Savage Gear Waterproof Rollup Rucksack 40L follow up review after a year+ of use (new video up about how I use a rucksack as well)
As I say in the wildly exciting new video below that has just gone up on YouTube, I expect most waterproof rucksacks to fail on me within about a year. I guess it’s the nature of a lot of my fishing that my rucksack ends up getting dumped on sharp rocks that bit too often, and as with BCWs, a waterproof rucksack is something I can’t live without but I accept that the lifespan is not going to be anywhere near forever……………….
But this Savage Gear Waterproof Rollup Rucksack 40L which I reviewed a year ago here and which I have been using for around a year and a half hasn’t failed on me yet. Apart from a very expensive and fully submersible Lowerpro waterproof camera bag which was remarkably bombproof, any of those rolltop style waterproof rucksacks which I have pressed into service for my fishing have ended up leaking around the bottom of the bag where it gets dumped down the most on sharp rocks. Read my review from last year or watch the video above where I detail the specific rucksacks I have used, and I will admit that for a penny under £50 I was fully expecting this Savage Gear Waterproof Rollup Rucksack 40L - which by the way I am nothing to do with - to fail on me within that first year.
It hasn’t though, indeed it’s doing great and I am really liking it. For sure there are a few things about the rucksack that I’d like to change and make better - that non-waterproof zip up clear pocket on the front of the bag isn’t exactly great with how flimsy the zip is for example - but for £49.99 I’ve got a waterproof rolltop rucksack here which is comfortable to carry, it fits in all the gear I might need to take with me (again, watch the video where I explain the sort of stuff I put into it), and it hasn’t started leaking yet where I expected it to. I’m not daft and surely at some point this thing will fail like the others I have used did, but I am really rather pleased with this Savage Gear Waterproof Rollup Rucksack 40L. You know that I am doing a fair amount of work with Savage Gear these days, but you also need to know that I don’t get emails demanding that I test and review so and so product. If I did I’d be off, indeed it was me “finding” this rucksack in their catalogue and asking to try one out for my fishing that has led me to where I am with it now.
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