That's a great picture! Made me chuckle. We really do need a thank you button
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While it is hard to compete with voidecho's artistic abilities. Here is an article with pictures of why the concept of a load shelf is beneficial.
http://stoneglacier.com/load transfer.html
No worries fellas. I just didn't want the question to come off as a smarta$$ question as can occur on online forums at times.
colonel, im one of the "in the bag" camp, but thats a little high. think it about keeping it against your thoracic vertebrae. if you get heavy weight up around and above your shoulders it will make you top heavy. too low and it will ride like shit and pull you backward.No worries fellas. I just didn't want the question to come off as a smarta$$ question as can occur on online forums at times. I agree as well that everything is personal and I think it also really matters what you are hunting and other factors of the hunt. For instance, when I have had to haul quarters because we were keeping the meat on the bone on an elk or caribou, I found the load sling idea to be not all that bad. Mostly this was because the "meat pack" ran the length of the pack and it would have been awkward to have it sitting up really high and protruding out of the top of the pack. On the flip side, for transporting boned out meat of smaller quantities like a deer, either having the ability to elevate the meat shelf support, as muleman describes, or loading the meat bag in the top of the pack seems to make more sense.
It just struck me that this image, as great as it is, was a little misleading when it shows the placement of the meat at the bottoms of the packs. To me, both images seem to be asking for an uncomfortable haul.
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Perhaps this fantastic edit of the image might better show the discussed meat placements?
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I applaud stone glacier and their gear but I don't think anyone would load a pack like that unless they only had the jansport Luke mentioned, lol
............ and with some confidence think I could pack out sasquatch on a shelf if the need arose.
LMAO!!! Classic. And don't think he isn't out there watching us!!
LMAO!!! Classic. And don't think he isn't out there watching us!!
I agree 100%. With that, when you are using the shelf, are you hauling meat bone in or bone out more often? I would assume you would just adjust the "height" if the shelf to accommodate longer Matt bags, correct?
Boom,
Sorry for hijacking your thread and introducing bigfoot into the mix.
Colonel00,
I'm really trying to bone out everything now days. Last year I did pack out both bone in and boned out meat.
Here are some pictures of both. Bone in bull elk quarter and 45# of boned out mountain goat.
Either way, I try to adjust the load, to be in the high center of my back with the shelf and straps.
YK,
Dude you are living the dream!
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I assume you are refering to the pictures on Stone Glacier's sight that I linked to. Sounds like you and me both would never put all our weight in the bottom of a pack.