Thread: A bushbuck review...

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

I've seen more MSR's bend, break, collapse, rip etc than everything else put together. End of the day it's ALL made in china just varying levels of QC, if the materials etc are the same you're only relying on QC to maybe get a better run out of something. Even the "high end" (ie: it costs so much you baby it and get a "good run out of it") stuff is all made there. Kuiu, Yeti etc are all brilliant examples of this...

Yeti is the most jumped up, over-marketeering-wanked shit I have come across since Stoney Creek realised they could pay the likes of the Hunters Club to sharn on about it on TV. $400 for a 30L box that looks just like your chilly bin but is just made to carry all your fruit with a bit of organization? Got rocks in your head if you think I'm throwing down nearly half a weeks wages for that. The travel mugs/thermal cups are rubbish too.

Kuiu... The only pair of pants I can find in a 28" waist with vent zips. I can live with that. Sadly the range of fleece gear and jackets they have is also tempting but the exchange rate is fairly prohibitive these days.

Back to Bushbuck, I think the old saying about Briscoes "Don't ever buy anything from them if it isn't on sale, and know that it's definitely cheaply made" applies. A mate forked out for the 3 man tent and I have to say I wasn't impressed after sharing it with him for a week on the west coast. Barely fit the two of us and we're a pair of racing beans... The inner tent sagged quite a lot and swallowed up valuable space.