Friday, December 20, 2013

Survival Kit Review: Guardian 72-Hour Emergency Survival Kit



The Guardian 72-hour Emergency Survival Kit from Survival-Center.com comes in a real nice backpack that is super sturdy, and a lot better quality than you would expect in a survival kit like this. 

Additionally, this kit has a date on it that shows when the survival kit was manufactured, so you know that you're not getting old product -- which is really important when you're shopping for a survival kit or bugout bag. 

It comes with a 65-piece First Aid Kit that is pretty comprehensive. It has a handy mess kit for eating, to make your life a little simpler.  The kit comes with three packages of tissue which is really important because toilet paper and tissue are real hard to out in the wild! 

It also comes a really neat camp stove which folds up, the pellets go inside of it. All you have to do is open it, turn it over, set a pellet inside, and light it, giving you instant heat and the ability to cook your meal. 

Guardian was also thoughtful enough to include a real nice stainless steel cup that fits on top this stove so that you can heat your food and have a place to decontaminate water. A metal cup is a real nice feature in a kit like this -- most manufacturers would have settled for cheaper plastic, but Guardian realized that it needs to be able to be used over an open flame. 

Guardian also has included a water bottle that comes with a filtration system -- they claim that it up filters out Giardia and Cryptosporidium.  It's a charcoal filter and their claim is that it filters up to 100 gallons of water which is really nice to have.

It comes with two mylar style space blankets to keep you warm. There are two in here the survival kit with a large surface area so you can probably keep four people warm with them.  

Additionally, you have the outdoor meal portion of it which is comprised of dehydrated food. There are 12 servings, and Guardian basically gives you the ability to cook the whole thing using the can. You simply pour the food inside the pot, put some filtered water in, and you've got an instant meal ready to go.

They include some waterproof survival matches, a deck of cards pass the time, a notebook and a pencil --  also included is a pair of work gloves. 

They've also have a handy flashlight crank gizmo and it does a number of things -- you crank it to give it power, and it claims to never require batteries. That gives you the ability to always have light, and it has a couple different settings to save power. 

It also has an integrated alarm, and am/fm radio. It's nice, and something you might not expect in a kit like this.

Lastly, they include this bag which says infectious waste biohazard. I think a tarp, or a poncho, might have been more useful than the bio hazard bags, but overall can't complain it's a really good and thorough, comprehensive kit made by Guardian.



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