Use this 18th Century Longhunter Hack to Make Fire in the Rain! 

Something about 19th and 18th century technology. It just works.

TY and God Bless!!!

Yes anybody can strike a match or lighter. It's always good to know the the old ways. Like flint and steel, bow friction, etc. Oddly enough I discovered your channel by watching you show how to use flint and steel and make char cloth on the channel Townsend.

If your flinter is unloaded, you can plug the venthole and still use the lock with chared materials in the pan. Works like a champ. I've used this technique decades ago while attending a rendezvous woods walk competion after getting our gear wet or those without a fire kit.

Jack got himself a Garmin GPS watch! Me too, looks like the same model. I didn’t think I’d have much use for it but I’ve come to like it. The trek back feature came in handy when I lost a glove! Lol. Great job on the video Jack! 👍 Hopefully this smoke from the wildfires isn’t causing you much trouble.

I used to do these using 2x2's gauze pads cut triangularly.. they work brilliantly and hold more powder.

👍 Great tip. I also have a 20 gauge smoothbore flintlock and never thought of making rub cloth. Thank you!

Yes. Survivalist / Guntuber crossovers need to happen

In the Netherlands or Belgium we can not buy black powder like you can. However we can buy firework for new year. And it is made with black powder. Personly I find firework a lost of money, but for this use, it is great. Dismamtel the one firework and have enough black powder for starting emergency fire in the rain. I do know that black powder has to be dry to do the job. In the Netherlands and in Belgium in those old days, in the places where black powder was kept for war, they rolled regulary the powder tons to hear if the powder was dry or wet. If wet, the powder was spread on a special table to dry. In order to make this hack work, one should make his cotton with black powder in advance.

Whenever you clean your muzzle loader, keep the cleaning patches with which you clean the gun. Once the wet patches are covered with wet fowling, I normally throw them away. But if I set them aside to dry, you are more than half way to your "rub cloths". If you play with them a bit you will see how well they work. The more I study the 18th century pioneers, the more I am amazed how smart they really were. Just my thoughts...

Fantastic!!!!!!!!!! I love me some Coalcracker videos. Always simple and straight to the point!!!!!

Thanks Dan!

I made some not long ago with some old powder I had .Worked just like yours did. Fast and furious.

As a grade school kid found black powder recipe in old encyclopedia Britannica. Experimented with different formulas and had fun making things that go bang. @2 parts sugar to 1 part saltpeter would make good fuse or fire cloth. Same idea .

Dang that is COOL...Brilliant idea, Thats going right into my fire kit today.

Always something good. Yrs ago got to fire a civil war carbine,your right,it is cool!

Thanks! I live in Oregon. One can count on it being wet at any given hour above 300 ft.

Very nice job on this post, thanks,

I dampen Jute with a KNO3 Solution (Potassium Nitrate - the same oxidizer used in Black Powder) and then Dry Thoroughly, to make for easier "catching" of spark. Blue Jean material works too! 100% Cotton Canvas is one of the best Char cloth materials, I've found.

Have you seen the recent video from David West showing how wood ashes mixed with ground punk wood will catch a spark from flint and steel? It's one of the few methods I've seen to create an ember without using any charred material.

Good job Dan

drying out cleaning patches also work.

Thanks for the video.

Huzza! That is a most excellent tip, sir. I do some 18th century reenacting, so this shall come in quite handy.

Cool!! Thx Dan!

Thanks for the info

Hi from Syracuse NY brother and thank you for sharing your muzzleloader

Been into bushcraft, and especially old tech for years, and had never heard about this in any of the circles I’ve been in, thanks! I wonder if synthetic black would work the same? If not, I keep a few cans of good old Swiss stored for later use!

Awesome video... Thank you..

Our ancestors knew how to do it right every time. Love black powder!

Cool as cooler Dan

Great video!!! Maybe make a video on taking apart a bullet and using the gun powder in the same manner. So a knife for a shotgun shell or a multi tool (pliers) for brass bullet.

Just in time for the 4th of July! Woo Hoo Thanks Dan

Damn. Once you think you've see it all then this comes up.

That was some really good cool interesting information. I’m going to make some. Thanks

Very cool!

Thank you for this Video.

Very cool idea.

Thats awesome.

That was excellent.

Awesome video! Thanks for the info

Awesome. Great idea.

That was so cool Dan!!!

Looks like there are quite a few black powder enthusiasts here! Mine.. 1766 Charleville, also have g-g grandpa’s 1853 Enfield (used for popping yanks).

