Learn How To Make a Campfire Without Matches

Fire is the flame of life. Without it, we could not survive. Fire will cook your food, purify your water, warm your body, make you feel safe and you can use it to send distress signals.

In a real-time emergency - your trusty lighter fails, your matches get wet, you forgot the flintstone - what would you do? This is the perfect time to bring out your skills and survive or wish you had some skills. 

That is why, - among other things, you need to learn how to make fire, without matches. 

A ferrocerium rod, or ferro rod, will produce hot sparks, in rain or snow and it can ignite damp tinder. 

Use it with natural or homemade tinder like - cotton balls soaked with petroleum jelly, birch bark, dryer lint, rubbing alcohol, dried grass or fatwood. Practice striking the rod until you know the different ways to produce sparks. 

Learn how to set-up different fire lays; 

• teepee
• log cabin
• lean-to
• star
• Dakota pit 

..and learn how to maintain a fire in wet conditions. If you want to become an expert, experiment with bow drills and fire plows if you want to master primitive fire making. 

Learning how to produce and build a fire will build life-long self-reliance. Building a fire without a flame starter is a skill that takes time and patience. But, always try to keep lighters and stormproof matches in your bug-out bag and in your pantry, but never depend on them alone. 

13 Ways to Start a Fire Without Matches or Lighter

When you can build a fire whenever you need one, you’ve passed one of the biggest tests of surviving in the wild..