- G'day folks, Ben from Snowys today
with the Coleman Big Game C-12 sleeping bag.
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This is a big roomy and warm sleeping bag
with a durable cotton out of removable fleece liner.
It's perfect for camping trips in the middle of winter.
There's no hiding the fact
that this is a bulky sleeping bag.
This is how it comes packed up
but you get a lot of warmth outta this.
So weighs about six and a half kilos, 50 odd centimetres
in length and about 40 centimetres in diameter.
Maybe a little bit bigger.
Once you pack it back up.
This has come straight from the factory.
Now, when you've got it laid out
this is how it looks in front of us here.
Now, Coleman say 213 centimetres by about 102 centimetres.
You can get to that if you really stretch it out.
My measurements reasonably are about 200 centimetres
by about 90 centimetres on the outside.
Now it's made on the outside here
with a 10 ounce polycotton canvas
and this is kind of separate to the inner.
So it's almost like a lining on the outside
that's not actually sewn to the middle of the bag here.
So the baffles aren't stitched through.
Inside you've got a flannel lining
which is actually stitched in the bag.
And then you've got this removable fleece liner
which I'll show you a bit more on shortly.
And sandwiched in between that is a nice thick layer
of Coletherm insulation.
And this feels like a really thick bag.
It feels super warm to line side of this bag here.
You also get a pillow included with the kit here.
This is just filled
with probably the same insulation that's in the bag.
So it's not much of a pillow.
It's gonna give you a soft spot to rest your head.
But if you want a bit of support for your neck
or a bit of height, you might wanna upgrade that one.
Now other features, there's a little pocket here
on the outside, just for the Velcro closure there.
So you can keep your phone or your keys handy
so you don't lose them at night.
That's all in terms of storage.
But as I mentioned
it does have this liner on the inside here.
So I'm just gonna unzip this slightly
and show you the liner.
It's not actually a, it's a blanket rather than a liner.
So it's not a pocket that you would crawl into.
And it's attached in the bag
with just tabs on the corners here.
So you can actually remove this liner
and use the bag without the liner if you like.
Liner has two benefits:
it's gonna warm the sleeping bag up a little bit,
it also makes it easier to clean this liner
than the whole bag.
So these are attached through three points:
one on that corner, one on the top corner here
and then one on the opposite side of the bag here.
And that is attached again, midway through the bag.
So we've got another attachment point here,
not on the other side here, but just on the end of the bag.
So not in the middle.
And then if we unzip all the way,
now this is one continuous zipper,
right around the bottom of the bag here.
So you get to the bottom where this liner is once again
attached on this point in the middle of the bag there
and then at the top end.
And as you can see, it's not enclosed at the foot end.
It's just an extra layer inside the bag.
So it is open here, but the benefit of that, well, even
though you've got this open section with the liner here
this has actually got a box foot sort of design
with the foot section here.
So a lot of sleeping bags will come down
to just a point like this at the end of the bag.
This has actually got more of a box foot like this
which gives you your feet more space.
You can see when this is done up
this sits up like a big box here.
So it gives your feet a lot more space inside the bag,
making it much warmer.
So your feet aren't jammed up
against the end and creating a cold spot.
Now, as I mentioned, this is one continuer zipper.
It goes all the way.
You can zip two bags together.
You can zip a minus six big game or another minus 12.
Doesn't really work perfectly.
The minus six zips are a slightly different length.
And if you were to zip another minus 12 bag
on the opposite side of this, this kind
of boxy section here is opposite to the boxy section
that will be on this side.
It will work, but don't expect them to kind of all line up
and sit nice and flat.
When you sort of make, if you make your bed
it's kind of gonna sit a bit uneven.
So as I mentioned, you can use it with
or without this line to remove it if you don't want it.
There's one continuous zip that runs right around the edge
to secure everything together.
Now just the design
of this bag makes it really efficient and warm.
As I mentioned, this outside fabric here,
it's not sewn through in the middle here.
The only place that's attached
to the bag is around the edges here.
And then on the inside beneath the lining here
the flannelette and the insulation inside here is stitched
in place through sort of this S bends here,
I suppose, that go right up and down the bag.
And that holds the insulation
in place against the flannelette.
Now a lot of basic bags or cool, warm weather bags,
this stitching will be visible on the outside
which means the fabric is pinched together
like this in each baffle.
And that creates a shallow spot where
the insulation is and a potential for warm air to escape.
You're not gonna notice it in average conditions
but in really cold conditions, you might.
This has got that in on the layer underneath here.
So this is pinched through here
but then you've got this extra canvas layer
on the outside to help trap that warmth.
So it's a really efficient design make
for really cold weather.
