The Brown Buffalo x Huckberry ConcealPack 21L Backpack Review | EDC or Travel Bag? 

15:40 Douglas from The Brown Buffalo was singing a video that I watched that back in the day when designing for other companies, they would do the extra padding in the bottom bottom for the laptops, but then he designed it so that the compartment tapers in words towards the bottom so that when you put the laptop in it slides down and wedges itself before it hits the bottom. I tested it with three different TBB bags the the first HUCKBERRY X, The VX 21 version and the original ballistic nylon version. All three did the same thing with my MacBook Pro 14 it wouldn’t slide all the way to the bottom, but with my MacBook Air or any of the iPads they were slim enough to get pretty close to the bottom. But with the hook and loop Laptop/tablet mod, I think that’s the Mod 001. Anyway it works out great.

Love this bag! I use the 1050D ballistic version as my size L office carry & as my weekend travel onebag. This new MCB huckberry collab has wider straps, with each strap coming in at 3" wide vs 2.75" wide on my other concealpack21's. That would make the opening a half inch wider. I would be willing to bet that is the contributing factor to it rubbing on your neck as I've never heard anyone else have this complaint with the bag.

Just got my Huckberry edition. The additional Labor Day discount made it too good to pass on. Anyway, I’m a little underwhelmed. The main issue for me is that the bag just seems really big. IMO it wears much bigger than the dimensions would indicate. On my back it feels closer to the CTB26 than the GR1. Up in the air on whether I will keep it. It seems to have a very specific short travel use case, but I’d probably go with a more feature rich bag when those trips occur.

Camo aside, looks so much better than ctb20.

I’ve got the 19l and it’s the perfect size. Wish they’d put more of them out. Great video 🙌🙌

10:23 The buckles at the bottom of the straps have to be there to be BERRY compliant, which is a set of military guidelines/regulations that manufacturers must follow in order to be considered for military purchases. Most of it is safety related That wouldn’t be as big of a deal for civilian use, Being able to unbuckle the pack quickly in the event of an emergency, and needing to get away quickly,if the bag got snagged and stuck on something, you can unbuckle it and drop the bag faster than trying to pull it off, especially while wearing armor and gear. it is easier to get the pack off when you are laying down as well. Also, in the event it’s a medic pack the medic can run up to the patient and quickly get the bag on the ground. Then there’s other aspects of the BERRY compliance that have to do with how tough it is like the bar tacking of critical parts. Only certain type of webbing can be used for the straps and MOLLE. And I’m not sure but I think all The companies that make the parts have to be American owned, but maybe even all made in America. So like with GoRuck They aren’t BERRY compliant, so regular troops can’t carry go bags in the field. Now with special forces, they live by a whole different set of rules. often times they are in the middle of nowhere and don’t have a lot of equipment with them so they would use their bags during their PT like how people use GR bags to ruck / exercise and like what they do at the GoRuck events. If they had the plastic buckles for the straps, they would most definitely be crushed and break. Again, I might be wrong about this, but I think that besides not having the quick escape buckles on the straps most of the GR bags Meet the other BERRY compliant qualifications.