However DO NOT drink otherwise untreated water with this filter! This is a great little filter for what it does.Learn what each type of water treatment does and does not do. I wouldn't drink water from any natural source even a stream or lake through this without also chemically treating it too. If I would then I probably would have drank it with out any treatment like from a known pure source ie. trusted spring.Most of the pump filters in common use filter out bacteria some remove viruses and most all remove giardia and cryptosporidium .The advertising may be a little deceptive. It is not a lie just a partial truth.This filter does nothing to filter out bacteria or viruses. It only takes out Giardia and Cryptosporidium which are both larger organisms as well as some taste and dirt. This filter in itself is not an acceptable method for treating drinking water from any open stream or lake in the US IMHO. It probably does a good job of removing the things it say it does but removing bacteria is the basic water treatment you are looking for.This is basically what the ad says. Antimicrobial. Removes giardia and cryptosporidium. Ultralight and compact. Portable and easy to use. No wait time. That's a little deceptive advertising but true. It just doesn't say it that it doesn't take out bacteria virus. It does say this if you get into the company website and I think on the directions with the filter.Important When using this filter you still need to treat the water chemically with iodine chlorine chlorine dioxide a SteriPEN etc to kill bacteria and viruses.Both the SteriPEN and chlorine dioxide tablets are nice because they have no taste or even improve the taste in the case of the chlorine dioxide.All that said this is still a great filter for a very specific procedure as follows A great light weight method for treating water is to use this filter in series with two bags. A dirty and clean bag and gravity filter water. It weighs much less then any pump. You also need to treat the water with chlorine dioxide. Chlorine dioxide takes four 4 hours to kill Cryptosporidium but only 1/2 hours to kill bacteria and virus. So with the combination you can be drinking in 1/2 hour or so.Do a search on youtube for jasonklass filter and he describes a very lightweight process using this filter and additional chemical treatment. Together it is about the lightest filter system you can have and quite fast as well. I think he uses the less expensive Frontier Pro model which is basically the same.Edit On further review their site says it removes down to 3 micron.
great product great value This little water filter is great ! Very lightweight and great for backpacking when you don't want to carry a heavy walter filtration device. You can drink straight from the stream or lake and be sure your water will taster a whole lot better than without it.
The color seems the only difference. I got both Tactical and PRO versions AFAICT the color and the pricing is the only difference. The PRO version was a subdued gray color really no more visible than the OD Tacticool version Sidebyside visually? you can barely tell the difference between the PRO and the Tactical. Depending on your source the Tactical can cost ~$5 more plus?.Functionally ? In terms of what you get in the package ?? Everything else is exactly the same IDENTICAL other than color and pricing and packagedgraphics . I have a Camelbak Tactical pack and a Digital ACU sleepsystem and I can tell you that I was worried that the PRO version might be ORANGE ..
Don't know yet I haven't really had a chance to use this but I will say that I would very rarely if ever trust just a filter to give me potable water. That being said I bought this to use the one two punch method of first purifying water with chemical tablets and then using the filter to remove 1 any particulates in the water I collect 2 the chemical taste of the tablets and 3 as a backup for the chemical just in case.
Better but bigger This filter unlike the regular frontier emergency filter handles up to 50 gallons has prefilters and has threads/attachments for connecting to a threaded water bottle or snapping onto a hydration bladder. So far so good. However it is much bulkier than the regular modeltoo much so for easily keeping in a pocket. Unfortunately the regular filter doesn't attach to or even fit inside the smaller mouth of a collapsible water bottle. Yet it's smaller and lighter not to mention cheaper than the Pro model.So for pocket use the Pro model isn't great. But for keeping in a bag with a collapsible canteen it's the way to go. Fits just fine onto my platypus. Also the bag it comes in can be used as an emergency water containter zip top with standing base.
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