United Kingdom-based Enola Gaye has practically 30 years of expertise promoting a multi-colored array of smoke and paint grenades to be used in sports activities like paintball and airsoft, in addition to for celebrations and particular results. The corporate has spun off a survival department that applies smoke grenade-inspired design to merchandise just like the Final Match, a strong, weather-resistant firestarter that shoots out a mini inferno to spark flammable materials right into a warming fireplace. Merely pull the pin and get ‘er burning.
EG Survival calls it the “Final Match” as a product identify, nevertheless it actually extra intently resembles the larger firm’s smoke grenades in type and performance, albeit a grenade that shoots out a stream of fireside as a substitute of coloured smoke. The small, handheld cylinder measures 4 inches (10 cm) lengthy by an inch (2.5 cm) in diameter, making it straightforward to pack a number of in a jacket pocket or backpack.
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A pyrotechnic system, the Final Match homes each an igniter and a self-oxygenating gas system that permits it to go nicely past any match in placing out some severe fire-starting flame. As with EG’s smoke grenades, it prompts through a pull-ring ignition that begins sparking like a flare, then turns into a strong blaze of flame. That flame burns at as much as 1,200 °F, fiercest within the first 20 seconds earlier than burning steadily for a further 100 seconds. It is primarily a flare optimized for clean, fire-starting flame as a substitute of brilliant signaling.
The built-in gas system ensures the Match places out a powerful, regular blaze more practical than any weak, flickering match flame. It is designed to maintain burning by means of excessive winds, onerous rains and different unfavorable circumstances, serving to one get a hearth lit even when it appears unattainable. EG even reveals the Final Match beginning underwater and firing out the identical fierce flame after being pulled up into the open air.
Lengthy story quick, if you cannot begin a hearth with this factor, you are going to have hassle ever beginning one, interval.
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You may nonetheless need to construct your base of tinder, kindling and gas, however after watching the Final Match in motion, we’re questioning if you happen to will not be capable of mild the kindling straight with none tinder. Whereas a enjoyable experiment for a house fireplace pit, we would not suggest attempting that exact shortcut in a survival scenario or if a sole Final Match is your solely technique of low-hassle, non-primitive fire-starting.
The Final Match itself is water resistant, and EG is engaged on a completely waterproof casing for it to make sure it stays dry when mountaineering and adventuring, remaining prepared for rapid motion every time it is wanted.
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EG Survival launched the Final Match in 2024 and showcased it this month on the 2025 Outside Retailer present. It sells the Matches in three-packs for a US$20 retail worth and at present has them marked right down to $15 – looks like an reasonably priced sufficient worth for a chunk of hassle-free fire-starting gear, and a three-pack means you possibly can strive one out forward of time and nonetheless have a pair to pack into the wilderness.
EG Survival rounds out its present lineup by repurposing a few its coloured smoke grenades as signaling units for survival conditions.
The video under offers a fast introduction to the Final Match and contains footage of the aforementioned underwater ignition:
EG ULTIMATE MATCH – BEST FIRE STARTER IN THE WORLD
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