Top products from r/BSA
We found 23 product mentions on r/BSA. We ranked the 43 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. Glock KB17281 81 Field Knife
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Spring Steel HRC55 Phosphate Treated Blade materialLength is 11.4 inchesCoated blade to prevent corrosionUsed as a weapon opening bottles and ammunition boxesField knife with a plain edge on one side and a saw edge on the other
2. Solar Motion Lights Outdoor 48LEDs Adjustable Brightness JACKYLED Wireless Gutter Light with Remote Control Waterproof Security Lights for Porch Front Door Garage Garden Fence Pack of 2 Black
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
ADJUSTABLE BRIGHTNESS: You can use the remote control to adjustable the brightness of the outdoor wireless motion sensor solar light you want, total 6 grades brightness.THREE WORKING MODES: You can choose the mode of the that fits your need. 1. Full brightness light turns to dim light when people co...
3. Pin Keepers Locking Pinkeepers Back With Wrench Biker VERY LOW SHIP
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
NEW Bonus 15 Pack Includes - 1 Locking Tools & 15 FastenersMADE IN THE USA by PPM BRANDSNEW 7mm length - No more getting poked by pinsSmall screw pre set in for you. No more small parts to mess with.Locking fasteners Keep your favorite pins securely to your card or lanyard, Shirts, Hats, Great for D...
4. Columbia Men's Bahama II Long Sleeve Shirt, Beacon, Large
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
SUN PROTECTION: Columbia's signature Omni-Shade UPF 30 fabric blocks UVA and UBA ray to help prevent sunburn and longter skin damage during long hours in the sun.COMFORT & BREATHABILITY: This long sleeve fishing shirt features hidden vents at shoulders and 100% nylon quick dry fabric for ultimate br...
5. Legacy of Honor: The Values and Influence of America's Eagle Scouts
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
6. 2 Pack Uncle Bill's Sliver Gripper Keychain Tweezers
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Precision-ground points provide pin-point grippingSpring-tempered stainless steel - keeps erfect alignmentLifetime Guarantee assures you of a lasting valueEasier, more precise handling and controlComplete with convenient holder
7. Coast GIDDS2-103395 Focusing 970 lumen LED Flashlight
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
PURE BEAM FOCUSING: The Patented Pure Beam Focusing Optic technology combines our largest Ultra View Flood Beam with the Bulls-Eye Spot Beam making either up close or downrange illumination highly effectiveSLIDE FOCUS SYSTEM: The Slide Focus System allow the user to shape the flashlight beams from F...
8. Condor Tool & Knife, Bushlore Camp Knife, 4-5/16in Blade, Hardwood Handle with Sheath
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Crafted from the highest quality materialsBuilt for performance and durabilityMade in El SalvadorHandle: HardwoodBlade Material: 1075 HIGH CARBON STEELBlade Finish: Blasted Satin
9. 5.11 Men's Taclite Pro Tactical Pants, Style 74273, TDU Green, 28Wx30L
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
HIGH-QUALITY MATERIAL - Constructed using premium polyester and cotton mechanical stretch Taclite ripstop fabric with a triple-stitching built, this pair of pants is sturdy and flexible to ensure maximum performance in the field.TEFLON-TREATED FABRIC - Coated with Teflon, these pants have a protecti...
10. TETON Sports Explorer 4000 Internal Frame Backpack; High-Performance Backpack for Backpacking, Hiking, Camping; Metallic Silver
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
NOT YOUR BASIC BACKPACK: Continues to be the top selling internal frame backpack on Amazon at a great price for all the included featuresVERSATILE QUICK TRIP PACK: Perfect backpack for men, woman and youth; best for 3-5-day backpacking trips; 4000 cubic inches (65 L) capacity; weighs 5 pounds 2.3 kg...
11. STANSPORT - Wire Mesh Camp Lantern Globe Replacement (Stainless Steel)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
THE PERFECT ALTERNATIVE TO GLASS: Fragile glass is not always a good companion in the great outdoors. This wire mesh globe is the perfect solution to shattered glass for truly portable lamps.HIT THE TRAIL WITH CONFIDENCE: When the lights go down, the first thing you grab is your lamp- with this mesh...
