I’m in the market for a good ifak pouch, ideally I would like a pouch which has straps on either side for easy access to a tourniquet and shears. I’ve attached an image of a pouch I really like but isn’t reasonably available in the U.K. so if anyone knows where I can get one with a similar design it would be amazing.
Just keep an eye out on market stalls, to be honest. I have something very, very similar, nets on the sides, a zipped compartment in the top, a main section, and two flat little pockets for a plaster/flash drive or something. £3 a few years ago at a local fair.
Got a few in red and green. One in the back of the missus's car, one in what passes for my 'grab bag' and one that's set aside for my walking/camping bag. Got one of the bigger ones in the same style that's the 'house' bag although I could tweek it for a bigger FAK. A couple others that are 'more or less 'dormant' as in I've robbed stuff out and not refilled as I've got the other FAK's.
Yorkshire Andy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 14, 2020 7:43 pm
My ifak is a trauma bandage in a jacket pocket.....
And a small pouch I got free.....
I do carry some different sized plasters and alcohol wipes etc in the back of my wallet, along with a few brufin/imodium type stuff for 'EDC' but for a wee bag to take away I like to beef it up, I do have a field dressing in them, ironically from Israel but they're not Israeli bandages. A more basic dressing but there if I need them, never have so far touch wood.
Used my EDC on a elderly woman who was literally blown off her feet on the Whitby harbor bridge about 5 years back ... Just got her turned her into a oven ready chicken (foil blanket) when a passing police van stopped and got her in the back (crew seating area not the cage) to await the ambulance. . . Her just as frail husband tried putting a tenner in my hand... Told him to buy his wife some flowers........
I've a couple of EDC kits one lives in my work bag and that contains stuff for big ouches (work in a big saw mill)