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Looking for a cheap frame pack just to pack out meat (deer and elk). I thought I'd seen them with just a small waist pack at the bottom and then the bare frame for putting meat on too, but I can't find them anymore.

Any suggestions?

What are you using to pack out the meat?

If you're looking for cheap, go with a Cabela's frame.

Google them.

Camptrails? used to offer a bare frame with bottom fold down shelf.

I just used a Kelty Tioga ($150, about) to pack out a moose slightly more than a mile (7 trips). Pulled the pack off, reversed the pins for cord loop-arounds, and I was good to go.

It could use a better back-band system for 100 lb loads..... like my 40 year old Kelty B5 had. I'm gonna miss that thing.

buy a Bull Pac. go cheap and your back may never be right again.

once your back is hurt it never goes back to how it was.....dont own a pack frame for packing out meat but its not some place i would worry bout spending an extra $50-75 on.....a trip to the chiropractor is atleast $40.....the surgery for my blown disk is gonna wind up around $18,000 though insurance happens to be covering it all.....

Looks like a good system- and still in MY "cheap" arena of finances. Might not be in his. I like the amount of back webbing - I hate it when the bars are riding on my shoulder blades or back. Even looks like one can run a shank bone down thru the bench easily for proper load distribution - I like to carry weight a little higher than they state, but to each his own.


With the Alice bags, etc, it should make a decent enough dual -use pack, with it's primary use as a freighter. Thanks for the tip- not that I'll likely be buying another pack in my lifetime... but I might.

I use all kinds of different packs with it, depending on need.








and it is indeed "comfy" !

Kelty Cache Hauler gets my vote!
http://www.amazon.com/Kelty-25905092FR-Cache-Hauler-Frame/dp/B001M0MISY

Don't know if they make 'em anymore, but the SMALL coleman frame that was on the Dwight Schuh pack that Cabelas sold is solid. I actually bought both the large and small so I could use the larger bag on the smaller frame -- the large frame is too flimsy.

If you don't use the bag, use nylon compression straps to hold the load -- rope sucks! The load will settle and you don't have to re-tie, just cinch her down a little more and keep rolling.

I can't tell you how many 100 lb plus loads I've packed out with that frame, but it's been many dozen loads and I'm sure in the hundreds of miles total.

I've gone with some expensive packs, but keep going back to the same setup. It also has the advantage of a fleece, waterproof bag which is QUIET in the woods. Can't stand loud packs and almost all the quality stuff is loud.

The best looking frame pack-meat hauler I've seen in a LONG time is the Badlands OX... I'll likely get one. For me, the Bullpac is just too short for heavy loads, lacks load lifters, etc. A nice compromise no doubt, but I'd go elsewhere.

http://www.cabelas.com/fryprod-0/product--Badlands-OX-Pack-Frame--715980.uts.shtml

A pretty good review:

http://forums.bowsite.com/TF/bgforums/thread-print.cfm?threadid=382025&forum=5