Kodiak Flex Bow Tent

I just bought a Kodiak Flex Bow tent at Cabelas. I did alot of research looking for a tent that was canvas with some size, height and durability to it. As I mentioned, we settled on the Kodiak Flex Box 10' X 14'. If easy setup is your game plan, then this is the canvas tent for you. An innovative pole design using a heavy-duty galvanized-steel tube frame makes it simple for one person to put this tent up. Believe it, I can put this baby up in a few minutes after some practice. The 6-oz. cotton-duck canvas construction is made with a Hydra-Shield™ protectant to keep rain and moisture out while letting the fabric breathe. The tent comes with an attached large awning, an adjustable gear loft, accessory pockets and a storage bag that attaches to the tent via cinch straps. The near-vertical tent walls maximize the interior area, and the spacious 6'6" ceiling height. Circulation is improved by four large No-See-Um mesh windows and two large D-shaped doors with YKK® zippers. 16-oz. polyester-reinforced vinyl floor and heavy-duty 12" steel rod stakes. If you don't care about weight you have 2 sizes to chose from. 10 ft. x 10 ft. with a 72" x 78" awning. Weight: 68 lbs. 10 ft. x 14 ft. with a 86" x 78" awning. Weight: 79 lbs. Like I said earlier, I did look over a lot of tents for the family style camping (car camping). I read every review out in cyberspace. Most mentioned you should spend the extra money and get the bigger tent. Now that I have a couple weeks under this tent I have found a few comments to pass along. This tent for the most part needs to be set-up on flat as you can get ground. Any dramatic terrain changes will cause the flex bow rubber end tips to pop free. This causes the corner grommets they run through to be useless. I did some simple modification to fix this issue. I used some rubber tubing that slipped very tight on to the flex bow rods. This is really a minor issue but the tent did overall perform as I expected. I live in the high desert so we kinda expect some dramatic weather patterns like high winds with rain. High winds are those blaster that come before the storm. My Kodiak Flex Bow held its ground to well over 50 mile hour winds and thunder storm with hail. I am satisfied with the overall construction of the tent.