Badlands Ox or Sacrifice

[mac87toy]

Badlands Ox or Summit

I have a gift card to use with badlands and am needing a pack for a extended hunt in the high country mule deer/elk. I have looked at both online a bunch but am looking for people that have used them's opinions. I know they are not a kiui or kifaro or paradox or any of the hundred other packs out there but I just can't afford those, plain and simple. So what do you all think about those two packs? pro's and con's. Thanks for any help you all can give me.

 

[hflier]

I would get the summit. I think that was the replacement for the 4500. Ox is heavy and the sacrifice is a bit weak for heavy duty use.

 

[bbrown]

I was thinking the same thing.

 

[KMT]

My cousin has used the sacrifice for the last two elk seasons, and we hunt together. Here is what he has said about his pack or what i have observed
Pros: light weight, big main compartment, good ventilation for your back
Cons: no support for heavy loads (the stays don't help lift anything), durability is sub-par. He sent it back after 5 days of hunting with it the first year and had to repair the belt himself during the hunt on the second year.

 

[Aron Snyder]

I would get the summit and skip the two you posted.

 

[Vandal 44]

I have to agree with everyone on this, I have owned both pack. The OX is great pack for hauling, it will carry more than you can lift, the OX I think is comfortable with heavy loads and a very strong pack. The issue with the OX it does not make for a good day pack. If I bought the OX again it would be for hauling heavy loads and nothing more.

The Sacrifice is a very good day pack, it will carry loads up 35 pounds with no issues, it has a lot of pockets that I like, great ventilation, very lite, and in my opinion very comfortable with 35 pounds or less. The only thing the Sacrifice is good for in my opinion is a day pack.

I would go with the summit, from what I have read its a blend of the OX and the Sacrifice.

 

[luke moffat]

If I had to use badlands setup for extended backpack hunting. I'd get the Ox frame and the Scarifice backpack and not get the Ox packbag. Would give you a stout frame, and a packbag of reasonable size as well as a meatshelf option. Get back where you setup camp and day hunt out of the sacrifice. Kill something run it in the meat shelf, with the meat next to the frame and your gear in the sacrifice behind the meat.

Kinda like what these guys did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BesbPqU1ybc

Granted the OX frame, and the Sacrifice would be roughly $469 vs. $399 of the summit, but I question the strength of the Summit with the poly frame anyways.

Anyways just another option.

 

[Mad Mountain Mike]

I used an Ox Pack for a couple of years and for the money I thought it was a great pack. With the side compression straps I was able to compress it down for day hunt use. The belt I had was to large for me and Badlands sent me the medium at no charge. The only issue I had was with the curved frame the top cross member would not allow me to tip my head back very far. That doesn't sound like much of an issue but it starts to get annoying.

 

[cmeier117]

I would get the summit. I have 2 right now (Want one) and it is the best pack I have used from Badlands. But I don't have a whole lot of time with it.

 

[ohhiitznik]

Get the summit man.

 

[mac87toy]

I am an idiot, haha. I was reading a review on the sacrifice and instead of writing summit i put sacrifice in there. So between the summit and the ox. How does the summit do hauling meat out?

 

[Backpack Hunter]

The Summit is more or less a redesigned 4500. The 4500 carried weight a ton better than the Sacrifice. It seems they have kept the polycarbonate stays so I would recommend reinforcing those.

 

[Kotaman]

IMO the only decent pack Badlands ever made was the 4500. If the Summit is it's replacement, I would go Summit. Looked at an Ox once and thought "yuck".

 

[JWP58]

IMO the only decent pack Badlands ever made was the 4500. If the Summit is it's replacement, I would go Summit. Looked at an Ox once and thought "yuck".

Hey now, I really like their Upland Vest/Pack

 

[tttoadman]

Lets give badlands the love they deserve. They make tons of great daypacks for hunting out of a base camp and hauling a lot of gear.

 

[jpolson]

Lets give badlands the love they deserve. They make tons of great daypacks for hunting out of a base camp and hauling a lot of gear.

For day hunts I love my 2200. Packed out a couple elk with it.

 

[Jon Boy]

For day hunts I love my 2200. Packed out a couple elk with it.

I still like using my 2200 for scouting missions and day hunts. When I was 16 I killed my first archery deer, a yearling blacktailed doe. I gutted it and had no idea how to quarter/debone back then. So I strapped the deer whole to the bat-wing horizontal straps and hauled it out that way. The worst part was the head kept rolling back and the tongue would slide down my face Wish I had pics of that

 

[realunlucky]

I also love my 2200 but might replace it with the nomad this year. To the op the ox isn't the most comfortable frame pack have not tried the other

 

[Bughalli]

I also have the 2200 and have pack envy for getting something new, but the damn thing still works too well to justify getting a new one. It does everything I need from a day pack and more.

OX is great for hauling, but I would never wear it as a day pack. Certainly not for archery. Too noisy and you don't feel nimble in it. You need to figure out what system you're going to use to pack in all the gear and then what are you going to use while hunting. OX isn't the way to go. Summit might work depending on how it collapses. I haven't used one. Design looks similar to the pack I use, but lighter.

 

[shaun]

I used ox pack for a season and could not get rid of it soon enough. Thing was noisy, only 4400ci capacity, and at almost 10lbs felt like you were packing an ox around. I also had fit issues with the pack