02-13-2010, 05:21 AM
I'm with packfan on this one.
I quartered the first spike i shot and 3 of us took it out in one trip. I can now bone out elk in about 45 minutes and pack it all in 2 trips by myself. Last one i did was 2.25 miles up steep rocky hills. I don't even quarter deer anymore, it's so much easier and nicer to bone them out too, one deer boned out is an easy one-trip pack for me.
I never realized how much weight you're packing in bones until you try boning it out. Just keep your knife shaving sharp. I like to use plastic bags in my pack, but i switch them to cloth sacks as soon as i get it out. I keep 6 garbage bags in my pack along with a couple ceramic sharpening sticks. I own a blacks creek western pack and it can haul a lot of weight, somedays i wish i had a slightly bigger pack though. Call me crazy but now one of my favorite parts of harvesting an elk with my bow is the satisfaction of hauling it out of the hills by myself.
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I quartered the first spike i shot and 3 of us took it out in one trip. I can now bone out elk in about 45 minutes and pack it all in 2 trips by myself. Last one i did was 2.25 miles up steep rocky hills. I don't even quarter deer anymore, it's so much easier and nicer to bone them out too, one deer boned out is an easy one-trip pack for me.
I never realized how much weight you're packing in bones until you try boning it out. Just keep your knife shaving sharp. I like to use plastic bags in my pack, but i switch them to cloth sacks as soon as i get it out. I keep 6 garbage bags in my pack along with a couple ceramic sharpening sticks. I own a blacks creek western pack and it can haul a lot of weight, somedays i wish i had a slightly bigger pack though. Call me crazy but now one of my favorite parts of harvesting an elk with my bow is the satisfaction of hauling it out of the hills by myself.
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