Down types GDD vs GGD

BOOM lock this tread. It will end perfectly! Well said Tim. You guys are the best! and now. I will buy Duck Down from EE with confidence!

Nope, which is why we switched to 800fp duck exclusively for the standard quilts. Some folks continue to insist on goose, which is still available in the 850 and 900fp options, but there's obviously a price premium because goose down continues to stay more expensive than duck down, but every time someone asks, we still say that unless they're looking for the lower weights, duck is the way to go.

you folks will never get bought up by a large corp and get production shifted to asia with that type of speech !!!

you gotta tell your marketing department to tell the consumer goose down is much superior and charge premium prices for it

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I'm sold.

For whatever it's worth, I just received an 800 GDD (standard, not the DownTek) Accomplice. I bought it from another BPL user only because my upcoming trip is pretty soon, and Peter at EE said the turnaround was not doable, so I purchased a barely-used one and that user is ordering himself a brand new identical one as a replacement. Everyone wins!

It just arrived today, and I have to say I'm impressed. I have what my girlfriend refers to as an unhealthy infatuation with my Katabatic Palisade. For budget reasons, the 800 GDD Accomplice was the only thing on the table for us. I was prepared to be disappointed by the fill compared to my Katabatic. I was wrong.

There is no gamey smell, even after being crammed in a cardboard box for over a week. The 900 seems to be a bit more compressible in my completely non-scientific method of crumpling the quilts in my hands, but the amount is negligible considering I'm just going to let the thing fill out the bottom of my pack and give it shape anyway. The feel of the fill is pretty darn similar, too. There's a little more puffy soft lux to the 900 fill, naturally, but if I had to compare 800 GDD to 800 GGD, I doubt I could tell. And really, isn't that what this discussion was about, duck vs goose? The loft to weight ratio is minuscule when comparing the specs on the EE sight.

So for any other doubters, I'd say: save the coin, you have nothing to worry about. Spending $100 to drop 1oz from an already very lightweight bag is excessive, but if that's what you want to do, by all means do it for that 1oz, not because you want GGD instead of GDD

Call me weird, but i find the information in this thread fascinating! I have a question that perhaps one of you knowledgeable folks can answer: if ducks are generally smaller birds than geese, and if the super high-lofting downs (800+ fill power) have traditionally come only from older geese, how is that we are now seeing these high lofts from ducks?

I am assuming that fill power is fill power, regardless of the bird the plumules come from. When goose down started to disappear from sleeping bags 2-3 years ago, we were told by some industry reps that we would "never" see duck down higher lofting than 650 fill because ducks weren't that big. Clearly, that isn't true.

It seems to me that if ducks are smaller birds that create smaller down plumules, why wouldn't high-lofting duck down cost more than high lofting goose down? Eagerly awaiting enlightenment!

Actually, Eider is a duck and produces the finest down. You cannot believe all you are told.

Why is 750 fill all of the sudden 800 when it gets a DriTec coating?