Ok so at the LBL shoot this weekend my biggest problem was with sleeping. I had 2 tents a 7 man and a little 3 man. First I dont how they come up with how many persons they should be able to stuff i a tent but they must count different than me.

So the big tent has plenty of room but is a pain for one person to set up. The smaller one is exactally that small. I have to sleep diagnally in it to be comfy. Now I was using a inflatable mattress that my sleeping bag kept sliding off of so I would end up half on and half off of the mattress with rocks poking me in the side.

Well after getting back I decided to do some looking around for one person options that might fit the bill.

First think I came up with was a jungle hammock or something similure.


Now Hammocks are ok for napping but I sleep on my side allot and hammocks are not really good for that. I then stumbled by this thing.



What do you guys think? Anybody have one? They make them in 3 sizes reg, oversized, and double. I was thinking about the double.

it looks aweful little, but i like the idea.

it also keeps ya off the ground in case its raining.

i shoulda just bought one of those and put it in the back of my truck instead of getting a truck tent.

Bed Size - 90” long x 32” wide
Tent Size - 90” long x 32” wide x 40” high
Folded Size - 34” x 34” x 7” deep
frame keeps you 11” off the ground

The military one is very small


but they got one that fits on the military cot or can be used as a tent by itself.

Hammocks by my experience are for napping. Sleeping in one overnight is not that comfortable. You are in one position and unable to move around.

Cot tents would be good for sleeping, but what do you plan on doing with your gear? If it is raining when you get to your tent, how do you get inside without getting everything wet? However being off the ground is great, and a good mosquito net on a clear warm night is good also.

Personally, look on craigslist and get a small cheap camper. Pull the mattress and get a new one. This will double the value of your camper. Makes for drier sleeping and a place to keep your stuff dry and not in the vehicle.

Take a look at http://www.eurekatent.com/ tents, it all depends on how much you want to spend.

We have This tent for the 4 of us and it's cramped. No way you could fit 6 adults with comfort unless they were swingers......... We have had it since 1993 or 1994 and it's been all over the Midwest/West without any problems. It does take two people to put up but it's withstood 70mph winds (sustained) that blew over 5th wheels in teh campground.....

I've though about getting This tent
so the girls can have a tent & the Mrs and I can have one, but we have cut our tent camping way way back.

We also have Two of these and they are better than some hotel beds. I'm a side sleeper and can sleep comfortably on a gravel road with this on top of the gravel it's so comfey.

Or you could just "embrace the suck" and pretend you are out on a FTX facing raging hoards of zombies.....

If this is the case, all you need is a poncho and 6 bungee cords, your AR and all the rounds you can haul. I forgot, don't forget your pussy pad.

Spent a week long FTX on Okinawa in a typhoon once. my "ranger buddy" and I took a few poncho's a fist full of bungee cords, some para cord & duct tape and made a wind proof/water proof shelter high enough to wiggle in, change socks/boots and get some really good quality sleep in. All the while the guys on tents had em blown down, got soaked to the skin and never fully dried out.

Was funny when they saw our little shelter and how it was open at the ends, but adjustable & how we changed it depending on the wind & kept nice and dry/warm in it.

Had several guys come down with jungle rot & a couple cases of hypothermia.

Another guy took a handful of ponchos/bungie cords and a hammock & made a shelter up in a tree where he stayed nice and dry, but he complained that it was not real comfortable after a few hours & the wind kept blowing him all around

The best hooch I made was from the Ecotat's. That thing made a huge sleeping area and if you put the mosquito net in, you could get a nice breeze, even in the rain.

We delt with gale force winds from Lake Ontario at Ft. Drum. There were a couple of FTX's that I was the only one left dry. Or should I say had a dry place to sleep. None of us were dry after 3 days of thunder, lightning and winds.

You know the winds are bad when they only trim the west side (east side of the road) of the trees one time, and no branches grow back.

What the heck is that????

We had the old tried and true GP tents along with shelter 1/2 that you snapped togeather to make a tent out of.

Thus the poncho shelter was so much better.

Ecotat is/was the "new" one man tent that we were issued. They were a one man, Gortex tent (The material is the same as the new Gortex parka/jackets.) They could be made into a two man by zipping two together.
http://www.us-elitegear.com/catalog/ecotat...lter-gen-iv.htm
Better than a shelter half. It couldn't come unsnapped and kept you good and dry. It was just small.

We had shelter halves in basic, and they were unreliable at best. We got lucky and ours stayed together, even through 3 days of storms at Benning. Just never touch the "sweat" on the inside. That is where your drip will start.

Some of us got to use a GP..... twice... Our first "winter" exercise. They took out a GP medium, stove, and several bails of hay. The outside temp was about 15 degrees, which isn't too bad for Ft. Drum, but inside the tent was about 95. I couldn't stay inside for more than a couple of minutes let alone sleep in the thing. The second time was while we were in Honduras. We slept under tents while we were there. No walls, just the overhead cover.

I have those stacked up 20 high at the shop. They are not bad survival shelters but I would not use them for a planned outing unless I was doing something that required me living hard.

I am looking to use the tent cot for more along the lines of a weekend hunting or fishing outing. Not survival BOB stuff.

that Ecotat Shelter is nicer than the Gortex Bivy Bag i have in my BOB

The Tent Cot is comfortable, but no room for gear, I only take it 4 wheel'n so I can store my gear in the Jeep.

one bad thing about the cot-tents other than storage is they ventilate too well, being off the ground you are never able to warm up the area beneath you like happens with a ground tent, I slept in one one time and my body was constantly cold toward the ground, I won't use one anymore