12. Explosive Child, The: A New Approach For Understanding And Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 1
The Explosive Child A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated Chronically Inflexible Children
13. Spyderco Endura 4 Signature Folder Knife with 3.85" VG-10 Steel Blade and Stainless Steel Handle - SpyderEdge Serration - C10S
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
FRONT-RUNNER - The Endura 4 sets the standard as one of the best-selling folding knives ever made. All members of the Endura 4 family include a four-position clip, a high-strength back lock mechanism, and Trademark Round Hole.SUPERIOR STEEL - The Stainless Endura 4 combines all the proven features a...
14. I Thought Scout Uniforms Were Fireproof!: Putting the Fun in Scouting
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 1
I Thought Scout Uniforms Were Fireproof: Putting the Fun in Scouting
15. The Scouting Party: Pioneering and Preservation, Progressivism and Preparedness in the Making of the Boy Scouts of America
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
16. We Are Americans, We Are Scouts: The Chief Scout Citizen on Building a Scouting Way of Life
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
17. The Scoutmaster's Other Handbook
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
18. Ratzinger Report: An Exclusive Interview on the State of the Church
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Hello, It's great that you're looking to get your son set up with some great gear.
I don't know anything about that pack but I'd like to give you some options that I am familiar with.
Budget options-
Teton Sports Explorer I have been out backpacking several times with a friend using this pack and it is an excellent value. It has enough room for a trip to Philmont and is comfortable to wear/ does a decent job placing the weight on the hips. This is what we really want out of a backpacking backpack is to use the frame to place the weight of the pack on the hips and not the shoulders.
The more expensive bags will be lighter and more comfortable. Osprey is probably the most recommended bag right now and for good reason. If you head over to r/appalachiantrail you'll see a ton of them. This Osprey Atmos would be excellent for a scout.
Other major brands that make good products are Kelty, REI Co-op, and Gregory all make good bags. You can also check out the bags sold at the official Boy Scout online store Scoutshop.org. I would recommend a bag in the size neighborhood of 65L for the kind of camping scouts usually do.
I hope he has a great experience.
These kinds of issues require a tremendous amount of patience. You have to keep in mind that often times, this behavior is not really intentional. Boys and girls with behavioral issues don't *WANT* to be difficult. It's just very difficult for them to regulate emotions. I myself was diagnosed with ADHD (ODD wasn't a diagnosis back then, but I'm sure it would have applied, too) as a youth, so I know firsthand. Emotional responses just override logical responses.
We have a scout in our troop who has been diagnosed with Oppositional Defiance Disorder and ADHD. He will often behave in a very similar manner to the scout you've described. I've learned through observation that it usually happens when he's had a lot of interpersonal contact. Dealing with people exhausts him, and when he gets exhausted, his ODD will come out and shine. We have learned that he does particularly well if we can earmark some of the solo tasks his way. He's particularly fastidious with washing dishes, for example, and that task doesn't require him to socialize very much.
When the outbursts happen, take a tack like saying "Hey man, why don't you take a break in your tent and gather yourself. We can get the cooking gear set up right now, and you can help with the dishes after dinner." Sometimes just a bit of self-time will allow them to reset enough to carry on, but you've also left the expectation that they will be doing some of the work.
Oh, another thing to do is go go over well ahead of time, what your expectations are for the campout. "Ok, we'll be arriving at the campsite at 6PM. Everybody will need to set their tents up. If you didn't bring a tent, you're still expected to help your tent mate set up their tent. Mark, Dave, Tom, does everyone understand? Great. Then we'll be setting up for dinner. We expect everyone to help set up, and break back down afterwards. Mark, Dave, Tom, do you understand? Great." Do the same each day, for those guys.
It can seem silly to do that, when you're thinking "Gee, everyone knows all that stuff...", but what you're really doing is providing advance notice of your expectations. And letting the boys know what the structure of the outing is. So there are no surprises. ADHD kids know things need to be done, but without structure they often flounder and then telling them what needs to be done Right Now(tm) makes them feel put upon. Giving them the plan in advance provides a structure they can work within. Lack of structure is a rarely verbalized, but often felt, challenge for the ADD/ADHD crowd.
