You guys and your fixation with "being there" with your fire. It's MUCH more gratifying to start your fires from around 150' away. Call me jaded 'cause I put 'em out for a living. Guess I like a little more excitement when I start 'em... :devil:
The text suffered more than a bit and the pix got cropped by the stupid HP software. But the shotgun shell is a 12 gauge red marine flare, practice flares are white. These are sold for with and separately for use with the orange plastic pistols, they work very well in a shotgun too! 9 of 'em (red & whites) in rapid succession make a
really cool roman candle!
It's ILLEGAL to fire the red shells/flares over water!!
The "pen flare" is US Navy issue for pilots. The pic got cropped so you can't see the threaded end where it screws into the hand launcher.
It goes without saying that standard road flares of the 15 & 30 minute variety are also always on hand for starting fires when I need to burn brush piles and the weather won't cooperate. Of course a little diesel helps too.