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STILLHUNTER 73 - "If 2 decent butane lighter go south at the same time, your luck already ran out before you stepped foot into the woods."


Nahhh. That's when you pull out your old handy-dandy, works-every-time, won't-blow-out ZIPPO and fire it up, lighting your firestarting tender. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

To me, BICs are okay, so long as there isn't any wind to blow out the little flame before you can catch your tender. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

SUGGESTION : If you want a never-fail lighter which will save your bacon in the most extreme lighting conditions, stick a road flare in your pack. They'll light wet wood, etc., in a snowstorm.

Don't want to carry the weight?? Just cut one in half, seal the cut end with Krazy Glue, or like, opposite the striker fuse, tape over that glued end with a bit of electrical tape and then you're in business.

I've been in two situations where I desperately needed a fire RIGHT NOW!! and the only way I could get a fire started with the very damp/wet wood around was with my road flare.

I'm not sure but I think there are some road or boat flares out there now that are smaller. (?????)

FWIW.

L.W.