Thread: Moa Graf's boy's "packing out" technique

Spent a great evening in the Canterbury foothills Friday
Got shown how to use the Graf boy's "packing out" technique by @Moa Hunter
Bastard has stamina to burn !!
Hauled arse non stop up an extremely steep face
It was a shocker to go down as it was so steep.

Shot nice Spiker in last seconds of light with 2506 topped with Kahles
Moa passed on the very impressive Stag with a very promising head - took the Spiker beside him instead @ 235m
Home at midnight.
Shame I had to return to Marlborough before the butchering :-)



Mustering stick a big part of the technique too



Moa with his 4yr old fledgling son - with good bugger Andrew at the rear with Joe Joe (Delta 4-24*50 HD client :-)
All a bit shy :-(

Nice.
I played with the pic so it might show up a bit better.

[QUOTE=Tahr;1268177]Nice.
I played with the pic so it might show up a bit better.

I played with the bottom pic and made him look much better :-(

Ha - that is not like it looks
It was long rank grass with Matagouri and broken rocks surface
Strange how pic (my pic also) has made it look like a bowling green

My rooted knees, fused ankle and clicky hip estimate that 15 kgs of inedible skin and bone were given a free ride to the top of the hill

Looks nice and tidy. But I'd miss getting slapped around the face every 5 minutes with a soggy wet bloody neck every 5 minutes!

Ahhh @Sarvo
I have heard of said muster stick
With alkathene and inner tube attachment
I take it I just missed out on meeting @MoaHunter just the other day
Hello neighbour

Originally Posted by Boxton

Ahhh @Sarvo
I have heard of said muster stick
With alkathene and inner tube attachment
I take it I just missed out on meeting @Moa Hunter just the other day
Hello neighbour

He did not have that "prototype" shooting/mustering stick
Made comment - he wished he had of - as grass was to rank and high to use pack rest lying down

Originally Posted by XR500

My rooted knees, fused ankle and clicky hip estimate that 15 kgs of inedible skin and bone were given a free ride to the top of the hill

Looks nice and tidy. But I'd miss getting slapped around the face every 5 minutes with a soggy wet bloody neck every 5 minutes!

I have found that the eating quality is much better from an animal carcass recovered whole and hung overnight (by neck or brisket ) than an animal butchered on the hill hot. An animal gutted and left on the hill overnight to cool and cut up in the morning after full rigor has set it, is also perfect.

The pack doesn't make them lighter but it does keep the centre of gravity lower and easier to balance
Link to meat quality: https://www.mla.com.au/contentassets...principles.pdf

Originally Posted by Sarvo

Spent a great evening in the Canterbury foothills Friday
Got shown how to use the Graf boy's "packing out" technique by @Moa Hunter
Bastard has stamina to burn !!
Hauled arse non stop up an extremely steep face
It was a shocker to go down as it was so steep.

Shot nice Spiker in last seconds of light with 2506 topped with Kahles
Moa passed on the very impressive Stag with a very promising head - took the Spiker beside him instead @ 235m
Home at midnight.
Shame I had to return to Marlborough before the butchering :-)

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Mustering stick a big part of the technique too

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Moa with his 4yr old fledgling son - with good bugger Andrew at the rear with Joe Joe (Delta 4-24*50 HD client :-)
All a bit shy :-(

@Sarvo FYI, checked the angle (steepness) of the hill this morning 34 degree slope

@Sarvo next time you re down MH's way give me a heads up. If my shifts arent shite be good for a catch up

@Moa Hunter where do we find more info on this packing out technique? Is it strapped to an old pack frame?

Originally Posted by charliehorse

@Moa Hunter where do we find more info on this packing out technique? Is it strapped to an old pack frame?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkccfnqqTNc

the way Alex Gale used with wide belt works ok too...it also keeps weight down low over hips....I use hunk of seatbelt that is my pikau strap...and comes off for carry strap in easy country or close to wagon.... the compromise for bone in skin on weight VS bone it all out...is to bone out front wheels into daybag and carry out back wheels in one bit...I can fir boned out hind into day bag...but if it had balls,it usually needs to be front only in bag and haul arse end out whole.

Originally Posted by charliehorse

@Moa Hunter where do we find more info on this packing out technique? Is it strapped to an old pack frame?

Hi charliehorse, if you are asking I assume that you dont actually have a horse, which if you did would of made things easy ??
I had not seen the vid that Sarvo posted before, those Grafs sure know what they are doing. Anyway I used the following vid of theirs as a tutorial to make my frame:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgAhw2Uwhas
I bought a Macpac pack and cut the back and harness out of it for the deer carry pack and made the frame out of old light weight furniture tube from beach chairs. These were not welded to join them - I used a piece of tight fitting tube 80mm long at each join sleeved inside and a two pop rivets. This let me disassemble the frame and shorten it until I was happy with the dimensions.
I will make another one that will be collapsible as the frame can be a nuisance while hunting. This will be made like a X cross from those fold up camp chairs but with a folding top and bottom bar. I twitched some fence wire top to bottom on my one to brace the light tube 'L' shaped bend at the bottom and I think a collapsible one could be braced with two short lengths of braided wire with a hook or eye to attach them when the frame is extended

I wish I did @Moa Hunter. Always liked horses, however I don't hunt anywhere horse friendly

Originally Posted by charliehorse

I wish I did @Moa Hunter. Always liked horses, however I don't hunt anywhere horse friendly

Hughes 300 work well too :-)
I am indebted to one
Mind you last time I saw HLA she was in bits spread out on a woolshed floor :-(