Yeah, you just have to keep things in context.
It is nice skill to have. Someday I'll master it, or at least succeed, once. Carrying a pre-made bow drill kit as your survival fire starter is rather silly.
Tom's Law of Survival:
Improvised last-ditch methods shown in manuals will invariably be adopted by people as the standard preferred methods.
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- Tom S.
"Never trust and engineer who doesn't carry a pocketknife."