I'm watching the video that Gunn Parker found on wrapping the knife handle with 550 paracord. I am a contractor with the Army, and in conversation sometimes paracord will come up because "you know, when your're in the Army it's all around". I know what it is, and that it has inner strands. However, I've never really used it and don't know the characteristics.
What kind of load weights will it take? Does it stretch? I'm assuming that there is some reason that it's not used a lot for things like ridgelines and tarp lines. Or, is it? How does it compare to the Speer orange line, which I tend to use a lot? Other than the whole inner core thread thing...
It just seems that it could be a useful thing for me to get but I want to use it where it will work. I've already discovered that making a temporary ridgeline from some cord I just grabbed didn't work well (stretched...).
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