Emergency Fire Starters

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Joseph von Benedikt

Backcountry, Rifle, Deer, Podcast, Elk, Mountain, Sports, Hunt, Wilderness, Cartridge, Hunting

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

What fire starting aids should you carry in dangerous country? Spotlighted here are three of the best: Products proven to work in harsh conditions.

This is the seventh of a new podcast element: fast-paced, fact-filled five-minute episodes showcasing three top backcountry hunting tools, tricks or techniques.

We're filming these brief episodes and posting them on Patreon, so if you'd like to put eyes on the products and methods showcased, please sign up at www.patreon.com/backcountry for a membership!

Also soon to come: Boots, packs, knives, elk calls, multitools, tents, bear guns, movies, and more! These "Top 3 In 5" minute episodes will drop as frequently as we have time during this busy hunting season, and by Christmas will be a weekly Tuesday-morning addition to the podcast's regular schedule.

ENJOY!

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0:00.0	There are three reasons to have a fire in the backcountry. The first is for companionship, which really is a convenience unless you're alone and stranded.
0:11.0	Then it can become a vital necessity. The second is for warmth, which again
0:16.7	is kind of a convenience, unless old man hypothermia is knocking. Then it can be a matter of life or death.
0:25.0	The third is to cook meat over a fresh kill.
0:29.0	And that, my friends, is simply something that should be done. Welcome to this episode of our top three in five.
0:38.0	In this rapid fire segment today folks is on three of our favorite fire starting age. This isn't on matches or
0:45.9	lighters or strikers. This is on a tender type material that you can and should keep
0:52.1	with you at all times in case you need a
0:55.4	fire whether for convenience or emergency. Let's dive right in. The first is
1:01.0	magnesium, right? That's kind of a common material that you scrape shavings off of with some sort of a high carbon sharp edged striker or shaver. This can be the back of a knife. It can be a piece of a
1:16.6	hack saw blade. Combined with it generally you get a ferro rod which you strike sparks off of something like this.
1:24.7	Now you want to make sure that you have good quality magnesium.
1:29.8	Good magnesium will shave off and curl,
1:32.2	rather than crumble off in grains.
1:35.1	You shave a little pile of it, you have a good ferro rod as well, you strike some
1:40.0	sparks into that magnesium and you'll have a very intensely hot bit of fire to
1:47.0	get your tender started. This particular stick that I like carrying you can get
1:51.1	them in various sizes is by fire fast you can
1:54.1	look them up online and it's got a special type of wood I forget exactly what it
1:58.8	is but it's a very resinous wood that lights easy burns, and does not take on water. You can soak this in a bucket of water overnight, take it out, scrape some shavings off the wood on top of your magnesium pile, then light the magnesium, the magnesium will light
2:15.9	the wood and you've got the beginnings of a good fire.
2:20.3	Second on my list and really my favorite as far as you know the purest side of me goes is
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