Thread: Carrying Water . . . . . what's your prefered method?

Usually use a 1.5l coke bottle. It squashes as flat as is required and reinflates when filled. The current one has done about 5 hunts without a leak and weighs almost nothing and cost nothing.

Same here
I went and bought one of those roll flat water bottles but a coke/lemonade bottle does the same thing

The water storage thing that I do like is the 10L water bladder for camp. It cost about $20 but I take it in empty, set up camp usually on a terrace above the river then fill the 10l cube at the river and haul it up to the camp. No constant refilling a litre at a time.

Originally Posted by rupert

Usually use a 1.5l coke bottle. It squashes as flat as is required and reinflates when filled. The current one has done about 5 hunts without a leak and weighs almost nothing and cost nothing.

Originally Posted by 308

The water storage thing that I do like is the 10L water bladder for camp.

Yep they are bloody useful when you are there for a while

Originally Posted by SiB

what's the easy way to fill wine bladders with water then? - that's the issue that's stopped me in the past.

It takes a while to get the knack of it but i rip the top off and hold it under a small waterfall or face the hole into the flow and it fills op pretty quickly.

Camelbak with some rehydration drink for the long hot days

Squeeze flat 1 litre water bottle for general hunting, they dont make noise like a water bottle

Originally Posted by POME

I just use a plastic bottle. As i empty it i just squeeze it so the water is right at the rim then put the cap on. That stops the sloshing sounds as i move. to inflate when i need to refill just give it a good blow. No bad taste and dont cost much. But if you do use a bladder and want to get rid of the rubber taste then juice lots of lemons and leave the juice in the bladder for 24 hours. Then give a good rinse. Sorted.

I do the exact same, works a treat.

1l milk bottle with my belt threaded thru the handle sits sweet behind my back/arse

price is right too

Originally Posted by Bill999

sits sweet behind my back/arse

I am worried now. Do you have a front/arse?

Yup there's one just above my chin that all the shit I talk comes out of

Originally Posted by Bill999

Yup there's one just above my chin that all the shit I talk comes out of

Classic ha ha ha ha

I just drink my own urine no need for bladders/bottles ....



Seriously I carry a water bladder, I give it a good clean out so no funny taste. The only part of the water I find that is warm is in the water tube, the rest is cool as in my pack. I don't like carry a bottle makes to much noise (sloshing) when bush stalking. A good thing with a good bottle apart from carrying water is at least you can boil water (as long as material will not melt). But I do like the bladder.