This is an amazingly roomy tent. It provides an 48 sq feet of living area within a very portable 7 lbs 7 oz carry weight (and that’s my upgraded carry to include tarp footprint and 10 MSR “Groundhog” tent stakes too; factory weight is listed at 6 lbs 6 oz). Add even more space for the two large vestibules that are provided by the tent fly. This roominess provided outstanding livability to us three backpackers on a wilderness adventure to high altitudes (me, son, dog). Three people could fit in a more cozy manner. Mesh integration is excellent. Pole attachment is via both clip and uncoated sleeve system. Several nights spent in the tent seem to indicate a dry, well-ventilated interior. Hard core snow and rain resistence was not tested on this trip but stake out provisions are provided for better tent strength. A very useful mesh gear loft is included along with four interior pockets (albeit they are not tightly sewn. Many parts of the Recluse are seam sealed but the bottom tent seam (catendary sewn) should be sealed by the user. The vestibules are well-executed and provide an incredible amount of dry gear storage area. The chosen light Mossy Green and light grey colors are excellent are provide more subdued camping and excellent, bright light filtration inside. But remember this is a sub-0 tent so you will give up a few things in that choice. Close inspection of the “Recluse” tent model will reveal it to be a medium quality tent with compromises made to achieve that …
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Could 3 lastsuspects fit in there pretty good?
Picked one of these up and it just arrived. Will post my thoughts when I take it out this weekend.
@SBPStudio Backpackinglight has a ton of reviews of Tarptent products.
@knarfster Cant find 1 review online for those.
@SBPStudio Tarptent Rainshadow2 weighs 40oz., sleeps 3 easily and costs $265
What 3 man tent are you referring to that is 2.5lbs lighter? Some $400 tent?
@jdhp45toy Never seen a tent at Wallyword with Aluminum poles.
he calls his son suspect thats awsome
awsome
I wish my dad did cool stuff like this when I was a kid! They will have soooo many cool stories when they get older, and so will you!
REI also makes great tents for the money.
cool tent
Is that your son?
seems almost a yurt design type. of unit in a unit as many are these days// nice views do they do 1 in camo ?
@mw9mw dude, he gets SO many comments. He doesn’t have time to reply to all of them. Let alone look at them. Common since. I think its awesome someone’s taking the time to help him answer questions!
@baa5000 why would i pay $200 for him to comment to other people, i wasnt asking him to comment to me, i was saying its weird how its his channel and then some lady is always speaking for him, so why dont you pay me the $200 and then shut the fuck up
@mw99mw pay $200 for the VIP subscription and maybe he will. otherwise enjoy the free videos
no offence but when people comment they wanna hear back from you, not someone named veri that i keep seeing reply
Dude, Nutn, love your vids! Been following for a few months now… Ha, have to watch them all on my phone out were I live… Takes forever to load!
“Keep it real homedawg!”
Cool tent. Thanks for the quick review!
U got this stuff down to a science….Gonna help me out with the coleman i have vs the rain. good shit bro
@Praetorian27 I was one of his earlier subscribers…..And if I remember right some of his first videos were dog obedience videos shot in his backyard….He could probably tell you for certain…. His page only goes back two years…So those aren’t his first videos….
@Praetorian27 I’ll take a guess. I think it was for a SOG Flash I or II.
@Praetorian27
Just go look at his channel and go all the way to the end of the list. He started doing knife reviews.
@SpiritofAdventure22 He goes into his ideas on that a lot more in his backpacking gear videos, but he does it for camp security and to keep a low impact visibility profile. Its just his personal taste. — Veri