Sure Fire Why Carry It?

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This video is from a facebook discussion I had on sure fire and the reasons to carry it.

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alright guys so on facebook Flopsy long ago had a pretty long and meaningful conversation with a pretty good group people some of it led into some private messages some of it was open and some public pages but it was about their fire kick you know and I was discussing my fire kit would I keep and you know didn't really get flack about it but it's kind of some people were surprised about what I carry you know and where they were surprised was excuse me when I message when I mentioned that I carry a lot of surefire you know like mini infernal i even i even have wet fire you know that I've bought probably a year ago but I still keep it and they're like well somebody that's been practicing bushcraft for as long as you have and you know I've been doing this for a while shouldn't even need surefire well I mean sorry but I do and there's reasons why I do that and that's why I wanted to show you guys this video was you know yeah I own the skill of primitive fire you know in my mind I own that skill you know pretty much ninety percent of the time given the right conditions and wrightwood I would get a cold but I've been practicing primitive friction fire and primitive fire in my in my mind there's two different categories there's primitive fire which is everything from that set is taken from the landscape even the cordage you know I use pine route that's a really good suggestion for people the pine route from very small pine white pine red pine saplings really stringing holds up really good other than that there's friction fire set which would use like modern modern Portage's and things like that before for that set so there's two different you know theories of thought there but needless to say I I feel in my opinion that I own that skill so does that mean that I'm just not going to carry surefire my packing absolutely not you know there's many many times when I'm hiking to my camp and it's snowing raining everything's blistering cold I'm not going to get a friction fire set out and start a bow-drill fire you know I'm gonna go get a fire as fast as possible I'm going to use a Bic lighter I'm going to use some surefire I'm gonna get a fire going right in there right now because I want to get warm you know this plain and simple so you know surefire has its place in everyone's back from the novice beginner to the experienced woodsmen yeah no matter who you are what your skill of Liz I would say you probably should keep some kind of a surefire no nonsense I need a fire right now method in your pack so let's go ahead and show you guys what I carry all right guys what you looking at now is my belt pouch and I pretty much where this wherever I go it's always with me if you got catch me out without it then you win a prize first off but you can tell on the very very lip of it is that I've treated it with buffing compound and that's for me to strop my blades with it at night when i'm ready to 20 mins you know I carry a sewing kit in here the needles can be used for many many things I got safety pins in there that can be used for anything for fish into you know god there's a million uses for those i use chaga on a daily basis a lot of you know this a lot of you even comment that I you know pretty much mentioned chaga every single video that I do which I do but i always keep this stuff around not only is it good for fire it's good for medicinals i use it as a medicinal so that's always in my hip pack a very big beefy robust half inch by 6 inch Ferrell rod that has taken probably about two years of abuse and it shows but on this Ferro rod I keep a jute lanyard and a handle made out of Gorilla Tape basically this is a fire kit you know I can shred this gorilla tape and I could pull apart this jute and this jute rope lanyard right here is probably about i'll probably get 20 foot you know all twisted up and rolled up several different times this striker that's on the end of here was given to me by my buddy chris is a prepared my 101 you guys haven't seen his channel then go check him out for sure but you know it's just one of those things where it even the lightest touch just kind of shoots material right off of that fell raw great success with the striker I tell you the truth I really until now I've never even carried a striker I usually use the solve for my multi-tool or something else back of my knife anything so there's fire there you know me personally I like sassafras a lot always keep a big thing a sassafras root just medicinal that I carry as well always keep a lighter I'm sure fire unless is bombing cold or I'm in really extreme high altitudes which I usually don't go in very high altitudes very often burly bomb just did a video on this the stuff hardly ever leaves one of my kids and that could be used for fire as well you know if I have some kind of a dry material even my shirt or anything like that soak that in burley bomb one end of it like the other end that's going to be fuel for that fire always keep the girl stone these things have a really really high grit and just helps me sharpen my blades out in the field other than that some dregs of turtle chaga on the bottom there this is a small rap of fatwood and i found this fat would probably about a year ago it's still very very good and it was a nice red pine stump what I do is I like to take maybe an old bandana or some kind of other cotton material and wrap my fat within it keeps it protected for the most part and this is just caught material for charring and uh cetera so as you can see just right there is c 1 2 3 4 things for fire right there alone that was just in the main pack in this leather pouch there's a little side a little front pouch that i keep a product from norcal survival Livefyre great great great sure fire that thing can burn i believe for up to I don't know I can't remember it's been a while since I looked but I think the whole thing will burn for like 45 minutes or so or you can stretched out and only burn a little bit of it out of time and get multiple multiple fires out of it i've probably i've used this i've used this 10 right here Oh probably 30 about 30 times point 23 times still going strong so the other things that are in here for sharpening sub a diamond rod and Arizona fine stone that I used in Agora stone with its chris slurry but we'll do that another video so that's just my belt pouch you know alone which never leaves my body so I've got four things five things there that I know are going to get me a fire no matter what if my lighter is not working or it's out of fluid for some reason I got the the ferrocerium that's in the rod are in the lighter alone that I can use to strike if not I still have my Ferro rod which is my go-to method for creating fire out in the woods anyway the fat would my mind in my mind and my skill set sure fired me I'm going to get fired from fat would no matter what

