Going the extra mile – for you
April 1st, 2009 | Shenanigans | Posted by Jason Watkins
GearScout knows you trust us and rely on our expertise. That’s why the GearScout, Rob Curtis, rigorously tests (and re-tests) every product to ensure that it’s worth your time and money. Even if it means drinking water from this boot.
We do it because we care.
New Camelbaks Hold More, Look Better, Weigh Less
October 6th, 2008 | Product Announcement | Posted by Rob Curtis
Taking the two steps forward, one step back approach, our friends at Camelbak have redesigned the Motherlode, left, and the BFM, right. Thanks to the efficient, yet somehow sadistic designers, the new bags weigh less, but you can put more stuff in them. The redesign includes a shift to 500D Cordura everywhere but the bottom of the packs, new pocket layouts, fleece-lined pockets for optics, wider straps for comfort, and printed webbing so your PALS straps don’t give you away. The Motherlode gains about 450 cubes while losing about about 6 ounces, and the BFM picks up 591 cubes and drops 1.1 lbs.
Brand new this year is Camelbak’s Direct Armor Attachment System. It’s on three of their packs, the ArmorBak, left, ThermoBak, right, and the redesigned Ambush AB 500. The packs attach to the PALS webbing on your body armor using Fastex style buckle whose female side has a a split bar which just slide onto a PALS strap and stays there. You don’t have to zip-tie your Camelbak to your gear anymore. Bonus: the attachment straps run on the outside of the pack so you can cinch them tight enough to squirt water from your hydration tube. The new packs will be $55 and $70, $76 for the Ambush and should all hit AAFES by 01FEB09.
A Lifesaver On Your Back
October 6th, 2008 | Product Announcement | Posted by Rob Curtis
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Lifesaver Systems, the guys that brought you the water filter in a bottle have adapted the system and added a few tweaks that make filling, filtering, drinking and carrying water a fairly seamless operation. The new device is called the HydroCarry. It’s premise is that you can fill the all-in-one bladder/pouch with water from any source and be drinking in a few seconds without even taking the system off your body armor.
The carrier is made from 1000D Cordura that’s been coated to to hold water, so there’s no internal bladder. The HyrdoCarrier snaps to your PALS webbing on your back and the small handpump that charges the system can ride up front. Other nice touches include patented technology that keeps water in the drinking tube cool, a newly designed bite valve with a built-in mister.
Bonus- Since you’re filling the bladder with nasty water that’s filtered as you drink, you don’t even have to clean the bladder. Watch the inventor, Michael Pritchard, explain the system in a couple of vids below.