Phone Skope Pyro Putty: Waterproof Survival Fire Starter for Emergency Preparedness, Fire Starters for Campfires - Survival Gear and Supplies

October 2019 This is the second tin that I have bought of this putty. The first one, I used with my Boy Scout troop and on a campout with my grandkids this past weekend. It was cold and windy and we were wanting a small quick fire with which to warm up. The blue putty that I got was amazing! I had used it before with my troop and had ordered a can for my son who is an avid camper all over the country. The one for my son came while we were on our campout and I know that I will order it again. It is a wonderful product and makes starting a fire quick and easy. Thank you for producing a great and useful product! By the way, the customer service is awesome too! January 2021 I thought that I had submitted this review, but found that I hadn’t, so I am adding to it. I have used PyroPutty several times while camping with my scouts, including rainy conditions. Several new leaders were totally impressed, so I got each of them a can for Christmas, to their delight. I stand by this product and appreciate its capabilities.

This is exactly what I was looking for for my bug out bag. I purchased botht the winter blend and the summer blend as i do most of my hunts and hikes in florida where temerature can range from 30-105 degrees. I put the Putty in my freezer to test its pliability and it is super pliable at 25 degrees. The Summer Blend is perfect right now in florida with the temperatures being around 75 -90 degrees. The winter blend at 75 degrees is also easily workable. Regarding its ability to being ignited, it was super easy. It burned just by one strike from my ferro rod. Would highly recommend this product to someone looking for a sure way to start a fire. With it being water proof it really is a no brainer.

This is a great product to keep in your EDC bag or your camping bag. I even tested it out with the water and all that good stuff fluffed it up and it still worked perfect.

I bought this product along with several other fire starters for a review I’ll be putting out on YouTube. I have completed just about all my tests with this one. I still have to test it while it’s wet. But here’s what I found so far. The product is very light to carry, just 2 ounces I believe. But that meant it’s a rather small can. Not the end all be all but at $13, I was hoping for more. I pulled out enough of the gooey mixture to be about the size of a quarter. Maybe a little bigger. Fluffed it to expose the threads and grabbed my ferro rod. It light on the 2nd strike and burned for 3:35 minutes. I performed the test again and this time it lit on the first strike and burned for 4:11 minutes. The burn time isn’t terrible but the advertise a 15 minute burn. That didn’t happen for me. So, all in all a good product that I believe you can rely on to get tour fire lit. Pros: Lights easily, has a decent burn time, and is extremely lightweight (great to toss in the backpack). Cons: burn time not as good as some other products and cost for the amount received.

I ran across Pyro Putty recently when I started putting together a camping/emergency kit. It looked interesting, and I’d tried a lot of other tinned fire starter products and hadn’t been too pleased, so thought I’d give this a try. I really like this stuff, it doesn’t take too much for it to catch, but when it does it burns for a pretty decent time, long enough to let the fire catch whatever other material you put it with. And a little goes a long way. I’ve been using the blue/winter mix, so I can’t say what the other versions are like, but the winter version has a good consistency at midrange and colder temperatures. It leaves a little bit of an oily/waxy residue on your fingers when you grab out some from the tin, but that’s neither a complaint nor a surprise, just a mention. It smells nice too. (At the very least, I like it quite a bit.) Comes in a convenient little tin with a nice, secure, screw-on top, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that it came packed to the brim. I’ve only had it for a little while, but so far I’m pretty pleased with it and am planning on trying out their other versions soon.

After watching video of this stuff, I had to see if it was really that easy - it is!! Recently I have been putting together a ‘go bag’ and practicing some camping skills. One of the most difficult is starting a fire with ‘firesteel’. You know, those annoying ferro rods that look so easy on the package? I had been using dryer lint, which catches easily, but burns out quickly. I also have a magnesium brick to make shavings from, which works, but is a pain and requires tinder or something to actually make a useable flame. And of course all of the above has to be super dry... Enter the Pyro Putty! This stuff is incredibly easy to light with the steel striker and it burns long enough to catch small kindling. You can even light it while it’s floating on water! I tried the orange summer weather variety (they also have some blue stuff that stays supple in freezing temps). It has the consistency of real taffy, or like that of well chewed gum. Basically you get a large blueberry sized piece and pull it apart a couple times exposing the fibers. Stick that on a piece of kindling, a stick or whatever you going to use to base your campfire (I used a piece of birch bark). All it took was 1 spark to hit the fibers and voila, a nice sized flame that burned long enough for me to get my campfire going!! I transferred the burning putty p, in its birch bed, to the fire pit and pushed it under the pile of kindling. A few minutes later I was kicked back with a cold one watching the kids make s’mores. I haven’t used it as a trail marker yet, but it seems sticky enough to work for that. I’d also like to see if their ‘dual arc’ lighter works as well as claimed. This definitely earns its ‘required’ standing for the bug-out bag, and at the size of a dip can it definitely isn’t a size sacrifice. I will be buying more to have around for camping and fire pits and am happy I no longer have to dry a bunch of clothes before disaster strikes!! Full disclosure - In addition to a nice hand written and addressed thank you, I was asked to give a review in exchange for a small gift.

This is a great product. I took a 7 day trip to the boundary waters and it was a great addition to my pack. Instafire had been my go to product for fire starting, but I thought I would try a tin of this. I am glad I did. The location I had to make my fire was up off the ground and the instafire would fall to the ground and was not very effective. The pyroputty could be formed on the kenneling and attached to it. This was a great feature. I was able to start a fire with wet starting materials in a short time. PyroPutty is now my go to and will be in all my packs for my backcountry trips. Pros: It’s compact It’s light I can put a tin of it in my VSSL Cons: None that I have discovered as of yet

This stuff really works! I purchased the combo pack because you never know what you are going to be out in. I bought the lighter first which came with a sample of the putty - great idea! This stuff is great and doesn't smell nasty. Burns as described, not a gimmick! Also, I was very impressed as the packaging was above and beyond what I expected, with info on the product as well as a personal thank you and a bonus mini gift which made me smile as soon as I saw it! These guys are not your typical seller, they put a lot of heart and soul into their products. This is my first (well second if you count the lighter) purchase and I am very pleasantly surprised and satisfied with both the quality of the product, and the level of customer service. Will definitely recommend their products to all. A++