Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Backpack Hunting Surviving a cold wet night

Pull the bullet, pour into a spent case, turn the case with powder face up so the powder is facing the barrel. Surround with kindling, point the barrel a few inches from the case mouth. fire the empty case with the good primer in the chamber. The spark from the primer ignites the powder, the flame ignites the kindling.

The trick is to keep the air blast from the primer ignition from blowing the powder away before you can get a spark to it.
And also to have enough powder to ignite, but not to explode.

We did it a few times in Alaska with handguns. I've tried the rifle a few times, but can't get the rifle powder to stay still when I've spilled it out due to the air blast.