Thread: Help -Setting up my Huntech Bivy first time

if close to vechile I do the same..if semi close the back wheels n pelvis come out as one big hunk,sliced through spine up at start of ribs...yeah yeah I know the 3rd rib is where its supposed to go..doesnt matter a shit if you take back steaks out first.... and bone out front end into day bag... daybag goes back on and arse end gets shoulder ride out....must get around to trying that method where two long straps of skin are cut along back and looped over carriers shoulders with rear hocks threaded through... looks good and lower on back is better...

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

if close to vechile I do the same..if semi close the back wheels n pelvis come out as one big hunk,sliced through spine up at start of ribs...yeah yeah I know the 3rd rib is where its supposed to go..doesnt matter a shit if you take back steaks out first.... and bone out front end into day bag... daybag goes back on and arse end gets shoulder ride out....must get around to trying that method where two long straps of skin are cut along back and looped over carriers shoulders with rear hocks threaded through... looks good and lower on back is better...

I've done the back skin shoulder straps a couple of times. It's quite a comfortable carry. Just make sure you cut right up to back of head on smaller animals so the straps are long enough.

you will have to show me mate......except we too quick on the knives and beast is broken down before we blink LOL.... terrible delema having to push each other out of the way,like two lions fighting over a zebra ......
the meat sure stays clean when broken down and put into old pillow cases or cheese cloth.

If you're really good you can also remove the pelvis and leave each leg linked together by the skin over the rump. Have to be careful with knife though.

yeah thats too easy...some of us can do entire animal leaving meat on skin and just the bones out onto ground other than leg bones...makes a really clean job of it and pelvis,ribs n spine stay behind

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Originally Posted by Micky Duck

if close to vechile I do the same..if semi close the back wheels n pelvis come out as one big hunk,sliced through spine up at start of ribs...yeah yeah I know the 3rd rib is where its supposed to go..doesnt matter a shit if you take back steaks out first.... and bone out front end into day bag... daybag goes back on and arse end gets shoulder ride out....must get around to trying that method where two long straps of skin are cut along back and looped over carriers shoulders with rear hocks threaded through... looks good and lower on back is better...

Works a treat but you end up with a fair amount of blood on you unless you have plenty of time to let the meat set ,and I reakon your body heat taints the meat a little if it’s a long haul.

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.

Originally Posted by The bomb

Works a treat but you end up with a fair amount of blood on you unless you have plenty of time to let the meat set ,and I reakon your body heat taints the meat a little if it’s a long haul.

Bit like hanging a deer over the bonnet, you really need to hang 'em overnight if you have any distance to carry them - the 'meat buyer used to give them the 'sniff test'.

My brother in law boned one warm and by that evening the meat had gone off - seriously off.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

yeah thats too easy...some of us can do entire animal leaving meat on skin and just the bones out onto ground other than leg bones...makes a really clean job of it and pelvis,ribs n spine stay behind

I never learned to butcher worth a damn - my turn to be jealous

Used to use my Huntech Bivy a lot and had my good lady make a modification to it which I found useful. Basically she sewed another pole ‘tunnel’ onto the front and I picked up pole kit and made a pole the right size and then it braced enough with a line out the front that if conditions were right I didn’t need trees or a bracing stick. This gave a nice wide opening and seemed to reduce condensation - all for the weight of a pole

Yes, excellent, I was sitting looking at it drinking my morning coffee thinking of doing something similar. I have to say, on clear 10deg nights the light breeze flowing thru the bivy was very pleasant. In a wet windy night I'd be finding somewhere a little more sheltered.

Anyway, here's a pic of some of the meat about to be butchered yesterday morning. Took me most of the day and mincing the trimmings up this morning. About 48-50kg of prime venison now in the freezer. Would have been nice to age it more on the hook but lacking that facility I will be relying on tried-n-true fridge aging of the larger cuts prior to cooking. Yum!

Originally Posted by Staffnurse41

Used to use my Huntech Bivy a lot and had my good lady make a modification to it which I found useful. Basically she sewed another pole ‘tunnel’ onto the front and I picked up pole kit and made a pole the right size and then it braced enough with a line out the front that if conditions were right I didn’t need trees or a bracing stick. This gave a nice wide opening and seemed to reduce condensation - all for the weight of a pole

@Staffnurse41 - That modification sounds very interesting - can you share a photo of how it works?

I can but may take a day or so
Hopefully I can find photos of it up but failing that I will put it up and take some

No hurry - just wondered if you had a photo as it sounds interesting and something I might want to do with mine.