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Practicing getting a fire using a lighter that has no fuel.

Video of a blacktail fawn hiding by being very still.

Charcloth is a good material for practicing flint & steel skills. Here's a simple way to make charcloth on a small, homemade alcohol stove. These stoves are made out of aluminum cans and are fueled with denatured alcohol or Heet.

Also known as the "Rudiger Roll," the fire roll is a friction fire starting method. Here, cotton balls and rust are combined under friction to produce an ember.

This is a simple fire piston made from maple hardwood scrap. I wanted to make a 'quick and dirty' fire piston concentrating on function rather than form. In other words, it's ugly, but it works. I'm guessing the piston cylinder is a 5/16" hole 3 1/4" deep. It's been sanded smooth with various grits of sand paper. The piston rod has a channel cut into it around 1/32" deep for a gasket. The gasket is cotton string and is lubed with water or petroleum jelly. There's no sealant applied other in the bore once it's used. I'm lighting chaga in the video and using that ember to ignite another piece as a coal extender.

One simple way of making a knife (for bushcraft or whatever) without a cumbersome quench and tempering cycle. Using an old file, the knife blank is tempered in a kitchen oven.

Getting a coal for fire starting using a technique that may have been used by Otzi or some Native American tribes. Sparks are generated from striking pyrite onto various stones. Those sparks catch on pieces of dried false tinder fungus which has been scraped to make them "fluffy" and grow into a coal. The coal could be used with a tinder bundle to start a fire.