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Re: Packing out meat
« Reply #30 on: July 29, 2014, 10:13:20 AM »
I bone it out and lay the meat out anywhere I can to give it a head start cooling.  Fred Meyer carries a canvas type laundry bag in their sporting goods section (I think the brand is Cooligans?) that is cheap, durable and (most importantly) light weight.  The laundry bag also comes with a draw string.  It is better then many of the game bags that you buy as they are far lighter in weight.  They are typically a one-use type bag for me but I have used them in the backcountry and they have held up very well. 

I too like the leap frog method and never worry too much about leaving meat overnight in either bear or wolf country. 

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Re: Packing out meat
« Reply #31 on: November 26, 2014, 04:24:42 PM »
I was to the east Packwood lake on a ridge and in a clearing there was a complete living room furnishings! Couch,easy chair with side tables and even lamps.I can only imagine how they got up there at 5k'

I'm am simply blown away by this.... That's a fairly rugged area and back a ways from anybody being able to easily do this. You see the weirdest things out there at times I swear. Good thread anyhow.

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Re: Packing out meat
« Reply #32 on: November 26, 2014, 06:17:43 PM »
This year one of the guys didnt find his deer before dark.  Found the front half of it the next morning.  NE Wa.  Darn bears. It does happen.
MAGA!  Again..

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Re: Packing out meat
« Reply #33 on: November 26, 2014, 09:47:33 PM »
I carry a newspaper delivery bag in my pack along with 1 gallon ziplocs and quarter bags. I immediately quarter and debone all meat, get it into the ziplocs and start the haul out. I put the first load into my newspaper bag and remaining ziplocs left unzipped into an elk quarter bag. This allows for quicker cooling while the first load goes out. 9 times out of ten I can make two trips and get it all. I use this same method for hauling deer as an entire mule deer quartered and all trimmings will fit in the bag. If the terrain is too steep I will bone the deer out though. I use the bag with front and rear pouches which your head slips through the middle of. When you are all done stick it in a five gallon bucket with bleach water, put a rock on it and rinse it out a day later.

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Re: Packing out meat
« Reply #34 on: November 27, 2014, 08:14:22 AM »
I've long wished that I had kept my old delivery bags.  Do they even make those anymore?

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Re: Packing out meat
« Reply #35 on: November 27, 2014, 08:59:32 AM »
Just buy the T.A.G.S bomb bags kit. I've put an entire boned out bull in that kit and I think it weighs 9 oz. ziplocks? I never put meat I want cooling down in a seald plastic bag

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Re: Packing out meat
« Reply #36 on: November 27, 2014, 09:37:54 AM »
I've long wished that I had kept my old delivery bags.  Do they even make those anymore?
There's actually a company that makes camo ones just for packing out meat. They're called pack bags. I bought one from a guy off this site and it works pretty good.

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Re: Packing out meat
« Reply #37 on: November 27, 2014, 09:53:57 AM »
I've long wished that I had kept my old delivery bags.  Do they even make those anymore?
There's actually a company that makes camo ones just for packing out meat. They're called pack bags. I bought one from a guy off this site and it works pretty good.
As a young teen, I had the Times, the Tribune and the News.  They would also make great decoy bags.

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Re: Packing out meat
« Reply #38 on: November 27, 2014, 06:06:30 PM »
I've found that  skinning and quartering with the bone in and then hang the quarters using paracord. Debone the hanging quarters straight into a game bag.  Keeps your meat clean.I use pillow cases for game bags. They can hold a lot of meat.

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Re: Packing out meat
« Reply #39 on: November 28, 2014, 10:10:14 AM »
The name of the company I bought mine from is Steel City Corp. The bags carry both front and rear and have florescent striping on both sides. They are made of a durable canvas much like wall tent material. Oh, and the ziplocs- I hunt somewhat cooler weather than some of you so I have never had a problem with meat going bad in a ziploc; in fact, the bags cool much nicer than a solid blob of meat in a game bag. Been using this for years and would put it up against any pack board. The nice thing is that you don't have to haul one around all day.

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Re: Packing out meat
« Reply #40 on: November 30, 2014, 03:03:26 PM »
I used this bag just this week on an animal 7 miles in (and down hill most of the way) and am amazed on how well it always holds up.  This year I couldn't find it at Fred Meyers as they changed their sporting goods a little bit since I was in last.  I found the bag at Sportsman's though.  I don't remember how much it cost but it was cheap and after I got it home I just threw it away.


I bone it out and lay the meat out anywhere I can to give it a head start cooling.  Fred Meyer carries a canvas type laundry bag in their sporting goods section (I think the brand is Cooligans?) that is cheap, durable and (most importantly) light weight.  The laundry bag also comes with a draw string.  It is better then many of the game bags that you buy as they are far lighter in weight.  They are typically a one-use type bag for me but I have used them in the backcountry and they have held up very well. 

I too like the leap frog method and never worry too much about leaving meat overnight in either bear or wolf country.

 


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