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Hello Sir ! Love your and channel and videos. This video immediately took me back to 1979, sitting in my grade school cafeteria with Cub Scout Pack # 74. We made Scout Survival Kits in match boxes. We had to get signed permission slips to handle matches, fish hooks and single edged razor blades. In that meeting we made melted wax covered matches, cut fishing line and thread holders from card board, stuffed it all into the boxes and filled the remaining empty space with band-aids. I'm 53 years old, and tonight I time traveled. Thank you Sir, keep up the GREAT work !

As a Boy Scout, I greatly appreciate this! I have been collecting old BSA gear for a while now, and I’m hoping to have a full kit, this might just add to it😅❤

I'm 75 years young here in the Parkersburg, West Virginia area, and am still active in Scouting, in Kootaga District, Buckskin Council. Loved seeing your Boy Scout survival kit. I can imagine there being several people who are poo-pooing the kit for no other reason than it being terribly insufficient, and well, it's the Boy Scouts. 1950s, of course. My compliments to the Troop! I'm certain if they were still around right now, they'd be putting together far better ones to help others BE PREPARED better. Thanks so much for showing us what a kit may have looked like back in the day, and not trashing the thing. Please keep up the outstanding work!

In Girl Scouts we made 'buddy burners' and cooked homemade stew on them. Have you ever done a 100% scout equipment campout? I still have my old GS mess kit, canteen and utensil set. But I lost the jacknife and my poncho eventually disintegrated:( I never outgrew the love of outdoor adventure though and am grateful that girl scouts taught me many useful skills at a young age!!

HEY COOL VIDEO ! I WAS A CUB SCOUT IN THE 60'S. WE HAD A FLINT ROCK AND PIECE OF STEEL. IT WAS HEAVY BY TODAYS STANDARDS , BUT IT WAS AN OFFICIAL ISSUE ITEM.

Very Nostalgic-cool. That list of contents was definitely made with a Typewriter. Not the easiest thing to do,. Tiny kits like that have saved lives.

I love survivor and antiques.. this video hits both interests.. cool

Omg AMAZING that plastic is still intact!!! I remember those little boxes!!

I remember the neckerchief slide kid found in the Boys Life mag. Now THAT was cool.

I really enjoy the boy scout/ cub scout info.

🇺🇸🙋‍♀️🐴🍃 .. Loved this little kit. Could add more if inclined. The cotter pin was greatly inventive!

I would love to see if you can catch a fish with that fly. Thanks for the video. God bless.

Very cool you find the neatest kits

What a cool find! I remember putting my own similar kit together 50 years ago.

We use to make those back in the 60's when I was a boy scout, don't remember everything thing we put in them, an I think the ones we built were bigger. Thx for the vid James

Well done. Boy Scout leader here. Going to share this with my troop, 262.

I am an 50 years old boy scout and thank you for show us a little but important part of our history. Stay safe!

Pocket, Pouch, Pack. One concept is for survival and first aid is to have different sizes of kits. Pocket should be on you all the time and do that needs to be small enough for a pocket. Pouch is belt pouch with a low weight so you have it most times you are out of camp/home. The pack is then the heavy set which is your backpack, rucksack, haversack. With this idea when you head into the bush you have 3 of each critical items in different locations so are unlikely to lose/break/consume all of them at once. What you showed is a great pocket level kit. You could even stuff it in a shorts or with a sandwich bag and an elastic even in a swimsuit.

Awesome, thanks for this tidbit of survival history.

as a former Scout up here in Canada, this is pretty cool. I think I still have the one scout manual kicking around here somewhere. That cotter pin idea is pretty clever...

Another good one & another walk down Memory Lane since I was in Scouting from 1949 to 1956. Years later I was an adult volunteer Scout leader. Thanks a million.

James, thank you my friend for sharing this informative video. Stay safe and healthy. 😊

I have one of these kits mixed in with my grandpa's scouting box that I received when I became an eagle scout. They definitely are incredibly cool. I'm sure I need to replace the bandaids and fishing line though, but everything else is good to go.

