If this has been asked before my apologies, did a search and came up empty, but what type game bags is everybody using.

Caribou Gear. Bought them in the Bargain Cave at Cabelas online a couple years ago. They are lightweight, tough, re-usable, and very breathable. I'm sold!

I go to Goodwill, buy bed sheets and wife sews them up into bags.

Been using TAG bags for about 8 years now and will never use anything else.

Game bags

I just go to walmart and buy cotton laundry bags...they work fine.

About as good as they come and they cost a fraction of what commercial game bags cost. Old pillow cases are great for trimmings, hearts, etc. Sheets have a tight weave so they keep more dirt & bugs out while they still let the heat escape quickly. Besides, when my kids grew up, I ended up with the only superman and leopard spot game bags on the mountain.

No way is someone else's old sheets touching my elk. I would buy new pillowcases.

Dink

yup

Thrift shop pillow cases here..

Hate to be a buzzkill but there are millions of dead skin cells even in freshly laundered sheets and pillow cases...perhaps billions. Not to mention every other bodily fluid cells known to mankind.

No friggen way I'm letting those things touch my elk meat.

My wife just bought a small bolt of muslin and sewed up six of them for me. She put ties on the mouths, which I thought was gilding the lilly, but they work. She double stitched all of the seams. The two big ones will each hold a deer with the lower legs cut off. The four smaller ones will handle the hind legs, the shoulders and and all the boned out meat from an elk. You can divvy it up so that each one is a manageable load on a pack frame. The material breathes, but is thicker and tougher than bed sheets and the like.

TFF! Holy [bleep] you dumbasses are a riot..

i used tag bags that a friend had several times. my own bags are caribou bags. i cant tell the differance in them. both brands are very compact.

i always keep sheets at camp and at the truck for extra coverage.

I use heavy duty canvas bags, though I can't remember the brand.

Those cheapie throw away bags are less than useless, as are the Alaska game bags IMO. They let flies and dirt right in.

I'm bringing hand sanitizer on my next hunt.. and Sanitizer wipes..

I'm OCD'ing that [bleep] elk!

Cabela's sells em.

Yet you sleep on them when you stay at a motel, or a friend's house, or your own house.

We're renaming it the OCD campfire!

What Saddlesore said, and they are large enough to take full quarters with no bone showing out the top.

People that use that crap just get sick more often..

Double buzzkill a wife mucks out most profits.. grin

If you want to see something scary, look at an elk's hide under a microscope, especially a rutting bull. It would gag a maggot.

That and or get king size pillow cases and put rope in the opening in a draw string formation.

These are the same type of guys that brag about leaving the hide on an elk to keep it cleaner

LOL... maybe he doesn't have a washing machine and bleach.

I ain't afraid of dirt.

Dink

I THINK it might be ok to wash them before use..... some folks are nuts seems.

Probably some lead fragments in the meat too! It's a wonder any of us have lived as long as we have

You ever notice the numbers of people (men) using a public restroom then leaving without washing their hands? Thinking about the last thing they had in their hands right before grabbing the door pull is incentive enough for me to take my chances with hand sanitizer...just saying.

Having said that, worry about using a "used" sheet to pack out meat is laughable to me! Ever heard of a washing machine? And if you looked at what you sleep on every night under a microscope, that which is living in your nice clean bed, you'd have nightmares! LOL! You want to freak out? Google "demodex" and see what's living on YOU!

Lol. Maybe I went overboard, but I ain't using some old pillow case with dried saliva and [bleep] embedded, embedded deep, deep into the cotton fibers at the microscopic level.

Only use public restrooms when I absolutely have to and when I do I don't touch anything.

I think I might have some of that OCD ?

Cause I don't seem to mind if I am just not strong enough to hang the quarters in a tree with out one or two hitting the ground.

Maybe I am not fast enough to suit some's idea of getting the game field-dressed?

Bet I never even a seen a horse, mule or pack-out equipment that meet packing-plant standards?

I hear that flies puke digestive enzymes onto what ever their eating before they can lap up elk meat!

I bet there are more pathogens just floating in the air then we can count?

Why many of us even cut right through what for a lack of a better name could be called the bulls 'piss-parch' with the same knife we use for the entire field dressing process!

Not sure for the life of me what is wrong with using bed sheets?

But for those that are sure that is what caused the mutant germ that lead to zombies?

There not invited!



I bet the squimsh-factor is inversely proportional to the amount of time afield or on the farm?

btw: Used bed sheets are a lot handier sewn into a pouch. Way handier yet of they have a draw-string! Handier then just mantied around a quarter with used bailing-twine. Once it's cold enough, I have not had a lot of problems with out anything.

You touch your goober....


.....then grab the door knob. The same one everyone else has to grab.

You missed the dont touch anything part..at least anything that isnt mine.

Old bed sheets sewn up into bags are my favorite.

This!!
I pay about 50cent per on average.

Be safe

Had I known pillow cases were germ factories I would have at least washed yours - before I gave them to you.......

I use the sportman warehouse brand quarter bags....there fairly reasonable!

I only shoot the elk that have a bubble around them!

BINGO!!!

Great tip on the bed sheets guys. Thanks!

Right on Esox.

I'm looking for the guy in the bubble this year.

All this saliva and [bleep] talk has me spooked....

I'm taking TAG bags with me again this year on my CO elk hunt. They are lightweight and pack small. My wife is not good with a needle and thread.

Caribou are very light, very strong and don't take up much space in your pack. Wash them and reuse them. I think they are a good investment.