Anybody used a nature hike tent like the ones bushbuck are selling.
https://bushbuckoutdoors.com/collections/tents
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Anybody used a nature hike tent like the ones bushbuck are selling.
https://bushbuckoutdoors.com/collections/tents
just get one direct from aliexpress
Yea aliexpress has them and lots of other things that i don't need. Has anyone actually used one. How are the zips and seams?
Copies of MSR in some models, but I wouldn't want the risk of it breaking / leaking / zip breaking down on the first couple of days into a week trip on the west coast.
That happens to MSR's anyway...Quote:
Originally Posted by scottrods
I'm looking at EXPED tents
I have an exped Venus II It's a beautifully made tent very easy to use and lots of good features. Freestanding, fly first erection (good in the rain) Only thing it weighs a bit 3.1 kg with everything including a shit load of stakes. It has a 10,000 mm floor so no footprint needed mind you. Room for two and a vestibule each.
Don’t have an exped tent, but own a fair bit of their other gear and so far very impressed - very well thought out.
turns out the exped I want isn't available in NZ anymore, so would have to buy overseas and bring it in, or choose another brand. Option B is Terra Nova southern cross 1
Terra Nova are the business, I have a solar competition and it's had all sorts of abuse but still going strong, pretty impressive for a 1kg tent
Your feet hang out the back....hardly ideal for a tent[emoji16]Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst
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I will be sleeping with my appendages well and truly inside my tent around any dodgy north islanders in the futureQuote:
Originally Posted by BRADS
I have a 3 and a 2 man 3F UL tent, copy of the MSR hubba hubba and it seems pretty good so far.
Zips have all held up and seams seem great.
I had a macpack Olympus before these and they are not quite the same build quality but for $150 you can't really go wrong.
Was thinking of getting one of the nature hike tents to compare to them, but haven't yet
Really?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst
How often have you seen this?
I have the same and agree except there is no agent in NZ now so no back up service. I have had a pole break on mine and it went through the fly and Terra Nova in UK don't want to know anything about it. Shame.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst
Have replaced it with a MSR Hubba NX Solo 1 for USD245 and will get the Terra Nova fixed by someone local.
I know of three. All ruined by wind.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cliff
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Yeap same here have personally been there when one has imploded on itself due to wind it collapsed and all the poles bent and tore it, at the time I had my cheapo salewa set up right beside it and it was fineQuote:
Originally Posted by Cliff
I should qualify what I said about Terra Nova: part of the problem with my tent (Solar Competition) was that the model is discontinued. TN would have sent me a new set of poles if they had had them in stock (for a fee), but they didn't have any. I also have a Terra Nova Quassar Lightweight 2 person and its a fantastic tent - never had any trouble with it including 10 days in Fiordland.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahr
Right so they blew apart in the wind, thought you meant from your first comment that they just broke during setup or leaked from new. Makes you wonder how windy it was at the time, (lightweight 3 season tent) were the guy lines set out and tensioned correctly, were the pole ferrules all snugged up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst
I've had a few tents with bent poles over the years (pushing them too hard in wind they weren't designed to withstand) but "touch wood" nothing with snapped poles.
I guess they were all set up correctly, it seems to be a common theme with MSRs that they don't stand up to much wind compared to some other tents of a similar design so there is possibly better choices for open tops hunting, I'm pretty sure @BRADS had a carbon reflex that shit itself in the wind also?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cliff
The quasssar that @Tahr has are a bloody good tent, spent a week stuck up on the tops in Westland in a blowing gale that wouldn't let up and a couple feet of snow in one and it would have to be the most stable tent I have come across, you couldn't have thrown much worse at it and we felt safe in it the entire time
My Terra Nova Quasar in the Kawekas'Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst
Unfortunately they cost about $1k nowadays.
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Have heard those are great tents Ryan but are we comparing a 4kg 4 season mountain tent and a 1.5kg 3 season tent for performance in the wind?
That's right. The Quasar super light like mine is 2.4kg, but its certainly quite a different beast to the topic of this thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cliff
I have bought a zempire atom and a Nature hike Tagar - copy of an exped. Will see what they are like with a couple of overnight trips.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Natu...311.0.0.vFAuKB
Thats looks very cosy and nice spot to put head down !!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahr
Nice Tent too :thumbsup:
I'd be interested to hear what you have to say about the Tagar, i've heard a lot of good reviews.Quote:
Originally Posted by scottrods
ive got a drifter tent from dwights outdoors probably not exactly what your looking for but they appear to do some hard testing on their gear before they decide to sell it
I have the naturehike curris 2. Have had ut in some serious wind and she has held up fine no leaks yets, very light weight for the size of it. Fits myself my gear and a dog in easy, 2 pple be cossy but still fine. Only thing is the pegs are very light alloy and to short so replace them with longer stronger ones and cant complain for the price. $280 mine was at the time through bushbuck, but that was not long after that model come out so could be cheaper now.
Sold the Taga. Didn't like the fact it didn't have a separate inner. I suspected it would be useless on west coast because it would be full of condensation.Quote:
Originally Posted by speshnz
The new macpac Duolight looks good, anyone tried it?
Waiting for them to be stocked.
Keen to have look at one.
It is a pity they have had good write ups but not to be found.
Have been to Macpac shops ChCh and Rotorua none in stock told in ChCh store they would be in June.
Well June has been and gone.
I have a duolite. Used it couple of times. One good windy weekend in the ben ohau range and it was fine but i didn't sleep much. I did put a rip in it packing it up i think they fixed it no charge. They had sold out and had a few to repair so took a couple of weeks to get it back. very light and easy to put up some good features in it. Welcome to come have a look if in the area.
