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Firesteel lanyards at night. Part 2. Field testing.

503 views · Published 30 August 2016 · 6:59 · Indexed 26 September 2026

Channel: MegaWoodswalker · 2016 · Sports

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Conclusions. The obvious ones:
1. Bright colors also work at night.
2. Reflective cordage is better than regular regardless of color at night.
3. More reflective cordage the better at night.
4. Longer lanyards are more visible than shorter ones.
5. It is really easy to misplace stuff in the dark woods. Even items intentionally placed to be found.
6. it's easy for an object to get obstructed by a leaf etc at night rendering it invisible from certain angles. This can happen during the day but given the shadows and lower light the issue appeared more problematic at night. 

Less obvious to me:

1. I was surprised at just how effective a little reflective cordage is at night. Often just a little loop attached to a lanyard was enough.
2. I never thought in terms of 3 dimensions when it came to lanyards. I always just placed a lanyard on the ground to see how visible the material was when considering options. For example when tossed into higher brush the fire steel would go through the obstruction often leaving the lanyard visible higher up. This meant putting the reflective loop near the fire steel rather than at the end of the lanyard wasn't as effective given the reflective loop would become obstructed by the brush. Also the loop at the end of the lanyard by it's very nature would more often get hung up higher than just the single strand. So it appears the larger end loop works for more than just ease of looping the fire steel on to thing etc. I did many toss into the higher bushes tests.
3. Still surprised as to how well zombie green or chartreuse shows up against green foliage even when compared to blaze/international orange. I was really surprised at how well this color worked at night.

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