Guns, Bows, Shooting Sports, and Hunting Fire starter and Hatchet

[BIGNASTY]

Have been in the field for the last weeks, had a chance to test out some of the new Emergency gear that I have. I picked up a new fire starter at a outdoor show a few months ago. I like this one because of the size of it. The one I had worked but when my hands were cold it was kind of small and I had a hard time working it with gloves on. This new one is the way to go and it didn't take but one strike with dry pine needles and kind of wet kindling and I had a fire when I needed it. The sparks this thing puts out are AMAZING!!!! I got the one without the compass and thermometer. I had a GPS and really didn't WANT to know how cold it was!

http://www.allweatherfirestarters.com/
http://www.allweatherfirestarters.com/?page_id=4&category=1&product_id=5

Also have a new hatchet to cut kindling and for what ever you could need to pound into the ground. Its an indestructible tool that my mule stepped on, it works pretty good and no wooden handle to break when a few pounds steps on it!! I have one of their long handled axe's to split wood for the house, its the only thing that I use now. Not to traditional but when its cold, who cares!!

http://www2.fiskars.com/Gardening-a...and-Striking-Tools/X7-Hatchet-14#.UnGa1J3n-cw


Just thought that some of the outdoor types would like a real life OK FINE on a product, at least IMO

BIG

 

[GCroyle]

BIG,

Never owned a magnesium fire starter but the idea is sound and proven. Remember on the show Survivor? Time an time again, make a fire but no clue how to use the mag starter.

I don't have a new axe, or hand axe but I consider my Dad's old wood handle BSA hand axe a must have tool when its fire time. Its a good tool and has a lot of quality time built right in it. and nobody gets to use it but me. The new handles offer a lot of durability for sure, I converted to fiberglass on my mauls.

Gary

 

[JR]

Those look nice BIG. I Split with an old Wetterling that was handed down to me from my grandpa. she's an oldie but the quality is good and I'm quite fond of it.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Gary



I like to practice skills when ever I go out, its one thing to do it at home but quite different in the woods as im sure you know, I guess it comes from my Boy Scout days. I tried my Ammo Can wood stove the last night out that worked great and cost nothing compared to the cost of a commercially made one, the only problem with it was that when I fired it up in the kifaru tipi the animals wanted in, there just wasn't enough room. :-laf



http://store.kifaru.net/4-man-tipi-p76.aspx

 

[BIGNASTY]

Those look nice BIG. I Split with an old Wetterling that was handed down to me from my grandpa. she's an oldie but the quality is good and I'm quite fond of it.

I really like the old tools also, I HAD!! an double headed axe that my Son found at a garage sale and bought for me. It was super heavy but ya didn't have to put to much effort into the down swing it carried its own weight, Someone was using it got tired because of the weight and shanked it on a log broke the handle. I think that TDR still has its verbal atrocities block in place so I cant say what was actually said, im sure you get the point

BIG

 

[Axtell3]

I tested, and have a similar starter for the NAHC. (gasp) Pretty good. It's a little bigger than the one in the video, and has 2 compasses in the handle. I use it often to start the gas grill... hahaha. darn clicker croaked. My brother has that fiskers/gerber hatchet. very nice. Good for pelvis' I bet.

 

[NIsaacs]

A bic lighter for a $1. 00 works fine:-laf



Nick

 

[DonFitzwater]

I use road flares to start fires! Nothing like being in wet, windy southeast Alaska and nothing dry to burn. Some 2 cycle oil and a road flare and anything will get going.

 

[BIGNASTY]

I use road flares to start fires! Nothing like being in wet, windy southeast Alaska and nothing dry to burn. Some 2 cycle oil and a road flare and anything will get going.

I REALLY!!!! Like your initiative!!!!!!!!!!

 

[TJJEEPER]

Wow, the Fiskars have gone fancy! I've got the Gerber in the same size. Looks to be the same Axe except for the colors and sheath. I motorcycle camp and those axes are compact and relatively light. As for a fire started I pack a Zippo. Fill it every time before I leave and have never had it fail me yet. And I'm not a smoker

 

[BIGNASTY]

I love my Fiskars axe being 6ft 6in tall its longer handled so I don't have to bend over when chopping wood and the way its made it goes thru wood like butter if its dry, if not it may take another whack. Stays sharp, I haven't had to sharpen it yet and I have been doing!! some chopping with it.

http://www2.fiskars.com/Gardening-a...iking-Tools/X27-Splitting-Axe-36#.UnLzR53n-cw

 

[TJJEEPER]

NICE! I really like the long handle!
I'm using a Plumb that I got from my Dad. It's the heavy head and it actually came out of an emergency kit on a train. Has sentimental value, and now a loose head from some butt head improperly using it... time for another wedge.

