What a versatile piece of equipment! It functions as rain gear, a tarp shelter, and even to some extent camouflage. Combine this with a woobie blanket and you have a Ranger roll sleep system. I carry one in my get home bag and I take one along with my 10-essentials kit on dayhikes.

Great package deal with both poncho and liner with a stuff sack.

First, I will say I was initially impressed for various relative-based reasons that might not apply to another buyer. And although I'm not military, even I'm pretty sure (or at least I hope) this is NOT milspec. What it is instead is a _potentially_ very good and lightweight low-cost highly versatile poncho. The snaps are both a great feature and the biggest potential problem I see so far--without extended use--yet. They are stackable--I don't know if this is a standard for military that they are using to claim milspec, but it seems very useful for improving versitility. The problem is the snaps come off. Meaning they come off, possibly from normal use, and not much of it at that. I think if we asked the seller, they'd say, "well, that's very atypical and they're actually not supposed to come off. and we shouldn't have people thinking these tarp ponchos are unsafe..." Nonetheless, this is a case of, "the front fell off." for me. The funny part is I'm still giving it 4 stars for a couple reasons. FIrst, I think the rest of the poncho is pretty good quality for the price. It feels to me at least--and I know nothing of the seller-- but it feels like they made a genuine effort to produce a decent product at a good price, but failed at one (well two) critical things--but the customer may be able to fix the one thing. And the second thing is, they should probably tell you that you'll need to fix this one thing. BUT, let me also be clear, although the snaps (two of them from two separate positions to be precise) did separate from the fabric and rips developed that WERE stopped by the ripstop fabric, and this happened on the first day of testing the product, it happened only when I tried to use the poncho as a hammock. Yet, before you say, well, the poncho is only for an emergency hammock--or I weigh to much (I weigh 175 lbs so on the light side for americans in my opinion)--as the directions clearly state--the problem really is, I think, that the snaps are apparently just fitted into holes and not permanently fixed. I could see where they maybe do this instead of attaching the snaps the way I did when I added snaps from the craft store to my last poncho--in a way the puts little punctures into the fabric that create more places to rip from...but the bottom line is, I believe these snaps will come out over time from normal snapping and unsnapping only--if they don't rip the fabric when they come out, you can put them back in without issue, but in my case, the fabric being slightly ripped, they won't stay in even as well as they did at first--which was not great. SO--the solution I believe will work--and what I'm going to do instead of returning the poncho(s)--I got two of them--is I'm going to get some 5 minute epoxy in the self mixing syringe at the big box depot, and with the snaps all back in place, I'm going to inject the epoxy into the space between the metal where it interfaces the fabric, and spin the snaps in place to spread the epoxy, and I'm going to do this on both sides of the fabric. I will report back after having done this and used the result to see how well it holds up. I probably won't try using it as a hammock again, and will figure that it would work as an emergency hammock if you wanted to say, get yourself off the ground in a lightning storm.

Good product/price. Goes great with the Woobie Blanket.

This is much nicer then i would have thought. I used it in a bad storm we had camping and it did the job with out a hitch. kept me dry did not rip or snag on any of the brush we had to trex through to get back to camp in a storm from hell we had.