just kind of police all this stuff up real quick

you know I always have a certain way let's pack my gear kind of play Tetris with it get in there in right way anyway but I always have a certain order that things going and that's so even when it's dark out even when I can't see everything's pitch black I still no just by touch and feel where my gear is in my pack in my belt pouch you name it so that was just my belt pouch and that fire kit alone is you know more than enough to get me through for whatever I need you know that's going to last me a really long time but my Harbor sack also contains a fire kit also and let's go ahead and go into that alright guys so in my haversack alone is what i would mainly use for my fire kit this is when i'm actually getting ready to make a fire I'll pull out my haversack grab the items that I needed from my haversack the ferrule rod that you see in the hip pack is what i use probably probably about ninety percent of time but i do carry a secondary barrel rod in my haversack it's the strikeforce really really good Ferro rod he's kind of cleaned up a little bit but kind tell how long it's been since I use this one but like I said this is a really great Pharaoh ferrocerium rods are probably my go-to method for making fire it's one of the methods that I've practiced the most width but the inner contents of my ten here and this is a ten that my buddy gave me a thought it was pretty cool so when I packed that it's surefire you know this is my no nonsense it's cold it's wet I need a fire right now and this is a wet fire this thing has been crushed up inside the package the package has not been opened before and i've got probably three or four these are in the same condition and I've had this surefire man it's probably been three years now and about two two and a half years I'd say so about six months ago I grabbed some of the other ones and I opened them up just to test them out like man these guys have been crushed up inside the package for god knows how long let's see if they actually still work and they work just like the fresh one did had no complaints with it so other than that that would be surefire in my opinion I keep a lighter in this kit here alone in this little bag here is my glass my magnifying glass but you know soulard mission is pretty important to me because if I can use the Sun that just means that i'm not using any other resources in my pack and my resources that are in my pack are going to go are going to stretch just that much further so that's that little piece of chaga that was left over for my hip pack but this is something I to use a lot and like I said this is for when I just really just need to get fire going right here right now and that is micro inferno this is a really really cool product from the Pathfinder store one that I use like I said on a lot this stuff I can take this one stick and this is even three quarters of a stick I could probably make four fires out of this dick alone and like I said this is three-quarters of the stick you know as long as I have dry enough tender this is going to give me a fire no matter what you know and if I have marginal tender I'll bust up a whole one of these and light it it'll go for I don't know I haven't timed them but probably at least five six minutes if not longer but you know I hate to kind of say that I'm an experienced woodsman but somebody that has been doing this as long as I have you know I still carry sure fire in my pack you know and that's kind of what I'm trying to get to was it wasn't an argument but it was a discussion that just really kind of didn't make sense to me when somebody was saying you know an experienced woodsman shouldn't ever have to carry sure fire in the pack absolutely should you know yes I know how to make fire and pretty extreme conditions whether it's cold weather it's wet if I didn't have this I would go to my training and my practices and that's why I trained that's why I practice constantly to get that synapses reaction down to get my muscle memory down to where when on nervous is all heck because when bad things happen you're going to be your sympathetic nervous system is going to take over and so when you're dealing with that you're not going to second-guess what you're going to do you're going to know what to do but having surefire your package is going to ensure your success and your survival I keep beeswax candles in my kid as well there's tremendous benefits to having beeswax candles we're going to do a video solely on these beeswax candles and the benefits of carrying them in your pack here really really shortly I keep lil a tape in my pack and I've done a video not too long ago on the duct tape tinder bundle and actually i did a redo of that video as well because there was somebody that was having some issues with it but you know I this is cordage it's tape its fire you know there's many many things that this one little roll of tape is and in my main pack is a bigger role of this this is from a haversack kit and this strike force carries my chrome Furner linear as well so I carry surefire in there as well

