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in today's video I'm going to be showing
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you probably one of the coolest
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backpacks that I've seen in a very long
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time stick around we're going to get
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into
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[Music]
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it all right on this channel I love
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backpacks I review a lot of gear and
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I've shown some very fantastic bags in
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the past um I have some really nice ones
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in my collection that I use for
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different things um but I recently
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picked up a redesign of the Becker
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Patrol pack from Bongo gear um take a
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look at this
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pack so what makes this pack so
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different and so far and above anything
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that I've seen recently on the market is
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that it just has so many features built
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into it and of course it's built on that
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classic design from Ethan Becker the
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Becker Patrol pack so we're going to
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take a close look at it I'm going to
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show you all the features and let you
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guys look at this thing and tell me what
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you think about it so let's take a look
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all right so if you're a gear freak like
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me and you are definitely into the
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military surplus and the Tactical bags
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you probably are very familiar with the
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lineage of this pack and what talking
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about is the Becker Patrol pack designed
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by Ethan Becker um it was designed as
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kind of a replacement um or an
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alternative to the Alice pack um
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something that utilized that
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organization of those exterior Pockets
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um but taking away that horrible you
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know frame that everybody really doesn't
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like and the Alice you know belt and uh
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shoulder pad system and updating it with
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a more modern
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um internal frame uh more of a bucket
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style pack that you could load up and
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still have all that organization on the
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outside as well as the inside which is
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um really uh beneficial to military
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personnel and military operations
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because then you can load magazines and
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water bottles and cens and all kind of
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stuff on the outside and get to those
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things without digging through your pack
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like on a civilian hiking backpack or or
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overnight bag so original Al the Becker
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was designed by Ethan and um Eagle
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Industries was the original maker and
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then you know a few years after that
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Blackhawk picked up the design they were
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making their own version of it and this
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was all happening in the early well the
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early 2000s late 90s into the mid 2000s
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and then production stopped Eagle
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industry stopped making a lot of that
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stuff that that tactical
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gear um and uh some of their operation
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went
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offshore um so the the Becker Patrol
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pack went away and nowadays people are
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looking for that pack and will pay good
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money for one that's in good good
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quality but I'm here to tell you that
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there is an awesome
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alternative and a fantastic upgrade to
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that original design and we're talking
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about the Bongo gear Becker Patrol pack
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Mark 2 this is a completely redesigned
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or
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reimagined backpack based on the Becker
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and the interesting thing about this is
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it actually has the blessing of Ethan
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Becker he is looked at this bag he's
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endorsed it um he's given his full okay
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and blessing for them to manufacture
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this pack and now we have this one and
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it is awesome so let's look at some
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features real quick um you know the
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Becker Patrol pack was intended for
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rugged off tril use with uh while being
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able to comfortably carry loads of up to
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50 lbs um I can tell you with this pack
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right now loaded with the gear that I
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have for an overnight I have it at about
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22 lbs with water um and it carried very
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comfortably so the mark 2 is at 6 lb 12
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oz um it is made of a nylon polyester
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fabric that has a 90% water repellency
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um it is uh coming at a capacity of 42 l
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so that's the the main uh specs you need
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to know about it now the original Becker
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Patrol packs were Cordura so that made
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them a little bit heavier um of course
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you know Cordura is a very durable
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material but it adds a lot of weight uh
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this nylon pack cloth that they've gone
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with um so far I have had no issues with
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it I can show you
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here that water just runs off that pack
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now of course it's not waterproof by any
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stretch of the imagination no backpack
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really is unless it is specifically a
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water uh dry bag kind of backpack now we
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talk about a lot of different features
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on this bag uh the biggest um benefit I
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think of this pack is the the pocket
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organization and the number of pockets
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that you get on this thing and how
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they're laid out that's what um a lot of
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people loved about the original Becker
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so you have large Side Pockets
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you have a little bit smaller bottom
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Pockets up here and then even smaller
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skinnier pockets on the top lid all of
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them have a buckle closure and they also
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have um a drawring tightening system
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collar on them so that's going to be
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able to pull it that in and keep your
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contents from rattling around um on
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these pockets on the bottom the sides
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and this this section here there's
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actually straps that you can tighten the
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load down even more if you need
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to and the bottom Pockets also have
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another
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feature which I think is really
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beneficial if you are in um doing jungle
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Expeditions you're going in really wet
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weather conditions it has these
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drawstring
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collars that allows you to add even
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another level of protection for the gear
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that you're carrying so
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let's say you're carrying ammunition or
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magazines you can keep those nice and
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dry uh electronics things like that now
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the way I've been doing mine because I'm
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just you know camping hammock camping
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with this pack I've taken the draw
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string colls and I've actually just
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pushed those in so they're out of the
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way and then I just slide my items in
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the top like that and then if I want to
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cinch it up I can and that works out
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really well so these side pockets are
