Thread: Help -Setting up my Huntech Bivy first time

Ok, bought this a while ago.thought I'd try it out in the paddock. Package has one collapsible hoop, the bivy and a packet of pegs. Hoop in sleeve is easy. From there not so obvious. No way to enter, like, no opening flap at all. What am I supposed to do, lift an edge and crawl in?

I guess you need the tree..

Use a tree, sticks, poles, rifle, etc to set up the front opening. Can be set up lower, wider as required.

Originally Posted by ROKTOY

Use a tree, sticks, poles, rifle, etc to set up the front opening. Can be set up lower, wider as required.
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Nice stag

Originally Posted by Nick.m

Nice stag

Not my photos, all found on the forum

Originally Posted by ROKTOY

Not my photos, all found on the forum

All good mate, i took the photo and may have shot the stag that bivy has been everywhere from Fiordland to the Kaimanawas and performed a treat.

Originally Posted by Jhon

Ok, bought this a while ago.thought I'd try it out in the paddock. Package has one collapsible hoop, the bivy and a packet of pegs. Hoop in sleeve is easy. From there not so obvious. No way to enter, like, no opening flap at all. What am I supposed to do, lift an edge and crawl in?

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Whats the cover over the chilly bin? Ive got the same bin - sale $99.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Whats the cover over the chilly bin? Ive got the same bin - sale $99.

Sorry @Thar missed your question. Its not a cover, its a cheap collapsible/folding table. Light weight and along with a folding camp chair makes life under the stars very comfortable.

Oh, and I had several 1.5ltr soda bottles rinsed, filled with water from my filtered tap and frozen solid. Left enough space in top for my few perishables and half a doz green bottles at a time keeping chilled. From Friday morning to Monday morning there was still ice lumps in the centre's of the bottles remaining after I used 4 to stick inside the carcass Friday night. Awesome little chiller bin.

Luxe do something similar at 1.2kg, without pole or footprint. 1.5 with the fruit so up there with lightweight tents

not sure how it stacks up with regards to robustness with the huntech which is a good piece of kit

https://www.equipoutdoors.co.nz/luxe...with-footprint

Yep, find a stick or tie to a tree. I've also made a lightweight 3 piece pole for in the tussock where there's no trees.

shikes...I thought most folks wouldve looked at the picture LOL...
great bit of kit.

After I figured it out I went for a hunt. 3 hours patient slow walk and glass where we saw 4 earlier in the day. Shot nothing, spooked nothing saw nothing. Get back to bivy camp tired after long day drive etc etc. Stop the truck. Look left in the fading 9.10pm CNI light and bugger me there's a deer across the gully on a steep grass face. Out with the Zastie 243, quartering toward me looking, nailed him thru the shoulder and out just below the spine with a 100gn BT SP at about 65m. Will range it in the morning. Its now 11pm and its taken that long for me to field dress it, squeeze it into my big fishing bin with ends hanging out and some bloody how lifting it bin and all into the back of the Prado. Its a young 6 pointer in early velvet and fat as. I'm used to goats and fallow. How the hell does anyone carry these things out on their backs?

Originally Posted by Jhon

After I figured it out I went for a hunt. 3 hours patient slow walk and glass where we saw 4 earlier in the day. Shot nothing, spooked nothing saw nothing. Get back to bivy camp tired after long day drive etc etc. Stop the truck. Look left in the fading 9.10pm CNI light and bugger me there's a deer across the gully on a steep grass face. Out with the Zastie 243, quartering toward me looking, nailed him thru the shoulder and out just below the spine with a 100gn BT SP at about 65m. Will range it in the morning. Its now 11pm and its taken that long for me to field dress it, squeeze it into my big fishing bin with ends hanging out and some bloody how lifting it bin and all into the back of the Prado. Its a young 6 pointer in early velvet and fat as. I'm used to goats and fallow. How the hell does anyone carry these things out on their backs?

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Smart pple take the back legs boned out and cooled- and the backsteaks..... tough guys carry whole deer
There's a "lot" of bone and wasted meat you carry for little gain with whole animal.

Originally Posted by ANTSMAN

Smart pple take the back legs boned out and cooled- and the backsteaks..... tough guys carry whole deer
There's a "lot" of bone and wasted meat you carry for little gain with whole animal.

Yes and I understand why. Fortunately I could back the wagon right up to it. Its now on a hook in a chiller for the night. As a cook I'm partial to some meat cooked on the bone.not so much as I'd want to carry a whole one. I was thinking of the 70s-80s when tough blokes were making their way carrying whole (field dressed) carcasses out for the booming venison market. Bet they hurt now...

Originally Posted by Jhon

Yes and I understand why. Fortunately I could back the wagon right up to it. Its now on a hook in a chiller for the night. As a cook I'm partial to some meat cooked on the bone.not so much as I'd want to carry a whole one. I was thinking of the 70s-80s when tough blokes were making their way carrying whole (field dressed) carcasses out for the booming venison market. Bet they hurt now...

Not at all, I carried well over 100 out of one valley, average weight 130/140lb plus gear - so total weight about 160lb. Seems a lot when you say it like that, and I was only running about 150lb 'live weight', but it's something you're in the mindset to do and your're fit from doing it.
Go ten pound up from that - and you're in trouble - you know when to 'hindquarter' and when to not.
I did develop a crook lower back twenty years ago, then got into 9 months of 'landscaping work' which is nothing more than digging and wheelbarrowing - and my crook back disappeared and has never come back.

But then, I am 'Mac Lughaidh' (on the Welsh side) which shows some interesting parentage - be very, very jealous.