Pictures of loaded pack animals

[yama49]

Lets show why and what we use our animals to pack!!!!

 

[rayporter]

 

[MULEPACKHUNTER]

 

[MULEPACKHUNTER]

 

[Blinginpse]

I admire you fellas I hope I can kill a elk

 

[Greg Beck]

Wow! I envy you fellas!! I love animals but never owned stock. It always looks like a ton of fun! Someday I hope to own some llamas or goats. I still love backpacking on my own legs but someday..........

 

[madx250]

Great pics guys! Love this stuff. Can't wait to get my mule back and get in the game.

 

[rayporter]

should have kept this one. if she gets along with it, ......

 

[mcr-85]

Here are a few.


This one isn't packing but I like the picture.

 

[mcr-85]

 

[Matt Cashell]

I think I posted this one somewhere, but I like this one from last season:

 

[robby denning]

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Great pic. Good horse and a good buck.

 

[LaGriz]

Bitterroot Bulls,
Great shot! I love the lighting as you can feel the cold in that overcast November-like sky. The rifle scabbard low on the horse looks like a rodeo waiting to happen! I don't think I would want my rifle carried that way. I haven't been on a horseback hunt in years and this thread and pictures bring back the momories of some awesome past hunts. You just don't know what a service good stock, operated correctly can provide. It can get ugly quick when it goes the other way. I too envy folks with the lifestyle, skills, and means to hunt like this. The large loads from a mature bull or a moose would be a huge challenge to recover on foot with help. Really spells it out for the solo backpack hunter, as to what he is getting into. Now add some warm weather to the situation and you can truly see the problem!
Eye opening thread! Thanks to all for the fine pictures....keep them comeing. LaGriz

 

[yama49]

 

[mntnguide]

Here a handful of the many i have....

 

[mcr-85]

Great pic. Good horse and a good buck.

Thanks Robby. It is the top buck that I posted with the grey horse behind him. I ride the grey and he hates deer. He will haul elk but he won't get near a dead deer. He is also the horse with the spike bull on him. He has changed colors quite a bit over the years. He used to be a dark brown that faded to a buckskin color. Now he's grey.

That is my dad leading his old horse hauling my buck. One of my favorite pictures also. He got rid of that horse though. The horse would buck when he got in thick new growth quakies or in thick brush. He was pretty sensitive on his belly and legs and we couldn't get him to stop bucking in the thick stuff. He was a hell of a horse that had no quit in him but it wasn't worth keeping him around and having my dad or someone else get hurt.

This is my horse as a 3 year old.


Same horse at as a 7 or 8 year old.

 

[Clarktar]

Dang. Hunting with stock is a dream of mine. I hope one day I can partake. I think just learning how to pack one would be super fun. WIsh I lived in an area where there were more folks locally doing this sort of thing. Kudos to all you fellas.

 

[charvey9]

From this past weekend on our first trip out. I'm green to this, but with the exception of a little setback on our first morning she did great.

 

[Shrek]

Congratulations on your first trip with your new friend .

 

[charvey9]

Congratulations on your first trip with your new friend .

Thanks!