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1/31/2008 6:35:00 PM EDT
How many bottles, books do you keep in your 1st and 2nd line gear?
1/31/2008 6:50:50 PM EDT
[#1]
Two of those GI tubes of strike anywheres in each bag, one in each FAK.  

I also have those magnesium firestarters all over the place.
2/1/2008 3:54:00 AM EDT
[#2]
Not all than many.  I do not like matches...  I usually use home made match carriers:  A 16 ga shot shell, trimmed to match length, slipped inside a 12 ga, also trimmed.  They are cheap, easy to use and very water resistant.  I fill them full of matches, and usually carry one in my kit and one in a pocket.  Since they are cheap I do have them in lots of other places too.  One in the car, one in a pocket in a ruck sack, one in a tackle box, you get the idea.

I almost never use them.  I reach for the strikeforce synth flint first...
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