I've seen more MSR's bend, break, collapse, rip etc than everything else put together. End of the day it's ALL made in china just varying levels of QC, if the materials etc are the same you're only relying on QC to maybe get a better run out of something. Even the "high end" (ie: it costs so much you baby it and get a "good run out of it") stuff is all made there. Kuiu, Yeti etc are all brilliant examples of this, all their stuff is made in china, quite possibly in the same factories that stuff costing 1/4 the price is made, they spend big time on marketing so everytime you open Instagram you feel inadequate as a hunter without kuiu gears and a yeti cooler on your truck, they then spend a little extra to have another labourer on 70 cents an hour to stand at the end of the line and have a look at the stitching as it goes past and boom "high end"
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