All that said...
You need to talk to your scoutmaster, and your committee chair, and make sure the adults are aware of the issues. One issue is the boy's behavior itself. Another issue is the potential that these issues are real medical issues that need to be properly dealt with. Yet another issue is the impact to patrol and troop morale can happen when a kid won't help with the work that needs to be done.
Because of two-deep leadership needs, we have mandated that for activities like Summer Camp, the kids with these or similar issues are required to have a parent/guardian attend. We simply can't afford to leave two adults back in a campsite when it's time to head off to meals or activities, and we won't deny the other boys the opportunity to participate.Your troop committee may need to explore similar requirements.
In terms of resources:
For what it's worth, I was an SPL twenty-one-ish years ago. But, I remember my experience (and my shortcomings) clearly.
Edit: added note about book
This is a real good start! I only have a few suggestions.
1a. Hand Sanitizer, for you before you put on gloves and after you take them off. EVERY TIME!
Because of First Aid Merit Badge I joined my local ambulance squad 27 years ago and then went to Paramedic school. Because of my professional certification I am obligated to use Oral Glucose instead of hard candy or Honey but those are well known working solutions. Just remember, they are only for conscious people who can ingest it themselves.
That buckle whistle is pretty cool! I will be getting one today :)
Congratulations, and thank you for giving back to the BSA.
My recommendations:
Give LEDs another try.
By far their best quality is their efficiency and durability.
A burned out LED should never be a problem with an adequately designed system. And if the entire lamp fails than its more than likely just a bad product or an unlucky lemon.
My choice of brand is Coast. They're a bit expensive, but they don't pad their specs and they have really good optics.
Here is a cheaper AA sized flashlight that looks pretty good.
http://www.amazon.com/Coast-HP1-Focusing-Lumen-Flashlight/dp/B00IEMUOWU
But if you're getting a flashlight for yourself that'll let the boys know who's boss, you're going to want to get this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Coast-HP17-Focusing-lumen-Flashlight/dp/B0037K830E
Fair enough. My previous comment was rather hastily written and I agree with a lot of what you said.
I do not blame the individual, I acknowledge that they feel love as subjectively strong and I do. It is real for them.
I am however upset at modernity as a whole. My concerns are best summed up in a passage by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who would later became Pope Benedict XVI. In 1984 he gave an extended interview that was turned into a book called The Ratzinger Report. Which contains the following:
>In a world like the West, where money and wealth are the measure of all things, and where the model of the free market imposes its implacable laws on every aspect of life, authentic Catholic ethics now appears to many like an alien body from times long past,... Economic liberalism creates its exact counterpart, permissivism, on the moral plane....The issue is the rupture between sexuality and marriage. Separated from motherhood, sex has remained without a locus and has lost its point of reference: it is a kind of drifting mine, a problem and at the same time an omnipresent power.
Ratzinger then explained the chain of reasoning that proceeds from the false premises he identified as infecting society at the time of the interview:
>....It logically follows from this [today's false premises] that every form of sexuality is equivalent and therefore of equal worth. It is certainly not a matter of establishing or recommending a retrograde moralism, but of lucidly drawing the consequences from the premises: it is, in fact, logical that pleasure, the libido of the individual, become the only possible point of reference of sex. No longer having an objective reason to justify it, sex seeks the subjective reason in the gratification of the desire, in the most 'satisfying' answer for the individual, to the instincts no longer subject to rational restraints....Hence it naturally follows that all forms of sexual gratification are transformed into the 'rights' of the individual. Thus, to cite an especially current example, homosexuality becomes an inalienable right.
The harm from homosexuality, and other forms of degeneracy today, often doesn't come from the act itself but from external factors. Such as a sub-replacement fertility levels. Which is what all but a few Western nations are now facing. It's ironic really, the more liberal, the mor secular a nation, the lower the birth rate. Conversely, the most religious nations (Christian and Muslim nations in Africa) are seeing a population explosion with a fertility rate of 5+. Compare that with the West with a fertiliry rate of around 1.6 on average. To maintain a population at current levels requires a fertility rate of 2.1
I believe this is the price we are paying for turning away from traditional familial values and structures.
