Has any one used this tent with a med stove mine is about 4 weeks out. If it shows up in time I will have it for a spring bear hunt to give it a run down

Guess I will be the first on this site to test one of the Kifaru tents I think about all I will use the stove for is drying out gear.

24hourcampfire has info on them.

I look forward to hearing your review of the Kifaru.

No experience with the Sawtooth...but lots with Kifaru products and their 8 man tipi w/med stove... All great products.

The stove can be a life saver when it comes to drying clothes/sleeping bags/people...at 6'1" I doubt I could stand up in a Sawtooth, but no problem in the 8 man tipi.

Good luck and enjoy!

Just giving a quick review of the Kifaru Sawtooth. I used it on a spring (2012) bear hunt around Chicken, AK. I think we were two or three weeks early for the bears but i had fun and tested the tent in the worst of conditions. When we showed up to the trailhead/tractor-trail, it was 39 deg and rainning/sleeting. We unloaded the truck and headed up the mountain in my over-loaded UTV. About 3 miles in my belt warning light came on so it was low range only the rest of the trip; 11 miles an hour max. About 8 miles in, we hit 8 inches of snow with 2 inches of water running underneath. The going got very slow. We had to break out the winch quite a few times. This is why I don't like using 4wheeler and would rather walk/hike in. A little after dark we pulled into our campsite. The only flat piece of ground big enough for the sawtooth was a frozen pond with about 1.5 feet of ice on it. We cleared snow and found the biggest weakness of the sawtooth; this tent is not freestanding. I did know this before I ordered it, but with a normal tent, I would have had no issues setting it up on the ice. With the sawtooth, I was required to set all the spikes in order to set it up. This is not easy, nor fun on ice. Maybe if I had brought along some ice screws it wouldn't have been that big of a deal. Once I got it up (that's what she said!) it was nice to have a fire to dry out all of our gear. We fit three adult-sized men very comfortably in the tent. It snowed that evening and the fire kept us plenty warm. I was very comfortable in only my medium-weight smartwool top. In the morning, we started a small fire and the tent warmed up quickly. The sawtooth does a great job retaining heat and we were able to get dressed without freezing. We tore down camp. The tent packed up was very easy. The stove was great. The stovepipe became easier to roll up with every use. We headed up trail spending all day looking for bear sign. We decided to set up camp that night at a lower location out of the snow. It rained for the next 2 day and we were socked in, so glassing was tough. It was really nice to be able to dry out the tent by starting a fire. Condensation was never a problem and the tent did not leak once. The zippers worked perfectly and the closeline was a neccesity with this type of weather. Very handy! The rest of the trip was spent glassing and having a great time. Our guns enjoyed their walks! Better luck next time...

Thanks for the review.

I have one.

I have used it on a couple of deer hunts in MS.

Very warm, but as we were camping in a swamp, condensation was a minor problem.

I may get a liner one of these days.

Stove is awesome.

Being able to eat in 80+ degree comfort while a 20mph wind is blowing rain and it is 38 degrees outside is well worth the coin.

And when you consider I was sleeping on my Luxury Lite cot, it was downright blissful.

How about a few pics to go along with the review and information from everybody? Would like to see what and how this thing looks set up in the Real World. Thanks.

Larry Sellers

Duckear I find that if you leave a 1 inch gap on the down wind side when you set up the tent, and do not cover the floor with a tarp I use a bivy now the first two nights I covered the floor with a tarp and had condensation issues got rid of the tarp no problems the stove dries out the ground and pushes the water out.

Larry I will get some pics nest time the tent is up.