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Go to the source: The Urban Survivalist

A couple of months ago a new outdoors store opened up locally. It’s pretty neat. They have everything from military surplus to clothing to camping gear to cattle feed. Anyway, I was poking around in the milsurp section and saw a stack of these:

It was only $3.95 so I went ahead and picked it up. If nothing else I’ll have fun beating up on it next time I take it to the woods. The concept is very cool, though. It’s a small hatchet with a pry bar, a hammer and a nail puller. It only weighs about a pound and it’s not very big. More than anything it struck me as a great urban emergency tool. It’s small and lightweight enough that you could easily carry it in a daily carry bag or a laptop bag. It would be a great tool to have on you if you had to pry a door open or even hack through it. My biggest concern is that the steel seems pretty soft. I don’t think that I’d want to stake my life on it. The thought of using the pry bar really concerns me. It would be better than having nothing, though. If someone made something similar that was properly heat treated and used good, quality steel then I’d be very inclined to take a close look at it. Does anyone know of anything? At $4 you can’t go wrong. I’m not saying that it wouldn’t hold up if you needed it to. I just don’t think that it would hold up under real torque.