- Set up behind me are the 23Zero Bandit swags
there's three sizes, they are loaded with doors and windows.
They're nice and sturdy and roomy, easy to set up,
I'm gonna take you for a walkthrough.
Let's check 'em out.
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Its Ben from Snowy's here today folks
with the 23Zero Bandit swag range.
Now these are really versatile and sturdy
three-hoop pole swag.
There's two doors and windows on each side
and vents at each end.
They're roomy and sturdy.
There's three sizes, the 900's in front of me here,
the 1100 to my left here, now that's
a roomy single-person, squeezy double,
but probably great for you and your dog.
Or the bandit 1400, to my right here.
Now that's a double swag, so comfortably sleeps two people.
The features are the same throughout,
the only difference is the width and a little bit in height.
Now I want to mention the bag that they come in.
You do get a really good quality canvas bag.
It's the same canvas that the Swag's made of.
The zip runs across the top and down the side
of the bag here, so it's really easy
to get the swag in and out of.
Nice, heavy-duty handles on the end.
Long, heavy-duty straps over the top,
they run right under the bag.
It's a really good bag that's gonna keep your swag protected
from the weather, if it's stored in a roof rack,
but also just particularly if it's bouncing around
in the back of the ute.
Now I'm gonna take you for a walkthrough
of the 900 in front of me here,
Let's start with the fabrics.
Now the canvas 23Zero uses a high quality,
400 gsm poly-cotton canvas.
It's got a nice tight weave and on the underside
is a durable urethane coating.
It's not a cheap acrylic coating.
So it's gonna see years and years of use
with this fabric here.
Underneath that, we've got mesh panels.
So wherever there's a window or a mesh panel
is this heavy-duty mesh.
It's reasonably fine given how heavy-duty it is
but that feels nice and strong,
it doesn't feel like it's going to catch
on any sticks or getting prickles and things caught in it,
but it wouldn't be midge proof.
Not much is realistically midge proof.
At the base, heavy-duty PVC welded floor
and moving on to the poles, the top pole here,
there's two ridge poles, these are a steal ridge pole.
And then these hoop poles here, which there's three of,
is a nine-and-a-half millimetre T6 alloy anodised pole.
Now throughout, the swag is seamed,
see all these seams that are exposed to the weather
are seam sealed on the inside.
Now what that means, is that your 23Zero swag
is waterproof, straight out of the box.
There is no need to season a 23Zero swag.
It's not gonna hurt, but you don't need to do it.
So buy your swag, chuck it in your car
and go camping, don't stress about seasoning it.
So just having a look at the general shape
of this swag with three hoops.
Now these hoops are the same height
and that tapers down slightly at the foot end there.
On each side of the swag, there's two doorways
and they're all the same.
So, these open up as awnings or we could
just roll this up if we like.
Up and out of the way.
And just have the mesh door here.
We can roll this mesh doorway up as well
to open it right up if we like.
And the third option here, is to use the eyelets
that are in the corners of each of these doors
and peg this out as a little awning over the doorway.
Now, this setup here features on every one of these,
so there's another one of those here.
We've got the solid door, the mesh panel
and the eyelets in this door here.
Same on the other side.
So if we were to add eight short awning poles
and eight more guide ropes to this setup,
you can have your swag set up with little awnings
out each side like this, if you like.
Lot of extra mucking around, probably handy maybe
just for one for a bit of weather-protected cooking
or whatever you need to do just outside your swag
but the option's there.
If we move down to the rear of the swag here,
we'll show you the little gusset at the end here.
Now this is closed at the moment,
to give us full weather protection.
If we unzip these two zips on the side here,
and use these guide ropes with the pegs
that come included, you get enough pegs to set this up.
Pull this out, it opens up this little gusset
on the side here.
Its got little Bandit 900 written on the side here too,
which is kinda cool.
And that gives us weather protected awning.
There's a window inside here that we can open and close
from the inside of the swag.
I'll show you that shortly, but that gives us ventilation.
Furthermore, there's a second zip
at the base of this gusset.
If we unzip that and roll this up all together
to the top here, we can actually secure this
up and out the way.
And if we would open up some solid canvas panel
on the inside there, we've now got a mesh door
or a mesh window that gives us ventilation
at this end of the swag.
That also features at the other end
so you've got ventilation on all sides of the swag.
