Since my "cold wet weekend" I've made some mods to my pack. I've been meaning to do these things for awhile but always never thought about it until I have to use the pack.
None of this is permanent and if you decide to and don't like it it can be put back easily though I imagine that restitching the pack strap would be a PITA. I didn't want to have to sew anything so here's the way I did it.
First thing was to make the cinch straps more user friendly.
I cut the stitching on the pack strap so I could remove it from the slider at the bottom. Using 3' of 1' strap I ran it through the slider and attached a 1' buckle using another slider. I attached the other end of the buckle and have 3 adjustment points. The round table case is my pistol/rifle cleaning kit.
Close up.
Open top no straps in the way.
Next up was adding a shelf to the bottom. This will help me more with the pack off the frame but it does provide me with additional lashing restate.
None of this is permanent and if you decide to and don't like it it can be put back easily though I imagine that restitching the pack strap would be a PITA. I didn't want to have to sew anything so here's the way I did it.
First thing was to make the cinch straps more user friendly.
I cut the stitching on the pack strap so I could remove it from the slider at the bottom. Using 3' of 1' strap I ran it through the slider and attached a 1' buckle using another slider. I attached the other end of the buckle and have 3 adjustment points. The round table case is my pistol/rifle cleaning kit.
Close up.
Open top no straps in the way.
Next up was adding a shelf to the bottom. This will help me more with the pack off the frame but it does provide me with additional lashing restate.