View Full Version : Cheap Bivvy Bags ??
Scots_Charles_River
13-04-2007, 17:29
Anyone spotted a cheaper supplier of goretex bivy bags than the one
below, just spent an hr surfing.. ?
http://www.genuinearmysurplus.co.uk/pages/products/detail/rowid=650
Nick
Anyone spotted a cheaper supplier of goretex bivy bags
Thats not a bad price. I have stayed out on a hill top in the emergency orange ones, but got a little damp and woke up everytime I moved / rustled. Since then, I got a simple green gortex version and been very impressed :-)
c
they can be had off of ebay for £20-£30 i haven't got one yet but i assume that they're the same
Scots_Charles_River
13-04-2007, 17:47
Thats not a bad price. I have stayed out on a hill top in the emergency orange ones, but got a little damp and woke up everytime I moved / rustled. Since then, I got a simple green gortex version and been very impressed :-)
c
From where may I ask ?
Nick
From where may I ask ?
Nick
It wont be much help I am afraid ( Comsac closed ten years ago I think ) , and they seem to have come down in price a great deal :-(
HI all
Please excuse my Muppetry but do these Bivys have a zip down them ??? :confused:
Scots_Charles_River
13-04-2007, 18:18
Yes, normally side or a diagonal.
Some are as long as 8ft, for kit inside.
Nick
Thanks for that
I can feel a secret spend coming on !!! ;)
I've looked at them before but only seen them around the £50 mark , and as I would need a second ( 1 for my stick gatherer ) this was a bit expensive.
Cheers Rich
sxmolloy
13-04-2007, 19:29
Outdoor Code do a bivvy for £31, and P&P is just £1 http://www.outdoorcode.co.uk/catalog/index.php?cPath=60&osCsid=43e1099a06b457cc36ff280 cc71cb170
ATB .... Stu
Thanks Stu
It's burning a bigger hole now.
It MUST be spent .........my legs on fire... :lmao:
Hi
I live near Darlington and the shop that supplies this is pretty good, it is a fairly good price but I think that thay also do used condition ones for about 15gbp which is better and for a few patched good value I think.
just my thoughts
Hi
I live near Darlington and the shop that supplies this is pretty good, it is a fairly good price but I think that thay also do used condition ones for about 15gbp which is better and for a few patched good value I think.
just my thoughts
Have you got a link for that price ?? :o
I got mine from strikeforce supplies (http://www.strikeforcesupplies.co.uk/stock.php?page=sleeping) in Olive at 40 UKP.
Maybe a little more expensive than some of the other places but the stock is issued but unused as it came from a disbanded N.I corp/brigade/reg or something before the kit got used.
I have not seen one of these issue gortex bivvy bags with a zip, just a draw string affair at the top.
At the same time I also purchased a green maggot sleeping bag (20ukp again unused) and combined it with the bivvy, poncho and termarest every other weekend in Jan and Feb this year. I was very toasty warm and dry.
Dougster
14-04-2007, 08:20
The ones with a zip are Dutch Army and a lot harder to come by than the simple draw string ones.
Ordered mine from genuinearmysurplus, one month later still waiting for them to come into stock :rolleyes:
Got an OG Gd1 from www.ukkitmonster.com £45 and arrived next day...
Celt_Ginger
14-04-2007, 16:09
Got one for FREE. Did a fellow a favor and he offered me anything from his store, and I took a bivi bag. No zips, but a generous opening at the top and a draw string closure. I don't like to completely enclose myself inside it, so I pull on a midge net and keep my head sticking out at night.
Make sure the bivi bag you buy is gore tex, or some other breathable, I know most are but a non breathable bivi bag is not really worth the space in a bergan even if it is cheap. Hada quick look at the links and they all seem to be, I can reccomend Outdoorcode as I have purchased from him before, good bloke to speak to.
Scots_Charles_River
14-04-2007, 20:12
I have the Kyham VSS which has a sympatex bivvy bag, ok for winter emergencies but you wake up wet from condensation, hence the gore tex.
Nick
I got a Dutch bivi bag from kit monster a couple of weeks ago but they appear to have none left. Its got the zipped opening down the front with a storm baffle over the top, a bit easier to get in and out off than the issue one.
Brian
Scots_Charles_River
19-04-2007, 20:17
Have bought one from outdoorcode, awaiting delivery. :)
Nick
Scots_Charles_River
02-05-2007, 20:06
Fast service, great condition. :)
Nick