Thread: Be Honest - How do people carry out meat and large weight

Originally Posted by whanahuia

I think Pig hunting teaches you how to carry weight. It's a strange sport and really only hunting where boning out on the spot just isn't really done. Part of the culture and story behind catching a big boar is the carry too.

Yeh but most i know can't carry shit by their mid 30s and have replacement knees by 40. The amount of my mates i grew up with that pig hunt that have had joint issues (hips, knees, ankles etc) is exceptionally high and thats in the central north island no way it would work int he country i hunt down south (above treeline). They all seem to regret it now just for the glory so they can weigh it and compare.

Personally I find it all situational and doing dumb stuff is the way to find out. I usually take backsteaks and a few rump cuts areas dependent if I'm in the tops. If I'm near a riverbed with a flat walk I'll grab signifcantly more. Its descending elevation I avoid. Even pack training I use water in bladders for weight and then dump it at the top to save my knees and joints.

My exception is in the states where full meat recovery is required. Then it becomes a function of how many trips vs how much weight at a time.

Here's an entire mule deer after I offloading the hunting gear to my partner. Was enough to be unpleasant descending a few thousand feet but we had glassed up 2 bears in the catchment and didn't want to lose the meat. Its easy to forget how dense meat is.