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Best sleeping system

  • 14-06-2010 4:41pm
    #1
    air assault
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    I was on a recent exercise with the R.D.F and we staying out on the ground for 24hours. I was issued with a sleeping bag which was rather large and took up most of the space in my burgin. It was a great sleeping bag but im wondering if anyone knows of a smaller style bag that you can purchase. A good quality one that is.


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  • #2
    Local-womanizer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Local-womanizer


    Snug pack sleeping bags are compact,but an officer said the last time he had it out on the ground he was freezing and dident sleep a wink. Depends what time of the year I suppose.


  • #3
    Tails142
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    You can get real compact ones but they're basically just nylon sheets with very little filler material, you would definetly need a roll mat or there are also very thin mats that you can inflate a small bit to stop you losing heat through the ground. Cant remember what they're called though.


  • #4
    Donny5
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    Local-womanizer wrote: »
    Snug pack sleeping bags are compact,but an officer said the last time he had it out on the ground he was freezing and dident sleep a wink. Depends what time of the year I suppose.

    Well, Snugpak make about 40 different sleeping bags, and that's just in their military green range, so he may have been using too light a bag.

    I've got a Snugpak Elite 3 that I bought about five years ago. It says it's good to -2/-7, and, from experience, it's fine for 3 seasons in Ireland. It weighs about 1.7Kg, and packs up real small. The downside was the price, over €100 if I remember correctly. Not cheap if you're only going to use it for the RDF.

    I also have a tiny Highlander 1 or 2 season bag I picked up for €25 or €30, that's perfect for summer. It's well under a kilo and packs down into a tiny stuff sack.

    Anyway, for the army, whatever bag you get, make sure it's synthetic fill and not down. Synthetic stays warm when wet, while down doesn't. Also, the usual, get it green or black, and look at the zip to make sure it's got a little bit of webbing either side of the track to avoid snagging when the sarge decides the Imaalistanis are attacking at 2am and you need to bug out. Don't bother with anything that doesn't have a hood or stuff sack.

    After that, it's all about how much you want to spend, and weight versus warmth.


  • #5
    Donny5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,827 ✭✭✭Donny5


    Tails142 wrote: »
    You can get real compact ones but they're basically just nylon sheets with very little filler material, you would definetly need a roll mat or there are also very thin mats that you can inflate a small bit to stop you losing heat through the ground. Cant remember what they're called though.

    The most common brand of inflatable kipmat is Thermarest, but you can get cheaper no-name brand ones. Either way,you definately need a rollmat of some kind. All sleeping bags provide warm by trapping air in the loft, which is the space between the filling. The greater the loft, the warmer the bag. Your weight on the sleeping bag compresses the loft to nil, and it provides near zero insulation. All the warmth under you is provided by the rollmat, as well as keeping you off the damp ground, and it's always ****ing damp in a shell scrape.


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