Chair-Pack - Brief Article

Guns Magazine, Nov, 1999 by Roy Huntington

When I first saw this at the local swap meet I knew it was a winner. If you've spent any time in the field at all, you know how quickly you tire of sitting on rocks and logs - especially when there aren't many of either around.

To remedy this, I checked all the usual catalogs and found lots of little folding chairs. I was just about to order one when serendipity found me at the swap meet standing in front of the Chair-Pak booth. There, next to a lady selling Beanie Babies, velvet paintings of Elvis and her husband's garage refuse, was the solution to all those future dove hunts, deer blinds, squirrel shoots and prairie dog hunts.

Chair Pak, the brain child of Les Ammann and Chris Guglielmelli is simply a mid-sized back pack that cleverly turns itself into a real chair. Even more astounding, the chair is comfortable for an actual human being.

It adjusts to become a low-to-the-ground "beach" chair, and takes about five seconds, max, to set up. I confess, I was amazed and immediately thought of all those times in the field when I had a day pack along and would have given my eye teeth for a real, live, honest chair. This was cool.

I wouldn't want to hike up Mt. Everest with it, but for a light hike to the blind, camp, lake or wherever, Chair-Pak handles the chores nicely, indeed. Quality, workmanship and practical design are all first rate. Like Chair-Pak says, "Where you gonna' sit?"