What's your favorite model of canteen?
 

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My favorite isn't in the rugged category so much. I like the ones that are good filters in a canteen or sport drink size for drinkable refilling from nasty water that one might be able to get.

I'm about as happy with sturdier but heavier stainless as with lighter but flimsier plastic. But I want it to make a mud puddle or a tank full of more cow $hit than water something clean to drink for many gallons of use.

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Nalgene bottles. I like the old-fashioned white ones with the wide mouths (easier cleaning). Nalgenes are practically indestructable.

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http://www.kleankanteen.com/ non-leeching steel bottles,buy on ebay.Plastic leeches bisphenol which eventually may lead to you having lustful thoughts about your buddy`s ass.More on that: http://www.bisphenolafree.org/

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Having done a lot of backpacking, there is no way I'm putting 2.5lb in my pack:

http://www.moosineer.com/MooseMain.a...NCHER+CANTEENS

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I'm partial to the standard issue GI canteens. Thats mostly due to the canteen cups you can get that fit on them - thereby taking up no extra space in your pack for a decent sized cooking pot. They are also very durable and cheap.

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Some plastic ones may leech methyl chloride, a carcinogen. There may also be antimony and PVC present in other plastics, neither of those are good. Stainless is probably the way to go in that case, but if S and HTF then dying of cancer a couple decades from now is probably not the highest concern, depending on how well prepared you are of course.

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Nalgene bottles mate up to MSR water filters which is very handy. They are also really durable. Not the handiest for swigging from though. I still have a couple of Oasis green, plastic canteens with the plastic strapped-on cap and belt clip. They are about the best "canteen" I've ever owned for backpacking/hiking.

GI gear is very good. The plastic 1qt canteens are good. GI metal are good, but heavy. The 2qt is very good when combined with carrying case.

"Best" canteen these days is a camelback or other hydration system with a drinking tube. MSR Dromedary bags will hold a couple liters of water and mate up with their water filters, also are super heavyduty.

You can probably get by with a water or pop bottle these days. Some of them are pretty heavy plastic and look very durable.

The GI canteen with a GI metal cup w/folding handle is a great piece of gear. If you carry a small firetab or twig stove, you can cook in it as well as dip water with it.

One thing you might really consider is outfitting your "canteen" (whatever you use) with a decent O-Ring or flat gasket to insure no leakage whenever you pack one in your kit or backpack. Nothing worse than a leaky seal on a canteen.

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A perfect canteen would be made of silver but a bit too heavy to carry.How about a steel one silverplated inside?

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Stainless steel, yeah. Better off gold plating it, as silver will oxidize. If you dent the container externally you might damage the plating inside however. Good idea though.

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I sometimes hike for 5 or 6 hours and all I take with me is my old military web belt with two plastic military canteens fitted over both rear pockets. I have no need for the metal cup that the canteen can be inserted into.

I'll usually bring along a medium sized gatorade and small frapicano along with lunch and snacks. I save my canteen water for last since the weight is easy to bear, as I'm looking to bring down the weight of my little 'day sack' that I'm always switching from shoulder to shoulder and back and forth from one hand to the other.

I'll only wear a day pack if it is very cold since I don't like the extra sweating on my back. Comfort is cool.

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Darn good water around here, trout streams everywhere, Nestle bottles gillions of gallons of the stuff. Used to drink it all the time from my hand when I was a kid, never got sick. But even then I always looked for a spring. Come to think of it I probabally have a half a dozen canteens around the place, no favorites. Probabally will end up with a smashed down milk jug in my pack if S did hit the fan, as that is what is in the buried ones.