Thread: the OFF TOPIC to Stags shot 21 (discussion of wild animal management)

Originally Posted by Stocky

Not sold, my qualms aren't with comfort they are with load through joints etc. I don't see it working well with bone removed. Sure it's fine for mellow semi open bush stuff but there's no way I'm putting a deer across sideways like that coming down a bush spur with no track that often are steep enough I'm already getting hung up by my pack. My pack carry weight well with the load shelf. I do enough dumb shit I don't need to be crippled by the time I'm 60. My father did stuff like this now there's not a hope in hell he'd hunt anywhere I do and he's still got 5 years to 60.

If your father had a Hereford Stud he would be injury free, it's those mad Angus that do the damage, dont blame it on carrying deer !
I often shoot deer right on dark and it is easier to whip the guts out and carry it back rather than trying to cut it up in the dark.
The 'Graf' frame will carry a cut up deer in a bag. Thats what I did with the boned out stag a few posts back, shot in the evening and carried out next day. It was very long in the body and really heavy 80kg incl the pack, phew