A good day and a broken firesteel!

VTguy17

VTguy17

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My family lives a ways away so I stayed home for thanksgiving and am going to see them this weekend. Anyway, Sonya and I decided to go out to the swamp (favorite hunting/hanging out spot) have a fire and shoot some small game. We got a bunch of snow the other night so it made for a great day. Camera was low on batteries so I only got a few shots.

The Vermont backroads, so glad I have a Jeep.
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Marlin and a WWII khukuri
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She looks fat but believe me she's not it's all fur :)
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Up here fire is easy in the winter with a little birch bark. Just scrape a thick piece into dust and it lights usually on the first strike.
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My fire steel gets used a lot and has been getting skinny and it finally broke! I still managed to use the striker and the longer piece of rod to easily get a spark.
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Melting some snow for tea
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Some amazing pics buddy, love the dog !

With regards to your dog looking fat comment, my parents used to have a Samoyed and that was the same way, when he was soaking wet he looked half his size !!!
 
Has anybody got any ideas what to do with the untethered broken piece of firesteel? Could it be ground or scraped like a mag bar and catch a spark? Any other ideas?
 
Very cool photos. My father in law has a summer home in Morgan Vermont, on Lake Seymour.
 
Thanks for the pics. I can't wait for our first snow to stick.

Good looking dogs :thumbup:
 
I wasn`t thinking she looked fat I was thinking she looked warm. I had a Norwegian Elkhound when I was youger and she looked huge with her winter coat and tiny when wet in the summer. Great pics and beautiful dog, thanks for posting.
 
Thanks for the kind words!! I love the winter time.


flnder said:
Has anybody got any ideas what to do with the untethered broken piece of firesteel? Could it be ground or scraped like a mag bar and catch a spark? Any other ideas?
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I used the longer half thats not attached to the handle still worked fine and was long enough to get a hold on. Not something I'd want to use all the time but in a pinch it worked fine.
 
So obviously I need a new fire steel. I was thinking I will probably just get another light my fire scout seeing how it's givin me years of good service but I'm always open for a change. Anyone have any "you have to try this" recommendations?
 
Have you ever investigated fire pistons? I still use steel, but I have to admit to being intrigued a bit.
 
DD214 said:
Have you ever investigated fire pistons? I still use steel, but I have to admit to being intrigued a bit.
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I haven't used a fire piston but I must say I have always been intrigued by them, maybe I will pick one up along with another fire steel just to mess around with.
 
Hi. Great pics & cool dog! The skinny firesteel sucks, I've broken mine before starting any proper fire... Then I bought the "army" sized one and that's something completely different.
 
VTguy17 said:
So obviously I need a new fire steel. I was thinking I will probably just get another light my fire scout seeing how it's givin me years of good service but I'm always open for a change. Anyone have any "you have to try this" recommendations?
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Check out one of the misch metal ones from Goingear. Those things throw FIREBALLS! once you get the hang of them. Lot of different sizes also.--KV
 
kvaughn said:
Check out one of the misch metal ones from Goingear. Those things throw FIREBALLS! once you get the hang of them. Lot of different sizes also.--KV
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Are you using just as a blank meaning just holding the rod or do you have a handle or something your putting it in?
 
VTguy17 said:
Are you using just as a blank meaning just holding the rod or do you have a handle or something your putting it in?
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Both. I put some of the small bare ones in my BOB's and put some nice wood handles on a couple others that ride in knife sheaths. They work pretty much the same either way.--KV
 
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