Badlands Hydration Reservoir with Insulated Drinking Tube

Always love badlands quality. This bladder is no exception it works great.

Okay so these are my first impressions on the Badlands 1L Bladder along with a few things about it: 1) I ordered this bladder for my Haley Strategic Flatpack (the smaller of the 2). My units SOP says we need a hydration source when wearing our FLC in the field so this compliments my Micro nicely while staying in regs and I don’t have to carry an awkward canteen. 2) This bladder upon first impression felt thick enough to take a beating. I wouldn’t trust it with your life but as a nice spare patrol water source it’s good to go. 3) This bladder seamlessly fits into the Flatpack and doesn’t feel awkward. The hose seems a bit long but you can remedy this by either A) cutting it down a bit or B) Snaking the spare tubing into your packs bladder sleeve. The mouth piece also slides through the Flatpack’s straps made for a radio antenna nicely and that’s where I’ll keep my hose in the future. 4) The slide lock portion on the top of the bladder doesn’t lock into place as securely as I’d like and I’m not sure it will hold its integrity under hard side to side movements. I’ll remedy this by putting shock cord through the 2 holes on the left of it and make a rope catch on the side of the bag. 5) For those who can’t read well or are Marines the bag clearly says you need to lubricate the hose before insertion into the bladder. Just lick the O-Ring or put some water on it before you insert it and you’re good. I have had 0 leaks so far. I even went as far as putting on my kit and leaning against the bladder in a wooden chair. Not even a drop of lost fluid and I sat there for 10 minutes. 6) This setup could also be ran with a Sawyer mini or normal sized filter in the hydration line fairly easily to be left inside your pack and if you bring this thing down range I’d recommend that. I’m not sure how iodine tablets would effect this but expect heavy discoloration. My overall thoughts: I think this bladder is well made. I took one star off because I don’t like that the top doesn’t lock into place securely. I think this bladder will hold up for years. My only big issue is I’d love to see this come with a patch or two so you don’t get utterly screwed in the field of you spring a leak. Other than that I would definitely recommend this thing to anyone who wants a hydration source for their Flatpack.

Awesome fits on the backpack perfect

Easy to use and clean plus unconditional warranty you can’t beat.

worked great!

Fits perfectly into my Badlands 2200 Hunting pack.

Backup for hunting and Bug Out

Best bladder I’ve ever used

Now that I have used this bag for several weeks during my elk and deer hunt I can leave an honest review. I have been using it in my Badlands Silent Stalker pack. Let me start by saying up front that this bladder is junk, or rather, the hose system is. The bag it self seems to be made of a durable material, easy to fill and clean, and it has no discernible bad taste. This is where the good ends. The hose quick disconnect leaks. Be prepared to have all of your gear wet. And if that isn’t irritating enough there is the mouthpiece. It is a two handed affair to turn it on and off, and I do keep it off when not using it, because, yep it leaks like mad. Even worse, once I do turn it on and go to take a pull of water the mouthpiece has a vacuum leak so most of what I get is wet air. To get a good slug of water I have to remove the mouthpiece from the hose. At least I take heart in knowing that I was going to have to use both hands anyway. I got this thinking that it will work the easiest with my pack, but my old Camelbak and Platypus bladders are far superior to this piece o’ junk.

Perfect fit in my new bag. Thanks