Crate Club General Box Winter 2024: What You Get and Which Items Stand Out

Introduction

The Crate Club General box is the quarterly tier of a subscription service that ships outdoor, survival, tactical, and everyday carry gear straight to your door. The Winter 2024 edition arrived in a genuinely large box, and it packs nine items spanning nylon gear, apparel, drinkware, water filtration, a knife, grooming soap, and optics. Here is what is inside and how each piece stacks up.

Crate Club General Box

The General box is delivered every quarter and is consistently generous in size. This edition includes nine items across several categories, from a plate carrier to a water purifier, which makes it a strong option for anyone building out an outdoor or tactical kit without shopping piecemeal. A cheat sheet included with the box lists specs for each item, which helps when you want to look anything up later.

Grey Ghost Admin Pouch

The Grey Ghost admin pouch measures 8 x 5.4 x 3.4 inches and is built from 500D Cordura laminated nylon, available in four colors. Inside, you get elastic loops for tools, a large pocket on each side, and smaller webbing for compact items. The standout detail is the 550 paracord wrapped around the outside: it is knotted off and adjustable, so you can tension the pouch to stay closed or open completely flat. It ships with two MOLLE clips and uses a dual zipper system, with a camo pattern and Velcro panel on the exterior.

Grey Ghost Minimalist Plate Carrier

A genuine surprise for a subscription box, the Grey Ghost Minimalist Plate Carrier holds two standard 10x12 ESAPI plates that slide in from the bottom and secure with heavy-duty Velcro. The front and back are covered in six rows of MOLLE-style webbing for attaching pouches, the top closes with Velcro on both sides, and plastic fasteners hold the two sides of the vest together. Discrete stash pockets handle small items, the interior uses breathable padding, and it is one size to fit most body types. It comes in multicam.

AZO Cash Cap

The AZO Cash Cap hides six pockets in an ordinary-looking cap: a side sleeve pocket under the brim, a larger hook-and-loop pocket dead center inside, and two narrow slot pockets on the sides, all held shut with Velcro. The interior lining is high-visibility orange mesh, the exterior is 100% ripstop cotton, and it is available in three colors with a Velcro back adjustment and a front patch panel. The trade-off is structure: because it is unstructured, the hat can feel floppy with items inside, so it works best with flat, lightweight stashes like folded cash or a thin card.

BenShot Rocks Glass Crate Club Edition

This 11-ounce whiskey glass is hand embedded with a real, lead-free solid copper .308 bullet jutting into the glass from the side, with a limited edition Crate Club etching on the front. BenShot is a father-and-son owned business based in Wisconsin, and each bullet is CNC machined from a pure piece of copper by Lehigh Defense in Clarksville, Texas. The glass is heavy, handcrafted, and comes packaged with a 19th Hole coaster. If you drink bourbon neat or the occasional Monte Carlo, it is a genuinely fun conversation piece.

Grayl Geopress 24oz Water Filter Purifier

The Grayl Geopress 24oz is a top-selling purifier cup that turns unsafe water into safe drinking water in seconds. Fill the outer cup from any water source, press the inner chamber down, and water is forced through the filter at the bottom. It removes waterborne viruses, pathogens, and protozoan cysts, and filters out sediment and microplastics, with purification in as little as 8 seconds. The filter is rated for up to 350 cycles, unopened cartridges last 3 years, and opened cartridges last 10 years. The sealed top is fully waterproof, and filtered water can be mixed with electrolyte powder without contamination risk. For campers and outdoorsmen, this is endlessly useful.

Civivi Cubid

The Civivi Cubid is a blacked-out folder with a black aluminum handle and a black stonewashed 14C28N drop point blade in a full flat grind. It uses a button lock, has thumb studs on both sides, and the deep-carry pocket clip is reversible, making it fully ambidextrous. Jimping on the spine and a finger choil give you solid grip options up front, and the clean lines make it a strong candidate for a daily beater knife. Blade centering on this example was close but slightly off, though not enough to affect function.

Johnny Slicks Rugged Beast Bar

The Rugged Beast Wash bar is a 100% organic soap from Johnny Slicks, a veteran-owned grooming company founded by two former US Marines and one of the fastest growing organic grooming companies in the country. Forbes nominated the company’s oil-based pomade as one of the year’s best grooming items for men in October 2021. This bar uses a juniper berry, cedarwood, and Cuban tobacco scent profile, and the scent is intense: strong, pleasant, and long lasting. The Sasquatch artwork even carries over onto the bar itself.

Halo Optics Z1000 Rangefinder

At first glance the Halo Optics Z1000 looks like compact binoculars, but it is a laser rangefinder with 6x magnification and up to a 1,000-yard range. Angle Intelligence technology accounts for elevation changes between you and the target, auto acquisition locks in targets quickly, and scan mode lets you transition between multiple targets. The display reads in yards or meters, toggled with the side mode button, and a ring adjusts focus. It ships with a battery and a structured nylon holster with a belt loop and elastic pull closure, which is a genuinely useful carry setup.

Which Items Are Worth It

If you want the most practical everyday value, the Grayl Geopress and the Grey Ghost admin pouch are easy picks: one covers safe drinking water anywhere, the other organizes tools in a pack or on a belt. The plate carrier is the headline surprise of the box and a rare inclusion at this subscription tier. The Halo Optics Z1000 suits anyone who needs quick distance readings outdoors, the Civivi Cubid is a solid beater folder, and the BenShot glass, AZO cap, and Johnny Slicks soap round out the box with personality-driven extras. Add up the individual retail values of the nine items and the quarterly General box cost looks easy to justify for anyone already buying this kind of gear.

Conclusion

The Winter 2024 Crate Club General box delivers a well-rounded mix of tactical, outdoor, and everyday carry gear, with the Grey Ghost plate carrier and the Grayl Geopress as the standout inclusions. If any single item appeals to you, the individual pieces are worth a look on their own, but the box as a whole is a solid way to build a kit incrementally.