In relation to bug-out luggage, survival kits, and even first assist kits, I’m not very eager on premade, store-bought choices. Most of them are crammed with junk. By and enormous, they qualify as talismans of security.
Nevertheless, hearth kits are a little bit totally different. A premade hearth equipment could be a helpful addition to your pack, supplied you’ve checked it out and decided the standard of the elements.
Enter The Prep Bible’s Bushcraft All-Climate Hearth Beginning Package. They despatched me a pattern equipment just a few months in the past to evaluate.
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The Prep Bible’s Bushcraft Hearth Beginning Package
Package Contents
Right here’s what you’ll discover on this fire-starting equipment.
Weatherproof matches: 20 of them inside a tough case with a strike strip alongside the facet
Ferrocerium rod and striker: a 5-inch rod that’s 0.5-inch thick, with a striker connected through wire
Magnesium rod: a 3.5-inch x 0.62-inch rod of strong magnesium
Emergency candle: 12-hour candle
Hearth plugs: 10 plugs which might be used for tinder
Fatwood: two sticks, every 4 inches lengthy and a couple of half-inch thick
Hearth bellows: extendable hole rod for blowing a weak coal into flame
MOLLE pouch: made from 600D nylon, it measures 4.72” x 2.36” x 6.88”
Utilizing the Package
I took the fire-starting equipment out to the yard and examined a number of of the elements. Not one of the objects have been branded, so I can’t say for sure the place they’re being sourced from.
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The ferro rod was nice. It simply showered a ton of sparks with each scrape. I used the included scraper in addition to the backbone of a knife. At 5 inches lengthy, it’s simple to carry and manipulate. I like that the scraper is already connected to the rod through cordage.
Subsequent, I grabbed a few the weatherproof matches. They every lit immediately with the slightest strain towards the striker strip on the facet of the container. The matches burned for just a few seconds, however not fairly so long as I’d have favored to see. That mentioned, they burned fierce and sizzling.
The fatwood sticks are positively a pleasant addition to the equipment. Scraping a small pile of shavings, they lit proper up with the ferro rod. Every of the sticks has a drilled gap, and I like to recommend including a lanyard. This provides you with a bit extra buy in your grip as you scrape the wooden.
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We’ve talked earlier than in regards to the significance of together with a hearth bellows in your equipment. I like that The Prep Bible included one right here. It really works properly and operates precisely because it ought to.
I’ve used a number of various kinds of hearth plugs over time. Those on this equipment are very exhausting, and I had some problem working with them. The way in which they work is you twist them round to reveal and loosen the cotton fibers so that they’re simple to gentle.
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These specific plugs have been very stiff, and it took a good bit of labor to get them able to take a spark. Nevertheless, as soon as lit, they burned for a number of minutes. Tossing it onto the snow didn’t put it out, both.
The MOLLE pouch is sweet high quality and has an inner pocket to assist preserve issues organized. Mine is black, however pink may be simpler to identify in a backpack.
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Advice
General, The Prep Bible’s Bushcraft All-Climate Hearth Beginning Package is fairly first rate. I’d solely make a few adjustments. I’d add a lighter, both a Bic or an Exotac titanLIGHT. And I’d swap out the fireplace plugs for one thing a little bit simpler to make use of. There are a ton of various ones available on the market.
The Prep Bible’s Bushcraft All-Climate Hearth Beginning Package goes for $45, which is a reasonably truthful value for all you’re getting within the equipment.
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[Special thanks to The Prep Bible for providing the kit for review.]
