why do people pack out hooves

[welkin]

I see a lot of pictures on here from packouts with hooves sticking out of the top of game bags. Is there any reason to not cut off the lowest part of the quarters at the joint by slicing the ligaments? Just seems like more weight and there's no meat down there to speak off. I guess more bones more making broth/stock but doesn't seem worth it to me.

 

[Taudisio]

Never makes any sense to me when I see it, especially on elk. My dog likes deer hooves/bones. It’s a yearly treat for the old guy. But if it’s a packing job, he can have the bones after I take the meat off.

 

[huntnful]

My wife makes them into pickled elks feet…. I’m kidding, I don’t pack shit out, but that would be funny lol.

 

[fisherman983]

Because they are retarded. Plain and simple. Buncha retards see influencers doing it and they follow suit because they don't possess enough brain cells to think cognitively.
Its gross and disgusting. Dirty hairy legs covered in piss makes no sense to me but to each their own.

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[IDElkmagnet]

If we do its usually because it's a short pack out and I don't think they will get in the way. One less thing to dull the knife!

 

[Taudisio]

If we do its usually because it's a short pack out and I don't think they will get in the way. One less thing to dull the knife!

Why not do it last to save your blade? What to you do with the legs? Drive them home to throw them in the trash can?

 

[realunlucky]

Next time you cut it off wieght it and post it up. I'm curious why it's such a big deal to you guys.

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[TaperPin]

No judgement if someone has a foot fetish.

. . . pervs.

 

[fisherman983]

Next time you cut it off wieght it and post it up. I'm curious why it's such a big deal to you guys.

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Not really the weight its more the principle that meat is the trophy and you should keep it clean at all costs. Not try to imitate you tube clowns so you can take pictures for glory.

Plain and simple its a sanitary issue.

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[HairyScandinavian]

They probably don't know how to remove them at the joint and didn't pack their chainsaw. I've packed a few out for my dog but I still separated them and just carried by hand. She used to love deer legs and Elk legs and such and I always felt bad leaving her at home so it was fun bringing the treats.

 

[IDElkmagnet]

Why not do it last to save your blade? What to you do with the legs? Drive them home to throw them in the trash can?

Not really a reason but I can usually make a good blade go through a couple of animals without needing anything other than a touch up. If I start doing the back legs I will dull it pretty bad. A lot of ours come out on horse and I like to tie the legs together over the back. Its easy to knock them off at camp or home at my leisure not by myself on a steep side hill in the dark.
I grew up hunting with a gun and a fanny pack I was carrying elk out of the Frank church by throwing a rear over our shoulders holding just above the hoof and climbing out. The fronts we would tie together and drape around our necks

 

[IDElkmagnet]

This isn't directed at anyone in particular but IMO people are soft now, all while being judgemental. Who cares if you carry an extra few pounds if it's under a mile. Might as well get a workout in. People will load a pack and hike all summer the turn into a snowflake when they see a guy with an extra 3#.
Why do guys not bone out every quarter?

 

[IDElkmagnet]

Plain and simple its a sanitary issue.

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This is silly. You have lost a lot of meat by leaving the leg on?

 

[fisherman983]

This is silly. You have lost a lot of meat by leaving the leg on?

The lower leg that is covered in hair and nothing else? There is zero meat there. Nothing but bone and hooves

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[IDElkmagnet]

The lower leg that is covered in hair and nothing else? There is zero meat there. Nothing but bone and hooves

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Yes we are talking about the same part of the leg.
I probably carried 20 or 30 elk out that way before social media was invented like I said I used it as a handle or tied it to a saddle. I haven't lost any meat that way. Much to do about nothing.

 

[ozyclint]

Never makes any sense to me when I see it, especially on elk. My dog likes deer hooves/bones. It’s a yearly treat for the old guy. But if it’s a packing job, he can have the bones after I take the meat off.

So you pack the bones out then give them to your dog instead of making bone broth?

 

[RancherJohn]

I pack hooves and bones, and make broth of what is surrounded by meat (aka above the joint).

There are currently deer, elk, and moose legs/feet across my yard from things we have killed this year, and the dogs love them. I pack them out regardless of the fact that I have nearly unlimited bones from livestock to give them.

It cracks me up to see people concerned about weight on a packout, yet chasing the biggest bull or buck they can find.

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

What about hooves and the entire hide sticking off a backpack?

The horror!!!

Packed this spike coues buck down the mountain to the access road for a buddy who was in a bad car accident that year and his hip and ankle wouldn’t let him hike very far, particularly up the steep shit where these deer frequent.

I think the time from when I got to him to when he was strapped to the outside of my pack was maybe 10 minutes. No gutless method for every single hunt ever? Unfathomable I know.

My buddy then got to skin and process his own deer back at camp which he loves to do

 

[Mtnmilsurp]

My doggies like hooves

 

[waspocrew]

What about hooves and the entire hide sticking off a backpack?

The horror!!!

Packed this spike coues buck down the mountain to the access road for a buddy who was in a bad car accident that year and his hip and ankle wouldn’t let him hike very far, particularly up the steep shit where these deer frequent.

I think the time from when I got to him to when he was strapped to the outside of my pack was maybe 10 minutes. No gutless method for every single hunt ever? Unfathomable I know.

My buddy then got to skin and process his own deer back at camp which he loves to do

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Absolutely atrocious! We're going to see way too many people packing out this way now.