Urban Survival EDC: Essential Tips & Strategies

In this video, Tyler covers optimum methodologies behind EDC (everyday carry) that many people aren't aware of.
Tell us about your EDC methods in the comment section below.
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[@DanielBelliveau-y5x]

Spectacles , testicles , wallet , and watch ; Old School E . D . C .

[@OldNavajoTricks]

It's 500 miles to our B.O.L., we got a full tank of gas and a halfpack of cigarettes, It's dark and we're wearing sunglasses..... 🤘

[@robdavidson4945]

Shirts and jeans with pockets. Because I'm an old (69) Farm and Ranch kid I still wear long sleeve shirts with pockets. They may not be trendy but functional. Just a Tee shirt might be cooler in the summer but I need a place to carry the glasses, with strap, pen note pad and cell phone and be able to button close the shirt pocket. Jeans with several pockets seem to be worn a lot. Flashlights, I still carry so cheapo deluxe Harbor Freight pen lights but I am replacing them with better, means expensive, light because they have failed me when I really needed them after very little use. I use head lamps a fair amount worth your time and money. A roll up GI Boonie hat with your ball cap. Makes all the difference in a driving rain not to have rain dripping down the back of your neck and back. I had one of my Marine Corps issued poncho hood fail. My Boonie hat saved the day. A small roll of Duct Tape is handy to fix the hole in the poncho. There is 42Milion other items I wished I had in times past in my pack and truck but you're limited by the room and weight you have to carry. No such thing as over prepared. Your adaptability and skills are most important.

[@johnpoole8321]

Agreed, i'm not even a ranch kid and wear what us fudd's called farmer jeans because of the breast pockets. they even give easy access to mags if needed. Old timer tactical pants lol.

[@robdavidson4945]

​@@johnpoole8321very good point.

[@tomcatt998]

Really hard to find a tee shirt with a pocket,, ask me how i know

[@jerryfarmer5989]

Well where I live we are no where near being urbanized. I also avoid any reason as to why I might be in one in the first place. I have a tiny led light on my key ring that is actually pretty bright. Pocket knife is a tool. Reach out and touch someone, you bet. I do carry, for many decades, a plain old Buck 110, it works. My goal is not to be inspector gadget. I was trained to adapt, improvise and overcome. As to having my phone? Heck I hardly ever have it even turned on. I still like CB's, always someone there.

[@Markus_321go]

I appreciate the thought process you put into your methodology. Personally, after several years of trial and error, I only consider an item EDC if it always sits in my loaded pants. Fortunately, I found plain, semi-fitted, low-profile pants that have the exact same pocket setup in a long and a short version. So, regardless of the seasons, I always have my setup of multitool, flashlight, knife, pocket first-aid kit, etc. available. In the unlikely event of having to dress up, I own miniature versions of the respective items which would fit into suit pockets. The reason for this is I never found myself carrying the same bag every day on every occasion and I found it impractical to always repack everything. One bag always does sit in my car but I don't consider it EDC as I usually don't take it out of the trunk. This is what works for me but I'm always open for looking into other systems.👍🏻

[@TJackSurvival]

I agree with this and do this with the TruSpec Xpedition pants. I’ll add this. Have bags you can move in larger bags. Like a med bag a fire bag a combo bag that can be moved from small EDC bags to larger kits or vehicles.

[@johnpoole8321]

@@TJackSurvival The larger vehicle bag should already have all those basics and more. You don't need to take edc and add it to a truck bag. MINIATURE VERSIONS is the purpose of edc for Markus as is mine.

[@rogerjensen5277]

IMHO, you should consider adding lighters (several because they're good trade items), head lamp, candles (fire extenders/starters), compass/local maps, goggles/eye protection, dust masks, cordage (550 or bank line), small pry bar, and 3 quarts (+) water containers! I believe that you are relying too much on things not going too much too shit, Murphy's Law is real, electronics fail, vehicles get stolen or torched, gang bangers think you might be an easy target, etc. Are you going to shoot 14 year old kids because they're trying to survive and if you don't will they ambush you later if you show your gun or perhaps you should use 550 cord to tie them up and leave them? If you're going to rely on electronics, shouldn't you have them in a farady cage bag? You may be able to get water anywhere in the city but maybe not so having at least a days worth of water with you might be a life saver! Also, a small metal pot to cook any food or boil water in! The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray!

[@FueltheFires]

A solid method right here 🔥

[@christopherpike8269]

I can easily see this getting into “if you give a mouse a cookie”. With that said, great methodology and well thought out.

[@TJackSurvival]

Oh absolutely! Great book too, my kids love it. The thing is though if you’re thinking like this you don’t need my list or anyone’s list because you know.

