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

If you take out a whole carcass what do you do with it ? You really need an offal hole or to be taking it to a butcher.

Even the leg bones and skkin or a pelvis are a nuisance in the house.

All good advice so far, I recommend a walking pole. Turns your arm into another leg!

Originally Posted by Waitati Hunter

All good advice so far, I recommend a walking pole. Turns your arm into another leg!

Yep bigger foot print,distribute the load weight a little.

Bunch of soft cocks on here, I used to carry a saddle in and ride mine out. Those were the days, young people these days...........

I weigh about 75kg, slight build.
I used to be a tramping guide and I would try not to exceed 35kg carrys for anything more than 4 hours walking.
If it's 2 hours of unloaded walking or less I might load up 45 but then I'm going slow and really focusing on how I walk, especially downhill. Knees over toes is important.

Like Rumpy said, is the meat or animal worth wrecking your body?

With much blood,sweat and sometimes tears. I sure don't bust my arse like I used to do,trying to get animal out whole.its got to be plurry short haul for that carry on these days. Boning front end into daybag and leave arse end intact is just about perfect for me. Ideally I get RUMPY to carry it lol

All my hunting I do is on Doc land and normally requires a decent walk back to the truck. I'm Pretty selective about the animal I kill, looking for good condition, younger hinds where possible for the best quality eating. I put the backstraps and any offal and boned out shoulder meat (usually supplemental dog tucker) in a pillowcase once cooled and try keep the back legs together when possible to sling over my shoulders/back to sit on my day pack (unless I bought the 75L tatonka then they can go in my pack) find carrying the extra couple kg of bone and skin pays off as the meat stays protected from the elements and hangs much better (normally hang for 10 days)


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Originally Posted by 257weatherby

Bunch of soft cocks on here, I used to carry a saddle in and ride mine out. Those were the days, young people these days...........

Too true, we'd carry roofing iron, malthoid, nails etc from whakatomo road end up the river and then up to nearly the top of Mt surf, hunt along the top towards the second washpool saddle, bone out every thing, our mountain mule packs bulging, stagger down the steep ridge to the river and just for entertainment race each other down to the car, at 17 I was all of 9 stone. At 19 I brought my first brand new land rover and in those days it was cash only.

And the rifles were old three o threes with 4 power on top, thank be to God they weren't full wood tho.

Was silly enough to not bone out the legs when I carried this guy out. Just about killed me. Got back and weighed the pack and it came to 58kgs. Had to walk 9.5km and drop down 1000m to get it all out.
Won’t do that twice.


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Great question. Sounds like you have your gear dialed at 17kg, well done. Hunters aren't trampers, we carry in bang sticks, optics and other stuff in the hope we are successful, so you've done well here. One thing you'll probably find, and I've noticed over time, is that you do get used to the pain and suffering, and are able with some fitness and training to carry out heavier loads. The down side being, you end up carrying too much, and spend a lot of time at the physio. I've learnt the hard way. Got myself in really good nick for the roar, super fit which helps. A quality backpack (a meat shelf is so worth it) and at least one trekking pole, and "quiet feet" (place each foot carefully) will help. On a 3 hour walk out I was carrying out a couple of boned out reds (backstraps, 3-4 legs per animal depending on shoulder, tenderloins, heart, off cuts for the pup) - probably 30-40kg all up. For the longer trips 4-6 hours plus, I try to limit myself to boned out back legs and back straps. It's just the reality of distance. Cord to hang the legs (skin on), quality game bags to keep the flies out, and hang everything in a sheltered, breezy spot. Even works in summer. Cut fern to hang over the game bag for additional protection. Another tip, flies go to bed after dark, so do your meat work under the torch.

Excellent gear list with weights here: https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....-usual-113567/

I use the gutless method for meat retrieval. Back steaks, back legs and sometimes shoulders. Complete boning out would be the next stage. Why carry out parts of the animal that are going to be discarded anyway?

Great to hear all the talk of soft cocks (from old men with broken backs).

Originally Posted by Tangobravo

Was silly enough to not bone out the legs when I carried this guy out. Just about killed me. Got back and weighed the pack and it came to 58kgs. Had to walk 9.5km and drop down 1000m to get it all out.
Won’t do that twice.


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Till next time.
We all say that and then do it all again next time.

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Originally Posted by 257weatherby

Bunch of soft cocks on here, I used to carry a saddle in and ride mine out. Those were the days, young people these days...........

was that the missus you rode out tough lady