Everybody always downs the Blastmatch because the ABS housing might break. So what? Even if it does, you still have a mack-daddy fero rod that will throw a HUGE amount of hot sparks when you scrape it with almost any type of blade. Since everyone I know always has a couple of blades, I don't consider that possible weakness to be any problem.
If anything, the color of the housing bothers me more. Black blends in too well if it's dropped in the bush. I've ran thin yellow line through all of mine to make them stand out more. I saw some orange ones a while back on ebay, but just couldn't stand to pay the prices asked.
All mine came from the killer deals that the NRA had a couple of years ago. 15 bucks for the Survival Inc. kit containing the Blastmatch, Jet Scream whistle, fire starting tabs, & signal mirror all contained in the waterproof, almost crushproof container mentioned in another post. They made GREAT Xmas gifts for my buddies & I kept two or three for myself.
Anyway, it's a GREAT firestarter that always works. Period