canvas game bags

[huntnfmly]

I have a set of game bags and i only take 2 in my day pack because they are the heavier style and was wondering how many of you do the same or take the lighter mesh game bags into the field and use those until you get back then when you get back put the meat  in your canvas bags to get home or to butcher?.I am just trying to cut down on wieght in my pack and i really like my canvas bags plus my daugter bought them for me and they work great.Thanks
jim

[Huntbear]

For elk, we buy the queen size white sheets from the good will.  Cut em in half, and sew up bags.  Less weight, and work well.  When we get back to camp, we use the heavy canvas game bags for hanging.

[elksnout]

I have been using the heavy type of bags you are referring to for many years. Last year however, my son and I started carring the Alaskan Game Bags with us in our packs. Way, way lighter and very tough. I'll never carry those heavy type bags again with me in the field. And we both ended up getting our animals and used the Alaskans to pack them out. I'll save the heavy ones to put the meat in once it's in camp and been cleaned and wiped down.

[carpsniperg2]

have been using the heavy bags for years and a sheet as well. going to get a few sheets this year and make them into bags to cut about 75% of the weight out of it

[Huntbear]

Oh, and the white sheets at Goodwill are about $1 ea.   

[JoeVon]

Oh, and the white sheets at Goodwill are about $1 ea.  

I'm sure you love that Goodwill doesn't charge for the "extras" that come with the sheets....

By the way, I'm with elksnout.  We use bags very similar to the "Alaskan" style game bags.  When we pack in for Mule Deer we each take two bags, half the deer boned out in one, half in the other.  As for elk, last year I had four bags in my pack and made do, but a fifth or sixth bag would have been better.  The heavy canvas bags were used once the meat had cooled out and was loaded onto the mule, and worked well to keep things tight.

[Michelle_Nelson]

I have both the Alaskan and about 1/2 dozen canvas.  I have packed both.  Havn't decided yet what i am going to do this year but i think I am going to pack the Alaskan bags and keep the Canvas ones in the truck.  I may change my mind.   

[ICEMAN]

I do not shoot an elk often enough to justify packing the game bags all day. Instead, at camp/truck I have a packboard frame with a small meat processing pack on it, inside the pack is everything needed to process a carcass, a tarp, heavy canvas game bags, a few medium trash bags, lots of small paracord sections, a few knives, a disposable camera in case I forgot one, marking ribbon, some electric tape and wire ties, a few glow sticks, and water bottles for the hunters...

In my daypack, I have two very lightweight custom nylon game bags for carrying heart/liver, or a ton of chantrelles back to camp.... so the trip to the truck is not wasted carrying "nothing" back...

[rasbo]

I travel light when hunting,para cord and some big baggies..Gut the elk pack what inerds I want ,bring back help..I do use the heavy elk quarter bags,after the hunt wash them up for the net trip..

[Huntbear]

Oh, and the white sheets at Goodwill are about $1 ea.  

I'm sure you love that Goodwill doesn't charge for the "extras" that come with the sheets....

By the way, I'm with elksnout.  We use bags very similar to the "Alaskan" style game bags.  When we pack in for Mule Deer we each take two bags, half the deer boned out in one, half in the other.  As for elk, last year I had four bags in my pack and made do, but a fifth or sixth bag would have been better.  The heavy canvas bags were used once the meat had cooled out and was loaded onto the mule, and worked well to keep things tight.

Not sure what extras you are talking about, but the sheets get washed in bleach, then regular detergent.  If you mean the bugs and chit.  They are then packed in Zip Lock bags after sewing.

So they are probably cleaner than your bags when we use em.

[elksnout]

One more thing. When I was doing a drainage project in my back yard a few years back I was using that light cloth you are supposed to use to slip over the drain pipe to keep the dirt, small rocks and such from falling into the preforated drain pipe. Comes in 25 ' length's. Anyway...an idea was born from that. So I asked my wife to cut me a few about 10-12'' long and sew up one end. We now each carry one in our packs to put the heart into. Slide it in, give the bag a spin like buttoning up a loaf of bread and tie it off. Works great. I wouldn't advocate you run out and buy a 25' roll just to make a couple but if you know of someone or a contractor who has some remnants laying about, snatch some up.

[huntnfmly]

Thanks guys for the input

[KimberRich]

Good call on the Goodwill sheets..  Never thought of that. 

[rasbo]

Oh, and the white sheets at Goodwill are about $1 ea.  

I'm sure you love that Goodwill doesn't charge for the "extras" that come with the sheets....

By the way, I'm with elksnout.  We use bags very similar to the "Alaskan" style game bags.  When we pack in for Mule Deer we each take two bags, half the deer boned out in one, half in the other.  As for elk, last year I had four bags in my pack and made do, but a fifth or sixth bag would have been better.  The heavy canvas bags were used once the meat had cooled out and was loaded onto the mule, and worked well to keep things tight.

Not sure what extras you are talking about, but the sheets get washed in bleach, then regular detergent.  If you mean the bugs and chit.  They are then packed in Zip Lock bags after sewing.

So they are probably cleaner than your bags when we use em.

love puddles are all cleaned up

[bow4elk]

I've used Goodwill or garage sale pillow cases (king size) and sheets for many years...a sheet on the ground to place clean meat and one over top to keep the flies off is priceless!