Thread: Who filters water when out hunting overnight?

I'm going to start dragging the kids and dog out overnight into Richmond Forest Park, so we can all learn to hunt goats/deer.

In the past I've never bothered filtering water, just drunk from rivers/streams, choosing a good spot to fills bottles.

Places around the Hackett and Browning are pretty popular though, and on the TA route, so must see a lot of people.

Should I be using a water filter? Looking at a Sawyer Squeeze.

If it is good running water and has been through a few rapids I don't, but I do take a straw filter into new places or if I am unsure. If camping near tarns etc, I use a filter as water is still/semi stagnant sometimes.
We drink the Hackett/Browning stream water and have not had any ill effects, touch wood.

always thought about one of them straws....if water might be dodgy...good excuse to boil the billy and have cuppa tea
Ive drunk some pretty dodgy water over the years.....small swampy seep on ridgetop in middle of summer comes to mind...touch wood havent got crook yet.

Fast flowing water has all the bad bugs flowing in it.Side stream stillish water have all the bad bugs sink to the bottom they reckn.But not still ponds of water on their own,dont touch them.I take my own tap water,its nice and bug free.

I carry a pack of 50 water purification tabs (get at chemist). I take my own water on the walk in, then purify water when I fill up. One tab per litre. Takes about 30 mins to work, easy as.

For day hunts, I use water treatment tablets. Aquatabs have minimal taste and kill everything apart from cryptosporidium which is an issue in NZ. Living dangerously, but not as dangerously as some.

https://www.chemistwarehouse.co.nz/b...xoCkvEQAvD_BwE

Better safe than sorry.

If you are looking to filter running water. The Hydrapak filter and Hydrapak Seeker bags are awesome. Durable, wide lid so easy to fill. The lid on both the filter and bags are strong and durable. Katadyn filter lid is flimsy and breaks. Sawyer much slower filtration and clogs easy.

For really dirty water sources, aqua tabs or a pump filter will be better.

I carry a Fill2Pure drink bottle that has an internal filter. I carry it empty and just fill it from a creek when I need a drink unless I know I will be a long way from water.

If I need camp water it is just boiled in a Billy.

I do. I once didn't and did regret my decision.

hollow fiber filters are cheap, light, simple to use, and absolutely adequate for most of NZ.

Mine simply screws onto a PET bottle

the first aid kit has a few aqua tabs as backup.

Originally Posted by Kimber 7mm-08

I carry a pack of 50 water purification tabs (get at chemist). I take my own water on the walk in, then purify water when I fill up. One tab per litre. Takes about 30 mins to work, easy as.

Thanks must get some of those,they could be handy one day.

Never have yet if it's beyond any farming activity and so far been fine in 20 or so years of doing so

In 55 years of visiting and/or living in the NZ bush I don't think I have ever purified bush/alpine water. But you just need to be sensible about it.

overseas....its a whole new ball game though. India/Thailand/Burma/China/Africa it was one week on iodine tablets, one week on clorine tabs, as they both taste evil but week about made using them slightly more bearable.

I have a straw filter thingy - but the ones that just screw into a PET softdrink bottle will be my next purchase. They are disposable after a hundy litres or so from the last one I looked at, whereas the straw has a reverse flush thing with it which is a pain in the arse to be honest. It also has an adapter that allows you to screw it onto a softdrink bottle etc and push water through it but you can't acrt it like that as the entire unit is on top of the bottle. The screw in one looks just so much simpler and easier.

Originally Posted by Snoppernator

Better safe than sorry.

If you are looking to filter running water. The Hydrapak filter and Hydrapak Seeker bags are awesome. Durable, wide lid so easy to fill. The lid on both the filter and bags are strong and durable. Katadyn filter lid is flimsy and breaks. Sawyer much slower filtration and clogs easy.

For really dirty water sources, aqua tabs or a pump filter will be better.

I have a couple of those seeker bags so like the sound of the filter system.

Is this what you are referring too??



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Probably better than what’s coming out of the taps lately