Bearwhisky
WKR
- Joined
- Dec 7, 2019
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Hello all,
I will preface my question by stating that most of my experience with sleeping bags is synthetic bags. I have only had one down sleeping bag and it was not an “ultralight” high tech bag and never had the below mentioned problem.
I recently purchased a high end down from a reputable manufacturer often recommended on here. I will refrain from mentioning the name before I find out more info in an effort to not shame them for something that may be normal. I took the bag on a 8 day backpack hunt last week and I noticed the bag was leaking quite a bit of its feathers. Each morning I would wake up with approximately 5+ down feathers (that I noticed) in my floorless shelter. I noticed many more poking through the fabric each day I packed up my sleeping. The shelter was shaken out each day so no feathers kept accumulating, it was certainly loosing new feathers each night. The feathers were not coming out around the sewn baffles, rather straight through the fabric.
Is this normal for a down bag to loose this much? I fear after a few outings I will have lost a significant amount of the fill. I know there is a sacrifice in the tightness of the weave of the fabric in an effort to save weight. Thats probably why my older down bag never lost much for feathers. But to what end? TIA
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I will preface my question by stating that most of my experience with sleeping bags is synthetic bags. I have only had one down sleeping bag and it was not an “ultralight” high tech bag and never had the below mentioned problem.
I recently purchased a high end down from a reputable manufacturer often recommended on here. I will refrain from mentioning the name before I find out more info in an effort to not shame them for something that may be normal. I took the bag on a 8 day backpack hunt last week and I noticed the bag was leaking quite a bit of its feathers. Each morning I would wake up with approximately 5+ down feathers (that I noticed) in my floorless shelter. I noticed many more poking through the fabric each day I packed up my sleeping. The shelter was shaken out each day so no feathers kept accumulating, it was certainly loosing new feathers each night. The feathers were not coming out around the sewn baffles, rather straight through the fabric.
Is this normal for a down bag to loose this much? I fear after a few outings I will have lost a significant amount of the fill. I know there is a sacrifice in the tightness of the weave of the fabric in an effort to save weight. Thats probably why my older down bag never lost much for feathers. But to what end? TIA
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