Packing Methods: Backpacks, Horses, Llamas, and More for Backcountry Hunting

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Joseph von Benedikt

Backcountry, Rifle, Deer, Podcast, Elk, Mountain, Sports, Hunt, Wilderness, Cartridge, Hunting

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🗓️ 2 August 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

SHOW NOTES:

• The older you get, the less you like to carry—yet the more you appreciate remote backcountry.

— Condors & lead bullet correlation update: The science behind it. Please listen to Randy Newberg's Episode No. 87 of Hunt Talk Radio. Here's a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzBbxm2cFhw

BACKPACKS vs. PACK ANIMALS

Backpacking favors daily adaptability. Live out of your pack. Hunt extreme terrain where horses can’t go.
Pack animals favor major shifts in location, and eliminates restrictions on how deep you can hunt for big-bodied game.
Both methods have advantages and limitations

Limitations:

• How deep can you hunt? How much food and gear can you carry in? How much meat can you carry out?

• Heat and distance: meat's primary enemies when backpacking

• Maintaining and caring for pack animals while hunting

• Weight and distance are limited when backpacking, particularly when hunting big-bodied animals such as elk.

• On-the-fly adaptability is limited when horse packing.

Advantages:

• Backpacking enables extreme simplicity & flexibility.

• Pack animals enable you to transport meat much more easily.

• Pack animals allow a more comfortable camp, better food, and longer stays in the backcountry.

Types of backpack:

• External frame packs and their pros & cons

• Internal frame packs and their pros & cons

• Hybrid crossover packs--and why they're a bad idea

Types of pack animal and the advantages and disadvantages of each:

• Horses: Strong, friendly, capable. The quintessential pack animal. Need lots of care. Expensive. Potentially dangerous.

• Mules: Just like horses, but different.

• Burros: There's a reason prospectors and expectant mothers love them.

• Llamas: Sinister-looking but oh so capable.

• Goats: Yes, really.

Transcript

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0:00.0	All right folks. Thanks for tuning in today. Welcome to the
0:04.4	backcountry hunting podcast. I'm Joseph on Benedict and today I want to talk about
0:10.5	packing your gear and your meat. Backpacks, pack animals such as horses,
0:18.0	llamas, goats and so forth and the advantages of each. So the older you get the less you like to carry, but the more you value
0:28.0	backcountry hunting, you often get to do it less because of additional challenges in your life as far as
0:35.4	family and work and everything that goes with that. So when you do get into the
0:42.1	backcountry you well you're starting to face the crippling effects of middle age and older age and yet you really want to make the most of your experience. So sometimes it really behooves you to have
0:57.3	pack animals. Other times carrying a backpack adds certain versatility and adaptability that trumps the weight carrying abilities and the extended stay food carrying abilities of a pack animal. We're going to talk about all this.
1:15.1	We're going to talk about the different types of pack animals and their suitability for
1:19.7	different types of terrain and types of hunting.
1:23.2	We'll talk about types of backpacks as well
1:25.6	on how to choose the right one for you
1:28.1	and your intended hunting methods.
1:31.3	Now first, I want to step back to the previous episode which was 31 of the
1:38.4	backcountry hunting podcast and address a couple of comments that I made in there regarding condors and lead
1:47.5	fragments in carcasses. Now that episode was on the advantages and
1:52.1	disadvantages of monom metal bullets.
1:55.0	These are the all copper so-called non-toxic type of
1:59.0	projectiles, right?
2:01.0	And in there I put out a, I threw out an opinion, my own opinion on condors and lead poisoning
2:09.5	and so forth and then asked for anybody that had concrete information to share that with me just so that I could
2:17.0	well one be better informed myself and then two also help listeners be better informed and a listener whose
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