If you have one of these kits out in the wild, save the metal lid that peels off the sardine can. You could sharpen it into an emergency blade, cut it into fishing lures, hang it as a reflector to mark your camp, make arrowheads, and maybe even use it as a signal mirror.

The best thing about cheap kits is you can buy multiples and stash them everywhere. Availability and redundancy is a good thing in a survival situation. A rusty, old tin can is better than nothing, and these kits are better than that.

I love your positive, open minded approach to reviewing these kits. Thank you!

Bought a coghlans kit a long time ago, and it sat in my glove compartment for about 10 years. Got bored while camping with the wife and opened it up . Amazing what they crammed in there. I eventually ended up Consolidating several kits I had and just kept the items I considered useful.

Yay! I was just sitting around today wishing we could have a Kitbashed review! Thanks. Looking forward to your review of that $500 Esee kit.

Nicely done. I’d love to see you take one of those Best Glide large tins and build a kit 100% from scratch just to see what you come up with

Personally I have always be a fan of the Cobham's kit. It gets belittled by various influencers in the Survival/Bushcraft arena, who naturally want you to buy their own brand kit, at an eye watering price. Without which you will most certainly perish in a most protracted and horrible manner. However, it's a remarkably capable little kit, particularly at its price point. If I to equip a group of people economically (purely as a precaution) with minimal capability for a short duration, it would be my first pick. One of them, A space blanket, emergency poncho, Mora knife, 15' (3m) of 550 cord and possibly a wire saw would enhance their chances vastly. Give a short (4-8 hr) course on the kit's contents and their possible uses.

It was great i love your channel you have great ideas! This is a perfect example of why i have subscibed....i am an ole lady that made the mistake of buying the big everlast kit, but it is way to heavy and does'nt have all the stuff i need....you give me ideas on how I can build a smaller bag that my friend gave me that will have the 10 c's but be light enough for a 61 year old lady to carry if i have to....thanks again eric😊💚

Yep, I was pleasantly surprised when I saw this survival kit review! Really look forward to your videos and reviews! Reviewing, and then combining the best components of the kits and then adding components to make a solid survival kit was a great idea! Enjoyed the video Eric. Can’t wait for the next one! Thank you!!

This kits are for exactly what this channel shows so well, strip em for parts and extras, i always have spare ferro rods, mylar blankets, tinders etc for squirreling into ne kits or extras to play with and test

What I liked the most was your avoidance of constantly trashing the companies and the items. I will however. The American company either thinks survival is a joke, or a hustle. I've always liked Coughlan. I like the company more after seeing your video. Thank you Sir, and have a fantastic New Year.

Well done 👍. I have made my own pocket survival kits.. some can fit in the pocket.. some clip on my belt.. one is a waste pack fanny pack... And one is a small single strap sling bag.. I have blood stopper powder in all my first aid / survival kits. I will be adding " SWAT-T tourniquets to all my kits . Inexpensive lightweight and effective.. they take up very little room.. that's my suggestion

About the best contents of a sardine can survival tin are actual sardines! They're just what you'd want, a great source of rich, oily food conveniently packaged into a sardine can!

One use for the bread ties would be, take the package the can came in, dump everything into it, wire tie it closed, and put it in your pocket. I used a bread tie to temporarily reafix a loose button, replace a small screw, start a fire with a AA battery, and keep a loose knife in my sheath. It's what I had at the time and worked at least for a temporary fix.

that was very satisfying to watch, i've made so many of these types of survival kits out of every tin can i come across

My kit uses that small, lockable tin, and I managed to get a survival blanket in it, simply by putting it in last, and pressing the lid onto it. It also has the advantage, of preventing any rattling.

I have the whistle creek kit unopened it's a older one because it doesn't have the photo of contents on the bottom of the can . But the list is the same I keep mind in a hunting vest pocket along with a Mylar survival blanket ,A clear plastic E Poncho and a UST survival reflect tent and a box of UCO Stormproof matches along with a small fixed blade knife and a small UST Ferro rod striker combo and I always keep a Military 1 qt Canteen with cup ,stove,and the Coleman potable aqua tabs and some Emergen C 1000 mg Vitamin C powders. Almost forgot some wetfire cubes .

This is what I find my self doing pretty often nice too see being a good aspect with kit creation

I feel like these sardine can kits are something you throw into a premade backpack kit. Just to augment/add redundancy.

Another superb video and presentation. This is one of the best channels which reviews Survival kits and equipment. You deserve much more subscribers. Keep up the great work.

The world pack water bags are a reason im glad i watch. I never knew they existed til you.

Thank you for making kits that are fortified out of existing products how many people in a survival Community or a little elitist and don't understand that not everybody has time and resources to have everything all at once and even little hiking backpack survival kit is still better than having none at and showing people how to properly fortify them is an improvement

I like that both kits included tinder for fire. I can't do much with matches alone. There is a small knife called Harnds Lark that would good for small kits like this. Very cheap and small but of a quality and very sharp. You can find on Gearbest I think.

