Posted on 05/19/2016 9:57:56 AM PDT by w1n1
For those that hunt or into survival. This may be one of the easiest way to start a fire that I came across. The guy from Stephenson Prepper uses cotton ball, petrolium jelly and a flint with a scraper. See the fire starter video here. So what other easy ways do you all use to start a fire for survival?
Pray someone comes along and starts it for me.
Either that, or I'll enlist the manual labor of unarmed campus liberals; either the make fire, or they don't eat.
meh
If you have a fire steel then all you need is a bunch of detris. I am not carrying Vaseline around in my camping gear, may as well carry fire starter at that point
Track of the Wolf has some great kits for starting fires.
Steel plus box for tinder plus flint. New flint can almost always be found.
Some of the boxes also have a lense for using the sun to put a light to some tinder.
The BIC lighter I keep in my pocket with my SIG P938 and J5 Tactical flashlight.
Like the AMEX card in my wallet, I never leave home without them.
I like a magnifier if you have sunshine
Me too. I bought a gross of them on eBay and have them everywhere...in the car, in every room in a drawer, in every bug-out bag, in every purse, safe, hen house, outhouse and well...you get the idea.
You can stuff those Vaseline soaked cotton balls into short lengths of cut up drinking straw
I also keep birthday candles as firestarters
The automatic relighting ones are good
Started a grass fire with a permanent match once. Overfilled it and the flaming lighter fluid spilled onto the grass.
Had a lively time stamping it out. Never used it again.
+1.
If you are going to use a cotton ball, petroleum jelly and a flint with a scraper, why not just use a lighter?
Seriously. I learned to make and use hand drills and bow drills to start fires when I was in Boy Scouts as a kid. It is very hard and frustrating work, but rewarding to be able to start a fire using only materials on the ground. I also learned to make fires using flint and steel, but you have to bring the steel scraper with you. If you are going to bring a bunch of supplies to start a fire, then it is kind of pointless.
Start a fire?
I tell one of the people who held on to Ted Cruz to the bitter end that I don’t want a North American Union ever, and that Ted isn’t just through for the 2016 presidential run, he is through period.
A battery and a piece of wire.............................
I carry a small (pocket) magnifying lens. ...multi-purpose tool :)
I can do the flint/steel on charcloth thing - as well as the magnesium shaving or ferrocerium rod approach - but am a lot better with flint and steel some days than others and would not want to rely on it, especially in a hurry during crappy weather or if I was incapacitated. I don't look down on the humble disposable lighter, but they are not always to be trusted.
I still have a drawer full of gadgets and gizmos for starting fires, and probably ought to see if most of it is still any good (I learned the hard way that all "lifeboat" or "waterproof" matches are not equal in shelf life or performance).
Mr. niteowl77
Magnifying glass.
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