Two months ago I received this 45L pack, normally it doesn’t take this long to get a review out about an item, especially one as good as this, but this took a while to learn just how good it was. I’ve used it for work carrying my laptop, lunch, and water, I’ve used it for the range carrying my Remington V3 TAC 13, and I’ve used it for the supplies I took to the office Potluck and BBQ and so much more. I keep putting more and more “stuff” into this bag and even when I hit the 30lb weight today, there’s still room for more.
My initial review was done as I had just unpacked the box and I hadn’t gotten a chance to explore it yet fully.
Since then I’ve had the chance to really explore the full capabilities of the bag and try to find out how much it can carry, other than “a lot”.
Generally I use the Front Pouch as my electronics pouch with phones, chargers and cables, Laptop accessories, an emergency Meds container, some spare forks from the Pot Luck, keys, and more. As you can see there are 3 rows of Molle and a Velcro patch available for various attachments. The Killer Koala patch from Half Breed Blades and the water bottle clip are my additions.
The main compartment has a suspended laptop sleeve, a zippered pocket and is much bigger than it looks as evidenced by what I can fit into it, and still have room left over.
No, really I put two Laptops and an Admin pouch FULL of multitools/door jimmy’s, and office stuff, into the mail compartment with room to spare alongside my pens and notepad.
In the back is the largest pocket and where all the high speed goodies hide out, literally hide as in covertly. The secondary weapon compartment has a reinforced muzzle pocket with adjustable divider, web loops and two rifle retention straps. Initially I put my Remington in but I couldn’t fit the Radical into this compartment. After some poking around I found the drop down system that allows you to expand this pocket up to four inches in 1 inch increments. With that, VIOLA, the Radical fits, and (in keeping with the theme of this pack), a whole lot more too.
When I loaded the bag up with all this equipment it was a tad heavy and managed to tip the scales at just over 30 pounds. You can’t carry this much weight without good construction, padding in the correct places and a good frame. This pack has that so I was able to make a few laps around my property with my dog with no discomfort. For your comfort there is an aluminum frame, and a HDPE board with closed cell foam padded back panel to keep the guns from rubbing your back in a most uncomfortable manner.
The LV Covert Carry Pack has proven to be versatile, comfortable and useful in a variety of settings. If you’re like me and overload the pack there is also a waist belt available to help distribute the load better and even a waist pack that can attach to the front for even MORE storage capacity. The webbing straps at the bottom of the pack can be used to attach the waist pack available from 5.11 or you can do as I did and use them to hold bulky items like a jacket.
Yes I recommend this pack, when you need to carry covertly this more than gets the job done. But when you don’t need to carry covertly, it’s still an awesome and useful pack.
Garfield out.