I also like to make psk’s. Been doing it as a hobby for many years. It’s always fun to watch these videos and see what’s new out there, or see things I didn’t know were available. 👍🏻👍🏻

I built my own old style tobacco can kit and it is in the glove box of my SUV. Good as a coat or jacket pocket backup for my bugout/get home kit in the trunk. These go along with my pocket .380 semi auto and my Henry .22 Survival rifle. I also have a waterproof poncho in a side pocket. All that stuff would go with me if I had to leave the SUV on the side of the road. But I like that Coughan brand kit, think I will pick one up at Wally World tomorrow!

Don't forget the lid it is a scraper a knife you also got to handle for your fishing string

As it stood, the Coghlans kit looked serviceable for the price. Like you said, if you had nothing else........ The mixing and matching is all part of the ritual fun. Really looking forward to the ESEE review. It will be the channels big budget blockbuster!

Great vid ... I always enjoy them . Im looking forward to the eese review. Keep up rhe good work .

PS thanks for telling me what kit bashed means.

Just started watching your vids today and a new sub.went ahead and began my own altoids kit today

Ive watched most of your videos, its good to know what kitbashed means finally.

Love the videos! Please keep them going!!

Although I like the SAK, I would consider replaceing it with the CRKT RSK Mk5. It is an actual fixed blade knife, not likely to fail and yet weighs under 2 ozs.

I love your channel thus was a great video. Lots of great info thank you !!!

Thanks for reviewing these kits. I’ve always wondered what they were like. I would like to see how one of these survival tool cards is applicable in an emergency scenario. The rest of it seems okay. I would worry about snagging my finger on the fishing hooks and nails just floating around. Would make more sense to maybe tape them to a card? Look forward to the next video. 😊

Great vid man

I keep the Coghlan's tin in my hunting day pack. Les Stroud reviewed and carried it during one of his adventures. I think it was Borneo.

That wallet tool is handy and keeps an edge, had mine over 5yrs

Nice vid Eric.

I'm actually fairly impressed with the Coghlan's. I'd always dismissed these as pure novelty, but now I can see throwing one in a car or boat if you didn't have the time/money/inclination for making something custom.

Love the idea of cannibalizing kits to make a good one.

I'm waiting for the video where there's been a mix-up at the factory, and when you open the can, you find it contains sardines. 🤣

I'd add 2-3 more teabags and a couple of Knorr bullion cubes, not much as food but definitely a moral booster.

One more point in favour of these tiny kits is they are perfect for people doing popular activities that are wilderness adjacent. A skiing holiday at a ski resort for example. Go skiing with one kf these in your pocket and you can easily forget its there and enjoy your holiday but if you find yourself one of the rare unlucky ones who wanders up the wrong path thinking its the way to the top of the slopes and get lost and end up spending the night, waking up with frost bite unable to move and not rescued for 10 more nights that little can will save your life. (True story btw minus the survival can, he had nothing) and im saying this before seeing him open it. No idea whats inside yet but i guarantee its better than nother and perfect for those wilderness adjacent persuits.

My daughter got me the coglahn a feds years ago I have not had to ope. It but always have it with when I have cargo pockets

You sold me on the first kit, not a bad thing to keep in your coat pocket or if you're heading into the wilderness.

For that kit I would have secured it with a bandanna or 100% cotton piece of material instead of the elastic bands. Outside of the bandanna having multiple uses there were many small items in the kit and having something to keep the items in/on right there especially in the dark would be useful.

I saw a review once where they broke the pull tab off first thing and no can opener. I got two tins almost like you used years ago, they were for Japanese bento boxes. A tad bigger than an Altoids tin.

Great video!

Crimony that Dominos sugar pack brings me back to being 6 years old and being at donut shops .

A local supermarket used to have lighters with built in flashlight and a button compa_ that was well under one quarter inch. Two lighters fora buck. Boughta bunch and put them in kits. That's the tiniest compass I've ever seen.

One downside to having a tea candle in the kit, is if you keep the kit in your car, the candle will melt in the heat of the car in the summer and make a mess. I live and FL and found out the hard way.

Lack of water purification in these tiny kits is always such a glaring weakness.

These could be made a bit more useful if they provided a lid that would allow you to close it after the pull-tab top has been removed.

They must have changed the contents on the Coghlan's Survival Kit In A Can. I have a few from years ago that haven't been opened, and they contain some items I didn't see in the tin you reviewed: bouillon soup packet, 2 adhesive bandages, 2 antiseptic swabs, 1 tea bag, extra twist tie, 1 chewing gum,1 energy candy, and the 4 matches are listed as waterproof. They probably still are waterproof. Oh, the flat multitool in the sheath is not in the older version. I might have missed some differences, but otherwise they are pretty similar.

I reckon you could gold that lid up and ( carefully ) use it as an eating / cutting tool don't ask me how I know lol.

