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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Butts2 on January 25, 2007, 09:38:00 AM
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If you use /have one of these and you get far off the beaten track how old is yours or how often do you replace it. Mine is about 7 years old. It sure would suck to be back 5+ miles and have to carry water in your pockets
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my small camelback is 7 years old and my larger hydrapack is about 5. I keep the bladders in the freezer when not in use. I heard this keeps bacteria from growing. Also, every six months I put some water, baking soda and uncooked rice in it. I shake it up and this does a good job of cleaning/de-scenting it. The rice really scrubs the liner without damaging it. I use mine all year for mountain biking, hiking and fishing. You could probably give em 1 good cleaning a year if you only use it for hunting. I'll keep doing this till I can't get the stink out.
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Mine has to be 5 or so years old now. Havent used it much other then falls and on some military outings when I was still in. I do carry some smaller platapus's incase my big camel back goes down. Also started carrying a 2.5 gallon bota bottle for camp water. Sure beats filtering water all the time and when in places where water is scarce and a ways off, you dont have to be hiking miles everyday, up and down, just for water.
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I have one that is about 5-6 years old and still going although it needs a new drink tube as mold started growing. Hunting with AkDan I blew one up on the first use, day one of a long 13 day trip, by not pushing out the air when I was filtering water!