How to Identify FLINT for a Flint and Steel Fire Starter: A Primitive Survival Skill

Identifying Flint to use with a striker or for flintknapping!. Flint or Chert can be easily identified by its color, conchoidal fracture pattern and gloss.
In this video, we'll be showing you how to make a flint and steel fire starter, a valuable skill for those interested in wilderness survival and self-sufficiency. Using just a few simple tools and materials, you'll learn how to create a spark and start a fire using a piece of flint and a steel striker. This ancient technique, once essential for human survival, is now a fascinating hobby for outdoors enthusiasts.
We'll start by showing you how to choose a suitable piece of flint, explaining the qualities to look for and how to test the stone's sharpness and hardness. We'll also show you how we journeyed across Ohio and Virginia in search of flint, and how we used the flint we found to make arrowheads as well as to create a spark for our fire starter.
Next, we'll demonstrate how to create a spark using a steel striker, showing you the proper technique for striking the flint and creating a shower of sparks. Finally, we'll show you how to use this spark to start a fire, using tinder and kindling to create a flame.
In addition to the valuable information and skills demonstrated in this video, you'll also get to enjoy the beauty of the outdoors and the satisfying feeling of starting a fire using nothing but natural materials and your own skill and knowledge. We'll also show you some of the artifacts and relics we found during our journey, adding a touch of history and mystery to our adventure. Tune in to learn how to make a flint and steel fire starter and add this valuable skill to your repertoire.
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[@jenncria]

I never thought I’d enjoy flint napping, but you made it seem so useful and a fun thing to do in down time. Thank you! I’m going to try it

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

You’ll love it

[@user-xs3oi8rq8f]

Did you ever turn the tools to a museum? Or tell them about it?

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

Yep

[@TressaZimmerman]

Very cool.

[@Alternativewayforlife]

What do you use to hit the flint and to reshape it

[@Rockhoundingcolorado]

Because it was banded chert. The material had both cleavage and Conchoidal fracture.

[@PHARRAOH]

so cool. you have some great skills. Im headed to the sierras to try out some primitive fishing live and bone hooks tomorrow. let you know how I do. cheers from ca

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

Thanks! Let me know how it goes

[@WesS2016]

Ah man I was watching Bob Gylum's new video,

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

Sorry dude!

[@piousminion7822]

I wish I knew where to find flint/chert in the Tampa, FL area. We don't have rock/stone here really, but the natives must have gotten it from somewhere.

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

www.mindat.org/locentries.php?p=16149&m=994

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

Gave you a link

[@tomclark5546]

World-Class chert and agatized coral in Tampa Bay. You ain't looking in the right spots it is everywhere...

[@scinanisern9845]

So soak it in hot water. You been hangin out with too many pantywaists. Stop that.

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

Soak what in hot water?