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Jun 18 2015

The Best Bow Drill Woods

Best woods for the bow drill create a hot coal faster. Imagine you’re shipwrecked like Tom Hanks in Castaway. Stranded on a Pacific island with no matches or lighter. Or, lost in east Texas. You can’t boil your drinking water or cook the mouse you trapped for your survival stew without fire. What are you […]

Written by Mark · Categorized: survival skills · Tagged: best woods for bow drill, bow drill, cottonwood, fire by friction, fire making, hearth board, primitive fire making, red cedar, redwood, survival skills, yucca

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