I have a 1984 canteen i got from a flea market

I use the metal cups from Walmart. I use a measuring cup and add 1/2 cup of water and mark it with a magic marker. I do the same for 1 cup, 1 1/2 cups and 2 cups. I use the round cut off wheel on my Dremel and lightly make a mark where the increments are then wipe out the original marker. It's easy to see inside the silver cup. Nice videos! Thanks!

Thanks, Blackie

This was an outstanding tutorial on how to upgrade an alice pack! I have set up quite a few of these and I have carried them many miles over the years. They are a timeless classic and still a good pack to own. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and suggestions on this brother.

Hey Blackie I need to know where did you buy your zippered haversack? I’m an old silver wolf trying to get a good haversack.

Great tutorial Blackie, thank you.

worse thing for me is cold hands prayers and glad to see you are ok

Char cloth is best made w/ 100% cotton. I use old shoeshine cans to make my char cloth (1 w/ small hole in the top and placed on the coals of a fire until it stops smoking out the hole, and another to store the finished char cloth in.). Great vid!

Where did you get your “ Red Hawk, Haversack ?” I’m an old silver Wolf, trying to get a haversack and have no luck. I like your style keep up good work!

i will keep my cheap ( not in price) nylon tent as i can zip it up the keep the blood suckers out. if i am cold in my bag i just wrap all up in my wool blanket. but at 65 i do not do much tent camping any longer. but i do have two or three of them out in the garage. i like the bed in my rv best. but YES keep ALL sources of heat AWAY from nylon tents, even your cigarets. there was this seen in the movie omen.. or was it omen two? been a very long time. might volute utubs rules so will not say more, but if you know the part it gets the point across.

Thanks for another great video.

"You can tear the snot out of your knuckles." Blackie, I cherish your precise manner of imparting knowledge.

Pretty awesome , THANKS

Love the raw egg thing!

Old Charcloth will also become less and less able to ignite carbonized cotton. I find using Punk wood instead of jeans as char-material.

The silly blade's cutting edge is thicker than the backstrap so its designed to travel through the cut with much less friction.

Amazing content!! Keep it coming 👌🏼

Thanks Blackie. Always a joy to be informed by your wisdom -Grey Pilgrim

Excellent video Blackie, thanks for sharing, YAH bless !

The ring in the chimney cap is for pulling the chimney assembly up and off the top rim of the globe in order to provide clearance for tipping the globe open. The assembly is spring loaded and will lower itself back onto the globe rim when you let it down. The wire bail is for general hanging. I recommand parrafin based fuel for indoor use. It smells less than kerosene, does not soot as bad, and produces less CO2. You still must ventilate for oxygen. If you like the smell of jet fuel in your gear, use kerosene. But NEVER use kerosene in one of those old Coleman catalytic heaters - EVER. If you have one that you got from a garage sale, put it an enclosed space like the back of a truck with a CO2 detector. Burn it over night. Toss it if it fails. It means that someone burned kerosene in it and destroyed the catalytic material, which is asbestos. These old design lanterns probably burned down a barn or a cabin or two back in the day, but if you obey the rules there is minmal danger of a fire outside the globe. They are windproof, they are pretty stable on a flat surface, and don't get so hot that a touch of fabric will light off without at least a minute of contact to the chimney parts - which do get hot enough to hurt. A dry paper towel took one minute to begin turning just a hint of color when I tested it directly against the hot chimney vents. I've used mine many times in camp and in the tent and truck canopy - not for heat, but for just enough light. Heating a tent or canopy with a lantern takes a long time. my method is a single burner propane bottle-top stove, which heats the place while making my morning coffee before I roll out. An accessory for a lantern might be something Coleman made a long time ago: A metal can that fits over the top and adds thermal mass beyond the lantern sheet metal's ability to produce.

pray for those who have been harmed by this hurricane

I keep a small silica moisture absorber in my char tin. I think flint and steel works as easy as bowdrill or anything else short of a lighter. I can find plentiful chert around here and made my striker from an old file.

