Thread: Do everything pack

Kifaru if you like the finer things in life

Or Stone Glacier, Exo Packs

Originally Posted by hotsoup

Kifaru if you like the finer things in life

Or Stone Glacier, Exo Packs

All good options the other guides that didn't run stone glacier run exo or kifaru. I made my decision on being able to go into the factory in Bozeman and talk to the guys who were really good to deal with.

Originally Posted by Stocky

All good options the other guides that didn't run stone glacier run exo or kifaru. I made my decision on being able to go into the factory in Bozeman and talk to the guys who were really good to deal with.

Fair enough. Each brand make fantastic packs, IMO it simply comes down to the flavour you like. I own a few Kifaru and enjoy supporting the brand. Would happily run any of them

Update:
I thought I could get away with the old Macpac Ascent pack for my do everything pack. I took it away this weekend for a hunt, and the verdict is that it’s NO GOOD for sneaking through the bush. It was catching on just about every branch in the vicinity. Too high and too wide at the bottom. Not to mention noisy and scratchy
Back to the Huntech 40L

I am off on a overnight deer hunt this morning. Taking my 45 litre Hunters Element - no sleeping bag just a SOL bivvy bag and cotton liner. Allowing enough room for one boned out deer. Temp suppose to be around 30c again.

Originally Posted by Hunteast

I am off on a overnight deer hunt this morning. Taking my 45 litre Hunters Element - no sleeping bag just a SOL bivvy bag and cotton liner. Allowing enough room for one boned out deer. Temp suppose to be around 30c again.

Good luck mate, hope your hunt is more successful than mine, I'll fill you in when you get back

Originally Posted by Hunteast

I am off on a overnight deer hunt this morning. Taking my 45 litre Hunters Element - no sleeping bag just a SOL bivvy bag and cotton liner. Allowing enough room for one boned out deer. Temp suppose to be around 30c again.

Your keen. I can never get a good kip without a bag

I put an old fleece vest over my canvas packs to stop the hang ups and noise issue,also it’s blaze orange for safety.

This a constant issue really. I have the Cactus Huntaway and really rate it. The lightest, strongest most comfortable pack in that class I have seen. You cant kill them. Big issue as noted already is 40L doesn't leave much room for meat when your gear is inside too. It works for overnight trips and also for alpine trophy hunting where I camp where I stop for the night (1 to 3 nights). I do think however that a 60 litre pack with a light weight day pack inside is still the best answer. There is another recent thread about day packs that I posted mine on. The biggest challenge is to find a commercial day pack that isn't full of pockets, zips, padding, bell, whistles and WEIGHT AND BULK. Which is why I made my own. I use an old Macpac 60L single compartment fixed harness pack that is great. Low pack so doesn't hang up. If you want to hunt with your gear on board in the bush then the 40L Huntech is probably the best.

Originally Posted by Hunteast

I am off on a overnight deer hunt this morning. Taking my 45 litre Hunters Element - no sleeping bag just a SOL bivvy bag and cotton liner. Allowing enough room for one boned out deer. Temp suppose to be around 30c again.

Interested to know if you still have all you toes now? Thought about buying a SOL escape to use with a sleeping bag but have read varying reports - one saying that the SOL wicked the heat away and made the user colder

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

Interested to know if you still have all you toes now? Thought about buying a SOL escape to use with a sleeping bag but have read varying reports - one saying that the SOL wicked the heat away and made the user colder

they are good but if you get one make sure you get the breathable version, they cost a bit more but are worth it as the cheap ones are like sleeping in a garbage bag, you sweat like a pig as it doesn't breath

The new (ish) kuiu pro 3600 which is 60 litres is an outstanding do it all pack

If you were after a 60 to 70 litre pack.

Between 300 to 500 bucks

What would you guys recommend?

Sent an old macpac cascade to get repaired but they somehow managed to not do the main thing that needed to be fixed. Which is the shoulder strap adjustments.

Kind of getting to the point where it's more cost effective to buy new

Get a used Cascade or Torre

Originally Posted by Chur Bay

Get a used Cascade or Torre

I did. But it needed to be fixed. I am in the process of sending it back to twin needle but direct. Not through macpac