Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting How do you pack out an elk head on a horse without stabbing them in the flank?

I just got Joe Backs original " the packers bible" has a picture page 72. I don't know the photo process. I could text or email some one if they wanna help illustrate. Thanks

I think Joe Backs illustration is almost identical to Ralphies describing his deal.

I don't like hide left on the carcass. I don't like packing vertebrae. I do like wrapping up everything like I am santas elf. And I prefer motorcycle tie downs over a diamond. So there u go.........I am not worthy.

But I do love my mules, and where I live is gawd awful steep. Had mule [bleep] in the panniers this year.

Before I went out west I thought mules were just like horses only with a different name. My rancher buddy could get the horses up a mountain by zig zagging back and forth, but I watched a packer with mules go straight up the face of those mountains. The musculature of those animals compared to our houses was amazing.

I have always field quartered the bulls and used soft panniers for the meat. I lead the horse or mule and carry the rack myself on my back-pack. I have tied a few of them to pack saddles when I was in my 20s, but in super heavy timber (Selway Wilderness) the rack can and often did get moved around on tree branches. I found after a few years of that kind of thing that it was easier for me to just carry the head and/or rack myself.

I over come the problem a few years back. Started shooting more cows

You got a late cow tag SS? No ML elk for me this year, I bowhunted. Got a 3rd season cow tag. Hope to haul one out with my two mules--righty and lefty.

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