Yeah I’m gonna empty it out tonight pad it with either towels or a blanket and try putting them back in hopefully it’ll hold up now and it wont rip anymore it was an expensive bag. I have weights in there as well on top of the rocks the problem is i just don’t have enough of them as I’d like haha that is a good point about the water jugs though I’ll see if I can try and incorporate that to

Fuck you were right lol I got a 5.11 rush 72 military backpack which I have used twice with the weight in it and there is a tiny rip in the bottom from the weight and extra abrasion of the rocks. I’m gonna take them out and pad the bottom like you said and try putting them back in to see if it holds up.

Awesome thank you! It’s good to see someone mentioning 5.11 you were the first one to do so. There is a 5.11 store near where I live and I am pretty impatient when it Comes to waiting on things so I went and got the rush72 2.0 this morning, loaded it up and used it for a workout and I gotta say so far so good! No creaks or snaps so far from this bag. Thanks again!

I Didn’t even think of an military surplus store duh and There’s one pretty close to me so this is perfect. I’ll stop by there tomorrow and look for an Alice pack. Thank you so much !

this will be a serious consideration as well I like that basket style a lot I think it would work well and it seems very reasonably priced for how reinforced and quality it is. Thank you!

Thank you this has been my favorite answer so far! Yes this is just for training the bag stays on for about 30 min at a time I do calisthenics so it’s definitely not gonna be 6+ hours at a time. My last one held up for 4 months with about 108 pounds in it before the strap snapped from pull-ups so I will look into Alice , malice and Rats. Thanks again !

I am carrying rocks like small landscaping rocks