which backpack company started the "meat shelf"?

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who did it first?

anyone remember?

 

[Lockster]

An interesting question.

Does the Mystery Ranch Crew Cab count?

It's obviously been around for quite a while.

the first I ever heard of having a loading capacity between frame and bag is the MR Overload, but there could easily have been others beforehand.

 

[charvey9]

According to the Mystery Ranch guys I just spoke to last week, they invented it.

 

[snowcamoman]

The old Camp Trails had a meat shelf.

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[tttoadman]

The old Camp Trails had a meat shelf.

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That's right. I modified mine to cut some weight. I bought that thing in about 1985. Shortly after I used my Dads vintage army green back board to carry out my first elk. Wow to be young again...

 

[tttoadman]

The old Camp Trails had a meat shelf.

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I think it would actually need to be better defined. Having a shelf as opposed to having an expandable shelf when you detach the main bag. I think the later is what most of us would consider a meat shelf today.

 

[Kevin Dill]

Yes, the meat shelf isn't a new concept at all. Frame packs have had shelves going back several decades, and were the forerunners of the current crop of shelves which support meat between frame and pack bag. I don't know who had the first try at developing the 'in-between' shelf but I do recall Mystery Ranch being a very early entrant in that design. I owned a first generation NICE frame/Longbow and it offered the ability to sandwich a load of meat. I admit to being a full-on skeptic of the concept until I tried it...as in really used it hard packing lots of meat...and it worked perfectly for me.