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

Originally Posted by canross

Thanks! That's given me some things to think about with my gear load.

For me, I always tend towards too much spare clothing. I usually find I have a couple of garments unworn, even on a 10 day trip. I really try cut down too the essentials now. I had to replace most of my gear due to wear about 7 years ago, and so took the opportunity to buy the best lightweight equipment I could afford. It made a huge difference and one of the biggest was replacing my 4.5kg Macpac pack, with the new lightweight one. 3kg is a big gain.

Not so much now but have carried in decent day pack with carry pack on multi day trips and then doing the pack shuttling on the way out carry one pack a ways drop it go back for the other and repeat makes for long walk outs but strangely satisfying

You know you've had a hard and heavy carry out when you've dropped that deer at the truck and you sort of levitate or feel you can fly.

Almost orgasmic.

Then you pick your pack up out of the truck when you get home and think. How the hel did I carry that.?

Originally Posted by Chur Bay

Then you pick your pack up out of the truck when you get home and think. How the hel did I carry that.?

Or someone else picks it up and gos oof! what the hell??

Boned out in good quality meat bags. Definitely not plastic bags.

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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.

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.

Originally Posted by Stocky

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.

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Actually I think the worst thing I did for my body, was the redbands. I can't hardly wear them now. Any prolonged period in therm now, sees my knees start too hurt.

I usually keep that opinion to myself but i totally agree.
The first pair of redbands i ever got i wore for a year and a half as my main footwear (living and working rural you can do that) until they got a hole. But I’ll never get another pair. Big soft heel. Completely changed the way i walk and gave me knee and back pain. I was figuring it out towards the end.

No shade if they work for you though. That was just my experience. Footwear can do subtle things to you and is pretty relevant for this topic

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.

Always wonder what those big boars taste like? Do the boys eat them after they’ve finished driving around town with it on the back of the ute?

Originally Posted by Bush Basher

Always wonder what those big boars taste like? Do the boys eat them after they’ve finished driving around town with it on the back of the ute?

Nothing particularly wrong with them, but not fantastic either. We usually stored them for the local Marae's, and they seemed to come up pretty well when cooked in a Hangi. Or made them into sausages for ourselves. There are though, only so many sausages you could eat. But we had the choice of good pork from younger pigs. There were always members of the community who were very appreciative of any meat you could spare.

Good to see the walking poles in use !

A must have with a heavy load I reckon.

Saves the knees and great for keeping balance

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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.

I would shoot him before I let him ride me

Originally Posted by SmokeyJason

I would shoot him before I let him ride me

Hell that’s a nice pig what was the weight…..at the time fecken heavy enough would have been the thoughts coming from the grey matter I’m guessing!
Yep them red bands offf a lot to answer for!