Originally Posted by
Mauser308
It's not so much about stopping the blood getting out - you need to plug wounds to prevent standard bush crap getting in there. It's one thing to die from blood loss - another to die from blood poisoning in the hospital after you've been 'saved' by surgery. Similiar idea with the clotters, less is more... If you are rolling up a bandage it's getting crap on it and that crap is getting into the hole, better to carry something sterile. I wouldn't shove an old shirt into a bleeding hole - F that...