Matches have one overwhelming CULTURAL advantage over all other systems. Everybody understands a match and how to use it. I've been to one to many survival schools where "Quest for Fire" became some near religous experience with Thus Sprach Zarathustra playing in the background as our Alfa male demonstrated his antideluvian pyro catapult. I'm invariable gritting ( or chattering) my teeth, hands buried deep in warm pockets mumbling "light the #@%*! Fire allready!" <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />