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Or you can pull this out of your pack, pop the lid, flick your bick and have a long lasting and cheap, fire starter.
http://zenstoves.net/Sterno.htm
Keep the primitive stuff as a back up. Im not playing with my life. When it is freezing cold and Im tired, hungry, I have no time or patience to play fire cadet. Try starting a fire with these toys with stiff fingers and a half frozen body in bad weather. OK.... better yet, just bring a roll of ass wipe and a lighter. When those little fluffy cotton balls burn up and your damp half frozen wood tinder, leaves, dry grass whatever didnt light, the game turns serious. I want to KNOW that I can light up the local tinder, grass,leaves even when half wet. Because this is real life and not some BS back porch experiment. Sorry, but I have little patience for the gadget groupies that never leave their yard. Take your firesteels, crap paper, then go into the bush and light a fire with the materials around you. I meen a real fire, not just a few twigs going up. Time how long it takes you. Now realise that you might have to do this in the rain, snow, extreme cold, wind, at night etc when tired and hungry. You will see my point. Who gives a damn how you start the fire. Priority one is to start it...and quickly. A lighter is more of a flashlight at night than any firesteel.
http://zenstoves.net/Sterno.htm
Keep the primitive stuff as a back up. Im not playing with my life. When it is freezing cold and Im tired, hungry, I have no time or patience to play fire cadet. Try starting a fire with these toys with stiff fingers and a half frozen body in bad weather. OK.... better yet, just bring a roll of ass wipe and a lighter. When those little fluffy cotton balls burn up and your damp half frozen wood tinder, leaves, dry grass whatever didnt light, the game turns serious. I want to KNOW that I can light up the local tinder, grass,leaves even when half wet. Because this is real life and not some BS back porch experiment. Sorry, but I have little patience for the gadget groupies that never leave their yard. Take your firesteels, crap paper, then go into the bush and light a fire with the materials around you. I meen a real fire, not just a few twigs going up. Time how long it takes you. Now realise that you might have to do this in the rain, snow, extreme cold, wind, at night etc when tired and hungry. You will see my point. Who gives a damn how you start the fire. Priority one is to start it...and quickly. A lighter is more of a flashlight at night than any firesteel.
