Packing out the meat???

Timber_line · Dec 6, 2003

What method do you guys use to haul meat out??? Most eastern boys seem to drag it the 100 yards across the field stubble back to the truck...

LOL If I'm up in Yeti country I bone 'em out and use a pack frame. With my last muley, for the first time I boned it out without gutting it, going in from the back side - it worked great!

I have an ultra-light, aluminum pack frame that is specifically designed for hunting. It collapses into a fanny pack or a small part of your day pack and assembles in less that 2 minutes. It is called the Port-A-Pack, made by Secret Creek. It one of the lightest collapsable frames in the world. It will easily carry anything that you can! (Actually, I have an extra one that I'm selling one asking $115US. My email [email protected] if you're interested.)

Here's a pic of it loaded (this ain't me)...

HunterHarry · Dec 6, 2003

That draggin' stuff is B.S.!
Bone it out and put it in your pack.
WAYYYYYY easier!

Firedog · Dec 7, 2003

Pack it out on a pack frame. Stsrted using bungee cords on my pack frame this year and really like that better than rope. Still carry rope just in case though. Bungees worked great though.

Elkseeker · Dec 8, 2003

I agree with Firedog, on the back with pack frame and bungees are the way to go. They are faster and do not allow much slipping. We have been using them for years with no problems.

Elkseeker

Pappabull · Dec 8, 2003

I put half on each mule or a horse and climb on my saddle horse and head out. Sometimes if it isn't to big we will bone it all out and then can put all the boned out meat in two paniers and get it all on one mule or horse.

To get the head out we put it on top of the pack with a short pole tied to the antlers so the pole rests on the pack or the horses rump. That way the tines cannot poke the mule.

Lots easier with the mules or horses than my back. After all they've got 4 legs and I've only 2.

IDhornhound · Dec 9, 2003

LAST EDITED ON Dec-10-03 AT 00:56AM (MST)[p]Trust me, you don't want to use a packframe here!

this is the ultimate elk hauler!

Elkseeker · Dec 9, 2003

IDhornhound,

Those pictures bring back some memories of the only time I used horses in Idaho. Back in the good old days in what they called unit 10A, we were back in 7 miles and elk were everywhere. Thanks for sharing these pictures, and thats a nice rack as well.

Elkseeker

Flatlandr · Dec 9, 2003

Hey Timber_line,

Can you hook me up with phone # or website for that pack frame??

Thanks,
Mark

Negissimo · Dec 10, 2003

This is how we pack it out, here's my brother with his '03 elk.

I do have to admit though, this year in Wisconsin I spine shot (archery) a deer on the edge of a field and we drove the car right to it...made it home for dinner! It was the lazy mans way, I fealt guilty but my legs didn't mind

I need one of them packs with four legs like IDhornhound has!

Timber_line · Dec 12, 2003

Flatlander, The website for the manufacturer is:
www.secretcreeksupplies.com

I just built the site for the owner, who is my friend and quite the hunter with some awesome hunting pics on the site! Check it out & let me know what you think.

ironhead · Dec 13, 2003

I am a pack frame guy also. But instead of rope or bungees I use 6 foot tie down straps, just cinch (spelling) it down tight and there is no slippage. Great for hanging meat in trees also. Ironhead

Timber_line · Dec 14, 2003

Right on boys! Nice pics, too. It's good to see some hard core hunters around. I posted this on another site and they were all flatlanders that dragged their animals out whole, the 200 yards across the field to their trucks...

Here's another method (this guy is a McGiver that built the cart from an old mountain bike:

moseleymiddleton · Dec 18, 2003

i hunt an area where their is a road tht runs across the top of a rim and i have a 1200 foot of rope and when i kill a deer in the bottom i get out my rope and run it to the bottom and then i get in the truck and drive till their in the road and back up till the truck is their and load them up whole.and if their where the rope wont rech then i drag till they are. the elk i hunt on muddy there is a road withen every 100 to 200 yards so the rope works well on elk to but if they fall in a gully with all four legs under them in the ditch thats just as wide as the elk then you breack the rope quite a bit. then where i hunt by saratoga we take little plastic sleds that are like 5 bucks and quarter them up and pull the out on sleds. we've deboned one deer and one elk to get them out before and had a problem with spoiling and the meat getting a hard outer shell all around and wasting a lot of meat. so we'd rather just quarter them out.

moseley middleton