steelheadmike
WKR
- Joined
- Jul 6, 2017
- Location
- Boise
Keep an eye out for a used K2 or K3 Exo. There have been some really good deals around lately.
First question would be what is your budget. Then I would want you to prioritize your expected use and find something that will work for all but what would work best for your first and 2nd priority and understand the other uses won't be as comfortable.This may have been asked 100000 times but I’m also trying to upgrade my account and in need of the information. If you could buy one pack to last you the future 3-5 years or more and do it all from stalking to tree stands or multi day trips, I guess a do it all bag. What would it be?
I would take the Terraframe packs over the Metcalf and did with the Terraframe 50. It’s a bigger Pintler. They offer a 65 and an 80 liter version too that look like the Marshall or the Glacier packs. They use the same frame and have better organization at a fraction of the price.MR Metcalf, add a Mule bag if you want compact.
This may have been asked 100000 times but I’m also trying to upgrade my account and in need of the information. If you could buy one pack to last you the future 3-5 years or more and do it all from stalking to tree stands or multi day trips, I guess a do it all bag. What would it be?
My first pack was from Badlands. Thought it was great. Until me and a buddy had two elk down within twenty yards of each other. Eight hours of cutting and packing later, and I found out how wrong I was.
The next week I ordered my first real pack. An EXO K2. Since then I’ve tried several but always end up back with EXO. I now have a couple K4 packs and they just keep getting better.
I would therefore recommend you go quality now if you have the option. That experience with a subpar pack left me a hunchback for a week after. I’ll never do that again.
It’s a tough lesson. Probably would have been ok if it had been one elk. But two guys and two elk in one day about took me out. And we truly weren’t a terribly long way in.Hahah I can’t imagine how that truly felt. I start to lean this way til see price tags. Even used that’s big $. Probably will take a lesson like you learned to get me to bite the bullet on one
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