Thread: Pack Weight

What does your pack weigh for a week in south island hills tent, gun etc
Winter Hunting
Just trying to pack but struggling to shed weight.


Between tent, gun, binos, range finder already got 10.12kg (tent will get split up)

Hard when you don't do it a lot and also don't have all the light weight gear

i think mine was around 20kg for 7 days backpacking, but i have got lots of light weight fancy gear 7kgs was food

10days in fiordland, April, was 23kgs

I have got it down to 17kg for 10 days chasing wapiti. That weight didn’t count rifle or binoculars.
You should be able to get down to 20 kg fairly easily for five days tops hunting.
Send me a pm if you want an idea of the gear I carry.

Drill holes in your toothbrush handle and dehydrate your water.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Drill holes in your toothbrush handle.

Nah, fluting is all the rage nowadays...

Originally Posted by Tahr

Drill holes in your toothbrush handle and dehydrate your water.

Don't brush teeth and eat with hands

you can loose quite a bit of weight in the pack itself also. i had a tatonka bison. sold it , went to an osprey or two and way better carry (until certain weight) they weight less also.

My tooth brush is carbon fibre wrapped. Was expensive but well worth the cost.

Wear a g string not heavy conventional undies.

i used to really like heavy duty gear @199p one day said the problem with heavy duty is its heavy.

Originally Posted by Tim Dicko

Wear a g string not heavy conventional undies.

I find this helps more from a volume of the pack point rather than weight... (Kidding but only partly when I've seen how small some females can pack their gear)

One of my big things is looking through all your gear and try replacing 2 or 3 items with just one that will do the job...

17-18 kg, excludes rifle and binos

@chainsaw that including tent

Im putting together a kit for some north island winter tops missions atm biggest bit is not weighing your back the numbers make it a lot heavier then it would be otherwise.


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