solo packing

[MagKarl]

Get some phone numbers just in case.  Send me a PM or email and I'll give you mine.  If I'm available and you're not hunting too far away I'll be on my way with boots and pack.

[littlebuf]

that's a real nice offer Mag, thanks. as for the other post's i never once said i intend on wasting meat, quite the contrary im  worried about losing ANY part of the animal. i was just looking for your guy's past experience's and Ive got some good tips, thanks all. keep um coming

[CP]

The only way to be sure that you don’t lose anything is to keep it all in sight.  Move a load a ways toward your rig, then a back for another until you’ve moved the whole pile, and then do it again, and again, and so on.

[zackmioli]

The only way to be sure that you don’t lose anything is to keep it all in sight.  Move a load a ways toward your rig, then a back for another until you’ve moved the whole pile, and then do it again, and again, and so on.

this sounds like a solid plan.

[Maligator]

Totally agree with the moving of the "entire animal" in parts/piles and never letting any part of it get very far out of sight let alone ear shot so that you could be listening for scavengers, whether they be 2 or 4 legged. 

[halflife65]

Done that and it works.  The only problem is that you constantly have to unload and reload your pack.  That part kind of sucks and it takes a lot longer than just going back to the truck with it and unloading it once.

[BLKBEARKLR]

The only way to be sure that you don’t lose anything is to keep it all in sight.  Move a load a ways toward your rig, then a back for another until you’ve moved the whole pile, and then do it again, and again, and so on.

Been there done that, it is a good way only problems I had with it if you are two miles in, you never really catch a break. Meaning if you carry it 500 yards then go back and forth you never really get a break in between. If you carry one load out the two miles and stash it, then go back in that is when you get a break.

Littlebuff, and just so you understand I never said that I thought you were going to waste any meat, you asked a question and I told you what I do. To me the meat is the most important part. I always make sure it is taken care of first. If you are way out there and it gets hot things can go downhill quickly. I have never lost any meat, but I am sorry to inform you I have lost a couple of capes. But I have the racks off of them and if I ever really want a moose on the wall I will buy a cape for one of them and mount it.

I wish you the best of luck this year in taking your trophy bull and being able to get everything out. I would give you my number in case you needed help, but I will be out there in the woods trying my luck so it would do no good. I know I have no reception where I go...

Joe

[bucklucky]

Theres alot of different scenarios, but I have my game bags and pack on me at all time while elk hunting. I usually cover alot of ground. Now when I do get a animal down I take care of the meat, bone it, get it in game bags and hanging if it is warm out, if its cool I usually dont hang. Then I will stash the head so no one can find it  and start packing meat towards the truck and stah it in the bushes so no one finds it. Usually within 100 yards. The head and cape are last to come out. Once it is all back to the stash point then I will lug the meat to the truck and the head last. Too many horror stories of heads getting stollen out of trucks or camp. Dumb assed people do dumb assed things like steal your trophys.

[littlebuf]

its all good BLKBEAR i wasn't offended i was just clarifying. i like the leap frog idea, if I'm close enough ill do that other wise ill stash it

[Yak-NDN]

The big trophy rack aint worth a damn, if you left the meat behind.  You got your priorities messed up.....unless you can claim Indian

What the hell is your problem I am Indian and have never left or lost any meat because of hot weather.  Lets all take cheap shots at the poor stupid Indian with to much fire water, I hope that when you started this post you were asking for help because you didn't know what to take out first and the answer it meat. (Protect the meat)For you that disagree with that answer everyone has the privilege to have a different opinion and I will not take cheap shots at you because of it or because you are of another race. I will tell you that there is more than just the horns that make a trophy, My first trophy is the meat then the experience of it all and the experience you just gave to the younger generation and the good example you set for them will be with them forever it would be a total loss if you lost the meat lost the good experience and memory and all you had was some horns to remind you of the total waste it was. 

[JackOfAllTrades]

I'm not racist here, so don't get your panties in a wad...

What the hell is your problem I am Indian and have never left or lost any meat

To be honest though, I've come across kills that were proven tribal in both the Nooksack and Packwood area where there was a lot of wasted meat, so don't take it wrong, It's easy to stereotype. Not to exclude 'poached animals'. Those hunters are scum in my book. I don't even know many on this forum, and don't have any impression that any of them are the type to intentionally waste meat. True, there are whites and others that are wasteful. We've all seen them. As for someone making this into an 'Indian' issue, I think it wise not to go there. If you're a tribal member that does not waste meat and respects the animal provided then please don't take offense. If you're a hunter that has witnessed wasteful act by a tribal member that has you fuming... Remember that not all tribal members are that way.

This is Littlebuf's thread with a valid question. 

-Steve

[littlebuf]

im still not sure where anybody is getting the "wasting meat" thing. the topic is solo packing and the best process to accomplish said solo pack. i do have a fair amount of Irish and gypsy in me so i'll probably be drunk and steal the trophy from myself, the whole thing could be pointless at that stage of the hunt 

[letmhunt]

 

[coonhound]

I solo pack and I'm often 5+ miles into the high country.  I pack 5 game bags in my pack at all times.  When the critter is down you bone him out and pack out the biggest load of meat you can haul.  After that hopefully you can run down some buddies and finish the pack in a second trip, if not I'm still of the mind set that the meat has to come 1st.  If you're worried about the cape bring some salt up on your second trip.

As far as wasting meat you need to judge your distance based on the weather, if it's a hot 80 degree season I hunt somewhere I can make a couple trips a day.

my $0.02,
Coon

[Yak-NDN]

Coonhound that was a great reply I had an article on keeping meet in hot weather up into 90deg weather for several days I wish I had the article it would have been excellent for this post. It talked about putting the meat in a meadow and off the ground for air circulation at night and bringing the meat back into the shade in the day and keeping it covered and repeating it again the next night and you could do this for a few days until you could get it out I think this article was on a drop camp for elk.