All right, my name is Sean the Silver Fox. And today I'm going to do a product review on the Maxpedition Sabercat that I've received. Now I'm not going to go through things of the construction and to detail all the pockets and things. Because this is an extremely good product review but wilderness out there, they can't breathe. I will put a link up on this video to his site if you want a product review of the whole pack.
What I want to do is outline or describe the modifications, I will be making to this pack and things I think that Maxpedition could certainly consider doing in the future. Okay, now I got this pack, so I got a pack on okay. So camera place aside, that’s my water bottle and my persuader cup. You can see the main path of course about to you, on this side, I've put my large pack, this contains my food, and water can. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to take the pack off and then we can go through in a bit more detail the modifications I have made and the modifications I will be making to this pack. Okay, I got my first impression to the pack so far.
The overall pack size is brilliant, okay. It’s got a lot of storage in it but you can get a tendency to overload and over packed it, okay. So in that case you do need to have the shoulder strap. Now this shoulder strap I've changed it from the old pack, it always to have a buckle in the middle of it, so now I wear my had is easy to take it off, I'm going to take my hat off to get the strap off my head. Okay, so I can just unbolt the buckle. And at the minute there are there thing that I feel that is packed down one, is its handles they up on the top. Okay, this handle here, closer you mean, all right. This handle is actually stitch to the strap, now one the old pack guide that I made, I had it, and so this was loose. The reason I think that’s a floor is because when you do load this pack up and say order to put some, I've got something on the top, just to strip and strap out of it a longer.
You carry handle, okay. It’s not longer a top, okay. If this is the, this is where the carriage you see, but the handle is mounted away back here. And you just play that is better, yeah, right. So this is where I'm going to carry the pack from, from up here where my fingers are put the handles down here. Okay, so that’s the floor, also I like to carry my large knife on this, on the pack because if you carry knife, we can a lot of trouble if you got in our hit and to conceal your pack or in your pack. And the old added of out was out mine. So again if this handle came off, if I got slip it off this straps, I could tie my large knife onto this straps at the back. Put the handle on and then fasten it back up. Now, also with these straps, now this straps come over your pack, so for example I put my triple, which I've got to come mounted on out that later across the front here. Okay, just in there where I put my tripod.
But if I were on an access and you can have my pack, which is a whole point that you have in this so I can access while I'm walking. If I were on to do this my tripod falls out, my knife will fall off the back. But on each one to it, in order to get into the top pouch where you got your map and your compass, torch, head torch that sort of stuff. So that’s another flow with the design. The next floor I come up with, if you’ve got to this stitching, I would assumed trying to go right in on this, so you can see. I hope you can see this now, but this stitching on the corners here and up here is already starting to take the string, okay. This is starting to pull free like this, at least piece of sticking out here. So a lot of the stitching is going to have to be, reinforce by myself. That’s not a problem but one a pack of this value, I think it’s a bit of shame really that’s at least be reinforced.
Now one more modification I have already made to this pack, around this side pockets. The side pockets, just check this out, all right, the side pockets don’t come off the pack they joined the fix to it. And you are so limited, by that size. Now for example I want to carry my Hobo Stove, in the side pocket. And what was happening, it sticks out off the top and because the back of the pack, this pack and the zip through goes right down to the bottom. Here’s a risk of the things that would fall out. So what I've done, I made a water proof gate that just fits, that is stitch in place.
Okay, so I made this water proof gate here, now stitch in place. And now when I load up, I put my packed my stove in, I will draw a chord and that’s it. Now, nothing is going to fall out and it carries down this to carry the handle. I mean its tough here; I'm going to change this around completely, so I'm not going to have the adjustable bit on the bottom part. What I want is the adjustable part up here, so I'm just going to take the whole of this top handle off, for me that completely put a new one in and then obey just from the top rather from the bottom. Now, over all I think, its, I do think it’s a really good pack, I think there are couple of areas where I can be modified. I didn’t honestly expect to be at a by pack off the shelf and its doing everything that I want it to. My other hit pack that I've been using, I've had that since about 2001 and over that time I've been modifying it and changing it and tweaking it and things like that.
This package certainly bigger than my old hip pack I can get a lot more in this. It’s more comfy to carry them out at hit pack. And yeah, I am really peace of it, just so as few modifications I’ll make.
Transcription by:
Scribe4you Transcription Services