Hey,
I noticed Kuiu just release the Ranger 2200 day pack. Personally, I think its a good looking, well thoughtout pack. You can tell alot of engineering and customer feedback went into it.
My question though is, why not make it compatible with the carbon frame? Looking close up on the ranger, it would have taken literally 4 buckles sown in?
EXO just release the K4, SG just released new pack. Everyone is working in this space. Kuiu is still making new things.
I am from Australia so maybe I dont understand how people hunt in the States.
We primarily stalk and its usually Sambar, Red, Fallow or Hog deer. Obviously when the hunt is successful we haul all this meat out which is simply impossible to do without the load sling mode, unless youre gonna bone stuff out and put it in your pack and ruin your gear.
I see Kuiu is releasing day packs with internal frames. What I would like to know is who is the target audience here? What do they hunt? How do they haul their meat home? Or is the meat just left there? Anyone from the US this is a genuine question and would love to know how its done.
Would have loved one of these new ranger 2200 packs on the PRO frame and suspension. Also love the charcoal colour of the pack, really works in Aussie woods.
Has anyone tried to mount a standard kuiu pack to a PRO frame?
The divide 4500 is the latest release Kuiu frame compatible pack and I feel like it was designed for the rich owners of Kuiu haha. Literally only covered their needs and thats it. Not a single other new size, just a weird pocket to put a spotter in (fairenough), but a rifle? Doesnt it make way more sense to side mount the rifle?? The divide pocket is so far away from the frame. Even a spotter and tripod, they arent light. Thats pocked and the locker zippers was literally their punch line, they were so prpud of it and it straight out sucks. So embarrasing. Maybe for a very small use case, but for all other hunting, wasteful.
I am literally so close to just giving up and moving to an SG or Exo. But then Kuiu puts all their packs on sale and releases the Ramger 2200. Anyone else thinks Kuiu maybe working on something quietly?
Armin
We haul every piece of meat out our backs in the west. There is no dragging, or leaving meat in the woods. That goes from animals as s
small as deer, up to moose to include bear hides. There are two ways we (my group) do it. Hunt with whatever pack you have, want, when the animal is killed, it is broken down, and the first load goes out. Depending on the pack, that could be just the back straps and loins. If the person is using a good pack, that could be a hind quarter going out the first trip. It could be boned out, or on the bone. That usually depends on how far we are from the truck. It’s it’s under 2-5 kilometers, 1-2 miles, we just leave the bone in. Greater than that, we debone, but that is always up to the person who arrowed the animal.
If we have a hunting camp where everyone is based out of, the next trip in will be a group of guys all with frame packs or whaterever pack they have and we take the rest of the quarters out. If the guy who killed is inexperienced, he will just come back to camp, and the Calvary will head in and take care of the animal in one trip.
If it’s just me, after that first load out using my hunting pack, I may switch to a frame when I go in for the second and third load out, or not. You don’t need a “sling”’or meat shelf on a pack to keep your pack from getting messed up. Once the quarters have cooled, placing them in a dry bag, or a contractor bag solves the blood issue.
I have a K4, I’ve packed some pretty good loads with it, but I can’t say it fits me well. The lumbar pad messes my back up with medium loads. I prefer packs without a lumbar pad. Frames like Kelly, or a badlands 2200 where the pad against your back is all on the same plane.
Good luck, in your search.
