I like the Bic mini cause it takes up less room in the pockets and kits. Just a personal preference.
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IMO, Primitive fire making knowledge has it's place. In reenactments for example. Experts can demonstrate how the early native Americans, Mountain Men, and other earlier pioneers made fire the old way. Also, if one has no other recourse and is in desperate need of a fire, then primitive methods are a great alternative. However, the thing to remember is that progress made things easier and more fool-proof.The conservation of energy is paramount in any survival situation. Expanding/wasting energy to start a fire when it would be much quicker and easier to use a lighter or a match is not wise. "Be Prepared" is the Scout motto and if you take that to heart then you should be okay...
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Yes still quit....was a year on December 11th, 11:32 A.M............Still a smoker, just haven't smoked anything.....
Took major surgery........and don't want to do it again.
Still carry BIC's in everything, feel naked if I don't.....kinda a "Well I'm not gonna light a smoke, but I could if I had to"....some mag bars and ferro rods........Full kits in bags and vehicle's.
Best of luck on quiting....figure I saved about $5000 last year...That could be a lot of guns......
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First 50 years...worried about the small stuff...second 50 years....Not so much
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There is nothing easy about not smoking. I quit on 6/7/89. I figured that was a date I could remember.
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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
Albert Einstein
Proud father of a US Marine....SEMPER FI!
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
I have tried cattail fuzz and birch bark. I used the birch bark to catch and hold the flame from jute twine, which in my case burns very hot and very quickly, but I could never get the bark to catch a spark itself. I have had issues getting cattail fuzz to take a spark, but when it does, it goes like a thin stream of gasoline. It won't burn long enough for me to get secondary tinder on it. Have you got any advice?
Back in the days when we had to chase the dinosaurs out of our Scout meetings, we learned to make "feather sticks". I suppose that we're talking about the same thing? Anyway, they worked well with matches, but I've never tried one with a ferro rod, I think I smell an experiment...
I find that I can process and get a much more efficient fire lay by just processing the wood down to the size I need to get a fire. If you google one stick fire or one stick fire drill you'll see the basic technique. Which works really great when there is no dry tinder to be had. If your using a ferro it might help to shave a little powder using the squared off back of you knife or machete.
I went to my local big box hardware/home improvement store and bought one of these:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004YIWB9W/...SIN=B004YIWB9W
I wrapped some duct tape around one end for a handle. It's small enough to allow you to place the ferro rod into the tinder and scrape it with short strokes to ignite it. It's a bit pricey but it works...the best imo. Or you can grind the spine of your blade at the point to do the same thing. I did that to my IZULA II and it is my go to knife when working with a ferro rod.
This product works magic with a ferro rod too: http://www.amazon.com/Corona-AC-8300...tool+sharpener
I used a similar tool to sharpen the spines of all my bushcraft knives... good luck. Practice, PRACTICE, practice.
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"Survival is about getting out of the wilderness ALIVE, Bushcraft is about getting into the wilderness and THRIVING."
it sounds like you need some char cloth or some chaga to get spark going when using a flint and steel or ferro rod, get a spark going and put the spark in the birds nest and blow lightly into it till in bursts into a flame, have your bone dry tinder ready and put the flaming nest under it. keep adding larger and dry wood as the fire gets going.
Gas works, I mean gas and a tin can. A small can works good tuna or something similar. Pour a 1/2 inch in the bottom of the can and light it up, the gas will vaporize and burn,should burn for 5-10 minutes long enough to get some wood started. You can see the can in the pic.Will try to post a pic.
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Last edited by fjrmurph; 01-19-2015 at 08:34 AM. Reason: Trying to post a pic
char cloth works great 1 spark and its burning
More like one spark and you have an ember.
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