[@christopherpike8269]

@@TJackSurvival hey, I am always up for lists. I just have a tendency to keep running with it. Pretty soon I look like I am carrying the Canadian Preppers bug out bag! Hahaha Love all your guys content. Keep it coming.

[@TJackSurvival]

@@christopherpike8269 We appreciate you watching, sharing, and commenting. Thanks.

[@brucehillbillybarthalow3786]

Great video and great food for thought. Thank You.

[@TJackSurvival]

Thanks boss

[@Wheeling88]

Great info Tjack. Definitely makes me rethink my setup. Much appreciated.👍👍👍👍👍

[@TJackSurvival]

Learning how to think is always better than what to think. Change the equation then you change the outcome.

[@Wheeling88]

@@TJackSurvival 100% correct . Im 52 & you just proved Ya can teach an old dog new tricks

[@TJackSurvival]

@@Wheeling88I’m 46. You’re only half way there.

[@unfi6798]

Great chat mate. Definitely valuable information for any situation. Cheers from Australia.

[@TJackSurvival]

I was in Sydney last month. You have a beautiful country. Interestingly the most beautiful part was the smells of the plants. It’s awesome

[@user-McGiver]

@@TJackSurvival the birds was the first thing to impress me... wild birds loudly singing in the city center... next to heavy traffic... to me, Australia is all about the birds!...

[@unfi6798]

@@user-McGiver Did you manage to see the Yowie & Drop Bears.?

[@steveclark..]

You live in the USA I'm guessing? Are there many Isuzu vehicles over there period? I have a Dmax, I'm guessing that you don't see such small pickup trucks over there though??

[@TJackSurvival]

There was but not now days. Jeeps are the most common. Jeeps and Toyotas

[@charlessalmond7076]

Always informative! Keep'em coming, sir.

[@jarebberthoud7624]

Great again Tyler! I sure appreciate your expertise, insight, and advice! I love the methodology and layers you explained. Cheers from Utah!

[@TJackSurvival]

Thanks! Hello from Utah

[@johnsnow2347]

Appreciate the insight to the EDC methodology. Makes sense. What watch are you wearing for navigation and time?

[@TJackSurvival]

Garmin Instinct tactical II solar. I love it!

[@johnsnow2347]

Got it. Thanks.@@TJackSurvival

[@thomasbrandon5111]

Good advice

[@MI_Prepper]

I have the DPX HEST Fixed blade. Love that knife!

[@TJackSurvival]

It’s amazing

[@everestcheats2622]

Hey, SD! Can you recommend a good quality survival shovel? I don't mind spending a little more for some piece of mind, knowing it isn't going to break when I truly need it. Thanks in advanced! And subbed!

[@TJackSurvival]

I use avalanche shovels, since if I’m using it, it’s usually to move snow.

[@everestcheats2622]

@@TJackSurvival Many Thanks!

[@ApocGuy]

Depends on your needs; if you need to dig fox holes, one of mil spec foldable shovels should do. Me personally picked off Cold steel "spetznaz" fixed shovels with short handle. That thing is a beast: hickory handle (slippery AF, but that can be easily fixed), carbon steel, sharp edges (enough to cut/break bones with it with no or very little damage to edge), small enough to put it in mid sized pack. Mine has been through hell and back, still first handle, still sharp as hell. Not sure if new ones are as good as old ones were though...

[@greenwolf401]

I would just add that depending on the longevity of the situation it might be advantageous to have something to barter with in case they aren't accepting cash. What to barter with would depend on you and your area.

[@TJackSurvival]

Who doesn’t accept cash? If not cash what then?

[@rogerjensen5277]

Food, water, lighters, shelter, etc.@@TJackSurvival

[@simplefieldcraft]

One thing I found is that if you are entering a venue and they are doing a bag search and wanding you for blades (I’m in Aus we don’t gun up here) I drop it in my wife’s bag. I’ve never seen a security guard rummage inside it they just glance in as she holds it open. Got my Ka-Bar TDI into many venues like that. She just slips it in my coat pocket later.

[@donpaco8163]

Interesting video with important concepts for a vehicle-based urban/country crossover EDC. However I do not own a vehicle, am 61 & live in a public housing project in a small coastal city. I have a small EDC pouch with my essentials, including a Chinese copy of the Camillus Army pocket knife and it's mostly used to cut cheese.😅 No weapons carried whatsoever in this urban combat zone. The drug addicts know who I am. The pouch is interchanged between a small backpack, a sling pack for when I have a job or a fanny pack for short walks to a wifi spot or the port. I walk everywhere and it's a whole different scenario to what you have exposed.

[@nfej6353]

Thank you for the info for a new guy.

