New Sitka kelvin lite down jacket

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I have never purchased or even worn a down jacket because it’s never been my thing. I have decided to try this one for rifle season as my lightweight puffy piece which I use heavily mid oct-end of nov. So as it pertains to down I have no experience. When I got this new jacket today the tags say it’s 750 fill power. The website says 900 fill. I’m assuming I’m missing something. What do you guys reckon is the deal here?
 

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My guess is the 900 is some number arbitrary to the blend.
In my opinion sitka gear doesn’t do the best job of explaining the exact textiles used and fill material specs.

example it was difficult for me to compare cloud burst to another random Arc’Teryx Gore-Tex peice because all they have listed is 3 layer construction.
 
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Makes sense. I feel like they should list it the same on the site and clothing though. I am pumped to use it though. Very nice jacket and actually fits good in sleeves and torso with a xl compared to my Kevin lite which had too short of sleeves/torso so I had to go to xlt.
 

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It says it PERFORMS like 750. It is a BLEND of synthetic primaloft and 900 down. I believe it is 80/20 syn/down. Might be 70/30 can’t recall 100%
 

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It says it PERFORMS like 750. It is a BLEND of synthetic primaloft and 900 down. I believe it is 80/20 syn/down. Might be 70/30 can’t recall 100%
It's actually 80% down with 20% primaloft gold. Just enough synthetic to keep it lifted when wet. The article I linked says they tried 1000 fill power down at first but it was too expensive. The 900 fill power down is 93% down and 7% feathers. They do use good down in it. I'm curious about this for a November deer hunt I have coming up.

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