Single Pack vs Multiple Packs

[jaredgreen]

Jtmoose, I'm with you on not wanting to hunt with a bulky pack. With that reasoning, I went with an eberlestock x2 several years ago, because it's a great day pack that I could carry a quarter with. Problem with that, it's pretty brutal over 50#. Then I discovered Rokslide lol! I upgraded to an Exo 3500, which is as comfortable a day pack as the X2, but also a meat hauler capable of heavy loads comfortably.


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[justinspicher]

I recently switched to an exo 3500. It has been able to do everything I need it to. I have sold every other pack and don't see a reason to have more than one. For me, being a gear nut is one thing, but I was living in the Midwest and was just accumulating gear because that's all there was to do. Now that I've moved back to Colorado, I didn't have a need for all this "stuff" and realized I was just trying to keep up with my fellow roksliders. There's nothing wrong with that, but it has really allowed me to focus on what I do use a lot and why I use it. In the last month I've whittled down my gear to almost 1/3 of what I had.

It helps that I have a job that keeps me out in the woods five to six days week too.

 

[GKPrice]

to answer this question adequately a person has to describe his or her style of hunting - I have 2 distinct styles A) I leave camp at dawn or so and won't get back til "who knows when" - for that I use my own meat pack design(ebay:"Meat hauling & hunting pack") and just drop a day pack into the empty sling, if I have a "load" on the way back I carry the day pack like a briefcase and load the meat/head on the pack, sling the rifle on the pack and comfortably head into camp B) I ride out in a UTV and when I have an animal down any "packing" will be from the kill site to where I can get the machine so it doesn't really matter much what I use, usually an Eberlestock

 

[jtmoose]

I was able to swap my Just One for a Gunrunner day pack and a mainframe. If I'm going out short/close to truck/camp I can return for the mainframe. If I'm headed out longer, I can strap the gunrunner or a dry bag to the mainframe and load meat in between. We'll see how that works out this season and go from there.

 

[jtmoose]

Well, the Gunrunner was short lived. I took it out scouting and it's kind of floppy when not fully loaded and without a rifle. I think it is because it only has a single load strap. I exchanged it for a lumbar pack to try that which only lasted the evening with it loaded and walking around. Now I'm back to only the mainframe which I have strapped a couple stuff sacks to. I intend to get a couple hip belt pockets and maybe replace the stuff sacks with some molle pouches or one of the spike duffels. It's lighter than the Just One, much more comfortable loaded (hauling my 10yr old around the house), and much cheaper using my existing stuff sacks. I am hoping it will be a high value version of one of the luxury packs.

It's not quite a single pack solution but not too far off either. Where I went scouting, having to return to the truck to get the frame pack would have been significant even for a short day hunt.