- Flint Fire Starter Ferro Rod Survival Tool Army

What a tremendous tool! This Ferro rod is intuitive to use, highly effective, and rugged. It produces a large amount of sparks, and ignites tinder readily. I'd buy this again.

One of the best on the market. Very easy to use and very dependable.

AWESOME FIRE STARTER!! Been using these brand for many years!! A Must Have for every bug out bag or GOOD bag!! A great survivalist must have tool.

With high expectation we purchased two of these. On one we cleaned the ferro rod removing the outer black coating. With each strike it did produce many sparks, thus ready for our tests. Beginning simple using tissue paper stripped to smaller pieces creating a birdsnest configuration, we attempted to light it with Light My Fire. With the tool on the tissue paper or barely above it, it put out many sparks, however none of the sparks could light tissue paper. Next test we used toilet paper (TP) ripping it to shreds making a birdsnest bundle. Again Light My Fire would make many sparks, but not catch the TP on fire. For another test we used regular kitchen paper towel. Ripping it to pieces creating a birdsnest, same-same, many sparks without them lighting the papers. We tried regular ole newspaper, same results or lack there of. We were very confused. Yes scrapping ferro rod clearly produces sparks, but not fire on what should be easily flamable paper products. Final test was with a cotton balls. Pulling apart the cotton balls created more surface area and small fibers for sparks to catch on. Again the birdsnest, it took the Light My Fire many strikes producing many sparks, finally we get the cotton ball burning. Our conclusion, yes the Light My Fire does produce many sparks, however sparks were not hot enough to catch those paper products on fire. Over a few days the above tests were attempted numerous time with those papers, dried grass and the like. Each time the rod produced sparks but nothing caught on fire. Sadly, we returned both Light My Fire boxes to Amazon.

I purchased a Light My Fire 2.0 Army ferro rod last year and I was happy with my purchase then. This past summer, I went on a camping trip and took that one with me and it worked great. This past week I was looking for it and could not find it and I thought I might have left it 200 miles away at my campsite. As I really liked it, I decided to replace it with the same model only to discover that Light My Fire has superseded it with the bio plastic one. I applaud Light My Fire for using recycled plastic but the new model is different from the older model. I ended up finding the first one I purchased so I took pictures to compare. The new bio version comes with a shorter lanyard and it is too short. I recommend replacing it. My biggest disappointment is that they changed the ferrocerium composition in this version. You can see from my pictures that the rod is different. The old model (on top) was struck more times but looks like it has been barely used and trying to light a vasoline covered cotton ball took more strikes. I think they replaced a harder compound for a softer one which is why I am disappointed. I do plan on keeping it in a pack so I am covered in an emergency.

I always buy this brand. Now buying these for grand kids. Just the right size for compact packs and smaller hands.

To start I'm not going to dock a star off this product cause the ferro rod works well and the striker is very functional and makes it throw sparks very effectively as for the built in whistle to the striker maybe I got the technique wrong or the ergonomics make it weird to use but the whistle but as I said maybe the ergonomics make it weird to use it but aside from that the ferro rod works great the handles are ergonomic and the strikers handle is ergonomic as well making getting a firm grip easy. Overall I'd recommend this for a ferro rod its size its functional and easily pocketable plus the thickness of it means you shouldn't have to worry about wearing it out quickly.

Great tool! Must have and easy to use.

Der LIGHT MY FIRE Feuerstahl Army hält absolut, was der gute Ruf des schwedischen Herstellers verspricht, und ist ein echtes Pflichtteil für jede Outdoor-Ausrüstung. Funktioniert einfach: Der Schaber erzeugt extrem heiße und dichte Funken. Damit gelingt das Feuermachen im Feld – ob am Zunder, Campingkocher oder Tarp-Lager – extrem zuverlässig und ohne langes Herumprobieren. Macht alles mit: Witterungsunabhängig einsatzbereit. Egal ob Wind, Feuchtigkeit oder Kälte – im Gegensatz zum Streichholz oder Gasfeuerzeug lässt dich der Feuerstahl nicht im Stich. Army-Größe lohnt sich: Die dickere „Army“-Ausführung liegt super in der Hand, hält für tausende Zündungen und nutzt sich spürbar langsamer ab als kleinere Versionen. Fazit: Top Qualität, extrem langlebig und in der Praxis absolut gelingsicher. Ein unverzichtbarer Klassiker für Camping und Outdoor – volle 5 von 5 Sterne!

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Nothing against the Ferro rods themselves - I have used them before and they work great. However, they mixed up the quantity (ordered 15, 14 showed up) and model (ordered Army, got a mix of Army and Scout) I ordered so have to go through the hassle of returning it and re-ordering. UPDATE: The seller/brand is great and reached out really quickly to help resolve the order issue even though Amazon is responsible for the gathering and shipment of the product. So the 5 stars are for the product and service, and the previous 3 star rating was in regards to Amazon's poor attention to detail.