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DIY Trauma Kit for Hunting/Shooting
Posted on 11/12/24 at 6:09 pm
Posted on 11/12/24 at 6:09 pm
TLDR; take a look at my trauma kit that I pieced together.
I’ve been a pretty active shooter and hunter my whole life and have always been pretty interested in the defensive shooting “EDC” world for some time as well.
More and more I’ve realized that the most likely use case to protect me and my family’s life is having life saving tools and atleast a little more than surface level understanding of how and when to use them.
What I am listing here is in my unprofessional, but somewhat educated, opinion a pretty good “Trauma Kit”.
It’s use case not being a boo boo bandage holder, but an oh shite my dog jumped on my loaded shotgun and shot me with it or an accident at the range or any number of situations you may find yourself in where you need to stop a life threatening bleed.
The pictures will show that it is a very reasonable size and weight, that’s able to be thrown in a range bag, hunting backpack, or stored in your car etc.
DIY Kit contents:
Tacmed solutions operator IFAK (standard) -$79
- Includes:
Sof-T tourniquet
Olaes 4” modular bandage
Petrolatum Gauze
Nasopharyngeal Airway 28F w/Lube
Nitrile Gloves
2” surgical tape
Trauma Shears
This kit is a great start but as a trauma kit intended to stop massive bleeds and favoring the needs of a gsw, I added a few items.
Quickclot Combat Gauze Z-fold -$51
Beacon chest seal vented 2pk kit sized -$22
6” Olaes modular bandage -$9
The quickclot was an expensive add on but it came the highest recommended. There are options to buy packages that only come with 1 yard versus 4 yards which cut the cost down below $20 I believe.
I’m curious to see what yalls critiques may be and if y’all have anything built out different. Figured if not for anything this would be a good advertisement and maybe intrigue some other guys to build out something similar for themselves.
I’ve been a pretty active shooter and hunter my whole life and have always been pretty interested in the defensive shooting “EDC” world for some time as well.
More and more I’ve realized that the most likely use case to protect me and my family’s life is having life saving tools and atleast a little more than surface level understanding of how and when to use them.
What I am listing here is in my unprofessional, but somewhat educated, opinion a pretty good “Trauma Kit”.
It’s use case not being a boo boo bandage holder, but an oh shite my dog jumped on my loaded shotgun and shot me with it or an accident at the range or any number of situations you may find yourself in where you need to stop a life threatening bleed.
The pictures will show that it is a very reasonable size and weight, that’s able to be thrown in a range bag, hunting backpack, or stored in your car etc.
DIY Kit contents:
Tacmed solutions operator IFAK (standard) -$79
- Includes:
Sof-T tourniquet
Olaes 4” modular bandage
Petrolatum Gauze
Nasopharyngeal Airway 28F w/Lube
Nitrile Gloves
2” surgical tape
Trauma Shears
This kit is a great start but as a trauma kit intended to stop massive bleeds and favoring the needs of a gsw, I added a few items.
Quickclot Combat Gauze Z-fold -$51
Beacon chest seal vented 2pk kit sized -$22
6” Olaes modular bandage -$9
The quickclot was an expensive add on but it came the highest recommended. There are options to buy packages that only come with 1 yard versus 4 yards which cut the cost down below $20 I believe.
I’m curious to see what yalls critiques may be and if y’all have anything built out different. Figured if not for anything this would be a good advertisement and maybe intrigue some other guys to build out something similar for themselves.
This post was edited on 11/12/24 at 8:51 pm
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Posted on 11/12/24 at 7:19 pm to Timmayy
Nice… I’ve got sam medical bleeding control kits stashed all over the place.
Posted on 11/12/24 at 8:58 pm to Timmayy
Nice setup. Maybe add a some duct tape, just roll it onto itself.
Posted on 11/12/24 at 9:03 pm to Timmayy
Nice kit, I started with an adventure medical .9 and I’ve slowly taken away and added things over time. I have a lot of what you have in yours.
My dad was a EMT for a long time and cautioned me on not having things I don’t know how and when to use. So I don’t have an airway tube or chest seals. I do want to take some kind of class to understand how and when to use those things.
A few things you may consider.
The adventure medical thing is double waterproofed and I thought that was stupid until my whole pack was soaked and the interior of my “waterproof” med kit got wet. I wouldn’t want to test the waterproofness of the packaging that stuff came in.
I watched a hunting first aid kit video and they said the most likely thing you’d have to respond to would be someone slicing or stabbing themselves with a broadhead, or knife, or chainsaw or any number of other things that may have really serious bleeding but may not justify the use of a tourniquet or quick clot. In one broadhead stabbing case they recommended micromends or some other way to help seal a long deep cut without stitches or quick clot. I added vet glue and micro mends to my little kit because of that.
