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Mystery Ranch packs

FisherHawk said:
I have use Treehouse and for a while I thought it was the best pack for a treestand hunter on the market when I got it. It has some nice features:

Pros: Super comfortable, MOLLE straps, top loader with double zippers, front compression straps, ridged frame
Cons: side pockets are small, side pockets for bottles are too small, not a lot of room inside the pack, zippers are not very quiet

It is a good pack, but I have had to do a lot of mods to make it work for me.
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Is there a enough room for 4 20” sticks platform and a winter jacket? Not to concerned about the exterior pockets. Thanks for the pros and cons.
 
Winter jacket yes, I put my Sitka Fanatic Jacket in the pack.

the sticks you will need to figure how you want to attach them. There is an outside compression strap that you can use. I use it for my bow. My sticks I carry in.
 
OspreyZB said:
I just got a pop up 38 and a mule bag which is a smaller bag that works with the newer pop-up frames. So far I really like it. Walked 6+ miles today with close to 20 pounds in the 38 and it carried really well once everything was adjusted correctly. I'll probably use the mule bag most of the time until I need more room for bibs and a jacket then switch to the 38. The 38 is big enough that I'm thinking I could use it for 1-2 night backpack hunts if I wanted to, but also compresses down pretty small when it's not full.
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@OspreyZB 2020 mule bags will work on 2020 popup frames? I am having a hard time confirming this before I spend the cash.
 
smcchevy said:
@OspreyZB 2020 mule bags will work on 2020 popup frames? I am having a hard time confirming this before I spend the cash.
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Yes. You'll need 2 extra buckles (just the male end of the side release buckles) that it doesn't come with. At least mine didn't.
 
They have a conversion kit on the site, can’t remember what it’s called.... their customer svc is great just email them.
 
thedutchtouch said:
i like the treehouse but this price on the popup 38 is tempting. I don't really understand their sizing, i'm 6'2 with a 21 inch torso 34ish waist, so not sure if medium or large is right. large probably?
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I have some experience here. I tried on a popup 28 2019 version and the large was too small. They changed the sizing in 2020 and I got a 38 in xlarg because I didn't realize that change. I am a 36 inch waist and the 2020 popup 38 xl barely fits, as in I need a smaller size like a large. I think that you would be served well with a large.
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i appreciate the feedback, i think i'm still undecided so going to wait (and likely spend more later but such is the cost of indecision, either way i wont get a new pack before my next hunt saturday so i'll suck it up and use my old Kelty again) I sent a PM about that treehouse pack- thanks for the tip about that as well, but it looks like someone else did about 2 hrs ago so i'm second in line.
 
I used to hunt with a climbing tree stand so when i would walk to my hunting spots I have my tree stand on back with the straps . I would use hunting fanny pack to carry my accessories. So this year and last year I started to saddle hunting I started to use backpacks. In the beginning I didn't want get a big backpack because of the weight it looked to big it looked to me.

So I bought the trophy line C.A.Y.S because it stores all your saddle hunting items really well. But the carrying all that stuff without a frame is really hard on the back. I was really ignorant on how important a frame is when using a backpack.

The type of habitat hunt is farmland/woods /cattail marsh/hills some hunting spots have all those features. Sometimes I am walking between 1mile to 1.5 miles one way. Other situations I walk less than a half mile.

Here's my question how does "quartering out a deer" compare in difficulty to using a sled for marsh areas and a deer cart for wooded and hilly areas. I never quartering out a deer before. I hunt 100% public land and live near a big city. Some of my hunting spots that are big and everybody knows about I will hunt with a friend, but the other spots I hunt are small and I don't anyone because its really hard to find good public land.

I don't hunt out west just whitetails which backpack would recommend mystery ranch pop up 28 or 38
 
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kidneystones_3000 said:
I used to hunt with a climbing tree stand so when i would walk to my hunting spots I have my tree stand on back with the straps . I would use hunting fanny pack to carry my accessories. So this year and last year I started to use backpacks. In the beginning I didn't want get a big backpack because of the weight it looked to big it looked to me.

So I bought the trophy line C.A.Y.S because it stores all your saddle hunting items really well. But the carrying all that stuff without a frame is really hard on the back. I was really ignorant on how important a frame is when using a backpack.

The type of habitat hunt is farmland/woods /cattail marsh/hills some hunting spots have all those features. Sometimes I am walking between 1mile to 1.5 miles one way. Other situations I walk less than a half mile.

Here's my question how does "quartering out a deer" compare in difficulty to using a sled for marsh areas and a deer cart for wooded and hilly areas. I never quartering out a deer before. I hunt 100% public land and live near a big city. Some of my hunting spots that are big that are big and everybody knows about I will hunt with a friend, but the other spots I hunt are small and I don't anyone to know about I will hunt by myself because its really hard to find good public land.
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This was the first year I’ve ever broken down a deer in the field & packed it out. If you are way back in it is soooooo much easier than a cart or a sled. I did this in a MR treehouse, that pack wasn’t quite designed for the task but it definitely worked & saved me a 1.5 woolly mile drag! I highly recommend....... I think a Popup would’ve been the ticket, but I can only afford to own so many packs...
 
Bigterp said:
This was the first year I’ve ever broken down a deer in the field & packed it out. If you are way back in it is soooooo much easier than a cart or a sled. I did this in a MR treehouse, that pack wasn’t quite designed for the task but it definitely worked & saved me a 1.5 woolly mile drag! I highly recommend....... I think a Popup would’ve been the ticket, but I can only afford to own so many packs...
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What backpack would recommend for just whitetail hunting should I keep my deer cart?
 
kidneystones_3000 said:
What backpack would recommend for just whitetail hunting should I keep my deer cart?
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So far in my life I've only whitetail hunted. One day I'll elk hunt. But I got an MR PopUp 28 for the exact reasons you outlined. Sometimes I'm a mile or so back and in some hilly places. Dragging is a B! Using a cart isn't much better, especially if you have to go back to the truck first to get it. My buck this year I got on private so I didn't have to quarter him but I likely will quarter my next public land deer and pop it in the MR28
 
kidneystones_3000 said:
What backpack would recommend for just whitetail hunting should I keep my deer cart?
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Like @hokiehunter373 said I’m in the same boat & just whitetail. I’ll let some of the Popup guys weigh in. I settled on the treehouse b/c of its structure/shape & its profile/accessibility in the tree. I think it lacks in meat packing but shines in above areas. So my take was I’m in the tree & packing sticks a lot more than packing meat....... so I take the trade off of a pack that is able to pack meat but excels at what I need it to do most of the time. Just my 2 cents, plus you can get them used for under 200 pretty often & aren’t size specific.
 
My Treehouse is for sale in the classified. Great pack! No pack is perfect. I love the flip down features and accessibility in the tree. Sticks secure to the outside with two straps. No problem. I bought a new pack and need to justify my purchase by offloading another piece of gear. I am thinning my gear collection.
 
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