I use an altoids tin to make char and char cloth and keep it in a small zip-lock bag to keep it dry. When I was a Boy Scout I earned my fire making merit badge and how to use flint and steel over 60 years ago. I used a carbon steel boy scout pocket knife to strike the flint. Old Boy Scout Handbooks and Boy's Life Magazines taught us a wealth of outdoor skills back then. Some times you can find them in second hand bookstores.

laughing over the calif. reference. stay safe. long range forecast is showing another system that may follow helene.

Good tutorial. I think half the reason guys carried a pistol was to start their fire and why you look at late 19th century and early 20th century guys always carried matches. Best flint and steel today is a lighter. 😛

This is very good flint and steel info. Thanks, Blackie!

Good stuff

Excellent presentation on the essentials of flint and steel fire making. Thank you!

Is that tube just rolled cotton? Then you push it in and pull out as needed? Not a braided cotton rope?

Glad y'all are safe from Helene!

Living in Louisiana humidity is a big factor on what fire making tools I carry and practice. Flint and steel require very dry char . Bow drill is another method that humidity affects

I learned something new. I didn't know about the black flint. You are the O.G. of flint and steel! Flint and steel is a skill that takes a lot of practice. Where did you get that hinged char cloth tin? I want one!

I was walking the shore of Kentucky lake a few years ago, I found a chunk of black flint with a thin layer of quartz on two sides, like a top and bottom. It's about twice the size of a softball!

Always watch your videos and bears videos. Love your content. You're so good you can make people watch you make lunch! Thank you for your time and efforts in making these videos. You make a daunting task approachable.

Hi Blackie, what time period was matches use or ready available? It must have been better that slice bread. Lol

Amadou [ horsehoof fungus ] off of birch trees , boiled in a solution of water and birch wood ash [ lye ] for an hour , and then pounded and flattened ; once dry , is a tinder superior to char cloth , its coal is hot and tends to burn longer than the char cloth . Amadou comes off of trees in nature and was free for the taking unlike cotton or linen cloth . Rotting wood that has become spongy [ punk wood ] and can be squished between your fingers and springs back when you let go , also makes great char in your tin ; as well as cattail tops when it's still tight and brown , excellent for the char tin . All these are free for the taking and work just as well or even better than char cloth

As a society , we need the "use it till it is used up" mindset . I try but my grandmother would consider me wasteful . Good content . 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Great video/information, thank you. Struggling with this, no flint only quartz. 😊

Thanks for this tutorial. Greatly appreciated. I learnt many things.

Thanks for your video,I have followed you for years. Glad you came through the hurricane ok. Said a prayer for you and your family. Can’t wait for the next one. Hope bear’s family came through the storm ok too.

high humidity is probably why those brimstone matches were so popular, just need the coal to last long enough

100% cotton rope about 1 inch? It'll produce a coal literally the size of a cigar. You talk about warm that tinder bundle? Yeah buddy!

I took a leg off a worn out 100% cotton jeans material we got at Goodwill. Took one of those Pirouette cookie tins, the straw shaped thing? Trimmed off the hems etc, rolled it up good and shoved the whole thing in there. I mean it was a ROLL of heavy denim😂 Set it on the fire with a hole punched in the lid and cooked it till all the gas and everything off. Sat it off to cool, and I'm here to tell you it took a minute😂 That stuff was great, rip off a chunk, frayed carbon threads? BANG!

goedemiddag Blackie 👍

I love this channel!

Blackie i have to ask . If you dont want to answer this i understand for sure. Is that bracelet you wear from vietnam ?

Smart,Blackie

Blackie another great video. We use to wind our entrenching tool wound with para cord or a early warning. Nice technic you developed

Hello Blackie. I've got the 3rd canteen pouch that you showed in this video, the one made from nylon from the late vietnam era. I use it for the nalgene canteen plus the stainless steel cup with lid. The lid fits if I stuff it vertically at the side in the pouch. My question is: Now that you have the Dave Canterbury canteen with its butterfly handle cup plus lid, does this system also fit in this US late Vietnam era pouch? Thank you and best my regards from Germany

I still cant believe as long as you been on yt and as long as I have been watching yt, I never came across your channel until the "silverwolves" walking stick vid. Dave C was one of the very first yt vids that started my interest in yt. I guess the algorithm failed us for awhile Blackie.