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Old 12-11-2018, 6:56 AM
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I just added one to my kit, I was wandering if anyone has actually tried it in the field?
Would you share your experience and if there is any specific brand that’s superior?

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Old 12-11-2018, 6:59 AM
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sorry, i never tried one, but i bought 2 for every member of the family a couple years ago.
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No offense, Sawyer is better.

https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/7...web_3447645011


https://www.amazon.com/Sawyer-Produc...59112483&psc=1
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I have the bottle with a life straw filter. Works great. The membrane technology is the same as used by utility water treatment plants on a smaller scale. Very similar to the Z-100 membrane cartridge material.
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I recommend trying it and see for yourself and then decide to buy more if it works for you.

Otherwise it's just adopting a YouTube idiot's opinion.
You won't know until you know. You know?
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You may want to go to survivalist forum and read up on them there. They have a member who is an expert on water filtering. He calls them junk. You would be much better off with a Sawyer mini. I have many Sawyers and they work very well. If you want a straw filter that has built in carbon to get rid of the swamp taste of some water try the Aquamira Frontier Pro: Ultralight. Aquamira filters are highly rated. I have a couple of their real small straw filters that fit in my pouches that are a little bigger then a altoids tin.

https://www.amazon.com/FRONTIER-ULTR...a+water+filter

https://www.amazon.com/Aquamira-Fron...a+water+filter
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+1 for the Sawyer Mini. I have used one for years, I fill my camelback from ponds, streams, and worst of all gas station fountain drink water dispensers - never got sick yet. I have several, they randomly go on big sales, especially certain colors - set an alert for them with camelcamelcamel.com and you can get a great deal.
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Did not know about Sawyer mini, thanks for the info!

Question: these things remove bacteria and other microorganisms but do nothing for chemicals, right? Like if you take pool water that has lots of chlorine and dissolved salts in it, Lifestraw/Sawyer will do nothing to remove the salts?
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Did not know about Sawyer mini, thanks for the info!

Question: these things remove bacteria and other microorganisms but do nothing for chemicals, right? Like if you take pool water that has lots of chlorine and dissolved salts in it, Lifestraw/Sawyer will do nothing to remove the salts?
Basic filters won't.
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You may want to go to survivalist forum and read up on them there. They have a member who is an expert on water filtering. He calls them junk. You would be much better off with a Sawyer mini. I have many Sawyers and they work very well. If you want a straw filter that has built in carbon to get rid of the swamp taste of some water try the Aquamira Frontier Pro: Ultralight. Aquamira filters are highly rated. I have a couple of their real small straw filters that fit in my pouches that are a little bigger then a altoids tin.

https://www.amazon.com/FRONTIER-ULTR...a+water+filter

https://www.amazon.com/Aquamira-Fron...a+water+filter
Never knew about those, thank's
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Yes. Where I hunt. I typically fill up my camelback before heading out in the morning. Been doing it this way for years. So, for some dumb reason I decide to cut a fat hog, and I’m gonna fill it up the night before, and stage it n the samurai ready to go.

Next morning I get up and head for ze hills. Hen I get to my drop in point and start to gear up, I realize the camelback is empty. I had set tin such a way that it pinched the bite valve the night before, and all but a few sips siphoned out.

I NEVER hunt without water. And to go back and fill up would be a 30 minute minimum round trip, and by tat time it will be dawn and that’s no good. I’m hoping to get halfway down the amounts in by dawn.

Luckily I keep a life straw in the camelback. I hiked to the nearest spring seepage, found a puddle formed in a horses hoof print and proceeded to lifestraw a mouthful of water into my mouth, then back feed it into the camelback. Did this until it was full. Took about 10 minutes.

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Problems:
https://learn.eartheasy.com/articles...-water-filter/

https://snarkynomad.com/the-one-prob...ever-mentions/
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I use a LifeStraw Bottle every time I go fishing, and they’ve been great.

https://www.amazon.com/LifeStraw-Fil...95093009&psc=1

I don’t even pack drinking water in anymore.
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There's a life straw bottle kit available now so you can attach it to the metal water bottles or just about any water bottle that uses standard threads.
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I bought Sawyers for the family kits I made, put one in each car GHB. Just the amount it can filter and better filtration compared to a Lifestraw like Warboy posted it’s a no brainer for me. Easy to attach to a camelback too.
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Blue Sawyer minis are on sale for a few more hours on Amazon for $13.01 each.

https://www.amazon.com/Sawyer-Produc...63L&ref=plSrch
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Never knew about those, thank's
Your welcome. The Aquamira mini filters are the best thing going for short time (30 gallons worth) of use.
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Hello,

I just added one to my kit, I was wandering if anyone has actually tried it in the field?
Would you share your experience and if there is any specific brand that’s superior?

Thank you
I've tried it...it clogs too fast. I prefer the Sawyer by a wide margin.
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Blue Sawyer minis are on sale for a few more hours on Amazon for $13.01 each.

https://www.amazon.com/Sawyer-Produc...63L&ref=plSrch
Thanks! Just bought three of them.
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I bought several Life Staws because they were cheap, make good trading material, and I use Sawyers.
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One of my Sawyer Mini's

550 cord wrap with loop, threaded neck from a water bottle screwed into the input side, threaded water bottle neck wrapped with saran wrap to keep it clean.

The purpose for the cord is to hang a bucket for a gravity filter system, the threaded water bottle neck is to insert through a hole in the bottom of a bucket for the gravity filter system. So I have a filter I can slip onto my camel back, use the bag (supplied with the filter), or use in a gravity flow system, the loop in the cord is to hang the filter from my pack strap (I have a loop on there it goes through).
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One of my Sawyer Mini's

550 cord wrap with loop, threaded neck from a water bottle screwed into the input side, threaded water bottle neck wrapped with saran wrap to keep it clean.

The purpose for the cord is to hang a bucket for a gravity filter system, the threaded water bottle neck is to insert through a hole in the bottom of a bucket for the gravity filter system. So I have a filter I can slip onto my camel back, use the bag (supplied with the filter), or use in a gravity flow system, the loop in the cord is to hang the filter from my pack strap (I have a loop on there it goes through).
Very neat, I'm copying that... thanks!
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Very neat, I'm copying that... thanks!
Thanks. As an added benefit it covers up the very non-tactical orange (there was a sale on orange filters a while back).
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