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Glen,

That is with a 13'6 Amago, I also have a 13' Ayu and a 9' 10" Hane.

Back the thread title, the Paradox is a very well conceived pack.
Unfortunately, I didn't get much time to try it out. I was going on a 3 day Goat scouting trip and less than 20 miles from the trail-head, the clutch went out on my buddy's truck. We wisely limped back home without a clutch, but the testing time I had the Paradox for kind of disappeared, as I needed to get the pack off to Dan for his Bob trip.

I will look forward to spending a good amount of time with a Paradox pack in the near future.

Ed... My 4 piece 5 weight and me can cast farther than your Tenkara can



I'll check the PO box tomorrow.

It's almost here... It's like christmas, except I'm going to get my ass kicked by a heavy load in a backpack instead of a drunk Irish guy

Dan,

It's not so much about casting distance with Tenkara as it is about line control. The longer rod gives you much better line control.

Your pack made it as far as Zoo town yesterday. Went from Helena to Great Falls to Missoula. I shipped a stove at the same time as your pack to Martinsdale that went Helena to Great Falls to Billings to Martinsdale and was delivered yesterday.

I'm finally getting around to taking a few photos. We'll see if I can upload them here...

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Well that's not working...any ideas?

Here you go

Vey interesting boys...

Keep 'em coming.

Any more idea of a release date? Waiting to pull the trigger.

Soon ... Next few days

Like the looks of it so far.

How much are they going to list for?

I'm getting the lightbox figured out slowly. If anyone wants pics of a specific configuration or angle I'm taking requests.


Evolution frame, black/gray VX21 X-Pac 6300 ci bag, black VX21 X-Pac Day Talon (1000 ci).

Capacity: 7300 ci
Weight: 4 lbs 2 oz

I'll take that one.

The Evolution frame will come ready to use. It has an integrated load shelf, three horizontal compression straps, and comes standard with a Flat Talon compression panel. It is usable out of the box as a dry bag hauler.

Here I've paired it with a 65L Big River dry sack and a Day Talon.

Evo/Day Talon - 3 lbs 1 oz
Evo/Flat Talon - 2 lbs 9 oz

Nathan, bring that over my way and we will put it through the paces! Looks great. Exciting stuff.

You got it Ebby....we'll hook up for a trip, but it'll be at least a couple weeks. Lots to do and little time to do it in.

Any plans on making a larger day talon, say around 2000ci? I love the concept of dropping the large bag and just hunting with the frame and talon, but at only 1000ci, it's too small to even use as a day pack for me.

I think the best approach would be to drop your camp gear out of the dry bag, load siwash gear for a spike, and have your "possibles/hunting stuff" in the back pouch. Use the entire pack basically. It is light enough to do that.

With the frame and a Talon, you can put whatever you want in the middle. You could repurpose your tent stuff sack for extra storage if you desired and then have fire starting, knives, headlamps, shell inside the talon. The day talon holds a surprising amount of small gear, however it is not enough for gear / optics / cold weather November days where you might be sitting for awhile. The other option, is to just keep a dry sack or pack bag on and compress it. It compresses to nothing meaning it's a 3 or 4 lb pack capable of carrying 4000 - 8000 CI of gear but not being much larger than the frame / talon combination. Myself, I'd probably often repurpose a tent stuff sack or similar for November type day hunting.

Right on guys...liking the looks of that Evo/Talon setup with the dry bag....could be just about perfect for my packrafting trips for sure and likely much better setup to handle heavy loads than the ULA epic!