I must confess it is difficult for me to not hold individuals responsible in a way when the LGBT agenda is so celebrated and so prideful.
I honestly don't think the location where the uniforms are made is the problem. If you want high quality stitching and fabric, you can get it in Asia. Most of the companies that make comparable outdoor products, such as Columbia produce their clothing in Asia. However, if you want better quality, you have to pay for it. It's the same deal with items Made in the USA.
The real issue is probably in the margins BSA is trying to make off their clothes. BSA has a price point in mind about 35-50 dollars and isn't dealing with the same volume as a large clothing company. It also probably has larger margins in mind. Whether the justifications for those margins are good is a topic I'll leave for another discussion.
That being said, the BSA shirt is in the mid to high price range for a shirt of its quality. A comparable shirt would probably go for around 15-30 dollars in a place like Amazon. A higher quality shirt of similar use would probably go for around 30-50 On a place like Amazon.
For the bike pump I would recommend these conduit clamps and some ati-tamper screws . It will not fully prevent theft but it will act as a deterrent. You could also add some solar lights like these to help light up the area so a biker could fix there bike at night and help deter theft.
The best gift I got was a book: Legacy of Honor by Alvin Townley
Edit: Link to non-Kindle edition
I use these 5.11 TacLite Pro pants in TDU Green. Despite the "tactical" branding, they were actually designed for climbers, so they are perfect for all sorts of outdoor activities. On top of that, my current pair has lasted me 5+ years of active Scouting, they dry faster than jeans, and they have plenty of pockets for gear, without looking ridiculous. They are my go to for Scout pants, hands down.
>Like take a picture of it and try to figure out what type of species it is?
Yes, this would meet the requirement.
Ideally (IMO) you'd do it the other way around - the goal is to be able to identify it when you see it, not see it then figure out what it is and probably forget it later. Get a National Audubon Society field guide (like this one https://www.amazon.com/National-Audubon-Society-Field-England/dp/0679446761) or something similar.
Some animals you can identify:
Take a look at
It will be up to your SM what level of specificity he requires on any identification, e.g. can you just say "Salamander" or do you need to know what kind of salamander.
(FWIW, your question has inspired me. I'll get a new batch of Scouts in April. I'm going to find - or make - a bunch of flashcards of common plants and animals, and distribute them to the new Scouts. Then we'll go on various outings and see if they can identify the things on the flashcards.)
Here's mine:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000W32PIK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_E2NgDbCAQAV15
I've had mine for 28 years and when my son crossed over, I got him one.
I'm fairly certain that in 22 years I'll hand mine to him and he can hand his to his son.
They are bomb proof.
On a side note, you should see a Bear Scout batoning wood for the first time. Their facial expressions when they first grasp it, it's like it's them against the world in a fair fight.
http://www.amazon.com/Pin-Keepers-Locking-Pinkeepers-QUALITY/dp/B007WMYS8Y/ref=lp_9195529011_1_1?srs=9195529011&ie=UTF8&qid=1457704062&sr=8-1
These are awesome.
Havent lost one yet, even going through washer and dryer.
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http://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Americans-Scouts-Building/dp/0978983610/ref=pd_sim_14_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=1Q14ADPZ9XMVRATTQRAE
http://www.amazon.com/The-Scouting-Party-Preservation-Progressivism/dp/0978983637/ref=pd_sim_14_10?ie=UTF8&refRID=1Q14ADPZ9XMVRATTQRAE
These seemed interesting.
More like screen door screen :
Hoping this isn't an affiliate link:
https://www.amazon.com/Stansport-Lantern-Wire-Mesh-Globe/dp/B0010KJ1HC
You can DIY this with METAL screen. No fiberglass, no anything else. metal only. I bought mine on amazon, likely this one.
Not a big fan of a knife with a concave belly for any of the tasks you need in scouting. I think a drop point or scandi will see you much better. I'm a big fan of either a Morakniv or (https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B002CC6BPM/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1468198196&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=Condor+Tools+%26+Knives&dpPl=1&dpID=41dcdqwt7QL&ref=plSrch)[this].