- G'day folks.
Ben from Snowys here.
Today with the Coleman Big Game C-6 Sleeping Bag.
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This is a big, roomy bag,
with a durable canvas outer,
a soft flannelette liner,
perfect for winter camping.
So when you get your Coleman Big Game Sleeping Bag
this is how it looks when it's packed up.
It weighs about 4.4 kilos thereabouts
and measures about 50 centimetres in length
and about 30, 32 centimetres in diameter here.
That's as it comes from the factory.
This is rolled up from the factory in here.
We'll show you how to pack it up a little bit later,
but there is this compression sack
to try and squash it down.
And when you've got it set up,
this is how it looks.
It's a hoodless design.
It's about, well, Coleman's say 230 centimetres in length.
I get that, if I really stretch it out,
it's probably about 200
by about 90 in width or just over 90 in width.
Whereas Coleman do say 101,
but you can stretch it out that far if you like.
Now Coleman have used a 10 ounce poly cotton canvas
on the outside of the bag here.
Doesn't have a really stiff feel like canvas,
that say tents and swags are made of,
it's got a reasonably flexible soft feel in terms of canvas
but it gives it a nice durable outer.
But on the inside,
quite the opposite,
a nice soft flannelette lining,
and sandwich in between the inner and the outer
is Coleman's Coletherm synthetic insulation.
And if I sort of lightly puff on that,
it's probably five or six centimetres in thickness there,
and that's all the way around.
It does have a little pocket here
to keep your phone or keys at hand at night.
And it also comes with a pillow.
So I've got this pillow here.
Look, not much of a pillow,
there's a bit of fill inside there.
It's gonna give you a bit of padding,
but if you like a lot of support
or you've got broad shoulders,
you're probably gonna need more than that.
But hey, that is included.
Altogether, all of this fill gives,
well Coleman say it's a -6 degree bag,
but at Snowys we say
probably more like a round about 0.
It hasn't actually been tested to a standard,
it's a little bit of a guess,
but all the feedback we've had
has comfort down to about 0 degrees.
General construction in the bag is rectangular,
so it's the same width all the way to the foot,
and it doesn't have a hood on the top here,
but it does have this nice, big, soft,
what they call their ComfortCuff.
So the bit that's up against your skin isn't the canvas
it's the soft flannelette on the top here.
The rest of the bag is sewn,
it doesn't have what's called a sewn-through construction,
so there is this stitching here
to kind of hold the insulation together inside,
but that doesn't match up on the outside.
So this canvas is almost like a bag
on the outside of the bag,
to give it protection.
So it's certainly an efficient design,
gonna give you tonnes of warmth with this sort of design,
rather than being a sewn-through sort of construction.
And it is machine washable,
so if you've got a machine big enough
you can throw it in the machine or hand wash it if you like,
or you might need to take it to the laundromat.
Now there's one continuous zipper
that runs down the side and the foot of the bag here,
and it has Coleman's ZipPlow feature on it,
so this little plastic cap on the top here,
sort of separates the fabric
to stop it from jamming as you zip this up and down.
(zip rasping)
And that works pretty well.
This zips all the way down the side
and it's the same zipper that is for the foot section here,
so you don't have a separate zipper for the foot,
but you do have this zipper at this end here
and you can unzip it that way if you like.
(zip rasping)
So if you just wanna unzip the foot section,
let a bit of air in at the foot end,
you can do that.
(zip rasping)
To zip two bags together,
you unzip this all the way to here
and separate it,
and then lie this down
and the second bag then zips
on top of this bag like this.
Your best bet if you're joining two together
to make a double,
is to join two Big Game Sleeping Bags together.
You can zip other Coleman bags to this,
I tried it with the Pilbara,
but the zips are slightly different lengths,
so it doesn't really work perfectly.
But these bags are probably perfect
for zipping two styles together,
because of this straight top on here,
you don't have a hood section.
If it was a hooded bag with this design
or this soft of design of bags
where one sits on top of the other,
one person always ends up with a hood in their face.
So quite conducive
to making a nice, warm double bag out of this one.
Now I'm going to crawl inside this
(zip rasping)
and describe or try and describe the room
or space that I've got inside.
