I've done some extensive testing with cotton balls, cotton pads, vasiline, and candle wax! Been working on it off and on for two years now!

My final conclusions have been that cotton pads dipped in wax only will light with a Ferro rod in every condition faster than any other variant I have tried

I've tried vasoline only, vasiline with wax for the outside coating, vasiline and wax melted together, and dipped in wax only.

I have compared in different elevations, temps, raining, snowing, wet, dry, and submerged in water first

Burn time is around 12 minutes

The pads that I've been useing are the "Equate premium cotton rounds" sold at your local Wal-Mart. Pads fit inside a pellet tin for pellet rifles perfectly. 5 or 6 pads to a tin. Just my 02

FYI......lets the pads soak until thourally saturated


Trystan


Good bullets properly placed always work, but not everyone knows what good bullets are, or can reliably place them in the field