How many packs is too many?...

[judders87]

When do you draw the line of having too many packs? Sure you've got one for EDC, tree stand hunting, backpack hunting, day hunting, camera bag... maybe I'm missing some. Maybe some people like options.

 

[taskswap]

Well I've got 8, which my wife says is too many. So apparently: 8.

 

[Dioni A]

I’ve got one. I get a new one most years and don’t like the clutter of extra stuff and end up selling the old one.

 

[TaperPin]

Everyone needs a little pack no bigger than needed for a sandwich, jacket, and antelope tag.

Then there’s the do-it-all Bomb Pack for day hiking, fishing, scouting, and whatnot. Dana Bomb Packs are long in the tooth, so there’s a second one for the day the first wears out.

Up a notch in size is the Terraplane for summer backpacking, early fall hunting and day hunting.

Everyone also needs a few loaner packs for friends dipping a foot in the outdoors - a vintage Dana external frame fits a wide range of sizes, plus a small and medium Terraplane cover most of the bases.

My fun project is recreating a modified and upgraded Dwight Schuh pack. The original was gifted to me because of a love of backpack hunting. A decade of my favorite hunting memories were spent with that pack. It outlasted one marriage and half another. I like the spirit of Dwight - he seemed like a nice guy and knew his way around mulies. Hunting with it again will feel like the old days.

 

[svivian]

Two packs max for me. I like having a back up pack or to loan out to a buddy in a pinch.

Past that it is an addiction

 

[oldskool67]

Over the years I’ve accumulated 9 hunting packs of various styles / sizes that I still own. That doesn’t include a couple of tactical packs from my military service, fishing packs, EDC, and a duty pack from my LE career. Apparently I have a problem with packs

 

[displacedtexan]

I have 5, I'll be ordering another one soon!

 

[Eastonsgrandpa]

I have four. Three K4 and a Kifaru Ark. I like having two ready to hunt with and one dedicated to scouting and trail cameras. I’ll be selling one of the K4 once I figure out which one.

 

[Poser]

I have a SG pack with 5 different bags. A (beat to shit) Gen 1 Exo that is now a back up pack that has 2 bags. A SG day pack. 4 ski touring packs. An old TNF pack from the 90s that I occasionally loan out to new backpackpackers and 2 -3 alpine climbing packs that I don't use anymore in favor of the SG day pack. Another 1-2 retired day packs laying around as well.

 

[sierracharlie338]

Guys these are all rookie numbers yall need to pump these numbers up!

I just started counting in my head and had to stop when I surpassed 9 so there is a level of plausible deniability at some point hopefully. Yes the majority of them are hunting/backpacking packs

 

[judders87]

Over the years I’ve accumulated 9 hunting packs of various styles / sizes that I still own. That doesn’t include a couple of tactical packs from my military service, fishing packs, EDC, and a duty pack from my LE career. Apparently I have a problem with packs

Do you display them or just stuff them into a tote?

 

[Timberline001]

1 5000-6500 cubic inch pack for everything for me. I don’t leave the truck without it. I never want to have to go back to the truck for a pack out and I don’t like packing meat on the shelf. The stone glacier 6900 and the kifaru reckoning have been my favorites. Recently switched back to the reckoning and the duplex frame because I missed how well it packed meat.

 

[mtwarden]

I've been whittling mine down a bit. I have one hauling frame (SO) that I use w/ three different bags- day hunts to week plus (2300/4800/6300). The day bag is also a "traditional" day pack that can used on it's own. I use the same frame (and the appropriate bag) for backpacking outside of hunting.

 

[NickyD]

I keep it simple with two. A hunting backpack and a hiking/skiing backpack.

When I have too many options, I tend to overthink it and wish I was using another option.

 

[Cannonball]

Just for hunting or everything?

Hunting 2, SG Approach 2800 and Sky 5900 both go on a single Crux frame.

If considering all packs i own......a lot more

 

[Dioni A]

What meaningful benefit does anyone get from having so many packs laying around. I can’t imagine anyone actually using more than a few and if you do use more it seems like a good way to misplace gear for extended periods of time.
Seems like hoarding to me

 

[Cannonball]

 

[Macintosh]

@Dioni A I guess some of it may be hoarding, but then again I COULD in theory do everything with 1 rifle. Touche?

 

[Dos Perros]

I have an SG X-Curve and a Kifaru Duplex Tactical and an Exo K4 and I rarely use the Kifaru and never use the K4. I basically use the SG for all hunting, the Kifaru for some pack training. I do have a SG day pack I'll use fishing. I think the answer is that more than 2 packs is too many. Nice to have a primary and a backup in case you run over your primary with an ATV or something. I've seen at least 2 pack failures in the field.

 

[Macintosh]

If you include regular hiking, climbing and skiing in with hunting, I have 7 packs that I use fairly regularly. Plus a couple I dont use much, or that I could get rid of and not really miss all that often. I worked for a company that made packs though, not that its an excuse just wound up with some in order to “fly the colors” at events or when working, and havent gotten rid of some. Anyone wants a nice but ugly hiking climbing pack or avalanche airbag, hmu, the price is right!