#Ratnik plash palatka series#
There is a strange slit cut into it in one of the quadrants of the canvas and a series of draw strings sewn into channels within portions of the fabric.Īs the diagram below illustrates, the plastch-palatka can be used in a variety of applications. There are grommets secured in its four corners. However upon closer inspection it is seen to be so much more. The Platsch Palatka.Īt first glance it is simply a big square piece of canvas (about 4'x5'). This was acheived by the development of one simple, but very versatile piece of gear. The Soviet Army knew this and from its early days it sought to provide both to its troops. Fewer yet are having some sort of shelter when you need it in really inclimate weather prevails. Also I can’t really describe how awesome it is to be able to wear your nice comfy bed in the morning when you wake up like you can with the HPG Serape.Very few things are as important as staying dry when inclimate weather prevails.
#Ratnik plash palatka full#
I wish I could have gotten a better full length picture of it on me but it was just me out there so this will have to do. I’d have no problem running around in the woods like this and I much rather prefer it to having a larger bag with all my normal bedding and shelter in it. I used a lightly loaded HPG Tarahumara for my day bag and had no issues hiking around with the whole set up.Īdding the wool blanket to the Plash Palatkas did make for a heavy bundle, but using a wider roll made the whole thing very manageable and I was happy to find the added bulk wasn’t a big deal. I don’t really think it would work well for the two of us so I’ll probably end up using a plow point, but for one person this shelter works fine.Ĭarrying it as a bedroll over the shoulder works really well.
#Ratnik plash palatka trial#
This was a trial run to see if it would be viable for me and my son to make a shelter out of. I think a taller person would have some issues and I don’t think two adults could fit. I slept more or less diagonally and had plenty of space, but I’m also 5’9. The only downside is that the whole arrangement is a tight fit. I ended up in a tangle giving up and simply unhooking one of my corners (super easy to do if you slip it of the tent pole real fast) getting everything right and then hooking it all back up from my warm little bundle. Trying to shimmy on in without messing your bedding all up is quite the feat. Overall it worked well, one issue I had was getting into it. Originally I was going to be really traditional and only use a wool blanket at the last second I added my HPG Serape and let me tell you around 3 or 4 when the temperature dropped down to the mid 40s I was really happy to not be a starving conscript with just a wool blanket and fear of the NKVD to keep me warm. Now I cheated and used two Plash Palatkas because I wanted my shelter to have a floor so I wouldn’t be sleeping directly in the dirt because I’m a delicate little Nancy. With some added vegetation it would be really hard to spot I suspect.
Now days they just come with the twine so I improvised and used my Cold Steel shovel as a tent pole.Īs you can see we end up with a very low profile shelter.įifteen feet away and it’s already wanting to disappear. So I made one and spent the night in it.Īs issued the Plash Palatka comes with two tent poles, some twine, and some stakes. I suspected a low profile shelter like the one in the link above using a single tent pole would be easy to hide out in and I was curious how useable it would be. If you’ve ever read German accounts of the eastern front during WWII one issue they constantly run into are well camouflaged Russians.
So instead for my latest outing I wanted to try out the shelter method outlined in the Russian manual. I’ve been really wanting to test out a Plash Palatka shelter in the rain but all the forecasted rain recently hasn’t materialized.
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