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pretty good size they actually fit fulls
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sizee now Jee bottles you could um
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probably get a 40 o clean canteen in
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there no problem um once again these
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have the drawstring
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collars for wet weather protection of
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gear and then we've got the Cinch collar
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on top of
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that and course straps to control the
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load there also there's this daisy chain
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material that is on both sides of the
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pack um and over
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here on mine what I do is I have my my
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Hang Line This is what I hang my pack
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off of a tree when I get to Camp so I
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have this on the outside so I can get to
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it there's also a row and hopefully you
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guys can see
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this there's a row of Pals webbing down
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here with a grab handle which is really
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cool because there's a grab handle on
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the top of the pack there's one on the
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bottom so that allows you to kind of
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pick that up um if it's laying flat um
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just kind of deadlift that thing up and
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and get that out of the way and then the
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bottom of the pack of course has uh more
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Pals Molly style webbing on the bottom
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so you can strap you know sleeping pads
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um things like of that nature down here
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your tent um there is a control strap
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that helps get that load under control
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on the side and it does have velcro
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Keepers on it and an elastic keeper
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there as well so you can tighten that
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load down on the bottom but it also has
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the
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benefit of strapping down a load that
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goes through this pass through pocket
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you can see that so pass through pockets
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on both sides of the pack I've got
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Cold Steel
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Tomahawk shov down there and it's nice
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because I
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can tighten that strap down and then I
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also
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have a strap right here on the top that
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I
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can work around click
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that tighten
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that I'm going to move move that elastic
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keeper so the the flap so the strap is
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not flapping around you also have more
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Molly Pals webbing up
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here so I'm going to this is the lid
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buckles and they are Behind These front
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pockets so uncp that pull this back open
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it now you
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have as you can see a pretty good size
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grid of Pal's webbing um I would think
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that the Marine corpe assault pouch um
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would fit this perfectly I haven't
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confirmed that yet I have a few of those
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so I need to check that out but that
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would be a good space to put another
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pouch I think um sides have it up here
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as well but if you're running items down
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these passrs you probably don't want to
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put too much up here and I think I'm
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going to avoid putting anything up here
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right now at this point and another
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thing about the pockets um all the
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pockets on this pack are pass through
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so even the little pockets up here on
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the lid are completely passed through
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Pockets down here are passed through and
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even on the pockets on the side are pass
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through um that gives you just more
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options for carrying really differ size
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gear odd gear knives tomahawks AIS saws
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um you know all kinds of different uh
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you know equipment that you may be
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taking into the back country this pack
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will handle it so this pack is set up
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for Hammock Camping um I've got tent
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staks I
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have my guidelines and my straps for my
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hammock in here and then over
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here this fits this perfectly I like
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this this is um perfect size for my
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Streamlight Lantern it's in there
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nicely now another cool feature I wanted
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to highlight all the pockets have drain
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holes in it I don't know if you can see
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this but instead of a grommet that
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always rusts or falls out or gets
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snagged on things what they've done is
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they've actually perforated the material
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in a p circular pattern and of course
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that's you know they've done that um
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with some type of heat um you know to
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kind of seal that
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uh so it's not going to fray on you but
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there is p there is drain holes on all
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the pockets and I think that's really
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beneficial especially if you're
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considering this pack for using it in
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wet environments like you know down in
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Florida down in the Everglades maybe
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you're going on a jungle Expedition one
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more pocket and this is the top
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pocket it opens from the back and this
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is big enough to actually you know fit a
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mountainhouse
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meal other food
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items so a lot of space up here it's
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another good grab and go pocket uh to to
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put things that you want to get quick
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access to like headlamps first aid kits
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uh things of that nature we have an
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expandable drawring collar
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it opens pretty big so you can get into
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the contents the back of this collar
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actually has a pass through for um a
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drink tube and then there is a pass
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through right here so there is a
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hydration pocket in this pack and I'll
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show you the inside here in a minute now
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the lid the lid has a mesh pocket up
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here and this is really good for a
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raincoat um stuff that you want to get
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to
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quickly has a little bit of padding to
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it so has a little bit of protection we
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have two-way zippers on this so you
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don't have to get it from any particular
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side okay down inside this pack uh lots
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of room and a lot of cool features in
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here as well does not stop on the
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outside so like I said I'm set this one
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up and use this for Hammock Camping um
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so I've got um my one wind um
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tarp I have my War Bonnet hammock it's
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the
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Blackbird I have an underquilt or
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actually this is yeah this is my
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underquilt that
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bag then down here I have a um a down
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sleeping
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bag once I take everything out you can
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see that this thing has really cool
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pockets on the inside that are a nice
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bright orange so you can see what is
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going on in here and I love that I love
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that they did that so this front pocket
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here is very deep it goes all the way to
