Atomic Bear Paracord Bracelet (2 Pack) - Adjustable - Fire Starter - Loud Whistle - Perfect for Hiking, Camping, Fishing and Hunting - Black & Black+Orange

Well built and handy. All functions work as advertised.

It is a very useful tool to help you navigate where you are going.

I'm not an expert in survival at all. It was recommended that we have a Go Bag for emergencies, so I ordered this as part of my prepared bag. The whistle is extremely loud. It is just a very small spout that you blow into and it was one of the things that I didn't readily see in the pictures when I ordered, though I knew it was there somewhere. Found it!! The compass works really well. The instructions state that it has to be unfastened because the spark striker will interfere with its function. I found that to be true. North was off when the band was fastened around my wrist, but was completely normal and where I expected it to be once I took the bracelet apart. I must say that I found the spark striking to be a total fail for me. It instructs you to scratch the black paint off the "flint" pole until you can see bare metal. By striking the metal paddle against the pole, it is supposed to create sparks. I could not get it to spark even a little bit. I'm sure it will work at some point, but apparently I don't have enough of the paint scratched off or I'm not holding my mouth correctly as my father used to say. LOL Just letting you know that there is a large learning curve on getting that to work. I don't understand why they cover it with paint if they know that the paint will interfere with the function!!!! Personally, I think I would rather just pack a lighter or some matches and forget the caveman sparky thing. There is also a note in the instructions that the cord is actually the entire bracelet itself, and once you take it apart, it cannot be put back together again unless you are an expert at tying cords. So, for most of us, once you take it apart, the bracelet is no longer a bracelet anymore!! That kinda sucks. I can see the usefulness of this bracelet anyway, and for the price, I'm not sorry that I bought it. Hopefully I never have to actually use it, but I know that there are some useful things to be found in it nonetheless.

I'm blind but I camp way out in the wilderness where there's no cell signal, no hospital and nothing around. No, I am not insane enough to try and go by myself, I wouldn't even if I were sighted to be honest LoL. Within 2 minutes of opening this up I had found the compass, the whistle, the emergency knife and the fire starter. Obviously I can't use the compass but I can find my direction of travel other ways, maybe not quite as accurate as a compass but if I need to go west I can LoL. Anyways the fire starter has a black coating on it, you need to scrape that off before it will spark, I found a YouTube video that explained that part. As soon as I got that coating scraped off it sparked like a champ!!! So the clips that connect both ends have goodies in he middle, one side has the small emergency knife and the other side has the fire starter in it. You just use both of those for a spark. The compass and whistle are built into the clips as well, so it's all right there on your wrist. One thing to keep in mind though is the fire starter may cause magnetic interference with the compass because of it's iron content. Simply unclip the ends and then use the compass. The rest of the bracelet is paracord, enough to make a trap, a shelter and some fishing line if need be. Honestly you'll probably never need all of the paracord but it's nice to have it in excess in the event you need to make an emergency stretcher or maybe a sled to drag equipment or gathering fire wood and so on. I've used and checked out tons of similar items that have fishing hooks and other extras in them but those ones are usually pretty low quality. This one is literally so well made and designed with so much common sense a blind dude figured it out without help aside from the fire started thing. If you camp or are into survival or know someone who is this is a fantastic item!

I have bought these for the past 3 years for my husband. The first year I bought them just for him to use. Second year I bought 2 for him and 2 for his brother. Third year I bought about 20 for him to give to the teenage boys that go to church with us. I imagine that I will be buying more this year. :)

Compass doesn't work. Emergency whistle is nice to have. Fire starter can be hard to use but can get the job done

Good delivery and good price

Great gift for a hiker

Good quality and useful

Excelente me sirvió mucho felicidades

Amazing very well built

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Originali e simpatici, ideali come accessorio personale o come regalo. Non ho provato a sciogliere il cinturino per paura di non saperlo riavvolgere bene, inoltre nonostante tanti tentativi e modalità diverse, non siamo riusciti ad accendere una fiamma.