Oh those hilarious on-line product reviews

skammer said:
These are the people I look for and I am not allowed to be pissy about it.:rolleyes:

Skam
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:pGood news!! It appears that every one of these morons survived their misadventure without the help of SAR :thumbup:
 
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Beeswax Firestarter:

"this product does not light very easily, the wax can also drip from it and put a really nice burn on your hand if you hold it the wrong way - 1st time i tried the product it was very windy and wet out, i had to hold a lighter to it for way too long to get it lit then the wind just kept putting it out until i covered it nicely with my hand which got burned from the dripping wax!"


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Skam
 
REI and Amazon are great for stupid reviews. I've seen some great terrible reviews that show how ignorant some people can be. The above is a great example. I'll have to try and post some when I run across them.
 
There's a site called backpack gear testers that has some fairly hard core types reviewing gear.
Some of them pound stuff pretty hard and call it like it is.

I used to enjoy reading another site called trail journals. It's folks doing the AT or PCT and telling stories about destroying gear. I bought quite a few items that survived well for those guys.
 
Oh my gosh, that machete post is glorious.
 
The RC-3 posted review...

michaelm466 said:
This is a hard concealed draw for combative knives. The wound it leaves tends to free-bleed leaving you in the fight longer. So you military men and women RAT is marketing to stay away.
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Ooh tacticool - apparently there are other grinds that cause no bleed wounds.

The blade is not reinforced anywhere D2 and 1095 tend to be brittle metals meaning they must be reinforced to withstand tactical conditions.
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1095 is brittle :D :D

Reinforced??? - He is probably talking about a fueller here??? Who knows?

Stay away from rat anything that installs carbide cutters in the sheath. This is a yuppies knife for those fake adventurers that hike pre-ground trails that you could drive an RV through. Save yourself some trouble stay away from this knife." 1 out of 5 stars
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Carbide cutters in the sheath? What the heck is he talking about?

Yuppie knife? I guess that is what Jeff Randall and Mike Perrin are all about. Driving their RV's through those wonderfully maintained South American jungle trails. One day, I'm going to tie my pastel blue sweater over my shoulders and saunter off one of those trails. I think the Love Boat actually stops off at one of the ports over there :D :D
 
kgd said:
Here's a couple of reviews regarding LMF Scout Firesteel: 66 reviews overall 4.7/5



Now all of these are just folks not being shown how to use a piece of gear that for intensive purposes has a little more to it than appearances would suggest :D
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this was me. when i first got a firesteel i went outside in the rain to try it out. i had no clue. no fire, stupid.
i was confused.
no experience

no review.
all good
buzz

i do read product reviews. whether or not i buy the product is usually heavily skewed by the reviews.
looks like manufacturers could improve lousy products if they perused their product reviews.
 
markv said:
this was me. when i first got a firesteel i went outside in the rain to try it out. i had no clue. no fire, stupid.
i was confused.
no experience
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We were all there. One of the reasons I purposely looked at firesteel reviews is that it is a guarantee the kind of product that will generate that kind of response. I mean you look at the packaging and read the 5000 degree spark and you are thinking that those sparks will light trees on fire while you are in the store :D

Then you try it for the first time and it isn't easy. The package really doesn't go one to tell you about PJCB's. It doesn't tell you the importance of tinders and selecting tinder properties conducive to catching sparks. I think I am a bit fortunate that I never bought a ferro-rod until after a joined BF and started to learn what they are for first. Even then, it took a long time before I became comfortable enough starting fires with them that I started moving to flint and steel and then bow drill.
 
Found this one at cabela's, flint and firesteel kit review.
Flint & Steel Firestarter Set, February 23, 2009



"Impractical for the modern day camper, hiker or hunter, but it works. Even though this method is "age-old" and traditional for the survivalist, a good quality windproof lighter, some dry kindling and a little bit of fuel from the charcoal lighter fluid will spare any sportsman the time trying to start a fire."

I think he is missing the point of this fun firestarting method.
 
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