In terms of care, it's all machine washable.
Now you're gonna need a fairly big washing machine
to be able to clean this guy here.
But if you do have a big one, or you can get
to a dry cleaner to give it a clean, then throw it
in the washing machine and it's gonna wash up pretty well.
But the benefit of having this liner inside is
that it's much easier to wash this liner
than it is to wash the whole bag.
So I use a liner all the time.
General shape of the bag is square.
We can see it's got, hasn't got a hood on the top here,
it's square across the top.
Square right down to the bottom.
It's the same width throughout.
And as I mentioned, it does have that big box,
a big roomy box foot section here.
So I'm gonna crawl inside the bag
and describes to you how roomy it feels.
Now I am 185 centimetres tall.
So I should fair if given
that this is by my measurements, 200 centimetres
I should be able to crawl right in here
with my head below this section here.
So I'll jump in and my feet,
that box section quite often with the pointy bags,
you can feel your feet kind of get a bit jammed on the end.
My feet are sitting up right there
and I've still got a lot of this space above my toes.
So nice warm foot section there.
I'll crawl right inside the bag.
So I can get right inside with my head
on top of the sleeping bag here and my feet.
I can feel them at the end
but I don't feel them tight against the end.
I feel like I've got heaps of room
for warm air to build up around my feet there.
And in terms of widths, let me just do this up.
If I can.
'Cause I can feel I've got tonnes of shoulder space.
I've got reasonably broad shoulders.
but I can get my arms out, quite comfortably here.
So tonnes of room.
So this feels really crazy.
I feel like I've got lots of weight on top of me here.
Coleman have got this comfort cuff around here.
So the nice soft flannel is what will be against
my neck or my face.
And the canvas is down around the corner from that.
If I use the pillow, as I mentioned
not a whole lot of Heights of that pillow there
but it gives a nice soft spot for my head to rest.
So I feel myself getting warm in here already.
And I've only been in here for a few minutes, but yeah
I'd certainly feel comfortable camping or sleeping
in this sleeping bag in the depths of winter.
I didn't mention before the zip that Coleman use on those,
so those sleeping bags is the zip plough feature
which is this little red plastic tab here.
That's designed to separate the fabric
as you zip it up so that it doesn't get caught as you go.
You can see it's separating the fabric underneath there.
So still gets caught occasionally,
but minimises it and makes zipping up
and undoing of the bag a whole lot easier.
Now I'm gonna show you how to pack the bag away.
Now, most common sleeping bags have what they
call their roll control feature.
They don't have that
on this bag probably simply because it's so bulky.
There's so much fill in it where the roll control feature
would normally be as such that you'd fold in half like this,
you'd roll it up,
and then they've got these tabs
on the end here that you use to, if I do an example now
or very loose example, kind of roll this up.
You can feel there's just so much fabric in here.
I'm not gonna make much effort here.
You roll this up
and then you use these
bits of material to wrap around the bag.
This one will go around this way.
This will go around the other way.
And then the other side, we join them together.
Now it's gonna be a wrestle to do that each time.
Bearing in mind,
I made no effort at all to on how to do that there.
There is directions here how to do it
but my advice is just don't use them.
Don't worry about it and just stuff the sleeping bag
in the bag.
Because most people who do it this way
have a bit of a, bit of a moment where they think
why have I not been doing that my entire life?
So grab your stuff sack, start with the foot end
of the bag, push it into the bottom.
Now this isn't, this is a bulky bag.
So it's gonna be a little bit of a wrestle to get it in
but just start punching it into the bag.
Push it right down to the bottom.
Start with as best you can.
Once you get to a point, you've got a bit of it in there,
stand up and put it between your legs,
pull this right up under your arm
and just push it down into the bag.
When you can, get the top in there as well,
give it a spin
and stuff it in.
Spin and just keep doing that,
working your way around the bag,
pushing it down inside.
Now this gives an irregular sort of shape to the fill
as it's packed into the bag
which is actually not a bad thing.
'Cause the, when it puffs up again, it doesn't sort
of have a memory of being rolled up in a flat shape.
You get a bit more loft in the fill
but that went back inside there a whole lot easier
than if I tried to roll it and then slide it in.
You've then got these compression straps.
You can pull up over the top.
If you sit on top of that now to squash it down
because you've stuffed it irregularly,
that'll squash down even further.
Do these up here
and you'll get it down as small as you can.
But as I mentioned, it's not a small bag.
It's a warm bag, but if you're camping
in the middle of winter and you're a real cold frog
this is gonna keep you warm.
Super comfortable bag.
That's the Coleman Big Game C-12.
Perfect for camping in the middle of winter
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