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I'm not sure if they still do this, but in the 90s the Air Force had a contract for Wiggy's sleeping bags. They were tightly packaged in a heavy duty vacuum sealed bag (not the ideal way to store a sleeping bag generally) and attached to the ejection seats of F-15s and F-16s at Elmendorf and Eielson AFB, Alaska. The Air Force chose Wiggy's because the silicone treated synthetic insulation would retain a significant amount of original loft even after extended storage in a highly compressed vacuum sealed bag.
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I've met Wiggy and he's passionate about his product. He's also a passionate salesman so I take everything with a grain of salt. I picked up one of his Lamilite sweaters and it is a furnace. Incredibly warm. Not stylish though.
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Ordered gloves from Wiggy’s 10 days back, aint seen ‘em yet.
"I never thought I'd live to see the day that a U.S. president would raise an army to invade his own country."
Robert E. Lee
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Got a Wiggys last fall for moose hunting in Northern BC to replace my aging Cabelas bag. It's a -30 wide mummy bag. It was nice and warm. The only thing that I was disappointed with is that the zipper only has a pull tab on the outside.
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I remember when a thread with that name in the title was akin to saying "Beetlejuice" three times... I don't remember the details but when I see WIGGY'S , uh-oh goes through my mind. Didn't he get on websites and preach his equipment was great? IIRC he was a former poster here and went under his own name, or at least it was widely known who the poster was. And most all threads about him or his products turned into chit shows. Pointer. Tell him what the right bag to get is
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