>>1056504I'm an armchair outist (and a mall ninja) with zero experience. I have lots of knives, mostly BG line, some swords. Never been out in my life. Never used an axe. Happy now?
>Jesus fucking Christ, kid. Do you not have a lighter or matches either?I'm not a kid. As for tinder, it's quite normal to go out without it, but no sane /out/ person would go without a lighter, on purpose.
>I see you've never tried it in your entire life.The energy of a burning 'feather' is not enought to both dry the wet wood and maintain the fire. You can light a single feather, but in the time you get a second one burning, the first one has already died out. When this happened to me, I couldn't believe it, couldn't understand it. I tried with different feather sticks but with the same result. The wood was driest inner wood I could find, and it felt like dry. Anyway I decided to burn a full box of matches at once and it worked. Feather sticks catched fire almost instantly, but my point is they didn't with a match or lighter alone. And yes, I have made some feather sticks so I don't think my techinque was an issue.
Where I live there's always tinder to be found but it's not hard to imagine a situation where you will be fucked without pre-packed tinder.
>semantics on snow, wettness, and....and fucking humidity absorbing feathersticksMany people here have never experienced a real winter, nor tried lighting a fire in other than perfect conditions. It's not uncommon people here think they can always 'find' dry fire wood and 'why carry and axe when you can burn sticks in a dakota fire hole' etc. The worse the conditions, the more you need fire and the more you need tinder and kindling to get that rain soaked wood burning and it takes time, enought time to get those feather sticks wet, especially if youre were dumb enough to make them first.
