>>2547076Three point zip is useful, but it's not game-changer useful. I like mine; it's served me well over the last dozen or so trips I've taken it on and held a lot of shit when I moved. I don't know that it's worth the $400 price tag it has now (I got in around $300 a couple years back) but it's definitely a good bag.
>>2549296>It's really heavy for a 50LHonestly, they don't market themselves as an UL brand. They're certainly weightier than comparable Hyperlights, but seeing as their branding focuses on the old "made for abuse" I won't even hold that against them. The best brand-comparison MR has going against them is Savotta, if we're judging like-for-like. It seems like they were initially skirting for either a woodland firefighting or some form of defense/police contract with their initial product development; whether or not they succeeded in that regard, I cannot say.
>The top compression straps attaching to the frame at the very top means that you can't sling a rifle over the frame properly when those straps are in use, you can fix that by putting female buckles on the loops by the hydration tube slot where they expect you to mount the MR hunting daypack but it was really cheap of them to not include those female buckles with the pack.I've only ever used mine as luggage while hunting. Call me old fashioned, but I also usually carry my rifle/shotgun when I'm actively chasing game.
>The overload gimmick is a godsend for hauling wood and the belt is super ergonomic but I can't help but feel like this thing was a masterpiece at some point before the corpos started removing useful stuff to be sold separately.I will grant them their advantage in the frame-expansion. Even though that enters into features-you-never-will-use territory, getting one of the 50L ones leaves the ultra-heavy crowd room to bring glamping into their backwoods site. If you're in the wilderness photography or birdwatching crowd, I can see the value in it.
