What's up guys this is black Scout survival and today we're talking about what is the best survival lighter and you know I've tried a lot of different lighters on the markets the high-tech survival gadgety ones ass butane you know that waterproof whatnot just never none of them really you know sparked my interests up at this point you know I'm.

Not saying that out they never will you know but at this point I'm going to go with mold stand by the big lighter and in my fire kit I carry two cigarette lighters alone you know fair seeing on some other things and I'll do a bit on that kit in the future but I kind of just want to talk about some the like big lighters and lighters the I guess.

Myths of these lighters and stuff like that people really say they're unreliable and I'm not really sure why they must have never used them but uh this is the general kind that you can find in most places you notice the Flint will and I carried these in Montana I've been to Montana numerous times and I carry these up in elevation and they.

Work fine people say oh they don't work in you know high altitude but I was in high altitude and in middle of January when it was like 20 below zero and these work fine people say they freeze well the fact is is yet you keep them in your pack like I'll snuff my billing in Montana and I had like mine out now gene in my bag and.

My backpack and uh the water froze you know but if you keep this close to your body like in your pocket past park or whatnot it's going to stay warm and even if it does freeze up you know or get cold you can warm it up and it'll work well the other fact is is that people say they're not waterproof well that is true they're not waterproof you get them.

Wet and I'm going to show that in a minute you're getting whether or not immediately gonna work at the blow mount drying out and all that kind of stuff so yeah but I said I carry two lighters and there's a reason why this is a flint wheel style and you know like I have been talking about it can get wet not work but this.

Is a bit click and it is a piee zo piezo I'm guessing lighter and so it's an electronic lighter this thing will work when it's wet and I'm going to show that in a few minutes but while I'm still on this lighter people say that this also you know you run up lose fuel in it with us whenever I you know put an o-ring on there a ring guys get bring this in.

Closer but a ring gasket like this right here and keep it from you know depressing and I keep them on my pack like this so that way I know it's not getting to press them up high but anyhow I normally carry the large size version of the cigarette lighter you know these bit clicks I only see them coming this size here I tend to stay away from this.

Size you know unless I'm currently in my pocket on a daily basis but you know it's just getting too much bigger than this one and that kind of stinks but like I said this is only size that I've seen this one come in and I generally I tend to you know stick with orange lighters as my survival lighters that way I know never to use these lesser and.

Small situations all my other color lighters I use for whatever reason but anyhow I also have the piezo and oranges also so the piezo lighter was going to move this another way the piezo lighter is this is also a piezo type lighter you know the grill grill lighter and these are good to have too but they're big you know not.

Really good for carrying around on your person but basically this thing takes an electric like art and it ignites the the fuel and you can kind of see it jump out there but these things work great and I'll show you real quick you can dunk them in water and they'll lighten immediately up will dump both of these and some water.

Standard and a bit click and you're probably asking well why don't you carry two of the bit clicks then instead of this Flint style the problem is with the piezo like I said is they don't work well in altitude something to do with the arc of the the spark is what hits a quartz and spark it just doesn't ignite or flake off in a constitute so this is.

The good to have and these are large you know what I mean these are small so this obviously holds more fuel the other benefit of carrying these over these is that you can use this Flint style even when the fluid runs out okay I'm going to do a video on that in the future or you can remove the cap and using like a spark light so so there's benefits to.

Both and that's why I carry one of each in my kit it's a you know work off each other in case one of them fails I don't work alright so let's go ahead and do this let's go ahead and see if this is going to work no all right a little bit of drying out that won't work let's go ahead and try this one up oh that worked didn't it the meeting stick this thing.

In here all day I'm telling you but where I think a few times to get it but it's going to work instead I mean so you may just have to shake the water out of it as all you know but it's going to work and it's going to get the job done so to me this is your best survival lighter combo you know why make things difficult.

Whenever you cannot just take a you know use Pharisee and write a lot to this and that I use it in tough conditions but why not just you get out and I get a fire started but this was black Scouts Volcom check out our tips and tutorials on our website and if you have to subscribe please subscribe and as always thanks for watching.