Nuce find and kit James , thanks for sharing YAH bless brother !

We made survival kits out of plastic soap dishes in our scout troop back in the 70’s. Good times!

Decent kit for back in the day

This reminded me of my great grandfather who grew up at that magical time around WWI. He was a lifelong Boy Scout, and his home was inundated with army surplus and any BSA equipment available. Much of the gear grandpa made himself. When I see such items on antique store shelves or online, it takes me back to grandpa teaching me scouting skills and making our own survival kits.

Loved your video tonight! I think that plastic box looks like it was recycled from an old emergency clothing mending kit. Too bad it has a crack. You are such a blessing to the world for doing these videos. Thank you.

Very cool! It has everything you need. It is surprising it all fit in tiny box. A safety pin and a needle might be nice if it fits. I guess you want to keep it original. Thanks for sharing this.

Hello!! Love your videos!!

The Litepac reprint from the Boy Scouts of America is one of my favorite items left over from my younger years. I built a survival kit as a youth following this article but using a Sucrets metal box. I never needed to use it, thankfully. About 7 years ago I decided to test out my ability to start a fire with just the items in the kit. The matches dipped in wax had softened over the years and I was unable to strike them to get a fire started. If I was in a true survival situation I may not have made it. Good lesson learned. Remember to update your equipment; you never know when you might need it.

Hi James. Thank you for that blast from the past - brings back memories. Stay safe. ATB. Nigel

Cool James. I was a Boy Scout 1971 - 73 in GA. Great memories. My first troop kind of resembled the troop in Follow Me Boys lol. We had to buy everything. The troop did have some central gear but that was it. My Mom saved S&H Green stamps for me. I got a lot of my stuff through them at their stores. I was and still am a woods lover and never forgot...Be Prepared.

James this is very impressive. I've never seen anything like this. I was in the scouts. The videos you mark are absolutely amazing. Keep up your great work.

Jersey boys here born and raised about 15 minutes from Montclair… will be in Monclair on Saturday… thanks for sharing that fun to watch

Thats a great find on your part. I really enjoy your old days finds. That brings back many memories. You should put this one in your museum. I also love looking and finding these items.🎉

Hi James! Another excellent video. Thanks!

You're becoming a real historian, my friend. Great job.

Around 64 or 65 my Cub Scout pack made little kit in aluminum 35mm film canisters. It had an eye screw through the top, onto which we braided a little lanyard. We also shortened and waterproofed kitchen matches to go into the kit. The center was 4 or 5 aspirin tablets wrapped in a bit of foil. A bit of wide medical tape was wrapped around that bundle. Next a couple ordinary bandaids were wrapped around and that was stuffed in the canister. The waterproofed matches were stuck in where they would fit. Finally the most important component, a dime for an emergency phone call. I thing this is what sparked my interest in kits. And the C. B. Colby books in the school and city library added fuel.

Thank you for this video. Those kits from the old days are, to me, endlessly fascinating.

That's really cool. Those items are all still in modern survival kits which just show whoever put that kit together knew what they were doing. Great video, very interesting.

Pressing the like button is not enough for this video history lesson. There is no way to like this video X10 or X100. It is said that "it is the thought that counts." Well then, here is my thought about this wonderful video! Bravo and great work James.

Mr James, I like all of your videos. They are interesting and remind me of some good years I've had. Thanks.

That’s pretty cool 👍🏻👍🏻

As an 80 year old person that likes the outdoors you videos bring back memories of some really good times. Now in modern times it's an standard size Altoids box that is used. Old habits are extremely hard to break , Thankfully.

Great stuff again James. Dad an Eagle Scout and I was a Scout. Never had a mini kit this cool. Loved the cotter pin tweezers and carrying a fly. God Bless and Happy New Year to all.