Oh boy, this brings up some nice memories :) Long time ago, when kids life was still fun (sorry about that new kids 😁), we had something we called "corks". I have no idea how those things are called in english. It's a bit of explosive similar to a gunpowder (i remember that it was reddish in colour), in a small paper pulp cup. It was used for old style starter pistols, so probably had a bit phosphorous in it to ignite it with a strike. As kids, we liked to play with it and one of the fun (and a bit dangerous) things was to VERY GENTLY peel off that paper. If you did it right, you had a small exploding pellet that made a nice "puff" and a lot of smoke after you throw it (and if you did it wrong, you had scorched fingers and usually a shorter bangs🤣). For smaller kids (i was the smaller one, my cousin who tought me this, was 4 years older), to make it safe, we put those "corks" in water for a while and then we peeled it off on a paper towel, then let it all dry. Ofcourse the dry paper towel became something like that cloth from Dan's video. It behaved a bit like a "flash paper" today. I loved to light the corner and watch it go in an instant cloud of smoke 😇 Thank you Dan for this stroll on the memory lane! :)

I’m more of a percussion cap guy myself. But BP is cool!

Cool!

I saw the flintlock and hoped you were going fishing...

New shooters call them flinch locks lol

Awesome!!!!!

You can also use ground match heads that have been dampened.

Cool stuff dude

huntin with muzzle loaders aka smoke poles is fun

I’ve been waiting for someone to make this video. Might have guessed it would be you. Rub cloth is the cats daddy. And when you make a fire, it smells like the Fourth of July 🇺🇸

Great educational vid! One quick question: Does fireworks powder work the same? Usually when I take the family out camping, for some reason there’s always fireworks for the kids in our camping gear😉 So in a pinch, or just for fun, would fireworks powder do the same?

My ancestor returned home to his cabin after working on his farm to find an Indian holding his long gun, cooly "flicking the flint." A struggle to the death ensued.

Gotta get some scrimshaw on that powder horn

That is awesome

It looks like this will do the job of starting your fire in wet and damp conditions, but for safety I would keep it in a tin all by itself and label it plainly extremely flammable for emergency only.

That is an almost always works. Remember you can use your flintlock to start your fire.

Damn..... 😳

Cool little trick. How would you store a few pieces of that? Is a plastic baggie okay? I’ve don’t that with char cloth many times. 🤷🏻

Congratulations on the flintlock! Unfortunately, where I live, real Black Powder is very hard to get. Substitutes like Pyrodex or Triple7 are easy to find. I think for rub cloth the substitutes won't work. Anyway, enjoy your firelock!

prefer a road flare

Good channel, great work.

should have introduced Jacks

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Can you use regular gunpowder from a bullet 🤔 great video

Would it still work with smokeless gunpowder? If I gutted a 9mm round can I used that gunpowder?

It’ll be hell if you mix it up with your charcloth 🔥😅🔥

Is this another name for Gun Cotton.?

I love magnesium bars. Not the edible type. The sparky fire type. Magnesium bars works all the time. wet or dry.. so. With a flint it helps to have black powder. And or char cloth. MAGNESIUM works.

Is the gate closed?

Once I soaked char cloth in water/potassium nitrate solution with pretty much the same effect. I guess chemically I made black powder in the shape of fabric.

Bic It! 😂😂

Does that stuff go off if its damp

Would this work with Pyrodex?

Regular black powder, not pyrodex.

I had a Vietnam Vet for a Scoutmaster and when he taught us how to light a fire in the rain, he used gas. yup

Let's see. I can either grab a "Longhunter" to help me make fire or I can carry a BIC. Hmmmm...... which should I do? lol

instead of the black powder you can do the same with matches that got wet (the staff of the "heads") old trick i learned in the army 40 years ago.

Hello, could this method work if the cloth were imbued with an ignitable liquid or would watery/damp conditions interfere?

What about somewhere where I can't find gun powder

Has anyone ever tried drying their charcloth by putting it back through the same process (in a tin, in the fire) for a few minutes?

My grandpa just put the powder in the tinder and sparked it.

Dan, could you not use any ammo, and take the black power from it? Just saying u should have probably mentioned that! Just saying! I love ya my guy, your one of my heros and I'm 50 fingers years old. Get it up, Keep it up

How do you store it? A sandwich baggy, metal containers, plastic tubs?

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Honest noob question. Can it be stored in a hot vehicle?

Where can I flint or chert in Toledo area

PLEASE make sure you use blackpowder when doing this and NOT smokeless powder.

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Yeah, not to be stored in the same tin as char cloth - and clearly labelled burny burn cloth.

Keep your powder dry, y’all 👊

I have been more successful with flint and steel to make fire than other methods

So sick of people saying that word hack ! Yes I am triggered because you look that up in a org 1828 don’t mean what people think it does .as a prepper you need to know this .

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The Cracker is the 🐐

That's a dam good idea !! Nicely done on showing how too make it. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🪓🔪👍👍

Oh for god sake ..... yes we KNOW you need to make content to get money but god man, use a bloody lighter .....