Badlands Hydration Reservoir with Insulated Drinking Tube

Hands down this is the best hydration reservoir I have ever used. Easy to fill, easy to clean and dry. The hose unplugs and plugs into the bladder without any leaks, and the mouthpiece does not leak. Cant beat it!

Ive been through a couple hydration bladders for hunting and this is the best one yet. The material is tough. I fill it up full to the top and sat on it and squeezed the sh out of it to make it leak and it didnt leak at all. The hose is durable and keeps the water cool. If i had to say one bad thing i would say the mouth piece could let out a lil more water when teying to suck through. Not saying it doesnt put out enough because it does but that would be the only i would complain about if i had to

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.

great

Do not leave your water for very long in this reservoir or it tastes like bitter acid! Seems very unhealthy!!! I put water in it and went camping/hunting and about a week later I drank some of the water and it tasted horrible like poison! I assume something leached out of the plastic material into the water and that cannot be good. Functionally it is very sound and well made. Fit in my Badlands backpack perfectly and I think if you use it for very brief outings it would probably be fine but do not use it for extended trips or leave your water in it for long.

It is easy to clean. Hard to fill in field by yourself.

The reservoir is hard to attach inside the Badlands pack, I had to improvise. Needs a little improvement.

Works with bino case. Looks and functions great.

Does what its supposed to and seems to be good quality. Dinged only for the overly stiff/heavy hose.

Ordered two, one of my bag has a little leak somewhere...but my other one is great.