Edit - Sport Berkley Bottle - Doug White

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Doug,
  
 Welcome to BackpackGearTest.org, and thanks for your Owner Review. I’ll be your editor. This is a good start at a first OR, and I look forward to working with you to get it ready for posting.
  
 My edits below are in the standard BGT format:
  
 EDIT (all caps) – required change
 Edit (initial cap) – suggested change or request for clarification
 Comment – just that, no change required
  
 After revising you need to do two things. Post the html version of the Report in the Tests/Owner Reviews folder on BackpackGearTest.org, and post the plain text version here, with "Repost," the product name, and your name in the subject line, and with a tinyurl link to the html version in the body of your message.
  
 Cheers, Richard Lyon
 BGT Editor
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 ### Backpacking Background:###
 EDIT: Please add a bit about where you hike and normal length of trip. You've only used about seventy words so you should be able to make an addition without running over our 100-word limit.
  
 ###Manufacturer: Berkey ###
 EDIT: Berkey Filter  [Here (but only here you must supply the full name of the manufacturer.]
  
 General EDIT: Please add a line for MSRP, and report on the manufacturer's list price for the product - $31 US.]
  
 ### It uses a 2.5 in x 1.25 in (6.3 cm x 3.1 cm ) "Black Berkey Filter Element"###
 EDIT: Delete the extra space after "3.1 cm."
  
 ###that uses Seychell's Ionic Adsorption Micro Filtration Technology which is a 2 micron filter, ###
 Edit: 2-micron [with a hyphen]
  
 ### Berkey lists many contaminates on their website that the filter removes as well as claims the filter can remove food coloring from the water. ###
 Edit: I'd move "on their website to just before or after "Berkey." As written it implies the contaminates are found on the website.
  
 ### The filter is inside the bottle ###
 Edit: Where inside the bottle? You might furnish a brief description and refer to your photo.
  
 ### and water is sucked through it as the water is drank. ###
 EDIT: is drunk
  
 ### The manufacturer also claims a 50 year storage shelf life ###
 Edit: 50-year [with a hyphen]
  
 ###Berkey claims 25-100 gallons of filter use depending on cleanliness of the water source. ###
 EDIT: What Berkey and you are describing is filter capacity, but that doesn't come across very well. How about "Berkey claims that each filter will handle . . ."
 EDIT: Please add metric equivalent for 25-100 gallons
  
 ###I have used this bottle in various temperatures, as low as 0 F ( -17 C) and I have used it on hot summer days. ###
 EDIT: Delete the extra space in front of "-17."
 EDIT: Add an approximate maximum temperature.
  
 ###I like this system as it is simple to manage opposed to other filters ###
 EDIT: as opposed to other filters
  
 ### I have used this product to filter water from fast moving streams ###
 Edit: fast-moving [with a hyphen]
  
 ###The cap closes over the suction tube to keep it pinched preventing unwanted water flow and appears that this keeps the suction tube clean and protected as well.###
 EDIT: and it appears
  
 ### This may have been in part to using it multiple times in the winter and the plastic became brittle, ###
 EDIT: This may have been due in part
  
 ###I have had the inner tube freeze when temperatures drop into the low teens###
 EDIT: low teens F (-10 to -12 C)
  
 ### as I have filtered some very questionable water during 2 separate trips ###
 Edit: When using single-digit numbers in something other than a measurement it's easier to follow if the number is written out: "two separate trips"
  
 ## I have always just rinsed everything out really good ###
 EDIT: really well
  
 
 General EDIT: Somewhere in your Review you should add how many times you've had to change the filter, and if you can estimate the volume of water filtered before needing to change. A sentence about how to change filters would help as well. All these are important information when considering an in-bottle filtration system.
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