Sporting Shooter

Spika’s Drover Hunting Backpack

IT IS a rare opportunity to introduce a product that you’ve personally had a hand in designing and thoroughly tested to ensure the product was built for the purpose at hand.

At the start of 2020, I had the opportunity to join Spika to work with their design team, field testing and improving products for the Australian and New Zealand hunting and outdoors markets.

The first major product that I received to start testing and improving was the Spika Drover line of backpacks.

This was an area close to my heart. All my major hunts revolve around

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