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the bottom of the pack and I'm able to
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actually keep my silky Big Boy down
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there um you could also do another
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hydration bladder the back of course we
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have room enough for hydration bladder
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and there is a hanger the side pockets
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here do not go down as deep they go down
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maybe 3/4 of the way um but here I've
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got my SE of summit pillow so that fits
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down there nicely but it's it's
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fantastic organization you can get a lot
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of stuff um down in
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here and I really don't even have this
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thing packed totally full I don't think
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all that stuff squishes down pretty well
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okay now we're on to the um the
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suspension system that is of course
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probably one of the most important
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factors of this bag um this is where a
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huge update has come with this backpack
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so the old Becker uh from Eagle had
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padded shoulder straps but they were
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still they weren't the greatest um not
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certainly it's not as ergonomic as
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these can take off completely uh which
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is a great feature um they do have load
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lifters which is very important once
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again we got that grab handle there is
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your hydration Port um as you can
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see padding here with an air
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channel nice padded material here with
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that um kind of 3D foam mesh material so
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that it's going to help with Brea
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breathability and moisture
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control and then the yolk on this thing
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um is very similar to like the Hill
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People Gear yolk it has that kind of and
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feel to it um which it makes it for a
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very comfortable shoulder strap system
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it doesn't have to be overly thick
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because it is so ergonomic the way they
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Design This of course we've
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got sternum
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strap we have quick release buckles so
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if in case you need to get out of this
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pack quickly and dump it you can very
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important on a military style pack and
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then another product that they sell is
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this Compass pack pouch and it comes in
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a variety of colors this is the tiger
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stripe they have Woodland I think
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there's an OD a black a brown I think
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there might be an orange but this is
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really cool because they use these old
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press
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snap uh closures like they do on the old
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military Alice
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gear but they work very well and then in
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here what I've got is I got my
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compass um so it's a perfect spot for
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that
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and keep that on my shoulder strapped so
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I can get to it quickly but but this
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also has the drain holes um built into
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it and it attaches with a velcro strap
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system so you can put it on a lot of
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different packs okay now we're going to
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look at the belt um this is of course
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another huge update to this pack now the
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belt
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itself is completely
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removable so you want to undo this
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pull that velcro and then this is going
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to come off and then if you don't want
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to use the belt you don't have to
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another nice thing about this is you can
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um dump your packet Camp take this belt
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off and now this can become your patrol
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belt you can add some pouches to it and
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go out hiking um there's also which is
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interesting is a pass through right here
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so if you wanted to do I don't know
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maybe a different belt system you you
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could um if you really want to and of
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course if you don't want to use this pad
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if this is too
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much you can remove it so really a nice
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belt system and then instead of the big
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thick 2-in webbing
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belts I think this is a probably a one
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and
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A4 something like that one and a half um
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so it doesn't dig in as much but the uh
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adjustment for it is on the sides so
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when you're adjusting this you're
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pulling to the front see that and the
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strapping on mine is still pretty stiff
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because I still haven't got this pack
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completely broken in yet but um it's it
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really does a nice job of getting that
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load tightened and cinched down into
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your waist so it doesn't shift
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and of course we have pal webbing and
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then another really
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cool um item that they're selling on
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their site uh is this little adapter
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that allows you to add a hanging piece
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of gear like a knife um so this comes
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completely off it threads through this
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Pals webbing and then I'm able to slip
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my knife sheath onto this and they make
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two sizes this is the short one and
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there's a longer one um actually I want
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to get more of these to add to other
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bags because I love it so one question
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people are always asking with with gear
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that I show is like where's this thing
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made so this pack is made in Columbia
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South America and um what's interesting
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about it is bongo gear has um been
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contracted with this company down in
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Columbia and this company has been in
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business for a very long time they make
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a lot of the military and police
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tactical gear for Colombia um and of
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course their gear has been used and
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tested in the jungles down there
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extensively um so right off the bat I
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will tell you that the quality of this
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pack is fantastic I have not found any
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pore sewing uh no loose stitching
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um everything is reinforced perfectly
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the materials that they are using in
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this pack are excellent I love this nlon
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material for its water repellency um for
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its abrasion resistance um it has uh
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been doing very well it is really
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wellmade so I Have No Reservations about
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this being made in Columbia all right
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guys I hope you enjoyed the video hope
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you got some information out of this
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check out the links below go to bongo's
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website check out the gear that they
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sell they have some really awesome stuff
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um I'm going to be rocking this pack um
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this year next year for sure um so
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hopefully you'll see some more videos
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with me using this thing um on some
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trips that I got coming up but um I I
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couldn't be happier with this thing I
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just love this pack for this size and
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for overnights into the woods is a
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