Gerber Bear Grylls Survival Series Fire Starter for $7.84
Light fireworks like Bear does! Eligible for Free SS Shipping ($25.00).
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
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I think I want a few...great stocking stuffers for later this year
looks like it also holds emergency water rations so you don't have to drink your pee
@w00tgurl: Or squeeze it out of elephant dung.
I'll just ask a young Drew Barrymore to help get the flames rolling.
@w00tgurl: Not sure if this is a joke, but it doesn't.
It's a really nice firestarter though. Feels well made, sparks very nicely. Whistle is alright, I'm sure there's much louder. I don't think you could hear this whistle from more than a mile away in a forest.
There's a compartment to keep tinder in (comes with a tiny cotton ball). Claims it's waterproof, it may be safe if you submerge it for a few seconds but I think it will leak in pretty fast.
I'd recommend buying this
Does it light elephant Poo on fire too, or is that just for drinking?
For under $8, it's a pretty decent deal. At $18, it's not worth it. Breakdown in pricing:
- fire starter - Meritline sells these for a buck or two regularly. If you don't want to wait, it's about $3-4.
- Whistle - can't say how good it is but they're pretty cheap anyway
- waterproof case & lanyard is nice and is probably a few bucks, too.
All in all, I'd say it's good at $8.
BTW - dryer lint is great for starting fires!
@w00tgurl: If you're a true Bear fan, or Bear himself, most any situation warrants drinking your own urine. The presence of water doesn't usually change that.
"Bear Grylls? Never heard of her."
- Les Stroud
lulz
So... it's a $4 item, with a cord ($0.05) and cheap whistle ($1), for $8? With free shipping?
Wow, sign me up for a hunderd-fifty of'em!
@apfrehm: but if I'm not going to drink pee, what will I carry in the gutter snake I'm carrying...
does it come with a camera crew as well?
Hasn't this guy ever heard of a Bic lighter?
The greatest video ever made:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuB3kr3ckYE
I came here looking for the Bear Grylls enema kit. Disappointed.
While I plan to never be more than five minute's walk from a flush toilet or light switch for the duration of my life, it's always kind of nifty to be able to 'make' fire by means other than a lighter. Some sort of primal, ancient thought pattern, there.
My father had a magnesium block/flint striker on his keychain for decades, and it would get used whenever camping conditions allowed, up to and including out-firebuilding my sister's girl scout troop, and they had matches!
I'm not alone with my thoughts that he's a gigantic tosser am I?
Les Stroud's little adventures seem fairly genuine in comparison, and therefore more enjoyable.
I really don't understand the Les Stroud love.
He always has as much spare parts and food as he can carry, he is often aided by the natives, his producers give him emergency survival kits and lighters, he pretty much just sits there running out the clock, and when the going gets tough, they helicopter his ass back to safety.
I have watched literally every Les Stroud TV show, movie, and documentary, and they are incredibly boring. Sorry.
Can't make the fire bow work? Well my crew gave me a Bic lighter just in case!
Can't find anything to eat? Well I do have a bucket of meat with me, you know, to feed the dogs!
Can't make shelter, but look, I "found" a cabin!
Get lost in the snow? I use my GPS and SAT phone to call in an air rescue.
I can't move more than 2 miles a day because I have to carry 100lbs of gear.
Comparing Stroud to Grylls doesn't make sense to me; one is about surviving without moving (yawn bushcraft), and the other is about surviving an ordeal or adventure.
* Drinking cup for your own urine not included.
@breaddrink: No but I'm not sure if you're in the majority either.
He's OK...entertaining, somewhat informative. If anyone thinks they can watch a couple seasons and then go off into the wild fully prepared, they're in for a harsh lesson and rightly so. Most of the people who watch his show probably have never and won't ever do any real camping (car camping doesn't count). However, should they ever be caught in some emergency situation, maybe some spark in their brain will remind them of some episode that might save their life.
@tucnguyen: "BTW - dryer lint is great for starting fires!"...unless you have a girlfriend who's hair gets everywhere, then the dryer lint smells horrid when ignited.
I like these kind of firestarters, but this is a bit more polish than function. You're better off getting one of the cheap imports that has a magnesium bar too, so that you have built-in fuel.
@enantiodromia: Although "incredibly boring," you've managed to watch literally every one of his shows, documentaries, etc...?
i can't understand this logic. If you've seen enough to the point where it's incredibly boring, expect that; still, you continue to watch? As for him running out the clock, you try running out the clock in the amazon, desert, and see how well you fare.
Les Stroud / Bear Grylls, they're both pretty awesome.
Les Stroud is a man; Bear Grylls is a boy pretending to be a man.
@jpark98: Are you saying you don't understand that people do things they think are boring? I figured actually learning about someone and what they are known for was a useful thing to do, despite the fact that for the most part the content is dreadfully boring. I guess in Web20 times though, people are just expected to watch something for 15 minutes before they declare something the best/worst thing ever.
@gochr1s, Grylls has given more to charity than you will ever even make in your life. Like I mentioned above, instead of just watching a few tv shows before I formed an opinion, I actually learned about Grylls as well. What you don't see in the TV shows is that Grylls is a quite devout Christian and uses his influence for the good of his church. I'm not religious myself, but I can respect that. Can you? He also does events and stunts for charity, raising more money for good causes than I am sure you have. He also has about a billion more viewers than Stroud could ever reach.
@gochr1s: I'm not sure I'd call someone who served in the military and was in the 21 Regiment Special Air Service, 21 SAS(R), as a trooper, survival instructor and Patrol Medic a boy but that's just me.
who gives a rat's ass what church he goes to? great, he gives to charity, good for him; fact remains, he misrepresented the substance of his show & got called on it. THAT is my #1 beef with the guy...drinking his own urine (which is a bar bet more than a valid survival tactic) is simply icing on the cake of fail.
and since when did the # of viewers validate a TV show's substance? i'm sure "Jersey Shore" has millions of viewers also, but that don't make it "Jeopardy".
This is just my opinion, and why I prefer one over the other...
It's about the integrity of what they're trying to put across, not merely as some super human survive anything mega-man, but what the tv show itself is trying to say and if it achieves that.
Bear Grylls and his tv program is nauseating to me. It seems designed to simply impress. A few words of how incredibly dangerous what he's about to do to the camera, and then it's off to work with ground thumping music following. If you've any background in video editing you can tell that it's very VERY set up for the most part.
It isn't about whether Les Stroud is any more or or less of a super-hero...It's that the show seems to succeed. They don't try to fool you into thinking that he's at deaths door every second. He just discusses and talks about what he might do if this was a genuine situation while he actually goes about surviving.
He often talks about his safety backups, and I think that oddly it only makes it all the better.
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