Yeti buys Mystery Ranch

[diverdon]

Yeti Acquires Backpack Brand Mystery Ranch

https://thedaily.outdoorretailer.com/news/brands-and-retailers/yeti-acquires-backpack-brand-mystery-ranch/

This sucks! If you've been eyeing up a Mystery Ranch pack you may want to get it now. Before they get heavier and pricerier.

 

[Trigger Monkey]

Now with more Chyna probably.

 

[kriller134]

Yep this totally sucks. I hope yeti doesn’t kill MR with their lefty BS.

 

[Charger442]

Nothing good comes out of Austin

 

[DeathBeforeDismount]

One China company buys another Chinese company. Who cares. If you want good gear you weren't buying MR anyway.

 

[Sblzrd65]

Only question, will the bags come with matching drink cups?

 

[PinesAndProjectiles]

Lightweight and useful bought out by too big and unusably heavy.

Makes sense.

 

[higginsworksforme]

Will they make a backpack that perfectly holds a cooler? I need a system that weighs at least as much as me while empty.

 

[ma smith]

One China company buys another Chinese company. Who cares. If you want good gear you weren't buying MR anyway.

MR still have some nice (Berry Compliant) packs that are made in USA.

They are about $15+/litre at retail tho ...

 

[DeathBeforeDismount]

Yea their Fireland stuff is made in the us and good. I used to buy it for our guys in one of the agencies i worked for.

But the vast majority of their line, and the stuff you see guys hiking and shooting matches with, is the cheaper imported stuff.

Kifaru, SG and EXO are not much more expensive, all made in the USA and have free lifetime repairs/replacement.

 

[godofthunder]

Yea their Fireland stuff is made in the us and good. I used to buy it for our guys in one of the agencies i worked for.

But the vast majority of their line, and the stuff you see guys hiking and shooting matches with, is the cheaper imported stuff.

Kifaru, SG and EXO are not much more expensive, all made in the USA and have free lifetime repairs/replacement.

Want to add Hill People Gear to the MiUSA list. They make some incredible stuff.

Also, a credible source mentioned that the MR MiUSA stuff actually has just enough to get called MiUSA and be compliant but that a lot of it is made in Mexico.

 

[_Windrider_]

Want to add Hill People Gear to the MiUSA list. They make some incredible stuff.

Also, a credible source mentioned that the MR MiUSA stuff actually has just enough to get called MiUSA and be compliant but that a lot of it is made in Mexico.

If it still says made in USA and was manufactured in the last 2 years it’s all us made. Biden changed the requirements to use the made in USA label. It now has to be 100% sourced and manufactured in the US. No more white labeling.

 

[DeathBeforeDismount]

Want to add Hill People Gear to the MiUSA list. They make some incredible stuff.

Also, a credible source mentioned that the MR MiUSA stuff actually has just enough to get called MiUSA and be compliant but that a lot of it is made in Mexico.

Oh good call. HPG makes awesome stuff. A couple prs buddies run their bags and are really happy with them. I run their recon heavy chest bags in the woods and my swaros live in their pouch. Amazingly well designed and crafted gear!

 

[godofthunder]

If it still says made in USA and was manufactured in the last 2 years it’s all us made. Biden changed the requirements to use the made in USA label. It now has to be 100% sourced and manufactured in the US. No more white labeling.

Interesting, didn't know that. That said I don't have a reference for when this was happening but clearly must have been over two years ago.

 

[striped1]

Yeti Acquires Backpack Brand Mystery Ranch

https://thedaily.outdoorretailer.com/news/brands-and-retailers/yeti-acquires-backpack-brand-mystery-ranch/

This sucks! If you've been eyeing up a Mystery Ranch pack you may want to get it now. Before they get heavier and pricerier.

I am with you. I love my mystery ranch pack but I don't see the Yeti purchase being good for the brand.

 

[cas6969]

I am with you. I love my mystery ranch pack but I don't see the Yeti purchase being good for the brand.

As if they weren't expensive enough.

 

[_Windrider_]

Interesting, didn't know that. That said I don't have a reference for when this was happening but clearly must have been over two years ago.

If you remember there was a big thing about 9 line and some guy named Sean Whalen claiming made in USA but really they were white labeled shirts and only the silk screening was done state side. This was news right around when the change happened.

 

[godofthunder]

If you remember there was a big thing about 9 line and some guy named Sean Whalen claiming made in USA but really they were white labeled shirts and only the silk screening was done state side. This was news right around when the change happened.

Ahh yes I do remember that now.

 

[kriller134]

So I take it you poors aren’t getting the Dior MR collab bags?

 

[godofthunder]

So I take it you poors aren’t getting the Dior MR collab bags?

That thing was ugly as shit

 

[shields shtr]

I remember when Mystery Ranch was Dana Design and was just getting started in the hunting pack market. I still have their Longbow model that I went down to the shop and got fitted for. There were actually a bunch of college kids and hippies sewing the packs together in a little building off the interstate. Things changed quite a bit over the years. I am a big Exo pack fan now. Good guys and Made in the USA.

 

[kthomas]

All the more reason to support Kifaru, or some of the other brands listed here.

 

[dsotm]

Love my Pintler pack for hunting but there's no way Yeti doesn't turn them to sh*t

 

[Aftermath]

If it still says made in USA and was manufactured in the last 2 years it’s all us made. Biden changed the requirements to use the made in USA label. It now has to be 100% sourced and manufactured in the US. No more white labeling.

I can't believe that I am even THINKING the potato did anything I agree with.