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Essential Prep: Stocking Up on Butane Lighters for Emergencies 🔥

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Fire starting and survival go hand-in-hand like peanut butter and jelly. I’m not much of a bushcraft person so more modern, simple fire-starting methods have been the mainstay of my fire-starting catalog for some time. Butane lighters – including the famous Bic lighter – if my main method.

In the following video, I discuss my stocking up on butane lights.

got Bic?

Rourke

 

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4 responses to “Essential Prep: Stocking Up on Butane Lighters for Emergencies 🔥”

  1. geezer Avatar
    geezer

    butane lighters are a great prepping item. its like buying food. some extras every week will add up fast. i have come to think of them as good barter items. you can build a lot of fires with just one so they will be valuable if something bad were to happen. those long ones would be handy also but my experience has been that they don’t seem to last long in storage, i don’t know why, YMMV.
    good luck to all and thanks again Mr Rourke

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    1. JR Avatar
      JR

      Geezer – thanks for the comment. I haven’t had any issue with storing the long ones for long periods of time. I will say my experience is they do not light and last nearly as long as the normal size. Appreciate it.

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  2. geezer Avatar
    geezer

    keep a fire going.
    the native americans and other ancient people’s would get a fire started and keep it fed and going, as it was a major task to start another one when traveling from one spot to another. they would pack sticks and grasses into a long fire bundle made from hollow bark or logs so as to be carried between camps, they would have to stop periodically to tend to and feed them, but they had the means to easily start a fire when they stopped to camp without the need to start one with a bow drill or some other friction starter.

    -Fire Torches (1.42 million years ago – 20,000 BC): Early humans made the first torches by setting fire to a stick or a bundle of twigs. They were rudimentary but served the need for light and protection against predators.
    Oil-based Torches (20,000 BC – 1800 AD): Around 20,000 BC, humans began to use animal fat to make torches burn for longer. These torches, soaked in animal fat, were commonly used throughout ancient times and into the middle age.
    per https://www.torchdepot.com
    something to think about and maybe practice as we could be thrown back a thousand years at any moment. better to know how now than to have to figure it out later.
    i like to try things out like this just for fun and the educational value.

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    1. JR Avatar
      JR

      Thanks Geezer! Great info and suggestions. I continue to buy butane lights and even picked some up this past weekend. I think they are incredibly valuable. I sell Strike Anywhere Matches – which are harder to find nowadays. I am filling mason jars with these and do include some striking paper even though they are easy to light on a variety of surfaces. I’ll post some pictures soon. Matches are rarely discussed when it comes to fire starting and stocking up.

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