Firestarter Review from Bug-Out Survival
Regular readers of SurvivalCommonSense know that survival firemaking is one of my pet subjects.
Regardless if you’re a survivalist, prepper, or just a well-prepared backpacker; if you are making a wilderness survival kit, a bug-out bag, a set of Ten Essentials
- The SurvivalCommonSense firestarter is waterproof and will burn on snow, or when the weather is wet and nasty.
or a pocket kit for urban survival; you need a reliable method of firemaking.
The ignition source can be anything, as long as a flame is produced. But I also encourage everyone to carry some form of lightweight, highly flammable firestarter. You might be in a situation where the tinder is damp, and a fire is needed quickly.
The idea for a wallet-sized firestarter came several years ago when I was working in the Bend (OR) Bulletin newsroom. Five unprepared snowmobilers were lost overnight in the Central Oregon backcountry. They burned money, credit cards, their map, the titles to their snowmobiles and personal possessions to make a smoky, inefficient fire.
Scott B. Williams, from the great Bug-Out Survival blog tested some SurvivalCommonSense wallet-sized firestarter and here is his evaluation:
