I want to learn how to make fire without anything I cannot find in wilderness.
I tried making fire using a rock flint (though I suspect I mistaken it for a dark quartz), a stone and some natural tinder. I get small sparks, but my tinder does not want to ignite. I tried using crampballs, papery bits of birch tree and some seeds which look like cotton from some bush as a tinder. They all ignite easily if I use a Swedish firesteel, but don't work with rock flint and stone.
I am actually considering to make a charcol cloth and use it initially as a confidence builder, but is it really so labourious to get fire without using anything man-made? It seems to me it is quite logical that some ingenious tribes in the wild still carry fire with them instead of making it, and if they behave like this, so perhaps I should not even think I can confidently get fire all the time I need by using only resources I can find under my feet...
Thanks,
I tried making fire using a rock flint (though I suspect I mistaken it for a dark quartz), a stone and some natural tinder. I get small sparks, but my tinder does not want to ignite. I tried using crampballs, papery bits of birch tree and some seeds which look like cotton from some bush as a tinder. They all ignite easily if I use a Swedish firesteel, but don't work with rock flint and stone.
I am actually considering to make a charcol cloth and use it initially as a confidence builder, but is it really so labourious to get fire without using anything man-made? It seems to me it is quite logical that some ingenious tribes in the wild still carry fire with them instead of making it, and if they behave like this, so perhaps I should not even think I can confidently get fire all the time I need by using only resources I can find under my feet...
Thanks,