Thread: What's in your first aid kit?

Old school 35mm film canisters I still have a few lying around

Originally Posted by Happy Jack

Old school 35mm film canisters I still have a few lying around

Duct tape does everything a bandage can do and more, also useful to put on back of pills so they don't wear out the backing.
Army tricks. Duct tape and a a few fem pads.
They teach drabcd - danger response airway, breathing circulation defib, works if u close to town when ambos are 5-10 mins out , rural / gunshots etc completely different. Stop major bleeding 1st then the rest, strongly recommend a remote 1st aid course. St John's calls it remote responder. Completely different kettle of fish than your std course.

Originally Posted by Bol Tackshin

Glad wrap for burns. About 3 meters folded into a zip lock baggie. Camp cooking can be dangerous with wobbly little burners and pots with no handles...

Take a leather glove to cook with worth the little bit of weight

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Same as the prepper thread - learn and carry skills rather than kit.

Originally Posted by erniec

Take a leather glove to cook with worth the little bit of weight

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Prevention does beat cure every time!

A pencil and a notepad. If you unable to talk for yourself it may help to write down what happened before hand.

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https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....aid-kit-69199/

https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....id-kits-81044/

There's a couple more I can recall, but for some reason not able to search the forum.

Common themes:
- only take what you know how to use
- practise using it
- have it somewhere accessible so you can use it.

I think it was a very honest post from HotBarrels linked in one of the threads above which is well worth a read - good lesson for all of us!

Sorry Sharki, but another common response I think was also the move away from tampons/pads, as they absorb blood, rather than stopping it, which I guess makes sense.

Look after yourselves team. Or continue doing fun shit, but just know how to fix the consequences.

Originally Posted by Bol Tackshin

Same as the prepper thread - learn and carry skills rather than kit.

Accidents do happen though

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Some of you guys carry a lot of gear, my advice get trained to use your gear.
As a first responder I carry fuck all first aid gear but I take a kit everywhere and no how to use it.
As hunter its really only the cold thats going to kill us or bleeding we can't stop, that could be from a sun hardened Manuka through the leg or a knife slip, most of the gear mentioned above really isn't going to stop that.
I'd recommend something with Celox in it, these kits here a bloody good, throw some pandol in if that's your thing, and you good go.

https://ktservices.nz/product/hunters-first-aid-kit/

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Pad can only absorb so much if u duct tape it down real hard, which u wanna do
The other really handy bit I forgot is small spare head torch and cheap cheap reading glasses, I can see a flies arse at 50m , but need to hold stuff away further than my arms can reach nowadays

Originally Posted by BRADS

Some of you guys carry a lot of gear, my advice get trained to use your gear.
As a first responder I carry fuck all first aid gear but I take a kit everywhere and no how to use it.
As hunter its really only the cold thats going to kill us or bleeding we can't stop, that could be from a sun hardened Manuka through the leg or a knife slip, most of the gear mentioned above really isn't going to stop that.
I'd recommend something with Celox in it, these kits here a bloody good, throw some pandol in if that's your thing, and you good go.

https://ktservices.nz/product/hunters-first-aid-kit/

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Yep.

Lets face it, a hit from a modern sporting round from any of the usual hunting suspects - and you are not going to have any success buying lotto tickets if you survive because you've used up all of your luck and then some. These rounds are designed to effectively drop some pretty tough animals, and by comparison humans aren't pretty tough as we only carry our weight on two legs. It's a design limitation... Any hunting or sporting bullet expanding is going to do far more internal damage than you can carry gear for and even with celox cavity sealing products you won't have fluids and gear to use it to replace what's lost. Best option in my book is some form of tourniquet that you know how to use (the Ukrainians are reporting some intriguing stats and some of their people have apparently gone away from the CAT-style that we have adopted - not sure why and don't have any more details on it). That will minimise blood loss through a severe limb wound, anything else like a torso/center mass impact and you aren't having a good day. Just too far from help.

That sort of dictates the sizing for your first aid kit and what you need to be thinking about putting in in terms of injuries, and a stab from a Manuka - leave it in the hole if you can as it's already plugging it!