*****Give - Away***** Fire Starter!!!!!!

Bear Grylls

Gerber Survival, Fire Starter

A great tool to add to your bug out bag, camping items, first aid kit, or an emergency bag.    Register now, see the rules below.

 

 

Technical Details

• Compact fire starter with ferrocerium rod and metal striker
• Lanyard to keep product secure and together
• Emergency whistle, integrated into lanyard cord
• Waterproof storage compartment for tinder
• Land to air rescue and SOS instructions also priorities of survival pocket guide

Bear Grylls and Gerber Team Up
The Fire Starter is part of the Gerber Bear Grylls Survival Series of gear. This collaboration brings together Gerber’s 70+ years of knife and gear expertise with Bear Grylls’s extensive outdoor survival and adventure experience to create a one-of-a-kind line of knives, tools, and gear.

Get a Fire Going Quickly and Safely
The Fire Starter contains everything you need to get a fire going–simply pull the unit apart. It features a ferrocerium rod and a metal striker, as well as a waterproof storage compartment to keep tinder dry.

A lanyard keeps each piece of the product secure while it’s open, and has an integrated emergency whistle for quick access when you need it.

Lightweight Design for Easy Portability
Measuring 4-4/5 inches when closed, with a weight of 2-3/5 ounces, the Fire Starter fits neatly into a backpack or gear bag. It is a self-contained, waterproof unit that can be easily converted into a fire-starting kit by pulling the two ends apart.

Includes Bear Grylls’ Pocket Survival Guide
This tool comes with land to air rescue instructions and Bear Grylls’ informative Priorities of Survival pocket guide, loaded with survival basics designed to help keep you alive until you can be rescued or rescue yourself. 

 

Rules

Entries must be received by Friday, February 8, 2013 by 6:00 AM. The drawing will be held Friday evening, February 8, 2013. All names will be placed in a bowl, and a name will be pulled from the bowl by Bulldog Man on Friday evening, February 8th. If your name is picked as a winner, I will post your first name on my blog site along with my e-mail address, you will have 4 business days to respond to me by e-mail. If there is no response, your entry will be null (void), and I will be required to pick another winner.

How To Enter

All entries must be made on the comment form of this post.  One entry per person. Good Luck Everyone!!!!

Preppers and Batteries

What type of batteries do you have?  Without really thinking about it, how many times have you just plugged in your battery charger and walked away while your batteries charged? Now what would you do if you had no power?  You can’t just plug them in and expect them to charge.  If you had another source of generated power such as wind, solar, or generator, then you could plug them in.  Otherwise you’re pretty much in the dark.  As preppers, Bulldog man and I maintain a selection of alkaline batteries for emergencies.  We surveyed all of our stand alone appliances, radios, lamps, flash lights; fire/gas alarms, clocks and tools, made a list, and purchased exactly what was needed to last for an emergency.  Consider having enough batteries to last for at least a 3 to 6 month period. 

Camping

Camping season is upon us.  Our family just loves to pull out the tent and all the gear and head out to the mountains or lake and camp.  Yes, we are the family that gets together and loves the outdoors, including our dogs.  In preparation for camping, we make sure all our gear is functional and in total working condition.  In fact, most of our gear is used at times in and around the house when needed.

Since the weather here today was going to be nasty based on what the local weather man stated, we decided as a family to head over to Academy Sports and check out the camping equipment (aka:  window shop but in the store).   We came across a Magellan Outdoors, Bryce Canyon II Cabin Tent.  The size 17’ X 9’, sleeps 8, original price $99.99, sale price $69.88.  Through a long discussion, we decided that we needed a new tent not because our tent was bad but because we just needed more space to get around.    When you get up there in age as some of us, you really don’t want to be lying directly on the ground.  It’s time for the good old queen size, double stacked blowup mattress.  Then of course your kids or guests also need their own space and potentially their own blowup mattress too.

Tomorrow we will be setting up the tent to ensure that we have a totally functional tent with all the parts included.

Camping here we come!!!  Hope to see ya’ll one day up in the mountains or at the lake. Enjoy your evening.