That’s true but if you are taking extra shoes ONLY for comfort in a backpacking style camp, the vast majority of these people aren’t killing anything. An extra set of shoes should serve at least two purposes in my opinion but really three or more is ideal. Who knows, maybe this thread changed...
I try to put no more than 50-60# per 16” by 30” game bag. This makes them about 1/2 full and allows you to lay out the meat on some elevated surfaces and cool it very quickly due to being spread out inside. In many cases a good portion of the boned out meat gets a decent cool from laying on the...
Fair enough. I can’t even recall the days when I brought my meat to a butcher for steaks and burger. For pepperoni, jerky and landjagar I bring about 150# of boned out, FULLY trimmed and vacuum sealed meat to this German deli about 60 miles away. I simply don’t have time to do my smoked meats...
I’m my own meat processor. I trimmed, cut up, ground and vacuum sealed 4 elk and 8 deer last season alone on my own and average about 10 animals per season for just my wife and me. In speaking to myself I far prefer not having bones once I get home. Lol. I did bring home 2 deer last year with...
I have broken down over 200 elk and deer in every way possible over the last 20 years and I have never experienced what you are referring to in your third point. Elk are always a coin flip when it comes to tenderness, but deer are almost always ‘tender’ in my experience. There are easy ways to...
I used to say under a mile to the truck and I’m taking it out bone in, but with how quickly I can bone them out now and the CWD stuff in Montana, I pretty much bone everything out. Not to mention if you can keep the meat clean, it’s the best and fastest way to cool the meat quickly (leading to...
Same here and most of my experience was in a Hilleberg Nallo 4 GT with two people and also my HMG Ultamid 4 with full floor and bug mesh and the same two of us. This is compared to my Sawtooth, MegaTarp, or HMG without insert. I probably have a couple hundred days total in all these shelters...