[@TJackSurvival]

Hi new guy thanks for watching

[@renegadearms]

Good solid advice.

[@Non_Descript_Individual]

Great info, but I am also a fan of the very large utilitsrian survival / combat knife, and I have my specific knife of choice already in my inventory - with lots of positive experience wearing it on my right hip, mind you. To me not only is its weight not considered cumbersome where it hangs there, but I actually welcome the feel of that weight strapped to my right side because that feel is a constant reminder that my trusty Down Under Knives Outback bowie (which my own field experience has proven to me will never fail me no matter what, mind you) is there and that I can always count in it when I need it for this task or that one. It's made of differentially heat-hardened 440C stainless steel that's full tang (with a very robust wide flat screw-on tang that's short & stubby, and full-welded on and not spot-welded by the way), the whole blade and tang are 6mm thick, the mirror polish on the roughly 11" blade also acts as a makeshift signaling mirror and look-around-unknown-corners spy mirror, and the handle is made of very robust polished brass pommel & finger guard with dual-end ebony wood and stacked leather with thin brass spacers all between the handle's aforementioned pommel & finger guard. The crocodile skin pattern on the literally saddle-grade leather sheath may be a stamp-job, but the sheath itself really is high-grade leather with an integral holding tube along the back-edge side where the included mini sharpening hone rod (made of stainless steel itself) is stored. Now to be fair, the knife's large proportions and weight did originally make it flop around from where it hung on my belt as I walked. But I easily solved that problem by cutting down the length of a heavy duty all-leather work belt and then perma-joining that belt to the midpoint of the sheath. This creates a mid-thigh wrap-around leg belt that holds the sheath to my right upper leg and secures the whole knife sheath rig in place with no haphazard dangle-flopping as I walk around. Now, the Down Under Knives Outback Bowie is perfect for me. I intend to go on using and carrying it on my live-conditions wilderness bug-out test runs, and to do so with total satisfaction despite what others choose to CALL, its sopposedly 'cumbersome' weight. A sentiment that I do not share. As previosuly stated, I fully welcome and actually enjoy feeling the constantly present weight of this knife straped to my side, not only because its weight is in no way problematic to me at all but because that weight lets me know that the thing I have learned first had that I can trust my life to... will alway sbe there for me when I need it. AND, mind you, in times of self defense, I know this will be a welcome core component of my up close & personal melee weapons CQB battle plan because my solo trainings with this knife have revealed to me that not only is this knife fully manipulable at a rapid and well-coordinated pace but because the extra weight gives just that little bit of peneration and chop-assisting extra oomph that will give me the edge (pun intended) before mine enemies in any cold ahrd knife battle to come after SHTF. I have NOT found myself forceably moving slow in my hand manipulation of this knife at all as some other wimps out there seem to claim was their issue, and I'm glad this knife is a slightly heavy and robust design for the very reasons I just gave. The one thing that the original script writers for the Dundee movies and later the knife designers at the Down Under Knives brand name all got right, was the design of this knife. They sell for between $200 and $260 on amazon, and are well worth the buying price (at least in my experience using this knife). So if you want a good large, imposing, ruggedly functional yet pleasing-to-the-eye wild man-aesthetic knife that just happens to be of a proven practical design for real world conditions, then I do suggest you at least buy this knife for yourself and try it on one of your bug out trainings. If you're a man of taste, standards and open mind, you shouldn't be disapointed. I certainly was not, and never will be. Tjis knife WILL be on my hip when the real SHTF actually happens, or I'm not going anywhere without it. I now know my life actually will depend on that decision. Anyway, just for your consideration, below is the link to the demo video for this knife, which the Down Under Knives brand name itself uploaded to show you just some of what it can do and stand up to. The video seems to have been made in the exact same spirit as the knife & sword emo videos that Cold Steel uploads for almost every blade and tool they make. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpivgISli6eCp6M&pp=ygUlZG93biB1bmRlciBrbml2ZXMgb3V0YmFjayBib3dpZSBrbmlmZQ%3D%3D

[@TJackSurvival]

Ya, I admit I kinda want one of those. Thanks to Mick D!

[@charlessalmond7076]

Your life is dependent on you having this one knife in a shtf scenario? Uhmmm.....

[@stevelinbergbaby135]

Learn & Live🙏🏾☮️🙏💨. 🕊️

[@rw8147]

Nice trooper! I drove an '87 trooper 2 for a good while. Loved it. Tons of room, decent capability, drove well for what it was. Slept in it more than once and could carry aaaaaall the gear.

[@TJackSurvival]

Like a side by side with heat and AC!

[@troymorris4590]

What was the name of your fixed blade knife, was it Andel ?

