Yesterday I was able to make a nice ember from using the bow drill. It was exciting and a very happy moment :) I am sure others can remember their...
I toured the James Town Seattlement in Virginia in 1996 where our country was first settled by those looking for a better life from England....
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Was talking with @Bear about this yesterday. Our conversation prompted me to do a review. Been using a Spark-lite for years. Bought a whole...
[ATTACH] Numyth Fire Piston by Going Gear™ This is a fantastic, bulletproof fire piston and I don't ever see myself breaking this tool. It will...
First attempt at hand making a bow drill with just my gear from my EDC/hunting pack. Took a few pictures of different stages of progress....
Looking for opinions on ferro rods. Would like hands on opinions only. Have bought other rods that people "heard were good" and had them fall...
Looking into getting a good fero or mag rod of some sort. From the research I've done so far the Aurora seems like a really good product. Anyone...
How many of you stock conventional fire starters in your supplies and which one do you stock? I was asked by my better half the other day why...
We are doing a series on fire starting devices to test them and see how they hold up to water and wind. We are going to do our best to get and...
I have several of these and they are excellent little firestarters.. very hot spark output and can be operated with one hand. Think~ how you will...
So today I did my weekly bowdrill practice. I practice weekly for two reasons. 1} to keep my muscle that are used in working the bowdrill in...
Howdy All, Which would you use first ?? Was reading a thread on another forum about what 2 tools you'd choose in the bush, and it got me to...
Char cloth is a very old form of tinder made from 100% cotton,basically you are making a form of charcoal with cotton. You can use anything that...
Well took the fire steel and flint outside and with a bundle of tinder kept in my pocket all day, because it was soaking wet, got the thing...
Honeysuckle,also know as woodbine as a fire starter.. An old fella was telling me about how good honeysuckle bark is as a fire lighting tinder so...
I use the search feature and cannot find much on fire lighting so thought id start a thread to see what methods folks here prefer to use for fire...
wildwoodsurvival.com Follow the above link for the pictures, I took them out for the people with dial-up and other slow connections. Yes, you...
The Miracle of Fire-by-Friction Starting a fire by rubbing two sticks together. Why do I always get a thrill out of doing it? Is it because...
No not by rubbing... http://www.primitiveways.com/fire_from_balloon.html
fire from chemnical reaction.... this is new to me but one to tuck away... hehe beavis...fire... potassium permaganate+ elhyleneglyco( or...
O.k..... I would never have thought of this.... but hey.... if you've got it... use it.... [LOL]...
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