Quote Originally Posted by flan7211 View Post
Big+ for the guys' comments above. Quick suggestion, I keep at a bare minimum 3 ways to make fire and purify water in my bag. I have a water pump, iodine pills, and a small pot to boil. For fire I keep 8 lighters, 10 books of matches, fire starter sticks, and flint. Just my 2 cents.

I was thinking the same thing... Water, and Fire are pretty high on the list of surviving neccessities, so I am thinking I would "nest" several ways of starting fires. For example on my person I always have a lighter. On my "grab and go" bags that is will be pretty much accessible at all times I'll have some sort of flint or magnesium starter, and for the big kit will be matches/another flint firestarter, etc.

For water filtration probably in the small kit I will have more Iodine tablets, and/or smaller filtration system (straw type, etc) since they are compact and things. In my larger kit I'll have the pump/more tablets/and a boiling vessel that can be dual utilized to boil/cook/reconstitute food.