Before we go around the rest of the tent,
I'll just show you these straps here.
This is what we use to pack the swag up.
These are actually sewn into the swag
so you can't lose them.
They just stay attached at the end there.
You can just tuck them up underneath
while the swag's in use, but coming around
to the other side of the tent here,
we've got the same deal, as we saw in the first side.
We've got two storm flaps over mesh panels here.
We can set them up as awnings if we like,
roll them right up.
So we've got four doors or four entrances in total.
Now, the awning at the foot-end or the head-end,
sorry here, is slightly different than the foot-end.
We do have this little zipper to gusset here
that we can peg out for ventilation if we like.
It has got the second zip up underneath here
so we can roll this up completely out the way.
The difference is what's underneath here.
Now at the foot-end, we can undo the canvas panel
from inside the swag, to reveal a mesh panel.
We can't undo the mesh panel at the foot-end.
This is the head-end, which is slightly different
see we've got a canvas panel here.
I think they call this a shooter's window.
So if people are hunting, they can be inside the swag
and still see outside the swag through a small window.
So we can roll this open, it gives us a mesh panel
underneath there and we can secure that back if we like.
And we can also open this mesh panel for access inside.
Now I wouldn't call this a doorway,
you could certainly get in there.
Pretty squeezy, but probably more access in and out
of the tent, or I think for hunters,
I'm not a hunter myself, but I think that's a feature
that hunters would use and that they can stay
weather protected inside this swag and use this
to see whatever they're hunting.
That's all the features on the outside
of the Bandit swag.
I'm going to unzip the sides, jump inside
and show you in there.
Now, got these doors and mesh panels
open up on this side here, both solid mesh.
On the other side, I've just rolled up the solid panels
so there's just mesh showing for ventilation.
Now the frame shape of the these hoops in the Bandit,
rather than being a curve like this,
kind of have corners, so they're more like this.
What that does is give us a bit more head space
inside but there's still not enough to sit upright.
We've got about 65 centimetres at this end
and down to about 60 centimetres at the foot-end.
That increases by about five to 10 centimetres
as you go up in the width of the swag.
So the 1100 and 1400.
But what it does mean, is that these doors kinda sit
out a little bit from the middle here.
And if I'm sitting up on the side of the swag,
I need to be right over on the side of the mat
to be able to sit upright and this door
is just in the back of my neck.
Probably a small thing, but just one thing I noticed.
But hey, when you're inside the swag,
you've got more head space.
Now what I'm sitting on here is a seven centimetre
high-density foam mattress.
Now I'm not touching the ground sitting on this
at the moment, it feels really comfortable.
It does have a removable cover on it
so there's a zipper here.
So we can remove the foam and wash the cover if we like.
With regards to the space inside the tent here,
we've got a little bit less, it's called the 900.
We suggest is 90 centimetres wide an that's
an external dimension.
On the inside here, it's just less than that.
About 85, 87 centimetres with the mat.
And lengthwise, I've got about,
probably 205 to 210 centimetres of sleeping space here.
I'm 195 centimetres long, if I lay down in here,
I've got head space, I've got a hand and a bit,
about a hand's length above my head here.
And my feet are, if I point my toes,
I can just touch the end there.
So I've got plenty room in here
for a nice bulky sleeping bag.
These end walls are nice and upright,
so lots of sleeping space.
Other features inside the tent,
starting at this end, we've got this shooter's window
that I had showed you before, that I can open
and close from the inside here.
Both the solid and mesh panels, so I can access
right outside of the tent.
And then coming down to the foot-end here,
we've got another little window
but not full access to the outside.
I can open this panel here and roll it back,
there's a tab there to roll it back.
And I've then got this mesh panel
but that doesn't open, the mesh panel always stays closed.
And the last feature we've got inside here
are just a couple of mesh storage pockets.
One on this side, one on this side.
This is only at the foot-end in the Bandit
and so you only get a couple, but it's a good place
to keep your necessities at hand
so you don't lose them overnight.
Look, I reckon this is a pretty livable swag
if you were to bunker down in the weather
for a little while, you've got a bit of room
inside this one.
Really versatile with the amount of doors
and windows you can open.
So you can really customise how you want the weather
to sort of flow through your tent,
ventilation through your tent.
And they're nice and sturdy too.
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