For no reason in particular other than my own interest, I need to know what the perfect "survival card(s)" would be.What tools would you be very fucked to be without, &/or would want an excess of during a survival situation?They have to be the to be the length, width, and general thickness of a standard credit card though; needs to fit in a wallet.A magnifying lens card is of course a given (same with a tick remover), but what would be useful on a laser-cut metal card?Would a saw be useful? I see other sets with snares, but I don't feel like a fishing kit would be too useful.
>>2854333>Would a saw be useful?A credit card sized saw? Uh, no.
those are your survival cards to keep in a wallet
>>2854333A knife is the obvious choice to me. Definitely the basic tool you never want to be without, I've got one I ground out of an old saw blade sitting underneath the insole of my shoes for that reason.Shape a curved notch near the bottom of the blade on one side where you'll rest it against your index finder, punch a hole through it so you can fit a loop of rope just long enough to reach your ring finger and you can get a surprisingly solid grip on even a small blade.
>>2854369And how many times have you actually used your stinky shoe knife in a situation where it was actually necessary And no, telling us about it doesnt count as a situation
>>2854372Literally never. Just like my smoke alarm and house insurance.
>>2854372>a thread where someone has an interest in an idea that is admittedly stupid?>lol wow!!! you guys are so dumb!!! hahaha you're idiots!!! LMAOyou get confused a lot, don't you?
Probably one of these since it has a singular purpose you can actually use and does that job well. It doesn't look suspicious going through an x-ray in your wallet and if you really had to in an emergency you could sharpen it on a rock.
>>2854454Another reason I keep it in my wallet is to protect my credit card from RF scanners but I'm not sure if that actually works or if it's just paranoia on my part.
>>2854454i got one of these, seems a bit more usefultheres the risk of it being confiscated, but i plan to just say "thats a scraper, not a knife" if ever questioned i've gotten worse straight pass the TSA by accident a few times anyway though
>>2854458I have a couple of those too but I cut myself once when sliding it out of my wallet on the can opener corner and switched to the plain bottle opener since that's the only part I ever used.
>>2854333If you are good at fishing and want a cool pocket took these can be fun. If you have a very basic idea of fishing than these are mostly useless. I mean they aren't bad buy the Altoids can survival cans have been worked on for decades and they arnt mostly fishing gear. I mean fuck I have no clue how to properly use most this shit.... Properly being the key word.
>>2854461>Properly being the key word.yeah, that seems to be the big issue with a lot of the items; and even if you knew, theres the issue of efficacity most of the little bits & bobs are very flimsy, and would be outclassed by a carved stick; if they were thicker & made of a stronger steel, they'd be much more useful, but they're notif you had all the time in the world, a use can be found with most of the things of course; if you're counting the minutes to a meal, spending you moments fiddling with sheet metal is just gonna get you killedon account of that, i feel like snares would be a useful tool, since they're basically instant food; fishing implements don't seem worth it when you can just make a basic fish trap
>>2854461Not to mention some of these need a slight added bind in them to make them more work properly. Fun for a fishermen if cheap tackle wasn't already more affordable these little sheets. I already fish out of an old dip can and if I am cutting my bait than that is enough to catch anything.
>>2854463The idea is making little tools into big tools. Even if I can perfectly use my fishing tackle I need to makeshift a rod, attach the like properly. That is just up to the point of hooking the fish after that you still need a lot more tools. If you don't believe me look at how picky people are about filet knives.