 

[The patriot]

Kifaru..... good stuff.
I'm hardly in the boonies, but I keep a magnesium fire starter in every vehicle.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Kifaru..... good stuff.

I'm hardly in the boonies, but I keep a magnesium fire starter in every vehicle.

Kifaru is EXCELLENT equipment but its pricey!! if you use it then IMO its worth the extra, but if only a fair weather or occasional user its a bit much. I have the 4 man with my ammo can stove, with a tipi liner and floor, it got so warm I had to vent it off to keep from sweating.



Being that our children are both in the Medical field Son Part time, Daughter full time we have first aid kits all over the place in the house, shop, camping equipment, most of the stuff I know how to use there are a few things in the kits that I would have to be talked thru to use but have no problem with doing that either. Every car and piece of equipment we have has a emergency kit, my little saying on the bottom of all my post's says it best. I got that saying from a Forest Service 1st Responder when his crew took a covered body out of our mountains, IN THE SUMMER, it don't have to be nasty weather to go belly up.



. . IT'S NOT IGNORANCE THAT GET'S YOU KILLED, ITS NOT BEING PERPARED

 

[The patriot]

I have a Kifaru Marauder. Bomb proof!

 

[HHhuntitall]

I've seen the Kifaru stuff... . some of the cowboys use them when they travel to daywork. Cheaper than going home, usually, and pretty darn good at keeping you and your stuff dry... . A company in Lubbock makes something similar, Cowboy Teepees. Quest tarp company. I've had two, sold one, loaned the other out. I've got a nice horse trailer, now...

I've got some old mauls, hatchets, and two axes that were hand made... . J. C. Wills made them in Lueders, Tx, sometime about 20 years before I was born... . After he died, his kids took a bunch of the stuff, but as I got older, his widow gave me a few things she had kept... He was a blacksmith for 40+ years. But those things are TOUGH!! I've put two handles in the axe, and one in the maul, and both have split a lot of wood, chopped ice in the winter, chopped down trees in fencelines, split sternums on elk, and countless other things... . Some of the truly handy things I've been given in my life... . besides a swift kick in the arse!! An old man in Canton hand carved the handles for me. I changed a flat on the side of the road for him one day, and he travels to all the trades days around the area... He was in Bowie a month or so later, saw me, chased me down, and gave me two extra long handles he carved out of Hickory, I think. Wouldn't let me pay him... . Dang toughest handles I've ever had!! I put one in a generic axe head I had, and I don't use it much... the other looks like it's old, and I guess it's getting there, 10+ years. But I can drive nails with it, If I wanted!! I'm pretty tall, too, so the long handles keep me from leaning over quite as far, and give me some speed you just can't get elsewhere!! That head's a little heavy for some, but I can split wood with it if need be... . Or a dogs head, as has been discovered a time or two... . Had to beat that old iron!!

I like the flares, too. I get them from the Sherriff's office pretty regular, so I've got a good stash... at least 6 in every truck, and a few in my box... First aid kits in every truck that travels, including clot patches for big holes... . Never know, running around with a bunch of Marines or Cops what's gonna happen... . I don't travel very light, anymore.....

 

[BIGNASTY]

I have come to that point HH... ... ... our light travel just means getting another Mule to do the light work!!!

 

[HHhuntitall]

Problem these days, BIG, is it usually ends up, I AM THE MULE!! :-laf I'll end with all kinds of crap in my pack that's not mine... . Traveling with horses, we'll base camp near where the trailer is. Then it's either light travel for a day, with maybe a cold camp at night... . I'm not scared to put my pony in a trot for hours at a time, terrain permitting. Then it's just some jerky and a bedroll, with a rifle and ammo in my pack... . I'm pretty used to trotting with a backpack!

 

[BIGNASTY]

Not me HH I took the time to learn to pack so we could be comfortable and even thou it costs to feed them year round, it sure is nice to have the club med of the Rocky's waiting when we get back to camp. We use spike camps and use MRE's usually for only a night or two that's enough for most that arnt use to it, then they want to go back to the base camp shower eat well and sleep in a tent with cots and heat.