Pack help - heavy ruck & whitetail

[fatlander]

EXO k4 with the crib load sling, k4 lid, any molle compatible pouches you want to put on the sling. The Kifaru large belt pouch is much larger than exos for sticking stuff to the outside of the load sling. I’ve carried a bunch of whitetail does out whole with that set up.

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[WV Mountaineer]

That is NOT 95% of Eastern Whitetail Hunters. Just a fact brother.

Now, you like hauling an extra 30lbs around all that slope and miles 60 hunts a years that’s cool.

The question wasn’t about the average eastern whitetail hunter to begin with. It also wasn’t how you hunt eastern whitetail. It was a question that had zero to do with your response actually.

 

[fatlander]

To further expand on my other post, and maybe shed some context as to why a guy whitetail hunting needs a hunting frame. . . If I’ve got to solo drag a whitetail doe more than a few hundred yards, I put it in a pack. Most of the farms I hunt, the farmers don’t want me driving across/around fields. There isn’t a road system in the timber on those farms. It’s way easier to carry an ~85# doe 500 yards than drag that dead weight. When I shoot bucks, it’s infrequently enough, and they’ve got enough head gear, that calling a buddy or two to help drag is part of the celebratory ritual.

Back to the OPs original question, I’ve rucked a ton, hauled elk out west and carried whitetails back east with all of the following packs: kifaru duplex light with a 44 mag, stone glacier xcurve with a 5900, EXO k3 4800, and currently have an EXO k4 7200 plus a crib panel.

The k4 with the crib, lid, and molle pouches on the crib checks the most boxes for what he wants. My 7200 bag only goes on my pack for trips out west. It’s the crib for 90% of the year be that I’m rucking or carrying whitetails.


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