Your post reminded me I want to take a trauma first aid class, thank you.
My dad was a EMT for a long time and cautioned me on not having things I don’t know how and when to use. So I don’t have an airway tube or chest seals. I do want to take some kind of class to understand how and when to use those things.
A few things you may consider.
The adventure medical thing is double waterproofed and I thought that was stupid until my whole pack was soaked and the interior of my “waterproof” med kit got wet. I wouldn’t want to test the waterproofness of the packaging that stuff came in.
I watched a hunting first aid kit video and they said the most likely thing you’d have to respond to would be someone slicing or stabbing themselves with a broadhead, or knife, or chainsaw or any number of other things that may have really serious bleeding but may not justify the use of a tourniquet or quick clot. In one broadhead stabbing case they recommended micromends or some other way to help seal a long deep cut without stitches or quick clot. I added vet glue and micro mends to my little kit because of that.
Your post reminded me I want to take a trauma first aid class, thank you.
Posted on 11/12/24 at 9:10 pm to bigbuckdj
The airway tube the only thing I would not be comfortable using. Only reason it’s in there is because it came with the original kit and it fit with all my other essentials. Fully agree that it won’t be out into service until I at the very least take an online class.
Speaking of classes the Red Cross has a lot of really great offerings.
As far as a stab wound or a broad head goes my first go to would be the 4 or 6” rolled Olaes bandages. My only goal would really be to stop the bleeding. So lots of pressure and get the wound covered and wrapped well with the bandage.
If it was a nasty slice but not necessarily one that would warrant packing the wound I wouldn’t be against wrapping the first layers of the quickclot then topped and finished off with the pressure bandage.
Speaking of classes the Red Cross has a lot of really great offerings.
As far as a stab wound or a broad head goes my first go to would be the 4 or 6” rolled Olaes bandages. My only goal would really be to stop the bleeding. So lots of pressure and get the wound covered and wrapped well with the bandage.
If it was a nasty slice but not necessarily one that would warrant packing the wound I wouldn’t be against wrapping the first layers of the quickclot then topped and finished off with the pressure bandage.
Posted on 11/13/24 at 9:56 am to Timmayy
Thanks for posting. I keep a small/medium sized kit in all vehicles. I probably need a small one for my hunting kit, too.
Posted on 11/13/24 at 10:15 am to bigbuckdj
quote:
. So I don’t have an airway tube or chest seals
My wife (no pics) is a head and neck surgeon and used to teach stop the bleed. We’ve been tossing around the idea of her teaching some of this stuff again. Maybe can do an OB event
Posted on 11/13/24 at 10:43 am to Timmayy
Great job wanting to be prepared and for taking steps to be ready to help others and yourself.
As a tactical medic, here are my suggestions:
Attend a Stop the Bleed course as Red Cross still teaches packing exterior of wounds - this is bad “science”…have to get into the wound with packing gauze to begin clotting and not just soak up blood.
Follow the acronym BATH.
1. Bleeding
2. Airway
3. Tension pneumothorax
4. Hypothermia/Head Injury
For bleeding, you have a SOF-T tourniquet with blue rubber bands. Take them off.
First of all, if you have an injured hand, how will you remove rubber bands under stress as you’re bleeding out? Also, the SOF-T is hard to apply one handed and is a good 2nd TQT for application to leg but not primary.
Get at least 2 CAT-7 TQTs (in orange) as injuries to femoral artery often require 2 TQTs. CAT TQT is easiest to apply one handed. I always roll with multiple TQTs.
You must hold packing gauze into wound towards the heart where blood is coming from to initiate clotting for at least 5 minutes if regular gauze and 3 minutes if impreganted with hemostatic agent.
If you get an arterial wound on limbs, TQT within 30 seconds!!! Go high or die. Do not place on joints.
Do NOT pack gauze from nipples to belly button front and back…just a bunch of goo in there and that requires chest seal you purchasd over cuts/shots/stabs in those areas. Tension pneumothorax is a killer so cover holes (often entry/exit if shot) quickly after addressing bleeding.
Learn the Recovery Position to open up airways in folks who can’t breathe and unconscious. Placing an NPA should only be done with training and sans a cranial/facial injury.
Always, always have more than one space blanket to wrap and cover folks (and yourself) as drop in body temp will prevent blood clotting. Get folks off the cold ground awaiting transport or during evac.
So much more to cover but proud of you for taking this seriously as you will most assuredly need emergency medical skills WAY MORE than you will need defensive shooting skills in this life.
Good channel to follow:
Prep Medic YT
As a tactical medic, here are my suggestions:
Attend a Stop the Bleed course as Red Cross still teaches packing exterior of wounds - this is bad “science”…have to get into the wound with packing gauze to begin clotting and not just soak up blood.
