the American frontier. Similar war clubs caused mayhem on the battlefields of North and South America long before iron and steel trade axes took over the local market. ...
Gerber's Fast Draw Knife is one of the company's first knives to include the F.A.S.T opening system. This inexpensive pocket clip folder opens with the convenience and speed you'd expect from a more expensive automatic.
The patented Gerber Forward Action Spring Technology (FAST) is the work of Butch Vallotton, a ...
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New Orleans... Haiti... and now Japan... These places ring out with grim recognition of their recent natural disasters and the grueling aftermath. In the case of Katrina, local residents and rescue workers had ample time to prepare for the impending emergency but were overwhelmed when the scope of the ...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, provides several emergency kit lists to assist you in preparing for a disaster. These could be an excellent place to start researching disaster survival and learning how to build an emergency kit. Unfortunately, they fall flat in many regards.
First off, their site is a something of a disaster itself. ...
Below find our recommendations for a compact, emergency kit to be stored in the car. At the end of the list, there's a link for printing out a more compact, checklist-style version.
A note about FEMA
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has its own list, but we found it to be deficient. You can read more about that here....
Below find our recommendations for a complete outdoor emergency kit. Consult this list before heading out on any significant outdoor excursion. After the list you'll find a link for printing out a more compact, checklist version.
Fire
Matches or lighter
Permanent match
First aid kit with alcohol pads
Backpacking stove with fuel
Water
Canteen or hydration pack
Water filter
Water purification tablets
Food
Multi-vitamins
Dehydrated meals
High-calorie snacks
Waterproof ...
Below find our recommendations for a complete, long-term home emergency kit. After the list you'll find a link for printing out a more compact, checklist version.
A note about FEMA
Why didn't we just use the Federal Emergency Management Agency's list? You can read more about that here.
Water
Bottled water — one gallon per person per day
Backpacker's water ...
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If the worst that happened to your house was that the power went out, you're already doing pretty well. Power outages usually last only a few hours and all that's needed to survive them is patience. Severe thunderstorms causing widespread damage might knock the power out ...
FEMA's emergency recommendations assume that victims of a natural disaster in America will receive organized assistance after three days. That clearly doesn't always happen. No matter how many days or weeks worth of supplies a family sets aside, some situations leave people with nothing, immediately. The recent tsunami in Japan hit with only ...
This article is primarily intended for plane travel. For auto survival tips, see evacuation preparation and the accompanying car survival kit checklist.
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Current travel regulations prohibit many sensible survival tools aboard planes, but some specialty items can still ride ...
The Fundamental Problem
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Most homes in the U.S. were built to withstand a maximum straight-line wind of 90 mph. That's a very small storm. While your home might hold up to a small twister and offers some protection in stronger tornadoes, an F5 tornado generates wind strong ...
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California comes to mind first when we think of earthquakes, but Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, New York and much of the Midwest also run the risk of major quakes. The last time the New Madrid Fault running from Missouri to Illinois popped, the Mississippi River found a ...
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Preparing for an outdoor emergency is mostly about training with an experienced outdoorsman and bringing along the right gear. If you don't have a friend who can provide dependable advice before your trip, do some research and find a local outdoor training group who can provide ...
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When civil authorities knock on the door and tell you to get out immediately, you don't have time to pack a suitcase and shouldn't even head to the safe room for the travel kit. Get everyone in the car and go. Keeping a basic emergency kit ...
Below find links for many of the products mentioned in our emergency kit lists. Links are to our reviews (when we've written about the product previously) or directly to Amazon.com
Backpacker's Water Filter (Amazon.com)
Chlorine Dioxide Tablets (Amazon.com)
Gerber AR 3.0 Utility Knife (Read our review)
Portable 5-Gallon Toilet (Amazon.com)
SOG Power Assist Multi-Tool ...
If you want a knife for everyday use, the Kershaw Skyline could be your favorite. It's dependable, simple, and opens easier than most one-hand opening knives.
Kershaw built the Skyline for people who need a dependable pocket utility blade, leaving out all the fancy stuff that looks pretty but breaks or ...
One of the most delicate tools that DOVO makes, these stainless steel curved cuticle scissors undergo about 120 different exacting hand procedures. DOVO provides a protective pouch for proper storage and guarantees them for life.
Cuticle or skin scissors trim even tiny flakes of dead skin from around the nails ...
The strong jaws of the Dovolanza Curved Nail Scissors accurately trim either fingernails or toenails and include many construction features designed specifically for the manicurist or pedicurist.
Consider the Dovolanza Curved Nail Scissors to be of the same general quality as good surgical tools, built to cut cleanly without painful ...