Hello, thank you, sir! Really appreciate these older survival kits. Thank you very much for your effort in preserving this aspect of history.

I wonder if there's any way to contact scouts from that troop in 1955. That would sure be interesting. Great video, as always

Wow that is very cool. Back in the day those plastic boxes were quite common. I still have some with odds and ends in them. Also we made our own waterproof matches , dipped strike anywhere matches( actually the only kind sold) in candle wax. I still have some, probably 60 years old, luckily I never had to use them. 😊

So cool. I would have loved this when I was in scouts. We did survival campouts but all of our gear had to fit in a 5lb coffee can.

Thank you for sharing. I always had a cotter pin in my kit, but never thought about using it as a tweezer. The next step up kit should be the Prince Albert Tobacco Tin kit. I found a rusty tin in a flea market last year. They only wanted $20 for it! I'll stay with my soap holder.

Never thought about just cutting pcs of I shaped cardboard. Very cool little pack. I have Altoid tins that I use.

Great stuff!!! I went through the whole Canadian Scout Program and was an adult leader, I appreciate the old gear .

Great vid sir as Eagle Scout and former scout master of troop 677 and former cub master of pack 66 this vid took me back thank you for sharing

Now that's nice. Love old school survival . 💜

Another vintage kit....absolutely awesome James!!!! Great content my friend! I love seeing old school/vintage kits!!

My dad was a Scout Master and I would go to meetings. I got to big for my britches. Thought I knew all I needed. But I would like to try make an updated kit. Keep the knowledge coming.

Nice! I love these tiny emergency kits!

This was great! I have an Eagle Scout and a Life Scout working towards Eagle. We do lots of Scouting over here. I think some of your survival videos making cooking tools out of cans would be really fun for our boy Scout Troop. As always thanks for another fantastic video. ⚜️

Thanks once again, James! Another amazing video to start 2024 off right.

That is cool, i love vintage items like that. Your videos are getting so interesting, I can't wait to see the next one. Thanks for the video, and sharing. May God bless your endeavors.

Great video! Awsome vintage kit

Thank you James for another interesting and educational video. God bless and stay safe.

Cool kit!!! Love that type of stuff. Great video.

My Scout Troop made these from this very instructions in the 1960s and 70s. I love the one man trap tent.

Very cool little kit. By the way, I counted 5 matches.

Enjoyed, as usual. Thanks for researching and presenting. 👏🏻

Wow! My Dad, who was an eagle scout way back when, had a 'survival pack', we carried: it was something like this! In the early 80s through the 90s, we always had a kit like this on backpacking trips. It was eventually lost somewhere/sometime... I still do have a couple of the 'ten essentials' kits (mandated first by the Mountaineers Club, then by the Scouts in Washington- which we used to carry, always. (I still keep a variation on it in my pack, and car!) What a great vid- it took me all the way back! Thanks!

I’m from Ukraine and I learn English. Your videos are awesome and I understand everything ❤

That was really nice. Thanks for sharing. ✌️

I actually made my own micro/pocket survival kit a few months ago. I wanted a very small, but very tough, preferably waterproof container that could be opened with one free hand. After years, I settled on one of those waterproof lighter cases. I even has a keychain loop so I dummy cord it to my pocket. Inside, I keep: ·spare house key ·strike anywhere matches, sealed in plastic straw ·micro red led keychain light (generic for Photon micro light) ·X-Acto knife blade with improvised handle and sheath ·mini whistle ·ferrucerium rod ·mini file ·mini handcuff key ·barret/stealth tool/lockpick ·button compass (May or may not include in the bottom) ·a few inches of strong but thin cord ·rubber band ·paper clip ·additional safety pin

Very interesting and very well presented 😃

This reminds me of the " AB Päckchen" ( translates to " All Timme Ready Pack") we use to have at the german Boy Scout when I was a boy. Ours where put together individually by every Scout himself. But it had to have at least the following items and be build to be beltcarried: A little bit of cordage, bandaid and bandage for more serius wounds, matches, pen and a paper, needles, thread and safetypins, two or three buttons, a small sissor. a very little candle and at leat a little bit of cash. Every Boy scout makes his own beltpouch for it and adds what he thought he might need. I added a little microbottle of iodine and a compass. Together with a SAK and some sort of beltknife this was my Boy Scout EDC.

