"Kill Kit" weight, how much does your's weigh?

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Having a hard time searching for "Kill Kit" weights. Not sure if "Kill" is a banned search word or what, keeps giving me a "restricted Error".

Anyway, made some changes to my Kill Kit and I'm wondering how I sit in comparison to others.
What is in yours & how much does it weigh? Pics are nice too.

Here's what my 13oz Kill Kit looks like:
Two large UL game bags (1/2 elk in each), Havalon Knife & 2 extra blades, UL Gut Hook for zipping open the hide, Acidic Acid powder, collapsible 1L Platypus bottle & spray head, Bic lighter & wax/lint fire starter, Tylenol ER pain killers and a few heel bandages for the pack out.

I should point out these UL Game Bags are mainly for bug protection. Very light, sheer and vent well.
I sewed these up myself.

This Kill Kit resides in the back pouch of my Nimrod Base harness along w/ a couple power bars, Power Aide pk's, and a few other small items. This is the majority of my day gear. Bino's, rangefinder, radio, gps and filter bottle reside on harness exterior.
Hunt'nFish

 
Mine has a set of TAG Bomb bags, havalon knife +2 blades, a 3'x3' piece of tyvek, 2 sets of nytril gloves, 50' of trip tease rope (reflective) in a 1 qt. baggie. weighs 15.2 oz.
I don't usually have a blister issue but I do keep a can of Blistop @ the truck/ATV, far better then moleskin or anything else to stop blisters. I keep a pack out bag of hydration drink mix and food @ the truck/ATV also.
 
Can't remember the weight on mine, but is basically the Rokslide kill kit. BOMB bags, kifaru meat baggie, havalon, 4 blades. I left out the gloves, pulled about 40' of the marking tape off the roll, and just have 25' of the paracord. Thats also where I throw all my tags and licenses in a zip lock bag and keep everything in the kifaru pullout.

I keep a lighter, some bandages, a pair of gloves, and moleskin in my first aid kit.
 
Mine weighs 21 1/8 oz, but along with my Havalon, I include a 7 oz Benchmade Griptilian folding knife.
 
To apply the acidic acid with. You mix the acid with clean potable water and spray the meat. Raising the acidity on the exposed meat retards the ability of bacteria to grow.

Thanks Shrek! Learn something new everyday.
 
Haven't weighed mine but contains Bomb bag set, havalon + blades, 3 zip ties, 1qt plastic bag. That's it.
 
What fabric did you use for your UL game bags?
I used some remnant pieces of ultra sheer rip-stop nylon.
I know that typically UL game bags are sewn using a cotton/polyester blend, but this stuff was so sheer & airy that I figured they'd work fine to keep the fly's off the meat between loads, or the mule arrive w/ canvas bags.
Just finished sewing a (25"x45") 4-bag set for my buddy as well.
Hunt'nFish
 
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My kill kit weighs in at 22 oz
Custom pullout my wife made
Havalon Piranta and 6 extra blades
6 TAG BOMB bag set
2 Silnylon meat baggies my wife made
Roll marking tape
26 ft para cord
3 sets latex gloves
Citric acid kit
Tags
cheap emergency blaknket (less than 1oz)



 
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I had the woman sew up some moose quarter sized game bags out of canvas we had around. They weigh 1.5 lbs.....each. TAG bags would be ordered if shipping wasn't so dang expensive to Canada!
 
My 4 back country game bags weigh dam near 2# by themselves.
I know what you mean guys. My old kill kit was canvas bags, Fiskers hatchet, Ruana knives, flip open EZ-Lap sharpener, brandy & cigars, 2L water bladder and a huge powdered Kool-Aid 2qt pkg. All had to be housed in it's own EE/Kill Kit pack. Weighed over 10lbs by itself. In my defense though, the pack did have it's own shoulder straps and since Dad never hunted w/ a pack, he always seemed happy to use it once it was full of heart & liver. He was old school, shed a T-shirt, tie H&L up in it, sling over back. Oh and did I mention the pack mules.
Well I still have that Kill Kit, but it stays at camp w/ the mules, or the truck.

This kit was put together mainly as a bare necessities kit.
Just enough to protect meat, get the job done and no more.
Intended to remain in my pack at ALL times.

And since I day hunt frameless with only the Nimrod Base Harness, it has to fit inside that 600ci back pouch (Gen3 pouch, Gen4 no pouch) with room for lunch, cordage, meat straps to get that first load back, and other small minimal day gear. I know this style goes against the bandwagon here, but it works for me and our style of mixed horse and hike hunting. Normally I can rely on animals to do most of the heavy lifting, but not always. I still have to maintain the ability to move meat vertically to a place we can get the animals to. The meat straps I made that buckle onto the back of the Nimrod harness weigh like a few ounces and reside in the back pouch at times with the kill kit. With these I can hunt, kill, protect, and move meat all w/ a frameless hunt harness that is sub 3lbs empty.
If I want a frame, get a load back to camp and buckle it on to get the remaining loads out.

Anyway, I'm way off topic. I guess I felt the need to explain.
Hunt'nFish
 
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Mine weighs right at 17 ounces, vacuum sealed down very tight. I have 4 Alaskan game bags, 20' of flagging tape, 1 Havalon Piranta with 3 replacement blades (3 more in the truck), 3 small antiseptic wipes, 25' of 550, and a cup of chili powder, to repel the insects and other scavengers.
 
So you used uncoated rip stop fabric to make the bags is that correct? It would be the camo type parachute material that you can buy buy by the yard at a military surplus place is that correct or am I thinking of something else? What size did you use and is that with or with out a pull string closure. I have wanted to make my
but was unsure what to use. I am going on the cascade deer hunt next week and may have time to make a set. Thanks and great idea. Greg
 
Just spent $65 to get 4 Caribou bags at 1# yikes. Now at 1.5# with 4 bags, piranta, bunch of blades, tags, licenses, ribbon, cordage, and a sog backup blade.
 
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