I would get rid of any candle in hot weather ,I moved to the south western area. While doing PMCS on my kits after a yr living in the Chihuahuan desert,all of my kits had to be,reengineered because candles will reek havoc on kits wax everywhere.

You can do your own Gatorade with sugar and salt, maybe with lipton added too.

Well done

There's enough space left, in those cans, to include a mini BIC lighter.

Good video. However, why not just start out with the premise of making your own kit outright. That's about what you've done and you wouldn't be limited to starting with cheap junk from the two sardine cans. Thanks for your videos. You've always had great insight to these kits and components.

I've been watching you for a few weeks now and YT just showed me this show tonight , I like the " kit-bashing " you do. However, for this episode like a lot of people, I don't think you get WHY these exist. These are very wimpy survival kits, sure - but what they really are is a POCKET survival kit. This is the one you have in your jacket pocket that just sits there for years and years literally and you forget about it till the day you find yourself out someplace and you DON'T have a proper kit ....... then they're golden. I took the guts of the Coghlan's and tossed it in with a adventure medical kit 3 and it stays in my jacket pocket 24/7. Now the big pisser with that is that little sardine can would be golden to have, espec for a hot drink in the Canadian winter ..... so I will miss the tin big time. I do like the one you made here but I'll never carry it in my pocket and that where the Coghlan's can rocks!!

Two is one. One is none

Nice!

As a regular watcher in another country, it would be nice if you added links where to get some of these things, like the larger box you repack into.

Like u said-something is better than nothing... I'd rather have one of those than rubbing 2 sticks together...thank u...

Cant wait to see the $500 kit

The one good thing is that it is totally sealed. Once you crack it open you destroy one of its key elements.

You should start manufacturing your own kits and sell. I really like how you think when you put them together

Id like you to pick items from both cans and put them in 1 of the cans . I'm sure a lot of us would like that . On top of making an altoid kit lol

nice i will try to but one my self

That second kit would really disappoint me if I had tea and no container to make it in lol.

Where can I find the locking tin you used in the end? I tried amazon like you mentioned but no dice?

These would do well kept in an office drawer... assuming you work in an office.

Careful boiling as if I am correct they have a thin synthetic liner

Where did you purchase the fire steel, striker and whistle combo gadget?

My biggest gripe on the whistle creek one is it has a fishing hook but no line

What is the name of the fire starter/whistle you added in the combined kits?

I'd like the coglands kit for in thel tiny little storage area on my trail bike. If a day ride accidentally turns into an overnighter.

I took the sardine can label off and put it in one of the lil sardine can cardboard boxes. it is at the back of my shelf. is it a perfect kit, no, but it is one that is hidden back in the back of a closet.

I wish they would provide a cap to close it when you remove the pull tab cover.

The second one was real spartan but brand name stuff.

Hey let us see your train setups sometime

pro tip, add one of these inside of every kit that can fit one, you will thank yourself (redundancy = living to see another day)

Man I want that ESEE advance kit. At least the bag. LOL

Concerning the Whistle Creek kit. I think I would rather have a sardine can packed full of tootsie rolls.

Would a side cutter work to open the can?

The gum could contain xylitol, a sweetener. It could cause stomach upset, but only if consumed in high amount. Suitable for diabetic though

I wish they had a way to buy the tins in two pieces that you could fill yourself.

I don't know about you but I once cut myself on a sardine lid. That right there is a nice edge.

Tortoise gear make a firfly ferro rod which can replace the toothpick in the swiss army nice both sizes micro and normal

What do you do with all the kits you make when your done

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Need cheap "ranger bands?" Use inner tubes from bicycles, they give the ones they throw in the garbage away free at bike shops. snip into whatever sized 'ranger band' you need!

I know at times I bash on you about things. Just keeping it real. TBH you do a good job reviewing these kits 89.9 % of the time. .1 % of the time you sound crazy. The last 10 % of the time you knock it out of the park.

Does he sell his improvised or from scratch survival kits?

Было бы интересно сделать в этой консервной банке отверстие чтобы можно было дуть как свисток. А лучше интегрировать в неё губную гармошку.

Well, I Have A Survival Tin I Bought On Ebay. Tin Got Ruined But, Saved My Kit.

Nice video man I like to do content on my channel kinda like yours but with less subs, your a big inspiration for my channel

As for the first kit. A few matches of doubtful quality and two cubes? Inadequate and likely to make you first emergency go on fire starting an unpleasant failure. Why not like test one of these matches? It is a special feeling having just a handful of thin matches when you really need a fire. Also, the candle shown had no wick, had it? Seemed to be just a hole straight through the candle. As for priorities, it is likely in some situations that shelter and fire is higher priority than screwing with a poor wrench of very doubtful quality, playing with some random thinn short threads and snare wire for barely one single snare. Good to make a new kit, but the review part of the initial kit could be more balanced. Pointing out waste is not being neagtive it minimize the sense of false security.