[@TJackSurvival]

Andel knives from Canada. Guys amazing. Look him up on FB

[@dsimp765]

Thank you 👍👍

[@bernardbarr2354]

Good video

[@SurvivalDispatch]

Thanks

[@ferebeefamily]

Thank you for the information.

[@goofyworld5410]

multitool,first aid,navigation,signaling comms coming soon

[@elevatorman7750]

Great video buddy

[@watkinsfarm196]

Great video. It's got me rethinking mine. What kind of refrigerator do you have in your truck

[@TJackSurvival]

Rugged cooler. I think I showed it in the Isuzu trooper build videos on this channel. I also have an ICECO.

[@watkinsfarm196]

@TJackSurvival OK thanks looking to put one in my truck

[@thereisnoneRighteous-but-GOD]

Thank you sir! 🦅🙏🏽🇺🇸

[@TJackSurvival]

Hey, thank you for watching.

[@laxdrew9]

As always very useful info

[@TJackSurvival]

Thanks boss!

[@RustIronCrowe]

Really covering a lot of bases here. Thank you for objectively presenting elements of your kit. Good stuff here. What you call layering, I call modularity, but it is the same thing. Such an important planning facet. Glad you addressed it.

[@RustIronCrowe]

I should advise, because it was noted in the narrative, about legality. In some jurisdictions being in possession of lockpicks or breach tools is a punishable offence without license. Know how to use them, yes. Carry them around in an obvious fashion, no. I knew someone once who instead carried rake templates on paper and a rat tail file. Easy to convert a piece of spring steel when needed, but not walking around with a piece of suspect kit.

[@charlessalmond7076]

"Easy"? You can cut a hardened price of steel into a rake, easy? HOW?

[@charlessalmond7076]

An aluminum can. I did recovery work for years, I've picked a few locks in my day. You can make rakes using an aluminum can and a multi tool. It takes about 5-15 minutes depending on variables.

[@TJackSurvival]

Aluminum cans make good shims too

[@RustIronCrowe]

I said "file", not cut. We used to do it with those steel whiskers that street sweepers left behind. My advice about legalities was just for people who may not have been aware of this factor. Obviously wasn't directed towards experienced professionals like yourself.

[@jrc19901]

I’m unfortunately in nyc, getting a firearm takes forever and lots of headaches

[@TJackSurvival]

Is the juice worth the squeeze?

[@joes7838]

what pick set are you carrying?

[@TJackSurvival]

Not sure I bought it from a pro shop

[@theguywitheyebrows]

rick rolled by a fuckin tjack video hahahahaha

[@TJackSurvival]

BOOM YES!!!! Im glad someone got that! Well done!

[@Rocky-Stone]

You've seen multiple appendix nds?

[@TJackSurvival]

Yes. One removed the favorite member. I patched him up and put him on the gurney. It was not cool. People are going to ND. People who appendix are going to shoot it off when it happens. Worse case with a right or strong side carry ND is clipping the head of the femour. But at least your unit still works in that case. Catching the inside of your leg with an appendix is a secondary failure that could also kill you with the femoral artery. There's just too much going on downstream for me to be ok with that kinda carry.

[@brad6054]

Good talk I like that you're one of the few that really does a good job of mixing the different schools of survival prepping Bushcraft Army EDC Suburban City, and you're right. A lot of stuff overlaps I have started adding backpacking equipment. If you look into some of this stuff a lot of it has been really well tested the Appalachian Trail 6 months of every day putting up and taking down a tent or a pack you're in and out of multiple times a day a lot of people like to say they're not durable I know a couple through hikers that have done multiple through hikes with the same backpack and tent that's a lot of real world R&D. Backpack equipment is really really light

[@TJackSurvival]

I like exactly where you’re going with that. I’m a huge fan of ultralight gear for this reason. When I lived out of a bag in Afghanistan for a year, ultralight backpack gear gave me so many more options and items for the same flight weight. Solutions

[@oldschooljeremy8124]

You caution about having weapons and tools "within the bounds of legality" so they won't get you put in jail. But what is the legality of a bag full of "burglar tools" like lockpicks and shims and pry bars and such? Will those pique the interest of a police officer?

[@TJackSurvival]

Depends on the state. Completely legal here. Do look into the legality in your state.

[@oldschooljeremy8124]

@@TJackSurvival - most states have laws criminalizing the possession of "burglary tools", it's one of those vague ill-defined BS offenses which LE can use to arrest a person they want when he hasn't done anything else (yet ). I think these laws should go away, but for now they do exist and can be used against us, when the system wants to.

[@lewisvillalta2492]

As always TJack delivers an amazing example of what EDC means thank you very much stay safe out there my friend God bless you and your family

[@TJackSurvival]

Appreciate it!