Love the Sam. It has all the features i like, only slight downside is bulk. But a metal winch and the click+velcro seems to be the way to go.

Does anyone know where actual CAT tourniquets are actually made? Are they made in China? Because my wife ordered a bunch of knock offs from China and honestly some of them looked pretty similar, and a few seemed to have improvements over the real CAT tourniquets. Note: just because we found some good ones doesn't mean you should run out and buy knock off tourniquets, if you can afford a real CAT tourniquet. I'm currently trying to get my church to upgrade their first aid kit to include about 10 IFAK type kits. In case we have a mass casualty incident. God forbid. The contents of which my wife, an RN, came up with. Of course the first item on the list was a tourniquet. I advocated for CAT tourniquets, but that's over $300 just for the tourniquets. (It's a really small church) So my wife ordered about 5 or 6 tourniquets from China to check the quality for ourselves. I did notice the various lengths, and one was too short for use on an adult it was also the only one that failed during my testing. The rest were fine. I have a couple "real" CAT tourniquets I got for my active shooter response kit, that I bring to church with me. We compared the Chinese tourniquets to the CAT tourniquets, and found several of the Chinese tourniquets to be made quite well. We ordered two that had the aluminum windless on purpose, but the plastic ones held up to my testing too. I did notice what is mentioned in this video about the Velcro over strap. It could pretty easily be ripped off, but even if it was the windless still stayed in the keeper, and the Velcro could be put back on, and it would generally still do it's job. I also noticed that the windless keepers on the knock off tourniquets were gusseted to strengthen them. Probably because of the bending complaints mentioned in the video. So currently the conclusion I have come to is, if you absolutely have to buy a knock off tourniquet, make absolutely sure it's well made before you stick it in your kit, but in the end it could be a lot of work to save a few bucks, and you always have that nagging doubt in the back of your mind. I know my wife will probably kill me, because she believes these will be "just as good" but I still want to buy real CAT tourniquets for the Church IFAK's. Also I have the Snakestaff Systems ETQ tourniquet, and I really like it. I keep it in my back pocket along with wound packing gauze and a chest seal. I used to carry the RAT tourniquet but finding a way to carry it comfortably everyday was a pain. I ended up wearing it around my waist under my belt but even then it was always coming out from under my belt or something. The ETQ I forgot it's even there.