2 Packs of New NATO Water and Windproof Matches

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Manufacturer: PROFORCE EQUIPMENT
Brand: Proforce Equipment
Product features:

Wind & Waterproof Safety Matches.
Burn In The Strongest Winds And Rain For Approx. 12 Seconds
25 Matches Per Sealed Plastic Vial With Striker.

Sports reviews of 2 Packs of New NATO Water and Windproof Matches

Customer Review: They light easily and forcefully
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars

I bought a few bottles of these as they are advertised as being windproof. I opened one to try them out before taking them into the wilds. Wow! One scrape and it's going so strong, I'm trying to find a place to put this thing down! They go really strong for about five or six seconds, certainly long enough to get tinder going. If you can't light a fire with this much energy, you've got bigger issues to deal with.

I tried to light them on other surfaces and discovered they are true safety matches and will only light on a red phosphorous striking surface. This is a mixed blessing. On the upside, you can pack these in your checked luggage (which you can't do with "light anywhere" matches). On the downside, you have to have to have the right surface around or there's no way to light them, so they aren't quite as useful if everything else is going completely wrong.

If you're looking for a safety match striking surface, all matchbooks are safety matches, so an empty matchbook has the right surface on the back. When I pulled six of these matches from the open jar for my mini survival kit, I cut up a matchbook cover, folded it over, and put that in for striking (it's folded over to make sure a match head can't contact the striking surface, which could be very bad).

One quibble (not worth taking away a whole star): the lid isn't very secure once you've opened the jar. I used a piece of tape to keep the jar closed tight, but I wish I didn't have to.

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Description of 2 Packs of New NATO Water and Windproof Matches

WATERPROOF, WINDPROOF Survival Matches. NATO-approved Weatherproof Safety Matches for guaranteed light. Hand dipped and varnished to burn in the strongest winds and rain for about 12 seconds. You get 2 waterproof, pill-bottle style containers, 25 Matches each. Condition: new, never issued. 2-pack New Water and Windproof Matches 2 Long-Burn Candles Burn up to 11 hrs. each.

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