Follow the acronym BATH.
1. Bleeding
2. Airway
3. Tension pneumothorax
4. Hypothermia/Head Injury
For bleeding, you have a SOF-T tourniquet with blue rubber bands. Take them off.
First of all, if you have an injured hand, how will you remove rubber bands under stress as you’re bleeding out? Also, the SOF-T is hard to apply one handed and is a good 2nd TQT for application to leg but not primary.
Get at least 2 CAT-7 TQTs (in orange) as injuries to femoral artery often require 2 TQTs. CAT TQT is easiest to apply one handed. I always roll with multiple TQTs.
You must hold packing gauze into wound towards the heart where blood is coming from to initiate clotting for at least 5 minutes if regular gauze and 3 minutes if impreganted with hemostatic agent.
If you get an arterial wound on limbs, TQT within 30 seconds!!! Go high or die. Do not place on joints.
Do NOT pack gauze from nipples to belly button front and back…just a bunch of goo in there and that requires chest seal you purchasd over cuts/shots/stabs in those areas. Tension pneumothorax is a killer so cover holes (often entry/exit if shot) quickly after addressing bleeding.
Learn the Recovery Position to open up airways in folks who can’t breathe and unconscious. Placing an NPA should only be done with training and sans a cranial/facial injury.
Always, always have more than one space blanket to wrap and cover folks (and yourself) as drop in body temp will prevent blood clotting. Get folks off the cold ground awaiting transport or during evac.
So much more to cover but proud of you for taking this seriously as you will most assuredly need emergency medical skills WAY MORE than you will need defensive shooting skills in this life.
Good channel to follow:
Prep Medic YT
Posted on 11/13/24 at 1:42 pm to LeeeroyJenkins
Damn You just game me another CLS class all over again minus the hours of powerpoint and instruction
Posted on 11/13/24 at 2:05 pm to jangalang
Haha…you’re welcome!! God bless you.
Posted on 11/13/24 at 2:10 pm to Timmayy
quote:
As far as a stab wound or a broad head goes my first go to would be the 4 or 6” rolled Olaes bandages
The OLAES has packing gauze, pressure bandage and eye cup.
Depending on where wound is changes the protocol. Unless a superficial wound (bright red), then go to Tourniquet for limbs and then begin packing INTO wound and then…place pressure bandage.
Can always release TQ within first 2 hours without nerve damage (or worse compartment syndrome). Hopefully you’re within evac zone of Level 3 Trauma facility for 2
hour window if not…leave TQ on…better to lose limb vs death.
This post was edited on 11/13/24 at 2:14 pm
Posted on 11/15/24 at 5:52 am to reds on reds on reds
quote:
Maybe can do an OB event
I would sign up for that
quote:
LeeeroyJenkins
Is there any classes or reading you recommend for people who want to know more about this stuff?
Posted on 11/15/24 at 6:10 am to bigbuckdj
Posted on 11/15/24 at 9:47 pm to 257WBY
quote:
Online Red Cross course
Red Cross is teaching INCORRECT information on major bleeds.
Take a Stop the Bleed class or attend a CRCC course out on by ALERRT.
Posted on 11/16/24 at 9:07 am to LeeeroyJenkins
quote:
Red Cross is teaching INCORRECT information on major bleeds.
Take a Stop the Bleed class or attend a CRCC course out on by ALERRT.
Hmmm what are the odds this came up twice in a week.
Hope that's not a foreshadowing.
Thanks for the info guys
Posted on 11/16/24 at 12:31 pm to Timmayy
quote:
Quickclot Combat Gauze Z-fold -$51
Dude, this with a tourniquet and some bandage gauze will cover just about everything you’re gonna see. This stuff is awesome and should be in everyone’s home.
Posted on 11/16/24 at 12:35 pm to Timmayy
I’m planning on the deer being shot, not me. 
Posted on 11/16/24 at 12:50 pm to 3deadtrolls
Unfortunately I know a few stories of individuals shot and killed from bleeding out while hunting and one of those I actually knew first hand not just and online story.
I can think of many realistic instances. Dropped gun inside stand or blind
Dropped gun from climber
Fall with gun from climber
Dog steps on loaded gun
Hunting buddy that messes up.
Negligent discharge at the range.
Car accidents would be the largest use case but I believe I will get something dedicated for car glove boxes.
I can think of many realistic instances. Dropped gun inside stand or blind
Dropped gun from climber
Fall with gun from climber
Dog steps on loaded gun
Hunting buddy that messes up.
Negligent discharge at the range.
Car accidents would be the largest use case but I believe I will get something dedicated for car glove boxes.
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