Thread: A bushbuck review...

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

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"

Have you read the tags on the kuiu items? I have alot of kuiu, very few are actually made in china.

Originally Posted by hotsoup

Have you read the tags on the kuiu items? I have alot of kuiu, very few are actually made in china.

Yes. There was a time when I was sucked in by opening Instagram and believing I had to have the flashest camo patterns etc also. Vietnam/phillipines/china. It's all the same. I'm not saying that you are getting better/worse value for money with different brands but there is a hell of a lot of people out there that think that just because they paid more for something or because it was deemed as popular or all their favourite social media stars use it then it must be the best product which is really far from reality.

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Yes. There was a time when I was sucked in by opening Instagram and believing I had to have the flashest camo patterns etc also. Vietnam/phillipines/china. It's all the same. I'm not saying that you are getting better/worse value for money with different brands but there is a hell of a lot of people out there that think that just because they paid more for something or because it was deemed as popular or all their favourite social media stars use it then it must be the best product which is really far from reality.

Yeah I agree with that. If you're half savvy you can work out the shit over marketed brands to the ones that are quality

I'm a fruit salad when it comes to clothing. All sort of different brands, my favourits tend to be the NZ made ones like WOE and earth sea sky, they haven't worn out or failed me yet.

Items I'm using from kuiu are pants and a fleece & shell which take a while to wear out