Thread: How to: Prepare venison hindquarters to carry as a backpack

If its only 1-3km I'll just pikau out the whole deer as they keep cleaner and hang nicer if entire. If its a 3-5km carry I'll start thinking about what bits I don't need, then adapt to the situation at hand.

When I do that backpack, I skin right to the shoulders first without taking out the back steaks. This provides a thicker "shoulder strap". But otherwise I'll do much like bagheera did.

If further back than that, these days I'll just bone it out. The only reason/s I don't like boning in the bush (insert Bevis and Butthead laugh) is its harder to keep your meat clean (butthead laugh x2) and it means hanging around until the meat cools, as it spoils if shoved straight into a pack warm.

Great photos by the way.

Kj