damn you got to it before me.

most carry a cell phone right ??

take out the battery and use that on the steel wool works real well

Great ideas!

Canning section at your local grocery store.

a lighter.......... hahaha JK i smoke so i normaly always have at least one way to start a fire need be

hm surprises me (since we are in a firearms forum afterall) no one has mentioned using the powder from a round as a REALLY quick tinder lighter

No offense meant by this but i couldn't get dryer lint to burn worth a darn. But if you can start fires with it, thats all that counts. The thing that i always carry in my fanny pack is cotton balls covered in vaseline. Just stuff them in an old film bottle or old prescription bottle to keep them from getting wet. Seriously try this! Great for fanny packs, for the every season hunter...

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That's really interesting! How exactly do you start a fire like that?

I tried the cotton/vaseline yesterday as an experiment, there is no doubt, that would start wet wood on fire!

by placeing some fine birch bark on the glowing steel wool

You have to rub the contacts of the battery on the steel wool. Works with 9V batteries too.

YA, i love the 00 or finer guage steelwool method. i use a baby maglite. take the bulb out and put wire or paper clip in it and simply touch it. if you build a little nest around some steelwool,( the dryer lint would b perfect) touch the maglite and the steelwool burns long enough to getcha going real well. works every time.

SOS Pads(like for deep scrubbing pots and pans) go up like a blaze because of all the chemicals they are impregnated with, work awesome with the 9volt battery trick

I was messing with steel wool and batteries the other day. I was using the finest steel wool we had, so it would burn easier (#0000) and my phone battery could hardly light it. It was getting it lit, just not in a big enough area to spread.

Has anyone tried the esbit fire starters or the hexamine cooking tablets? The come in a sealed pack....I'll give them a try if nobody has any feedback.

That is such a cool idea, would never have thought of using a striker for a fire starter and I have been welding for years. Something so simple but not thought of, one will be going into my BOB!

Thanks!

I got messin with the flint striker bit n found one lil tidbit makes it work incredibly well, lift up on the striker a bit n gently rub the flint so it makes a dust in the bowl then strike it, n dump it into yer tinder quickly n start blowin

You can do the same with sawdust or even mixing it with dryer lint.

Another "dual use" idea on the cotton balls/dryer lint and petroleum jelly idea:

Take Neosporin antibiotic ointment (which is a good percentage of petroleum jelly) and an old cotton t-shirt, or cotton rag, whatever. Cut the t-shirt into 1 inch sections. Cover the t-shirt in the Neosporin. Dual use. For cuts and scrapes, use the Neosporin covered sections to apply on the wound. You can save used ones for firestarter, there should be enough remaining on the cotton sections for firestarting. Or use individually or in groups for firestarter.

Two uses in the same package. Medicinal and firestarting.

And I'm surprised nobody mentioned birch bark, cedar bark, spruce branches, magnifying glass or a powered rifle scope. Magnifying glass/rifle scope isn't the easiest trick in the book, but it does work as I did it in my youth in the Scouts.