Thread: 50L ish Packpacks

One Planet Extrovert 55l
Is my favourite pack for the past 18 months
Add a rifle scabbard and you have a pack that weighs just under 1.4kg but easily strong enough and comfortable enough to take 2-3 days gear plus bring out meat on the way home

I'd love to see how you guys are doing multi day hunts with a 50ish litre pack. I have a Norix 48l (great pack btw) but couldn't see how I could do more than an overnight once I have my tent roll and sleeping bag attached.

There's no room for excessive food, clothes or meat to bring out.

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Spika drover 45l

Originally Posted by Rn-85

I'd love to see how you guys are doing multi day hunts with a 50ish litre pack. I have a Norix 48l (great pack btw) but couldn't see how I could do more than an overnight once I have my tent roll and sleeping bag attached.

There's no room for excessive food, clothes or meat to bring out.

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Used to do one to three day trips heaps with a Twin Needle Mollyme. Have a bit of different gear now but same basic items. Quite a fan of the Cactus Huntaway now, heaps of room in that. People generally carry way too much shit they dont need, especially extra/bulky clothing, and another kiwi hunter thing seems to be lugging bones and skin around.

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Used to do one to three day trips heaps with a Twin Needle Mollyme. Have a bit of different gear now but same basic items. Quite a fan of the Cactus Huntaway now, heaps of room in that. People generally carry way too much shit they dont need, especially extra/bulky clothing, and another kiwi hunter thing seems to be lugging bones and skin around.
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So that pack seems pretty full. Where does your meat go?

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Originally Posted by Rn-85

So that pack seems pretty full. Where does your meat go?

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In the rifle shelf

On that note- TwinNeedle are not too far off releasing the updated version of their Big Molly which I believe is around the 50L mark. Very similar design to the MollyMe.

+ 1 for Cactus Huntaway

I have a 55L hunting pack in stock ready to go if you a medium size back.
https://www.southernlitepacks.co.nz/product-page/55l-hunting-pack

Originally Posted by Southern lite

I have a 55L hunting pack in stock ready to go if you a medium size back.
https://www.southernlitepacks.co.nz/...l-hunting-pack

These are great. Can hardly fault mine.

The velcro closure is noisy if you want to get a camera or something out and you are watching a deer. But thats minor.

Can carry a good load and easy to wash out. I dont use mine as much as I should because for hacking around it's too good and I dont want to spoil it. Silly of me really.

Originally Posted by Tahr

These are great. Can hardly fault mine.

The velcro closure is noisy if you want to get a camera or something out and you are watching a deer. But thats minor.

Can carry a good load and easy to wash out. I dont use mine as much as I should because for hacking around it's too good and I dont want to spoil it. Silly of me really.

I've added an option to the order form to leave the Velcro off now. It's doesn't make too much difference when rolling it up and like you say, it's a pain in the ass when everything is quite.

What sort of weight have you had in yours? I've been around 36kg a few times now and the pack did well, me not so much. But I took a guy out the other day that was collecting his new pack and we got 2 big reds and his pack was 48.9kg when we got back. (I wouldn't recommend that)

Hey Guys
Just a thought. Often see people using separate dry bags for every item they are packing. Kinda creates canon balls in the pack. Don't use the stuff sacks for every individual item. Next time try a big inner dry bag that fits your pack. Stuff your sleeping bag, down and clothing, rolled up sleeping pad (wity rubber band) in the base and heavier gear up toward the top. Much more efficient use of space, lighter and quicker to pack.

Originally Posted by Southern lite

I've added an option to the order form to leave the Velcro off now. It's doesn't make too much difference when rolling it up and like you say, it's a pain in the ass when everything is quite.

What sort of weight have you had in yours? I've been around 36kg a few times now and the pack did well, me not so much. But I took a guy out the other day that was collecting his new pack and we got 2 big reds and his pack was 48.9kg when we got back. (I wouldn't recommend that)

Don't know about weight but it's been full of whole back legs and I carried it no problem. Up hill for an hour. Very comfortable. Doesn't pull back on me and sits up on my hips.

Originally Posted by Snoppernator

Hey Guys
Just a thought. Often see people using separate dry bags for every item they are packing. Kinda creates canon balls in the pack. Don't use the stuff sacks for every individual item. Next time try a big inner dry bag that fits your pack. Stuff your sleeping bag, down and clothing, rolled up sleeping pad (wity rubber band) in the base and heavier gear up toward the top. Much more efficient use of space, lighter and quicker to pack.

I tend to use a few drydags myself for different things. But find if you don't compress and roll them to tight they work great. It only becomes a problem if you really stuff small ones tight then it gives you the canon balls. Slightly bigger drybags not tight is my go too but thinking of making a large pack liner to give a try when I get some time.

I don’t even bother with a smaller pack now. I just use Cactus BLT. They cinch down bloody small if not loaded up and being quite a tall narrow pack means they’re not too wide when cinched down small. Have no issues in bush, albeit a little noisey. The harness system is bloody comfy, I don’t notice the extra weight.
Does mean you can fit a power of meat in there though with minimal gear.