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I hope I never have to live in a poncho! Cammo or otherwise.

Outstanding. I have 2

Wow, he really is Patrick Bateman. He just preys on Civil Liberties instead of women!

I noticed you don't cover radiological threats. Do you really think you can survive Fukushima? 85 % of the bomb test fallout is still up there in the high atmosphere. Probably 95% of Fukushima fallout is still up there. The pacific ocean is nearly sterile from what little fell on it, the greatest food source on earth! Lets do some vids on how to catch and cook long pig, will ya? And maybe one on decontamination of vegetables....

Mil-tec has some pretty good products. I brought a laser cut backpack for my gf and its pretty good

Where can I buy it ?

you can do MUCH better, folks. with the 2GoSystem, XL size ( important) "Trifecta" reflective tyvek bivy. $95, 1.5 lbs and 1/2 lb of plastic "envelope" around it. and one lb of net hammock. You have to pull a ridgeline and the hammock thru the bivy and have another line between the bivy and the envelope. You have to maintain those layers of "trapped air" between the bivy and the envelope and between YOU and the bivy.. there's lots of tie outs on the bivy and you can unzip it into being a canopy. You can slit open the envelope with your knife and tape it back into bing a bag if needed. You can wear just the bivy as a poncho, if need be, cause it 'breathes" (a bit) as you generate body heat. When you stop, add the envelope to your covering.

Is got a usgi mms. Its military sleeping bags, a light weight and a heavy weight. When put together thay work down to -30F and they have a waterproof bivy that will keep you dry in a torrential downpoar. The bivvy is camo no tent or shelter needed. Its like a tent bag cacoon that all goes into a compression sack. Cant forget a blow up thermarest also to insulate from the ground. You could be burried in a snowbank and be cozy.

you're too lazy to google for 2GoSytems?

I'll take a 2GoSystems reflective tyvek bivy, any day, I can wear it as a poncho, or unzip it to lay flat. I envelope it in a plastic "envelope.". When I use this around a net hammock, I can sleep fine at 40F, in just cammies. With camo nets and amazon bugnet "suits" worn as longjohns as well as tyvek coveralls. I sleep fine at 30F. It gets 30F degrees colder where I live than in S Georgia Spraying camo paint onto the plastic envelope adds a few ozs. My Kevlar vest and groin protector keep my torso warm.

getting wet doesn't effect the camo nets or bugnet suits and of course, they hide you and protect you from bugs. worn as long johns, they keep your sweat from wetting your cammies. With the bivy worn as clothing, tyvek coveralls and if need be, the 3x4 hunk of clear PEVA shower curtain (Wallys) and the third drum liner, wrapped around my legs. If need be, a Siberian fire lay can be mated with this stuff set up as a Kochanski supershelter. The PEVA is better for letting in radiant heat than construction plastic and you can see thru it much better. The Gorilla tape needed to assemble the Kochanski is useful for many other things and so is the drum liner.

I have added 1/2 lb of tyvek coverall to my BOB, swapped out the half lb of 55 gallon drum liners (taped into being a bag) in favor of taping together a couple of the SOS 2 person "heat sheets as my "envelope" around the reflective tyvek bivy, the XL size from 2GoSystems. this has to be used around a hammock. No part of the bivy can touch you nor can it touch the envelope, or you'll have cold spots. I have added 1/2 lb of tyvek coverall, with hood and booties, from lowes, $15 and a 3/4 lb rubber hot water bottle from Amazon. I have to carry my spare water in some thing and the rubber bottle is only 1/2 lb heaver thaan a plastic 2 liter bottle. So the additional weight is actually only 1/2 lb. I can put the rubber bottle any place i want it in my bivy and not worry about it being damaged or getting me wet. and it's soft, not going to wake me up if I roll over on it. the the other bottles, foll of hot water, can go into the foot box of the bivy. I had to spray paint the orange heat sheets camo. but I left the tyvek suit white in case I need snow camo. Thse changes have taken me down10F degrees more in sleep warmth and have given me better options for drying out and using debris, for even colder temps. With some spring clamps, tape and a 3x8 ft hunk of clear PEVA shower curtain, I can convert my stuff into a Kochanski supershelter in a few minutes. then with the use of a Siberian fire lay, I can sleep ok at -20 F, and if I had hot rocks under the low slung hammock, covered with ashes, I can sleep ok at -40F, if need-be. With the debris as insulation and the netting and hot water bottles, I can normally sleep all night without having to mess with the fire at all.

If I somehow fall into cold water, the layers of tyvek, reflectorized plastci, netting give me protection from rain, wind and cold as I wring out my cammies and move to/make a fire.. Wtth vigours moverment, I can wring out the wet cloting and be ok at 20F for 10 mimutes or so as I jog to where I can gather firewood and get a fire going 5 lbs of sleep/shelter bug netting, camo netting, net hammock, tyevek bivy, reflective envelope, bugnet suts, a hunk of clear PEVA, some cordage, tape, a 55 gallon drum liner and camo nets. I can vary my setups a lot with that gear.. 2 lbs of "extra" clothing (including the tyvek coveralls. 2.6 lbs of packs. I can get down to sleeping ok at 20F without any debris, and with the dry debris, to 0F I can heat up the water with the UCO lantern and its besesax candle. That gear can help me dry out the debris that lets me get down to 0F degrees.without the need of an open fire. the UCO is a big help when i need to start a fire with wet wood and it's a back up light source (when I include the 2 oz reflector.. It will also warm the bivy whe I rig the hamomck as a "slingchair" and sleep in the reclining position, (while drying out damp debris Once I hve enough dry debris to wrap arond me inside of my cammies, I can use the tyvek bivy to let me dry out a layer of wet debris all around me, in a normal horizontal use of the hammock. When its too cold for this gear, including the hot water bottles, it's time for the Siberian fire lay and the Kochanski supershelter. It's also too cold to have to worry about hostile people, at least at night