PSA: Check your magnesium fire starters before you need them

[Wulf202]

One benefit to magnesium, doesn't matter if it gets wet. My go-bag tinder storage options are generally not submersion proof. However, it that was the situation, I could find natural tinder options after a swim.

Depends on the area and the water you swam in. If it's raining/snowing in the high country and you took a dunk in a runoff stream you have little time and little mobility to hunt tinder.

This, like many tools, has it's purpose.

I have two of those split pea ones and they loose fuel after about a week. Brand new.

I have a dozen of the Chinese ones and one split pea, two full sized, all hold fluid for over a year at this point.

[rbeau30]

Anybody have those firesteel Gobspark/Palm Striker ones? I just bought a couple to try out plus one of their magnesium blocks (just magnesium no flint).