The professional DOVO 5-inch Black Beauty Hairdressing Shear gives stylists perfect control over a long-lasting precise cutting action. Customize the cutting pressure and the grip for either European or Asian preferences.
Made for a clean razor cut, the shears cut with edges set at no more than 40 degrees, and both are ...
Timber framers know this tool. If you've tried an axe for chopping joints for log buildings or post-and-beam construction and it didn't work out well, it was probably because you had something else in hand. Only the squared edge of a carpenter's axe will chop a truly flat surface.
The ...
Hand forged in Storvik, Sweden, the S.A. Wetterling Axe with hickory handle represents 100 years of Swedish tradition. The best Wetterling axes like this one are shaped by hand forging, a process that requires patience, time and a high degree of skill. The end result is a better axe.
The usual ...
The Cold Steel Trail Master isn't just a knife with a Bowie-style blade. The Trail Master is a genuine Bowie knife in the old sense, but built with modern materials and to modern standards.
This SK-2 version of the Trail Master offers 9-1/2 inches of high carbon steel with an overall ...
Although the Gransfors Bruks Outdoor Axe is a little smaller than the award-winning Hunter's Axe, it's certainly made well enough to do most of the same work. The Outdoor Axe even includes some of the features of the company's best splitting axes. Choose this camp axe if you ...
The Wall Street Journal recently put knife sharpeners to the test, choosing five that stood out from among the hundreds of models available. Here are the results of that experiment:
WSJ's "Best Bargain" went to the Accusharp, a small, handheld sharpener with a retail price at only $9. It doesn't produce a razor-sharp edge, ...
The froe is the tool most woodworkers don't realize they need. This Shingle Froe from Peavey will quickly become one of your indispensable tools if you split kindling and firewood. Woodturners will like it even more.
This simple blade of iron or mild steel will cleanly split a short bolt of ...
Many people do enjoy splitting wood for the campfire or the wood stove, and the Gransfors Bruks Large Splitting Axe makes that warming chore go well. Ordinary chopping axes work fairly well for some types of wood but just bury themselves in others. This special axe blasts through.
The difference between ...
Park the noisy gas-powered hydraulic log splitter in the barn, and get out the Gransfors Bruks splitting maul instead. Splitting wood by hand is fun, excellent exercise, and faster than splitting with a machine. Don't forget the steel wedges for the tough blocks.
Even a cheap splitting maul can handle ...
Designed as a simple emergency multitool, the Gerber Shard Key Chain Tool also meets one of today's unusual standards -- it will pass an airport security inspection, at least so far.
The Gerber Shard combines seven useful functions in a one-piece tool literally small enough to be a key chain fob. ...
Spyderco's Para-Military 2 is the third version of a Spyderco design originally meant for military use. First scaled down for civilian needs as the Para-Military, the knife now returns with subtle but important improvements.
The Para-Military 2 slims down the bulky styling of the older civilian survival knife but doesn't ...
For those privileged to carry a tactical automatic knife, the Benchmade Infidel 3310 offers the same intimidating features as the earlier Infidel 3300, but with a single edged blade that's easier to use in ordinary work.
Owners will still be most impressed by the tactical advantages of this Out-The-Front automatic knife. ...
The Berkley Extreme Duty Knife puts together nearly every high-tech good idea available to manufacturers of rugged fixed blades. The result is a little strange in appearance, but everything about the knife works.
If you're looking for something traditional, you'll skip by this garish knife with its hard plastic sheath, and ...
The Benchmade Barrage adds powerful spring-assisted opening to the already solid construction of Benchmade's Axis-lock knives. The Valox grip also has some excellent features, but doesn't beat Zytel in wet weather.
Benchmade recommends the Barrage for boaters, rescue workers, and anyone else who needs a dependable multi-purpose blade which opens one-handed in ...
The Red River Valley Sportsmen’s Show will be in the North Dakota area March 3-6 at the Fargodome. This event will bring together all the northern area's experts in outdoor sporting activities. Those who love to fish, hunt, camp, and sculpt will find themselves amongst a lot of sports tools ...
The Bear and Son Ninja II Boot Dagger may look like many other small combat knives, but the Ninja II carries an important difference. Most modern double-edged daggers provide one true cutting edge and one false edge. With the Ninja II, both edges of the blade ...
If you're a martial artist training in the Filipino style, the Bear & Son's Black Butterfly is a big step up from a balisong built only for practice. The hollow ground edge arrives razor-sharp, and the drop point blade is the right size and style for ordinary chores and ...
The Bear & Son Rosewood Razor gives knife lovers a new shaving option -- a straight razor with a truly American look. If you enjoy the versatility of the professional straight razor and the solid construction of American folding knives, you'll like this classic slip joint build.
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