A couple of reasons. The biggest is that I’m not dragging a deer two miles, and cleaning would be easier at the truck with water anyways. The other is pack was under evaluation and I needed to find the upper limit with it. Stitching did pop on one of the vertical stays, with MR modifying to correct.
70-80 lbs is really the comfort limit. It carries much more obviously, but comfort starts going somewhere above that.
