My 1000 Post Fiddleback Giveaway Challenge (WINNER ANNOUNCED!!!)

He folks, this ends soon.

We only have three entries so far so the odds are good for the folks who put in the effort! Remember you just have to make a bow drill set and try your best to get a fire or make a natural shelter in the woods with some kids.

The challenge ends this Saturday August 22nd at midnight pacific time!!!

Good luck!!
 
I'm going to try to get an entry in here in the next day or so! Been remodeling our living room so fun things have been put off.
 
Man I am likin' them odds!

But seriously, how is it that everyone has not entered. This is an amazing giveaway, and the challenges are fun. Have some fun and get a chance to win an awesome knife.
 
I'm going to call this the suburbia bow drill fail. I had a wild hair to try a bow drill only problem I'm not in a spot with trees on dead limbs really? so I scrounged up what I could find in my suburban back yard . One y shaped branch limb tha. didn't have a straight piece on it a 2x4 and a broken fence board and the only paracord was my 550 firecord.
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This first picture is the branch that made my bow and drill.



This is my drill after cleaning the bark off it



Here is me taking apart my dogs collar for the cordage



Here is everything together



I tried for a hour to try to even get it to smoke and failed terribly at it. This into as easy as it looks I kept flinging my spindle like 10 ft couldn't get it to spin more than 7 seconds at a time. This sure made me humble to the guys that make it look like it's a piece of cake but I will not give up I think this weekend I'm going to go out to the woods and give it another shot where Ill have more then 2 hours of light and all the supply I could need to make a better attempt. I wasn't even going to post this but I figured I would show people realities that people will fail just have to keep trying even if it doesn't qualify as an entree

P.s. sorry for the poor Grammer and spelling
 
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Last day!!!!! If you want to enter, get out there and do it!

Zack1421- you are entered! Keep trying though!! if your spindle is flinging out you need to check your form. Make sure you are locking your wrist against your leg and the spindle stays vertical and the hand hold flat. Once those look good, slowly start to use long strokes with your bow. Don't forget to keep your bow strokes parallel to the ground. Only add speed once the form looks good. It's also gets easier every time you try. Like any new skill, the first attempts are always awkward. Good luck!
 
Well, I was able to take a couple hours this afternoon and give the bowdrill a shot. This is probably my third time trying a bowdrill fire so I wasn't expecting much, but I got something right and surprised myself with an ember and subsequent fire!

I used mostly cottonwood though my spindle may have been elm, I'm not quite sure. A chunk of green plum for the handhold, and jute, dry mullein leaves, and dry grass for tinder. It took a couple tries to get comfortable with the form again and get the bow string adjusted correctly, once I got there and started seeing some nice smoke I ran off to collect tinder before giving it another go that ended up being the successful one!

Pictures!

Materials.
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The Patch was a touch small for the baton job but it got er done.
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Ready!
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Prepped for notching.
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I thought this notch was too large but it worked so I don't know what to think...
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Tinder. The mullein was just a random guess for tinder but it actually held an ember really well.
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Smoke!
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Holy cow an ember!
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I started with just the jute, but the whole bundle probably would have been better. I ended up wrapping the jute and ember in the rest of the tinder right after this picture.
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I was too excited and forgot to take a picture of the blowing it into a flame process... but my first successful friction fire!
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Thank you very much for the challenge Hasco. I probably never would have gotten out there and gave the bowdrill another try without this challenge. Now that I've had some success, I'm definitely going to practice.
 
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Thanks hasco!

I was telling one of my friends about this and he seemed interested in trying a bowdrill out, so next time I'm out hiking with him we'll give it a shot. :thumbup:
 
WE HAVE A WINNER!!!

I want to thank everyone who went out and tried one of the challenges! I was hoping to inspire folks to get outside and use their knives or spend some time with young ones in the woods. All the entries were great and I was rooting for everyone who entered. I gave all the entries a number and used a random number generator to decide the winner.

The winner is.........

abbydaddy!!

If you can pm your mailing details I will get the bushfinger and sheath out to you.

Thanks again to everyone who entered! I hope you continue to work on your skills and had fun getting your entry in.
 
:eek: WOOHOOOOOO!!! Wow! Thank you very much. Once again that is an incredibly generous giveaway. I am thrilled to have won. :D
 
Congrats abbydaddy! And thanks hasco for the chance and it was fun!
 
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Aaww, too bad.. ;)

Thanks again for the generosity Hasco! It was fun to try and I am not done yet!

Congratulations on winning that awesome price AbbyDaddy!
 
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