Sleeping bag lookout

[Bywrongun]

On the hunt for a new bag and was wondering if anyone has any experience with these?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/120707022982

3/4 season and I will be using with a tarp and bivi.


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[Squidders]

"TOP OF THE RANGE EXCELLENT PRO BAG" is a blatant lie.

There's no way that is a 3-4 season bag... unless all the seasons are warm.

Highlander make decent budget kit but I would be wary of their definition of seasons and comfort temperatures.

 

[Old Bones]

Totally agree with Squidders. The fact that someone has bunged in phrases 'aimed at the British Army'(!), 'new hi-tech 3D Micro Hollow
Fibre' (?) and 'minus 14 extreme' (yeah, you might just about live) screams dodgy. Especially when when it mentions a lower limit of 6 degrees.

A quick Google brings up online shops you've never heard of, and this thread from OM is pretty sniffy http://forums.outdoorsmagic.com/sho...got-a-Challenger-Lite-200#T8L2V7ocOplpfz2K.97

You get what you pay for. A really decent 3/4 season bag (synthetic) will be nearer a ton, with the benchmark (for value) down bag, the Alpkit Skyhigh https://www.alpkit.com/products/skyehigh-700 is £175. Vango will do something decent which will go to 3 season, something like their Nitestar range, and expect to pay nearer £60.

 

[IC_Rafe]

I'd atleast look for something with an EN rating myself. Then it'll atleast be tested to a standard . From what i've seen of Highlander products, i have to agree with both persons above me. It's useable, but i wouldn't buy it for things on which my life depend.

(Old Bones: yes, people tend to forget, that extreme rating, means you'll survive if you're curled up into your bag, for 4-6 hours, with possible frostbite/hypothermia. And that's with a tested rating bag, something which this isn't.)

 

[Tonyuk]

Have a look at vango which is the only budget range sleeping bags I've ever been happy with. This is £45, has a lower comfort rating and is probably built much better, for cheap bags i find them very true to spec;

http://www.sportswarehouse.co.uk/va...7269SzXueHmmXGXU59txMaAlu98P8HAQ#.WJw0djuLTcs

Highlander kit is gash, avoid like the plague.

Tonyuk

 

[Bywrongun]

Have a look at vango which is the only budget range sleeping bags I've ever been happy with. This is £45, has a lower comfort rating and is probably built much better, for cheap bags i find them very true to spec;

http://www.sportswarehouse.co.uk/va...7269SzXueHmmXGXU59txMaAlu98P8HAQ#.WJw0djuLTcs

Highlander kit is gash, avoid like the plague.

Tonyuk

Thanks Tony? That looks really good!


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[Laurence Milton]

On the basis of the original question, what would be wrong with an army surplus bag such as the ubiquitous 90 cold weather bags, and their derivatives.
Not the lightest or most compact, but durable, very effective and in the price range?

 

[rik_uk3]

Pay a bit more for something like https://www.amazon.co.uk/Challenger...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=33Q5KG0TZBHV2FRTZNN8

 

[copper_head]

This is a really good deal on a mountain hardware lamina 35.

https://m.blacks.co.uk/product/green-mountain-hardwear-lamina-35-sleeping-bag-regular/125010/