DO NOT GO WITH BLACKHAWK!!! Their stuff is a POS. All of their stuff is made in Korea, and it is worthless. Just came back from Thunder Ranch and all the Blackhawk equipment was self-destructing the first day. There was not one piece of Blackhawk equipment which survived the week. Oh does their catalogue look excellent though! Pretty pictures enough to make you drool. Blackhawk does have one good thing however; a good repair department. Yes even if you have to send your Blackhawk equipment back three or four times to get it fixed, they won't charge it for you. Yes if you spend $5000 to go to Canada for a big game hunt and if at 12,000 feet your Blackhawk pack self-destructs and dumps all of your hunting equipment down a 40 degree rock field for 2000 feet. Yes sir, after you get back from that ruined hunting trip you just return your pack to their repair department and they will cheerfully repair it at not charge. Aren't they great. My suggestion would be to to with SOE (special ops equipment - they've recently changed their web site so I don't have their current one, but their phone is 760-722-0004). They are basically a company formed in San Diego by Navy Seals devoted to making the worlds best equipment. Their catalogue looks like crap, but their equipment is un believeable!! Eagle stuff is also good, but if you want the absolute very best equipment that money can buy, go with SOE. End of rant.