so you know when people ask me how do I build a fire kit or what should i pack it as far as fire go Gary I always tell them you know build a fire kit to suit you you know what do you need you need lighters you need a propane torch you know whatever you need what your skill is that's what you need to pack you know I just showed you some of the things that I pack you know and therefore multi-purpose reasons usually like the gorilla tape and Chaka and things like that Jeep portage you know those are things that are for multi-purpose but they go back to fire as well you know I don't usually carry them just for that sole purpose but that's what they can be used for and then there's things that in my pack that are mainly just for fires you know and that's the only thing that in my pack that only has one use you know if our ah only has pretty much one huge I forget fire but fire is so important to me and so multi-use in itself you know from fire i'm going to get medicinals i'm going to get tools i'm gonna get containers you know i'm gonna get things that i can reproduce a lot of my kit but it takes fire to do some of those things yeah so i guess it all boils down to is you know i'm not ashamed to carry sure fire in my pack and that's I think what was the facebook discussion it was trying to kind of put somebody down because they carry surefire you know the easy way is what they call it I'll take the easy way all day long you know when I need a fire like that first thing I grab my 10 and the surefire all right well the purpose of this video wasn't released to downgrade anyone or to get down on anybody or anything like that but you know I really didn't like the way that certain people were talking some of the other guys that were in the discussion that we were having you know so I decided you know this would be a great opportunity to do a video on the subject you know because this isn't the first time that I've been involved in a discussion like this any time you're on any kind of bushcraft page ranking like and there's certain subjects that just really sparked people's interest like guns knives and Fire you know what's goes in your kit things like that those are usually going to be pretty lengthy discussion but like I said that was the first time that I've been in a conversation went like that where somebody was kind of picking on somebody a little bit I guess you'd say because of the fire kit that they made you know that really doesn't make sense to me you should just pack whatever you want to I mean it if you want to pack blowtorch on your back and your back not much but you're definitely gonna get fired you know but I'm you know Lynch your what's your skills improve and once you are familiar with the comfortable washing save with your fire-making abilities then your packs gonna shrink that your fire kids going to shrink it but that holds true with that pretty much any skill you know once you get out into the bush and practice your skills and you know I guess the long and short of this video is you know you're going to pack in your fire kit what you feel you're comfortable with using and you know once you get out there and you practice your bush craft skills a little bit more and you get with some knowledgeable people or should watch youtube videos and you memorize them and then go out and practice them and you own those skills you're going to see that your fire kit is going to start training and that holds true with other skills as well you know once you like I said get with somebody that's knowledgeable and get practicing your skills and you know it's on and on your whole pack will start shrinking you know the more you know the less you need oh it's true it's very true you know I started out when I was a kid I mean I went you guys a kid I would bring a lot of stuff out you know and getting with some other knowledgeable people some that aren't famous that aren't popular but they were very very extremely knowledgeable my pack slowly shrinking just net yeah and that was when I was a kid my fire knowledge really started taking over and then my fire kit started shrinking you know I used to carry everything known demand create fire you know now I carry three main things and then other things in my package that can be used for fire but are usually used for something else all right guys let's been William ours mess out the worst just kind of hopefully they'll clear up some misconceptions about what some people carrying what some don't and why they carry them you know I like I said sure fire is only going to be part of my kid you know just because fire is so important to me is that if I meet it right here right now I know that I have things like it that's going to get to me so like I said it's a bit William iris mass outdoors I hope you enjoyed the video if you did remember to click Subscribe like in my video helps me and my channel out a lot appreciate all reviews comments and sport hopefully we'll see out the woods as kind of keep it in this pouch to keep it protected and it's a really really powerful magnifying glass what it's not protective anymore like I said it wasn't the first time that I've been involved in a discussion like that and to where people were kind of like all right guys let's been we Marsh mass outdoors hopefully this kind of cured cleared up