You can try EverestGear but they are a LOT more expensive:
http://store.everestgear.com/eqdia101.html
You can try EverestGear but they are a LOT more expensive:
http://store.everestgear.com/eqdia101.html
Last edited by Rick; 02-03-2008 at 12:04 PM.
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Yea,but you can price match them and get the cheaper price!
Local gun shows (if you have em in your area) usually have a few vendors that carry them. Just paid $2.00 per box.
I found some Diamond brand strike anywhere matches on this site that will ship, but the hazmat charge is high.
www.emergencyresources.com/er_p11.html
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Hi to the Pack, I get the small size at REI. And the kitchen size at QFC, I hope this helps.
The Eastern Sportsmen Outdoor Show is going on this week in Harrisburg PA. I might have to swing by and see if they have any there.
Good Idea. Thanx Crashdive.
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We have a tri-state gun show here every couple of months,will have to drop in one day and see if anyone has them.
If I find an effective way to make s a matches, I will be sure to post it.
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LOL INDIANA!!!! Even walmart stopped carrying them,and they carry everything!Originally Posted by woodwose
Last edited by nell67; 02-03-2008 at 07:24 PM.
I saw a post on making strike any where matches, I have not tried it yet. But the instructions are for a soda cap size mix.
One to five drops of Jack Daniels.
One teaspoon of flour.
One fourth teaspoon of ketchup.
Mix the ingredients, dip tooth picks or what have you.
Let dry for three hours.
And that was it. I watched the guy strike a tooth pick on a plastic tv remote.
The link was from something posted here. I can not recall where.
I'm gonna try it, just gotta round up the stuff.
Fireplace stores, and hardware stores have 12" long matches, you could break them off to what ever length you want. Here they sell the blue diamond strike anywhere matches in the grocery store.
As it turns out, finding strike anywhere matches is a huge problem. Every survival forum talks about not being able to find them. No retailer wants the liability of shipping them anymore. I posted elsewhere that Wal-Mart stopped selling them because on average they had two spontaneous fires nationwide each year. So if you have them in Seattle, then you are one lucky duck because they are becoming as scarce as hen's teeth. (get it? duck and hen pun!).
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Sam, I saw that as well. I think it was on youtube.
Here in PA nobody carries the strike anywheres unless you do buy the long stove matches. I can't even find them back home on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
I remember when I was a teenager you could find them a dime a dozen. But now in this sue happy world its hard to find anything. I'm surprised they still sell gasoline being its combustible too.
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Yeah, I buy 5-6 boxes every time I see them. I store them in a plastic bin. I figgure when it all goes south, that and all the .22lr I stock up on will be gooder than gold. Don't know how to light fires with gold.
I have enough .22 ammo to last me a lifetime, just have to find some matches.
You can even pull the lead out of several .22s to get a flash flame for fire starting.
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Be very careful with that. You may or may not know that it is a federal crime to waste perfectly good Jack Daniels.
Yeah well, if I need to make my own matches I don't think the Feds are my biggest problem.
Self ignition is the problem. Since they are strike anywhere they sometimes strike inside the box. However, as I posted on the other thread, the President of Sales explained to me that the box is designed to smother the fire so only a few can actually ignite before the smoke inside the box smothers the flame.
As for Wally World, (again from the co.) someone drops the box and that causes the self ignition. That's the reason no one wants the liability.
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200 wood matches + 100 strike anywhere matches in waterproof cases. a zippo lighter a bic and a vial of homemade napalm (awesome fire starter)
Reading through this post, I keep seeing that strike anywhere matches(Bluediamond) appear difficlt to find in some places. I was at the Safeway (grocery store) this morning and they had at least 2 doz. boxes about half the size if a brick on the shelf, and a huge case on the top shelf. I think that they were about $2 a box.
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