The Bushcraft Campout: Multicam Poncho Tarp Shelter on Raised Bed.

Hey guys, Joe here. I wanted to use and show you guys tonight a brand new piece of gear that I got called a Bushcraft Outfitters Poncho Mest. This is made by Bushcraft USA, sold on the forum, Bushcraft Outfitters is the store on the forum. This is a really cool piece of kit. This is multi-cam, huge poncho, it's 5x7, weighs just right around one pound, urethane coating, flame retardant, all that good stuff. So let me show you how this bad boy works as a poncho, and then this is gonna be my shelter for tonight. So as you can see, it comes really small. I showed in a previous video that it fits right in my Maxpedition pouch. It'll also fit in BDU pocket pants. If you roll it up, it'll fit inside a Nalgene. It's nice and small. But there's the plane again. Here she is, multicam. I think I might have to wait until that plane goes by. Okay, well, that was really loud. Now that the plane's gone, I can show you the poncho. There she is, a nice hood on it, nice drawstring, and quite big. So, I never really used ponchos before, but when I got this one, I tried it on, and the way it drapes, it seems like it might cover me better than my rain gear, and the fact of the matter is, it's smaller than my rain gear, weighs less than my rain, like my rain gear being my rain pants and my rain shirt, and it weighs less, and I can use it for two things. This is rain protection, and it's also gonna be a tarp. Now I don't match, I have woodland pants on and multicam ponchos, so you're gonna have to bear with me. But yeah, it covers, like I'm, there's a smaller size and a larger size. This is a smaller, obviously. If I got the larger, it'd probably be draping on the ground. So you can see lots of coverage, pretty cool. And then the really cool thing is it just pops open like a normal poncho tarp would, like an army one. Each of the snaps is reinforced with another piece of material. The tabs are folded back and tacked on each other. Really, really done well. I don't have any issues about it coming off. That is a big old spider on me. Wow, get rid of that guy. So we're gonna get ready to use this as our tarp. You wanna cinch the hood down as much as it'll go, okay? And then we're gonna tie it off as well so that there's no chance of the rain getting through. So now it's a tarp. You just gotta string it up. So this is the same way that I would string up my normal tarps. Just a loop, or sorry, a bite, and it goes through the tab. put your toggle on and she's secure go to the other side a taut line hitch on uh everything basically on my tarp and on the pegs that way i can adjust it as need be so there she is all squared away she's got her in a pup tent style this time but you can use it in a lean to a couple other configurations but this will be good for me tonight i'm gonna actually be nice and protected under there with my bivy and my little poncho mast so she'll be pretty good yeah i got complete coverage under here i've got about a head a foot above my head i don't know about six inches beneath my feet where it's still extra uh space that's covered and there's no way rain's gonna get me uh this low so pretty cool so my bivy itself has this little tab on it and i got some a little bit of shock cord so i'm gonna do tie uh an overhand knot around my shot around my loop or my toggle sorry and i'm gonna tie shock cord to the paracord right above it and that way it gonna keep it off my face a little bit so that mosquitoes can't just buzz right in on my face and bite me up and it'll give a little bit breathability and just non claustrophobic feeling this is the first real time I'm gonna be using this Bushcraft Outfitters poncho tarp so I'll let you guys know how it works out after it's supposed to rain a little bit tonight but nothing crazy I do actually have a really cool trip planned a pretty hardcore trip planned with my buddy Kyle we're gonna do like eight days canoe trip in Algonquin Park in September so I do believe I'm gonna bring this as opposed to my rain gear for the facts that I said earlier it's lighter than my rain gear it's smaller than my rain gear and it has a double purpose my rain gear I can't set up like I can't set up my rain pants and my rain jacket to do this right and it's packs down tiny so I think it's a win in my book we're gonna see but first impressions are really good that's it for this video guys i'm going to put a link in the description where you can get one of these awesome tarp poncho dealies if that's your thing thanks for watching this video please like comment subscribe and share and i will see you on the next one