The "concealed" aspect has to do with cordinating your clothes ensemble. Unless you walk around in kaki or camofluge all day, sometimes you have to have a brown, black, grey, or whatever color belt that compliments your wardrobe that day.

I do not think of emergency use as being able to rip the paracord off of your body and throw a saving lifeline to someone. That being the case, removing paracord for its intended use that has been laid up between two pieces of leather is easier than having to undo a macrame or weave pattern of any type.

I got the 26 lbs working strength of paracord from a building supply stores tech specs. as well as the 1/8" nylons 28 lbs working strength.

I am well aware of mil. spec. 550 for paracord, but unless you are buying confirmed military surplus, I wouldn't trust commercial grade paracord to meet mil. specs.

As for fishing line, I would rather have a rayon fishing line in my kit or a bobbin of dental floss than to sit down and try to pull XX number of feet of core line out of the paracord.

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