I know they're an advertiser here but I first ran across them because Midwest guns has a lot of their stuff on sale. I picked up a relatively small item of theirs recently - the thermite versipack. My thought was to use it as my possibles bag for hunting this year. I gotta say, their stuff is put together like a tank. I used to work for EMS Sports in Massachusetts - that's basically an East Coast version of that overpriced outdoors store REI - and I still have an EMS daypack that has lasted me 9 years of very light use but I have to say that this EMS bag doesn't even hold a candle to the Maxpedition stuff. The girlfriend asked me what I wanted for my next birthday gift and I told her I wanted the vulture II. I'll let you know how that is when I get it but if it's anything like their little versipack it should be great. Just wish they made a frame pack of some sort past 3000 cubic inches but what they do they do well.