Nikon Field Recon Team Optics Pack — a great optics pack plus daypack

Plenty big enough to carry along a whole day’s outdoor needs without being cumbersome, Nikon’s Field Recon Team Optics Pack—developed in conjunction with Blackhawk! Products Group—is the first backpack created specifically with sporting optics in mind.

But it also makes a super general-purpose daypack that can carry anything an outdoorswoman might need for an adventurous day afield.

Featuring plenty of pockets and handy stowaway areas, including a patented system for modular attachments (making it highly customizable), and with nearly 1,950 cubic inches of storage space, it holds everything you’d need to transport on any sporting or personal adventure.

The photo shows the pack in foliage green color, but it’s also available in Advantage Max-1 and Mossy Oak camo.

Like other Blackhawk! products, this pack is built of a “silent” tricot fabric, double-stitched throughout. Besides quiet zippers, it comes outfitted with multiple mesh pockets, padded interior compartments, an exterior bungee system, and detachable rangefinder pouch with belt loop.

The sculpted, nonslip shoulder slings adjust quickly, providing a secure yet supremely comfortable fit around the bust. A molded, padded back panel allows for excellent air flow. Quick-connect straps keep all your equipment readily, and easily, accessible.

As a result, you aren’t constantly distracted by having to make adjustments, or feeling the need to remove the pack. On the contrary, at under 4 pounds and less than 20 inches tall, this pack is so comfortable, even when climbing around tangled brush or negotiating tough terrain, that you might even forget you’re wearing it.

Spill something on it? Wipe it off; most substances come away with ease. Rainy or snowy conditions? No problem; the material is water resistant. It also keeps your cell phone safe from the elements. And there’s plenty of room to carry a Thermos and/or water bottles, to make sure you stay adequately hydrated.

You really don’t need any other gear along than what you can fit in this pack. Plus, it looks cool!

Though the Field Recon Team Optics Pack was designed for big-game hunters to carry their optics (spotting scopes, riflescopes, binoculars, cameras, rangefinders and more), and is great for that purpose, it also makes an excellent general-purpose daypack for carrying anything an adventuress might need for hiking, birdwatching, nature photography, fishing or winter sports.

Even better, Blackhawk! covers the Field Recon Team Optics Pack with their welcome lifetime warranty. If the product fails due to manufacturing defect, they promise to repair or replace it for free. You can’t beat that.

In this day and age, such stand-behind-your-products principles are becoming rare, making this one worth noting, and upholding the Blackhawk! claim that they offer the finest guarantees in the industry.

This is a great bag from Nikon, compatible with Blackhawk’s other pack systems, and well worth the $149.95 suggested retail price. Read more about the Field Recon Team Optics Pack at the Nikon Sport Optics website here.

Combining practicality and performance with durability and comfort, this pack stands up to a tough day in the field, leaving you to decide only where to take it next.

~Eileen B.