Bug Out Bag Fire Starters
Shane: “Hey welcome back You Tube, it’s Shane here with another episode of Lone Wolf Survival and we’re here to talk a little bit about fire making and some of the commercial and non-commercial applications that are out there. Now later on we’re going to talk about some of the more primitive skills stuff but I’m gonna more or less key in on what you’re going to carry in your Bug Out bag or your camping gear. Something more portable than fire bow systems like that.”
“So what I’m gonna start with is one I always start with any time we’re out there and people want to know what their building their fires with. A .89 cent Bic disposable. It’s what I use okay? Fire in my pocket okay. I carry several of these. Some people won’t do it. This very rarely lets me down. It takes very little effort. Its compact, throw it in my bug out bag, throw it in my survival bag. I can put it in my day bag or in my pocket. So that’s one.”
“Number two is plain ole water proof stick matches. Coleman has a water proof stick match you can strike anywhere. I can throw em in a zip lock bag or bug out bag. Good for that.”
“Then you start looking at some of the strikers. Here is one made by UST. Pretty good little system. Compact. Ten, twelve, fourteen dollars is what you’ll spend on systems like this. Make sure on these you get the coating off of them or you’re gonna stand there for a good period of time. Good little striker, compact, inexpensive.”
“Then we go back to my favorite which is always my Smith Multi tool that I have. It has a sharpener, a compass and it has a fire striker located in the handle. Like I said make sure you get the coating off it. This is a good little system as well. Inexpensive and light weight.”
“Then we go to a product that Coleman puts out. This is a magnesium block. The neat thing about this is it has what appears to be part of a hack saw blade. That’s what it looks like, a hacksaw blade. I’m gonna call it what it is. I’ll always shoot ya straight when we are looking at products. A magnesium block is a metal that burns very hot and very high temperature, very fast. So I take the blade part and I scrape some of the magnesium off into my tinder bundle. Then I turn around and hit my striker. These are about 12 bucks. Neat little product.”
“Then we move down to a 9 Volt battery and steel wool. We’ve used this many times before. Am I gonna carry this in my pocket instead of a light? No I won’t, but it’s a neat little system, the good thing about this is I can wrap my tinder bundle around the steel wool and with the steel wool you want to open it up. Almost bird nesting to get plenty of oxygen in here and take your 9 volt battery and drag it across and if I’ve got this in a tinder bundle then I can start nurturing my tinder bundle. I can get some oxygen to it, blowing on it and I can use this to start my fire. So that is a really neat application if you’re in a wet environment. It always works.”
“Then some of the commercial stuff. Coleman has a strike fire starter and we’ve used these before. This takes the place of the tinder bundle. Now they’ve put a match head on it. I mean, what will Coleman come up with next. Strike pads on the back, drag this thing across. Boom! There ya go! So it’s a match on a tinder bundle. How great is that? Another great product put out by Coleman.”
“So these are just some of the stuff that we use out in the field. There is a lot of stuff out there and the reason we do this is to give you an idea of what’s on the market and some of the stuff we use and try that you can go ahead and start shopping for to put in your bag now. Later on in some other episodes we’ll start doing some of the primitive stuff. How to use a bow drill, a cauldron, a ladle and stuff like that. Make sure you shop around. Try to have at least two systems. Don’t limit yourself to just one.”
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