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+1 on the Rapid Pure.
You can freeze them, thaw them out and they still work. I like what people are saying about the Rapid Pure system but there only a few reviews on Amazon.com for the Rapid Pure water filter and the reviews are mixed. One review says don't buy it. Another says it's five-star. I think I'll wait and watch until there are more reviews of the system. KC
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I just purchased 2 sawyer mini's for use this fall in the Wilderness here in New Mexico. I plan on using one inline and filling up the camelback bladder and going. The second one is going to be used as a gravity for base camp.
I filled a one liter bottle of water ( with the bottom cut off to help the gravity test) this weekend and measured the "speed" of how fast it filtered water. It took 15 minutes on the dot to filter one gallon of water. I have no idea if that is fast or slow, but it seemed to work very well. Now this was clean tap water it was filtering.
I plan on carrying two empty water jugs or bladders into camp and gravity filter while setting up camp, making dinner, etc.. One dirty and one clean. That way I have clean water at camp all the time. That's interesting. I just went and timed the Sawyer 3-in-1 just to see how it stacks up to the Mini. Just under 9 minutes to filter a gallon by gravity, even considering the bottleneck adapter fittings that allow nothing more than a trickle to enter and flow through the filter. EDIT: BTW, looks like Sawyer now calls the 3-in-1 filter the PointONE...
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I hate to be "that guy" who veers a thread off course, but I am done with filters. They are too damn slow, the straws are too tiring on my throat and cheek muscles (don't even think about saying it Deflave) and too much crap to carry.
I am going back to drinking straight out of springs (never, ever had an issue but have heard too many giardia stories) but probably also will carrying coffee filters and an eye dropper full of bleach. The coffee filters get the big stuff out and the bleach works pretty well to kill anything in there. I've heard the bad stories about drinking bleach, but I use only a drop in a 32 OZ bottle and I would rather suffer those effects than giardia.
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A filter is especially important to a hunter who has to fly. Can you imagine a gut bug attack while you're in the airport security line?
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I use a steripen and a bandana filter, never had a problem even from somewhat questionable sources. I carry a week's worth of tablets in case something happens to the steripen but so far it's lasted over 2000 miles of hiking use with just routine battery changes.
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When I was in the Congo we used bleach to purify the tap-water. 6-8 drops per gallon. We boiled too, in big commercial coffee pots.
We still had the shzits all the time.
Gamma Globulin, and Chloroquine were staple items.
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I have a pump filter...worked good....but SLOW! It is the katadyn hiker before katadyn bought the company. I recently got the Camelbak All Clear (a deal too hard to pass up). I just used it on a quick trip and it did great. I used it right next to the steripen my BIL owns and both did well. I probably did 7 gallons of water and the battery didn't really take a hit. Showed 3/4 after a long spell of using it, but then showed 4 bars on the one bottle I sterilized on the trip out. I personally won't go back to the pump. My FIL has a sawyer of some type and it does fine. Me I'll have some coffee filters on hand if there's lots of sediment. This last trip was a clear stream and no pre-filtering was done. I was very pleased with how it worked.
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I don't know about "best" ... I start out trying to be selective about what water source I start with and the filter is just ... baggage. I use one anyway.
For backpacking I use a MSR "hyperflow microfilter" .. packs small. It is fast enough for solo use.
Tom
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I use a steripen and a bandana filter, never had a problem even from somewhat questionable sources. I carry a week's worth of tablets in case something happens to the steripen but so far it's lasted over 2000 miles of hiking use with just routine battery changes. Sent my son to the Chugach for 2 weeks with a steripen. Been using a Sawyer with good results. Be interested to hear how it worked.
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Used the Katadyn 6 liter Base Camp the past few days and I liked it plenty.
Very fast and I've not schit my pants. Yet.
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the straws are too tiring on my throat and cheek muscles
Lie. Dave
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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I have been using a Sawyer mini and despite some limitations it works good. ![[Linked Image]](http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n220/Daytraderwon/Camp2/mini1.jpg) And naturally boiling works. ![[Linked Image]](http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n220/Daytraderwon/reviews/DSCN4351.jpg)
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The hiker has served me well, but I do feel that a gravity filter could be put to work while i was setting up camp.
I'm not really out there to spend my time pumping water.
I'm old, overweight, and sweat like a fat man. And I stay close to water out of necessity.
The hiker is handy for stream side breaks and filling water bottles. Got a deal on some nalgene liters that fit the end on the discharge hose . Probably good to go...
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Last year on our elk hunt in Colorado, my son and I spent seven days in the mountains. We used the Steripen exclusively, I think we strained it through a coffee filter or something. But it worked fine, and nobody had any stomach problems.
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I can't swear it's the "best," but I'm completely happy with my MSR Miniworks EX. If mine was stolen, I'd probably buy another one w/o doing much research.
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Between my hunting buddy and myself, we've tried 4 or 5 of the most popular filters (won't mention which ones), and we both now have MSR Mini-works EX filters. They are simple to set up, and easy to use. More importantly, they are as fast as any of the other filters we've used.
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My MSR Miniworks sits in a box collecting dust nowadays...
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Just got back from 7 days of filtering straight silt through a sawyer mini. At one point we were backflushing after every bag (3 liters [which is about 3 quarts in 'merican]). But they work, and I still greatly prefer them to anything non-gravity fed.
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Just got back from 4 days of using the Camelbak All Clear in the White Clouds. Still liking it and no Hershey squirts!
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