Once again, I am entertained. I too am a history buff, unfortunately some of what you are displaying is not history for me, just some of the things I did back in the day. I like your niche, I am an eclectic youtube viewer, and have many different interests, but you give a nice and positive presentation, have substance to back it up and you seem to enjoy it. I wish you continued success. Thank you. Steve

We made similar kits at spring Scout-o-Rama back in the 1980’s, packing almost the same items into a film canister or Sucrets tin. I carried it for a couple years as a scout.

Wish they still made kits like these. Very well thought out and not just cheap junk you get with alot of premade kits these days. Best glide is closest thing we got now to the old BSA kits. Great vid thanks for sharing

Wow, that's actually a very useable and versatile kit for the size. I may just put a few of these together for my daughter and I. Thanks, James!

Very cool you find the neatest stuff

Awesome James. A great journey to the past and still very relevant.

great, I love these old things

I started scouting in 1990 and became a troop leader of my scouts in 99 or 2000. Great Lil kit we were always making these. Might be a squeeze but I'd add a sewing and suture needle and some thread. I've slipped my thumb over a razor and had to stitch myself in the field before and having a needle and thread for a wound if only a tiny bit is a godsend. I also had the iodine from the last Lil kit you had so it was enough. The fish I caught didn't have scales but I'd need the razor to gut them, I've definitely caught cleaned and cooked a fish with what's in that kit and with the compass would find my way to be able to get home. Thanks for the video

i was a scout in the 50's-early 60's.we made lost kits because we were told you would not have to survive because we will find you.mine was in a round metal fish hook box.i still have parts of it including a tiny bottle of halazone tablets.

Snappy looking hat! Great video. I remember making little EDC kits like this one when I was a kid.

Another great video. Brought back many happy memories, thank you.

Right on James, very cool little kit.

That’s a very cool item to add to your collection. Have a great day

Very interesting. I wish I still had my Boys Life magazines.

I used to live in and work for the township of Montclair, NJ! Great vid James

Thats fascinating. My dad was a scout and born in the '20s. He loved fishing and tied his own flies. I wish i had asked him how he got into fishing

Super cool, been watching most of your hobo series. Would love more from the Great Depression. Thank you very much, God bless

4:32 It appears to be a modified hand grenade pin. As a police officer, I have dozens of grenade pins collected from the training camp after tear gas exercises. You gave me an excellent idea.

Thank you brother ❤

It really is coop to see these old kits, and how much of a minimalist mindset we had in our youth.. but I still have to say, in today's world, just give me a good knife.. I'll be fine..

I think this would make a great series like army survival kits pilots navy etc... thanks again James✊️🔥✌️💚

This is ENTHRALLING!

Looking dapper!

We made something similar to this in Royal Rangers (a religious Boy Scouts) except it had caramel in it and a small plastic sheet for a tarp. We used metal band aide boxes

Hi Sir. I've just recently "discovered" your channel, and as an anthropologist, and a history lover myself, I've really been enjoying your videos. You really stand out with your content, attitude, and with complete behavior, from most stuff on you tube. I'm not an US citizen, but I very much love learning about those little things from the US history, and a way of life that real people had in the specific time periods. And you really are doing an amazing job in bringing that up to people in the best, and the most interesting way, and even more, you're giving an opportunity of learning a lot of the useful things and skills of the period to the people. And I just wanted to give you credit and express my gratitude for that. Much respect, and the best wishes from Serbia, southeast Europe. Igor🙏🇷🇸❤️🇺🇲🍻

That was great. Much appreciated.