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

[QUOTE=Bagheera;555894]Thanks for the pic Looks Comfy

Just a wee touchup with some scratch removal Software and we''ll See the pretty boy again .

I can send you a clean pic of him if that's your thing

Yeah Sorry . Inappropriate Comment.

I'm trying a new tactic, just photograph the animal without shooting it.



I find carrying the photo on a camera weighs far less than a dead animal would

Your welcome.

Kj

I do it the way in the video below. Why carry the hip bone out? it just adds more weight and can stick into you and make it uncomfortable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6wiizxY-Pc

Great photos
Don't know if it is an age thing. I used to carry them like that but as getting older and wiser take the backsteaks and bone out the legs then carry in day bag. Saves carrying the extra weight of bones back to camp and throwing them in the bush

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

still carry the whole thing out, toughen up ya soft cocks. Yah I guess the times a coming when I will leave the bones behind to, but till now always get it all out. I agree with kimjon, cleaner and hangs better. Normally it's down hill to the boat apart from the odd short steep up bit. Pick up my Summer veni from the butcher today, been recommended another guy so I dropped in a stag on Christmas to him and I will test the results tonite. Should be tender after hanging in his chiller for this long

But if you leave the bones behind your cheating your poor hard working mutt

With any of these methods you can leave the backstraps attached at the hip. They just tuck into the pelvis area or where the pelvis bone was if you remove it.

Saw the same method on a Josh James video, just need to fukn shoot one again and try it out!!!!!!!

Hi Kimjon If I had been there I'd have wanted my rifle not a camera or at least the bow/dog and a VERY large Knife! and that saying something. I don't like dogs.

I almost always completely bone out meat before carrying, which is why I'm just learning this now. Hindquarter carry is useful if: On my own, pikau too small for all meat or else no pack, short carry , Or to minimise mud and fly damage if no meatsafe or muslin available at camp.I can use a few bones at home for broth but dont have a hole to dispose of an entire deer skeleton and hide.

Id like to thank everyone who has passed on new tricks. The more techniques we have available the better.

When I was a young fella a bloke from the local hunting club took me under his wing showed me heaps...iv never done it another way since , my back is rooted unless its close to the truck

Hands free is the way to go