Creating Fire Starters

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Re: Creating Fire Starters

Post by schallertg » Wed Jan 20, 2010 10:29 pm

We've used the vaseline with rags before, in ziploc baggies for storage.

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Re: Creating Fire Starters

Post by Skunk Ape » Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:37 am

If I would have realized how flamabale vaseline was when I was a teen I prolly wouldn't have used so much of it.

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Re: Creating Fire Starters

Post by Iluv2hunt » Thu Jan 21, 2010 7:25 am

I used a lot of vaseline when I was a kid
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Re: Creating Fire Starters

Post by GoodOyster » Thu Jan 21, 2010 11:49 am

Skunk Ape wrote:If I would have realized how flamabale vaseline was when I was a teen I prolly wouldn't have used so much of it.
LOL! good thing it don't ignite from friction! :oops
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Re: Creating Fire Starters

Post by sag8072 » Thu Jan 21, 2010 8:10 pm

another set of great ideas...gonna go make a few this weekend and put in my pack
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Re: Creating Fire Starters

Post by bodysnatcher » Thu Jan 21, 2010 11:44 pm

That one looked like cr0ck. :lol:
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Re: Creating Fire Starters

Post by athorn » Sun Sep 12, 2010 1:27 pm

I read in a hunting magazine you could use your methane soaked underwear to start a fire. I would advise taking them off first. Not having enough pairs to burn any, I usually use lighter knot splinters or dryer lint.

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Re: Creating Fire Starters

Post by Papa_J » Mon Sep 13, 2010 8:24 am

Magnesium blank and a steel rod. If you get a big enough pile of magnesium shavings, you can light up a stump.

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Re: Creating Fire Starters

Post by trouttouter » Mon Sep 13, 2010 6:40 pm

athorn wrote:I read in a hunting magazine you could use your methane soaked underwear to start a fire. I would advise taking them off first. Not having enough pairs to burn any, I usually use lighter knot splinters or dryer lint.
Saw an article in Field and Stream about this. They did underwear, dryer lint, a candle in a shotgun shell, and the fire starters I show how to make earlier in this thread. The fire starters won hands down.

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Re: Creating Fire Starters

Post by jkw » Sun Dec 11, 2011 8:50 pm

just another thought for the vasolien. you can coat a tick with it and let it back out if its latched on. also its better to use a piece of gauze coated in it with dry gauze over top to dress a wound life a skin tear or if you get skinned up bad because the vasolien will keep the wound from scabbing into to dressing

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Re: Creating Fire Starters

Post by gargoyle725 » Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:09 am

another great fire starter is pine(lighternot). Its hard to get in my area so I had a thought. I went around to all the little christmas tree tands and collected all the bottoms cut off of the trees. Also old chrismas trees can be recycled into logs.
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Re: Creating Fire Starters

Post by blackpowderscout » Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:33 am

I carry an 18th century-ish flint and steel kit. Char-cloth, a small hunk of of flint and a piece of steel all fit in a small little tin and works great.
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Re: Creating Fire Starters

Post by redneck75 » Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:51 am

Another option is 00 steel wool and a 9-volt battery. Hold the steel wool across the posts of the battery and it will glow and then start a flame. Not overly practical though as the battery will eventually die in your pack.

When I hunt in Western Oregon or Alaska I always carry a can of Sterno in my pack. It gives an hour or more of a hot flame. It almost took a blow-torch to start a fire there and the sterno always worked. Light the sterno, stack your kindling then bigger sticks over the top of it. It would start a good fire in a few minutes.

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Re: Creating Fire Starters

Post by lonehunter » Sat Jan 21, 2012 6:53 pm

Dorito's, No kidding! Next time you are eating a bag, Light one.
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