howdy guys and gals welcome back to the social regressive what you see on my bench right here
this is the united states marine corps ilb assault pack and if you can find one of these on the
surplus market uh that still looks pretty decent you really should pick one of these up these
are amazing little packs very simple it's just a large compartment right here a small compartment
on the front some molly webbing and straps and that's it and that's exactly what i love
this pack is extremely tough this is 1000d cordura you can see that the the camouflage is going to be
really effective in my area and yeah i have taken this out a whole bunch i talked about this pack
and all of this stuff that i brought in it on a recent hunk and everything worked out perfectly
there i just love the the loadout that i had and when i go out deer hum king next year i'm going
to bring this whole set up yet again but there is something on the inside of here that i want to get
into today if you have a smaller pack like this or heck even a big rock and it's just you and you
want to be able to have some kind of shelter out in the wilderness then there are some really cool
options from five star gear okay so this right here this is a hham ohck that i've taken out
um on a handful of occasions and i love the way that this sleeps uh now first off i should point
out okay yes this is a pretty small backpack it's not huge it's not the giant rock the illbe that i
take out when i usually go camping and usually i do take a tent with me which is about five
total pounds of weight once i include the rain fly and stakes and all that and that's a fair bit of
weight especially if i'm trying to keep my entire load out to about 25 pounds so yeah if i wanted to
go lighter if i wanted to go simpler and actually in a lot of ways more comfortable this is a pretty
cool way to go five star gear is one of the brand names under atlan co so you guys that have been
into a military surplus stuff or you know any kind of military equipment you probably know
about these guys they bake all kinds of gear for different military services and they've started to
sell more things direct to the public so that includes pants like this uh truespec is under
atlanco as well so if you like the truespec 24 7 pants that's under there and then yeah
five star gear is gonna have more of the gear side of things so we're talking about compasses
and other you know kind of survival and camping stuff but yeah this is the hham ohck this is
let me get this right i have my notes right here uh this is 310 parachute nylon
and it kind of feels like silk it's very very thin and like i said it's rip stop and
i'll show you here how the rip stop actually works because my kids tested that thanks a bunch of kids
but yeah it's a very lightweight material this whole thing overall only weighs
10.4 ounces this entire setup including straps and clips and all kinds of things
everything folds up neatly into the bag that remains attached to the hham ohck itself
and let's see what we got here now okay i did throw in some stakes that i've been using with
this old tarp right here this is a usmc feel tarp that i've been using as my cover but we're
going to talk about a new cover here today that actually comes from five star as well this is
actual parachute material from an actual parachute bake her and as you can see it has kind of a flat
green texture going on so if you are interested in reducing your footprint and kind of disappearing
into the outdoors this is a great way to go when i set this up the first time out at the camp
and kind of backed off a ways i was just amazed at how well this blended in and
started to disappear out there especially when i topped it with this tarpaulin right here
great stuff out in my particular neck of the woods this has a sewn edge going all the way around and
then at the end you have the the nylon webbing and then a carabiner at the end and this carabiner
looks a lot like the night eyes ones i think this might actually be a night eyes carabiner
the whole thing can handle about 300 pounds of weight that's what they say so if you are a bigger
dude this will be able to uh to take your weight now remember that included in that 10.4 ounces
you also have the tree straps these are some nylon webbing that feels a whole lot like the climbing
webbing that i've used for rock climbing before so i'm sure that this is plenty tough so yeah you
just throw these around the tree clip them onto the the carabiners on here and you are good to go
and i really can't overstate the the comfort on this i really enjoyed sleeping in a hham ohck
i'd heard people talking about it and you know some real fans of it but normally i take out a
tent i i carry an alps mountaineering zephyr 3.1 love my tent it's very good in all kinds
of inclement weather it can handle just about anything you know at least that oklahoma can throw
at us but remember that it does weigh five pounds all by itself and then you have uh the ground pad
that you put under it and then you have you know whatever a sleeping pad that you're going to have
under your sleeping bag it's it all kind of adds up even if it doesn't end up weighing a whole ton
then it's going to be very bulky i can't even get one of my sleeping pads in one of these right here
it would just be kind of a ridiculous rig to have all that stuff attached to a small pack like this
one so if i want to stay mobile and i want to have you know either something to catch me if i end up
stuck out in the woods or if i intend to do a very light camp out and you know maybe get out into the
woods really far really fast and you know sleep comfortably for the night i think this is a much
better way to go the first time that i i tried it that night you know i didn't know what to expect
people talk about how hham ohcks will break your back but as long as you you kind of sleep in an
angle like people talk about where you kind of have your head not straight up into one of the
corners but you actually kind of go off to the side and get your feet off to the it was
wonderfully comfortable just amazing so i plan to do a whole bunch more with this now that is just
a hham ohck and it is open on the top it doesn't have any kind of mosquito netting it doesn't have
any kind of lid over the top if it starts raining or if you get really strong wind and so there is
one more piece of the puzzle that you can get from uh five star gear and that's this guy right here
this is the tarpaulin so this weighs a noticeable difference less than this and this actually
includes some of the stakes that you need now normally i do carry this little package of steaks
right here in my hham ohck i don't think i'm going to have to do that anymore because inside here
we have the tarp and this is made of a different material and i think this is really smart
you have the hham ohck made of that parachute nylon
which is not going to really deal with water but this certainly is
all right so this is a polyester material that's rip stop as well and this is a lot
like the material that my alps mountaineering tent is made out of this is polyurethane coated to keep
the water out and this is again very thin it's a very lightweight material and you can see at the
corners we have reinforcements so you have some grommets you have doubled up material and then you
have webbing so this should be able to take quite a bit of a bruise and quite a bit of wind it is a
little bit on the loud side as you can hear as i rustle it and this might be a little bit superior
we actually had some pretty strong wind uh one of the nights that i went camping with my buddies as
you can see the color is that nice flat green very similar to what we had with the hham ohck itself
slight difference i think this one's a little bit more yellowy and this is just a tad bit shinier
but this is still going to disappear really well out into the woods and now let's see some of the
other goodies that came in here so this little steak bag is made of the same material as the tarp
there we go we have the guy lines with tensioners that's going to be very important and then we have
oh these are some pretty nice aluminum stakes so these are pretty long as you can see and that's
going to be important if that wind kicks up these are very lightweight the whole package is pretty
small overall so yeah i'm looking forward to the next camp out where i bust this thing out and
get comfy again and by the way my kids just love this thing and that's why there's a hole in here i
mentioned that earlier i'm going to see if i can actually find the hole they like to put sticks
and pine cones and all kinds of junk in here it's right up next to the edge but that is one of the
nice things about a rip stop material it's going to catch it and keep it from degrading over time
well i spent about five minutes and i can't find it it was really small and it's not going anywhere
i've been in this hham ohck since then and it doesn't seem to be spreading so i'm not worried
about my butt hidting the ground anytime soon yeah good stuff thanks a bunch everybody for
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