Anyhow, I thought these were sort of rare? Thats what I heard, anyway.. Then I found these for sale the next week after I saw Steve's review for them: Russian mountain(?) rations. I got 4 of menu 1, and one menu 3.. Could have been a better mix, but I'm happy. As easy as they were to score, I will be getting more, most likely.
So heres the pile.
I might trade one or two, for the right stuff. Probably will mostly just enjoy these myself. I have some single meal rations coming, hopefully before saturday, so I will be able to do a single on the first night camping, then see how a 24 hour ration stacks up to my camping/training. I'll hopefully be doing this with a russian police ration, one of these mountain rations, a Kazakh ration, and a Danish pack as well.
I've always been curious as to how the food matches up to the workload expected from those eating it, especially since the malnutrition horror stories from eating MREs long term have cropped up.
Anyhow, hopefully I can share good enough information to match up with what I've learned from this place and its members' vids and written reviews. I enjoy this sort of thing; ever so much more now I know about other countries' rations.. Lets be honest, US MREs are only so interesting: sit one next to a Polish SR-G and it it quite easily overlooked.
Yay international rations!
Ps.. Looking over these rations, doing some translating.. I dont think they're mountain rations. Just regular Ruskies packed in 'The Frog'.. These are running around 3600 - 3800 kcal where the mountain rations arw 4500+ as far as I know? Ah well. Good price anyway. I will open one and snap some pics maybe later and make sure.
