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What hunting pack is better and why?
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<blockquote data-quote="Mike 338" data-source="post: 1358919" data-attributes="member: 41338"><p>I recently got a Stone Glacier 6900 Sky Talus for a 9 day backpack hunt. I'm not an ultra-lite guy and my hike in was not a major double digit trek but I had to get through a major amount of deadfall and my pack was 95 lbs with food, water, gun, fuel, spotter, tripod, and binoculars. The pack was completely stuffed and even had to lash some food to the outside. The pack handled it with ease. The new X-Frame is supposed to help with load shifting. When going through the deadfall, there was a ton of load shifting due to crawling over stuff, so I guess anything to minimize that is a good thing. Perhaps better still, I liked it as a day pack. I just removed the lid and it compressed down to a trim package and carried like a champ. One thing about day packs is how the gun comes up and rests against the straps should you take a shot with it on. I had no problems with this one and the way the pack is designed, there is a lot of adjustability for body type. I was doing 3000' climbs on some days and it carried great. I would not have thought a full sized pack would make such a good day pack but I'm very pleased with this one. I added a couple small swing-out accessory bags for the main compartment and a couple small accessory bags for the belt. Just a note about the add on belt accessory bags... it's two handed operation to close them because they use zippers instead of press locks. Unless your a contortionist, you may need to take the pack off to zip them up. It's a light pack and is about 1/3 lighter than my previous hunting pack yet can haul significantly more volume when needed. If I was a better hunter, I could tell you how the load shelf worked.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike 338, post: 1358919, member: 41338"] I recently got a Stone Glacier 6900 Sky Talus for a 9 day backpack hunt. I'm not an ultra-lite guy and my hike in was not a major double digit trek but I had to get through a major amount of deadfall and my pack was 95 lbs with food, water, gun, fuel, spotter, tripod, and binoculars. The pack was completely stuffed and even had to lash some food to the outside. The pack handled it with ease. The new X-Frame is supposed to help with load shifting. When going through the deadfall, there was a ton of load shifting due to crawling over stuff, so I guess anything to minimize that is a good thing. Perhaps better still, I liked it as a day pack. I just removed the lid and it compressed down to a trim package and carried like a champ. One thing about day packs is how the gun comes up and rests against the straps should you take a shot with it on. I had no problems with this one and the way the pack is designed, there is a lot of adjustability for body type. I was doing 3000' climbs on some days and it carried great. I would not have thought a full sized pack would make such a good day pack but I'm very pleased with this one. I added a couple small swing-out accessory bags for the main compartment and a couple small accessory bags for the belt. Just a note about the add on belt accessory bags... it's two handed operation to close them because they use zippers instead of press locks. Unless your a contortionist, you may need to take the pack off to zip them up. It's a light pack and is about 1/3 lighter than my previous hunting pack yet can haul significantly more volume when needed. If I was a better hunter, I could tell you how the load shelf worked. [/QUOTE]
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