Ok I one day while outside my dad said that I could not start a fire with a magnesium block and flint that I had acquired from a local outdoors store. Being known in my family as the “survivalists” I decided to accept the challenge, going through my bug-out military gear I pulled it out and went out side. I found a nice piece of flat bark to use as a staging post then gathered some moss dried leaves an small twigs. I scraped the magnesium off the block and got a good amount of it gathered in one spot a lot harder than I thought, I tried to spark it and failed. After about 20min of trial and error I finally got a light and started a fire. So where did I go wrong? I wanted to try and get it one shot any suggestions?