Now I'm 185 centimetres in height,
so this being about 200 centimetres to this point here,
makes it suitable for people over 200 centimetres in height.
So it's gonna suit most people's height.
And if I lie down,
get my head on the mat,
with my head just above the neck section there,
so I could have a pillow,
pull this over the top,
I feel quite comfortable.
My feet are sort of this far from the end of the bag.
So I could actually crawl right down in the bag
and put my pillow in the bag,
If I liked,
and lie down on that,
and my feet still feel comfortable at the end there.
it's not a box foot design on here,
the zipper does come to kind of a point like this,
it's not built out,
but I still feel like I've got
tonnes of room in there for my feet.
And with regards to width of the bag,
if I just lay down again,
I can get my arms sort of right out like this
and I've got heaps and heaps of space in here.
So it certainly feels cosy,
I feel warm lying in here right now.
And I feel like I've got
heaps and heaps of material up on top of me here
to keep me warm at night.
So I'd certainly feel comfortable sleeping in this,
down to at least 0 degrees, I reckon.
Now in terms of packing it up,
it is a bulky bag.
Coleman have what they call their "Wrap 'n' Roll" feature,
which is these little red tabs on the side.
Now I'm gonna show you how this works
and then I'm gonna show you an easy way to roll it up.
So the first thing we do is fold it in half,
and if we do that,
we can see this tab and this tab line up.
So we wanna put this tab with a little plastic tab,
through the loop on the opposite side,
we do that halfway down the bag.
It's only halfway down at the foot section,
there isn't one at the top,
so do it at this end as well.
And these tabs correlate with the red strings
that we can see hanging down
at the foot end of the bag here.
So this is all part of the "Wrap 'n' Roll" feature.
We've got a loop on one side
and a a string with a hook on the other.
So we wanna start to roll from the head end of the bag.
So we come up here and begin to roll,
as tight as you can,
because it is gonna be firm to fit back in the bag.
Remember from the factory
there's some machine that probably did this
and got it rolled up really tightly.
Now what these did
is just stop the bag from spraying as you roll it,
it keeps it nice and neat and square as you go.
Then these straps here
are kind of in place of a separate strap I suppose,
just to kind of hold it in place to get it in the bag.
Now you can see even that,
I haven't rolled that up tight enough
to even get them to meet there,
so I don't wanna push that or pull that too hard,
because they're only just stitched it on the end here,
I'm probably gonna pop that out
of its little stitching point there.
So an easy way to pack it up
is to do away with the "Wrap 'n' Roll" feature.
It's a good idea,
it's great on probably the lighter weight bags,
but these heavier weight bags,
we're just gonna use the stuff method,
and probably for all sleeping bags really,
I'd say stuffing is better
'cause it's probably better
for the insulation on the inside
to be stuffed in its storage bag a little bit,
in a irregular sort of manner.
(fabric swooshing)
So to get started,
put the zipper, the foot end into the bag,
and push the zipper right down to the bottom,
and kind of lift this up as you go,
so you've got it up above the bag.
And then you just kinda wanna spin and stuff,
and then lift,
spin and stuff.
Now this outer fabric
does make this a stiff bag to work with.
Eventually you get to a point where
most of the bag is stuffed in its storage bag.
So you just keep working around,
keep spinning it,
filling all the gaps that are inside the storage bag.
Keep spinning around,
punching it down,
make sure you punch it right down at the bottom.
Don't wait till you get to the very end
to try and squeeze it in.
Put your fist on top,
so that's right inside the bag there.
Now pull it closed. (toggle rasping)
And then you've got these compression straps,
and these compression straps actually work better
when the bag,
when the sleeping bag's stuffed in,
in a irregular shape,
because you don't have
kind of sheets of synthetic laid flat in there,
they're irregular inside.
You can push this down on top
(zip rasping)
(fabric swooshing)
and squash it all up. (zip rasping)
So that is how I recommend you pack up,
not just the Coleman Big Game C-6
but any sleeping bag.
I forgot the pillow,
but that'll squeeze inside there as well.
That's the Coleman Big Game C-6 Sleeping Bag,
a really durable option for campers, maybe hunters.
It's got a very subdued colour to it,
so it's not gonna stand out.
Certainly gonna keep you warm for winter camping.
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