Magnesium Survival Fire Starter with Compass and Whistle: Stay Prepared for Any Outdoor Adventure with Survival Spark

ChristianChristian: Cuando recibí mi tracker la funda traía un lugar para el ferrocerio así que me puse a ver alguno. Este en lo personal me encantó porque trae el silbato, una brújula, una herramienta de lámina y el ferro lo que sumado al mismo cuchillo da como resultado un equipo completo y minimalista de supervivencia. pese a eso tal vez en vez del cordón que trae le ponga algo de paracord para poder aumentar la versatilidad de mi minikit de supervivencia.

Mexico on Sep 23, 2023

Joel: Worked out great

United States on Aug 28, 2023

Industrias Parabellum: Excelente calidad y demasiado útil para supervivencia

Mexico on Jan 19, 2021

Rancourt: Fonctionne très bien ,Je vous le conseil

Canada on Nov 15, 2019

Daniel: Very good work perfectly

Canada on Apr 21, 2018

Amazon Customer: I don't normally use a firestarter, opting instead to include a fresh Bic in my bag in case the normal one I use runs out of fluid when needed. I purchased this more out of curiosity than anything as I haven't used one since I was in the Scouts.

It took a bit of work to remove the coating, but once removed I was treated to a pretty impressive spark. I was able to catch a small amount of dry grass on fire without needing to scrape off any of the magnesium which is definitely a bonus since this is more of a last ditch item in my bag.

The included lanyard is appreciated as well, since it allowed me to secure it within my bag without having to worry about things getting too spread out.

The included compass seems to work pretty well, judging by the orientation of my home but it required me to tap on it a few times. I won't knock off any of the rating for that as I had honestly forgotten it was included on the device until I received it.

The whistle took a bit to figure out but it was loud enough I'm worried that I may have irked the neighbors when I got it to work at around 11pm.

Mostly what I appreciate is the fact that the seller e-mailed me with...

United States on Jun 27, 2017

The Judge: I am to the point in my quest for survival gear that when I see anything with a "compass included" I almost automatically count it off as Chinese novelty junk. (Almost always) until I stumbled across this spark stick with nearly a 5 star rating and over 1000 customer reviews. Customer reviews are a valuable indicator of product quality. Here's the deal: As far as add on compasses go, this one is pretty good (I have seen little add-on compasses that are absolutely useless) but this one will keep you headed in the direction you want to go. The whistle is a little tricky to figure out, but with practice you can make it scream.

The most important point of this review is the fire starter itself. If you don't know how to use it you will scrape out sparks until your arm falls off without starting a fire (unless you get really, really, really lucky). So, the key is to gather your dry tinder into a small pile, then use the saw tooth part of the scraper to shave off the magnesium (off the stick) on to the top of the tinder pile. Concentrate on getting the magnesium dust to land nearly in one spot (on top of a leaf, for example) and be generous... then use the flat side to scrape the...

United States on Apr 09, 2016

Jordan: I've had this for awhile now but haven't used it until today. I bought it to start my fires so I could learn the skill of fire starting without matches and also to cut costs of buying matches.

I bought this because of all the good reviews and its appearance of multi functionality. However I just tested out the whistle and it basically sucks. It barely even works! It's more of an annoying loud shushing sound and the little bit of whistle that does come out isn't very loud and not very clear and doesn't last more than a second. Definitely not gonna be helpful if you actually needed it which completely defeats the purpose of having it.

The compass seems like a good tool to have but it doesn't seem very high quality so I wouldn't want to depend on it if I needed to. It might work enough but if you were in a survival situation it's be better knowing 100% that your tools ARE working properly.

My recommendation would be for them to either make the additional tools functional and high quality or just remove them and lower the price because I'd much rather just have a simple useful tool then one that's supposed to have multiple functions but really only works for its...

United States on Feb 27, 2016