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04-22-2010, 04:15 PM
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#1 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 26
|  Primitive firestarting
Have you ever tried to start a fire without matches, a lighter, or a flint? You know you watch the survival shows and they use a bow/drill and things like that and you think I could do that...but could you really?
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04-22-2010, 06:32 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Central, NY. Posts: 138
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Primitive fire making isn't as hard as you might think. Once you learn the mechanics of it and which materials work the best, It's just a mater of practicing with them.
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04-26-2010, 10:16 AM
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When I was in Girl Scouts we went on a primitive camping trip. The leader had all the supplies we needed in case of an emergency but we did not use them. This was set up at our Girl Scout campgrounds. They provided us with basic material to build a shelter. We had to find materials and start a fire and forage for our food. It was fun but only because we knew help was just on the other side of the campground.
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04-26-2010, 12:51 PM
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#4 | | Junior Member
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We must have had the wrong materials wooodzman cause we even had a flint and we still couldn't get it started. We are determined to get it though so practice will continue!
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04-27-2010, 06:49 AM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Central, NY. Posts: 138
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You've got the right attitude carolyn. Are you using the old fashioned flint and steel, or a flint rod and what kind of tinder?
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04-27-2010, 10:09 AM
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#6 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 605
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got the bow drill to work for me once
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04-28-2010, 10:59 AM
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#7 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Central, NY. Posts: 138
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Originally Posted by Newanderthal  got the bow drill to work for me once | Out of the methods I've tried, the bow/drill is my favorite for making fire by friction. The one that I've had the hardest time with over the years, is the hand drill. I have a hard time maintaining the right amount of speed and pressure on the fireboard.
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04-28-2010, 11:18 AM
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#8 | | Senior Member
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I wont lie so if I answer and say that I have attempted this and failed miserably no one will hold it against me, right? I have tried a few times now but never managed to make more than a little smoke and then nothing.
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04-28-2010, 11:36 AM
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#9 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by calanta I wont lie so if I answer and say that I have attempted this and failed miserably no one will hold it against me, right? I have tried a few times now but never managed to make more than a little smoke and then nothing. | I've failed miserably at a lot of things that I've tried, including this. If
It's something that you want to learn, like carolyn said, keep trying.
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04-29-2010, 02:21 PM
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#10 | | Junior Member
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We had a flint with the metal piece attached to it (picked it up at Dick's) and we tried dried grass, little tiny wood shavings, and dryer lint and we got smoke several times but we could never get it to catch.
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