I'm pretty sure they've been beaten to death here. Just looking up the wrong term!
I thought so too but my search tool wouldn't dig anything up except threads on people arguing about if they should carry matches or lighters and the like, nothing specific to the particular shelf life etc of these. I was hoping someone here had seen this particular brand/type before. Oh well
The matches are friggin awesome though. I lit one and put it in front of a fan at the highest setting, and it burned flawlessly. I lit another and tried as hard as I could to blow it out and it was futile. A third was lit and passed quickly back and forth under the spray from the shower and still stayed lit. Then for s#$%s and giggles I lit my fire place WITHOUT using any tinder. The dammed things burn like a torch for about 15 seconds. Now I need to switch them with all the matches in my other kits (hunting, truck, BOB, fishing, scuba, PSKs, military kits and bug IN supplies) I will still have plenty left to burn stuff with MUAA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAA!!!!