2017 Elk Packing Pics
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From: cnelk
28-Nov-17
Post up your 2017 elk meat packing pics!
I know you all take em :)
From: Brotsky
28-Nov-17
Still the best day I can remember! :)
From: Lark Bunting
28-Nov-17
Does this elk make my butt look big?!
Does this elk make my butt look big?!
This was the third trip in 3 miles with crazy elevation gains to retrieve the head and camp the following day. I was contemplating leaving the head behind to collect next year. I was on a couple hours sleep after two days, completely stressed out, hungry, exhausted, hot, and apparently babbling because my son still gives me all sorts of shit about the nonsense coming out of my mouth.
I compare it to what women must go through with child birth. Absolutely insane amount of pain, almost torturous...but I can't WAIT to get back out there to do it again! :)
From: The last savage
28-Nov-17
Great pic Justin!!
From: YZF-88
28-Nov-17
It was hot. He was heavy. Is it September yet?
From: TravisScott
28-Nov-17
After a long day this bull died next to a creek about 7 river miles to the road and downstream the whole way. In hindsight it would have been way easier to pack the bull the 4 miles back to the truck but in my head using a canoe and working with gravity sounded way easier. As it turns out the slippery river rocks were about as hard to walk on as anything you could imagine. 30+ hours later from the shot, we made it to the truck and got him home.
From: pahoyt
28-Nov-17
First elk, first day of elk hunting ever in Idaho sept 17
From: Lark Bunting
28-Nov-17
Brotsky, I may have to call you and Kia out to help me on the next one. She's making that hike out look SUPER easy!!!
From: pahoyt
28-Nov-17
From: pahoyt
28-Nov-17
From: HUNT MAN
28-Nov-17
From: HDE
28-Nov-17
From: LKH
28-Nov-17
Not an elk, but one of my favorites. This Oct with son's buck head, cape and both hinds. I'll be 70 in a few days and not sure how many more packouts I'll get.
I've taken a number of packing photos and love the memories they engender.
Congrats on your elk. Get as many in while you're young. They don't get easier.
From: CO Ambush
29-Nov-17
Incredible feeling!
Incredible feeling!
With a little help from a friend!
With a little help from a friend!
One of the best days of hunting I've ever had.
From: Heat
29-Nov-17
From: Eric B.
30-Nov-17
From: sitO
30-Nov-17
Dang HUNT...carried a horse out too? You the MAN!
From: Gene
01-Dec-17
From: Gene
01-Dec-17
LKH - Great photo! I will hit 70 in 2018 and hope to keep at it. Best to you.
From: Cheesehead Mike
01-Dec-17
Getting ready to throw the skull and antlers around my neck with my pack already loaded down with a bag of meat, my bow and all my hunting gear.
Getting ready to throw the skull and antlers around my neck with my pack already loaded down with a bag of meat, my bow and all my hunting gear.
This photo was taken before it got dark and before we ran into a huge god forsaken patch of blowdowns on the steep mountainside which turned this pack out into the worst I've experienced.
This photo was taken before it got dark and before we ran into a huge god forsaken patch of blowdowns on the steep mountainside which turned this pack out into the worst I've experienced.
From: Treeline
01-Dec-17
Day 2 of a long pack out. The head and a front quarter on a pack frame. 3 miles and a couple thousand feet of elevation to go...
From: Bowriter
01-Dec-17
The last load out and the next to last one I killed.
From: Dirty D
01-Dec-17
From: LKH
01-Dec-17
Dirty, I was going to PM this, but here goes, what part of what seems to be a bit of masochism, made you include the lower legs on your packout??????
From: cubdrvr
01-Dec-17
This old mans butt was dragging!
From: Alhase1
01-Dec-17
My favorite elk pack out picture!
From: LC Archer
01-Dec-17
I wasn't smiling so much when we did a double load of meat to the truck. ;)
From: LC Archer
02-Dec-17
From: LC Archer
02-Dec-17
From: Bowriter
02-Dec-17
Hope I can find it, picture of me packing a load out at sundown in a really bad, bear country and my handgun in the truck. I think my expression, upon reaching flat ground, says it all. Found it...not a huge elk but actually, quite a humorous story behind it. Also, when making the video, "Double Teaming Bulls,", I coined the phrase, "Always shoot small bulls." I was joking but it fit so well with the footage of packing out, up a steep ridge, we left it in. My comment was, "They are running too many cows out here and they have breathed up all the oxygen. That is why you should always shoot small bulls."
From: Dirty D
02-Dec-17
LKH - no machoism. We hunt about 8-miles from the truck but a packer helps retrieve our critters. I only had 1-mile to get to our scheduled rendezvous point and I was afraid I was going to miss them. So I stuffed both quarters in my pack and started hustling. When your pack is that stupid heavy, a couple lbs. worth of extra bone is really a moot point anyway. Ha!
From: Ski & Skin
03-Dec-17
Help from friends.
From: Bigdan
03-Dec-17
This is the way I like to pack them
From: Snag
03-Dec-17
Always kind of liked this one.
From: Treeline
04-Dec-17
Is that Big Dan? Kind of looks like eastern Montana...
Thought it might be Wyoming, but didn't see a gun rack in the back window!
From: SlipShot
04-Dec-17
Here is my hunting partner packing his bull. He is 6 foot 4 inches. Bull green scored 354 3/8.
From: Cheesehead Mike
04-Dec-17
I could just lean back and rest on the antlers when I needed a break...
I could just lean back and rest on the antlers when I needed a break...
I know the photos are supposed to be from 2017 but since there are photos above from other years I'll post these from my favorite pack out a few years ago... :^)
From: Treeline
06-Dec-17
Love that one, Cheesehead!
From: GhostBird
06-Dec-17
Man, you guys do it the hard way.
From: APauls
06-Dec-17
Boy you can sure see the difference between some akward, and less akward loads!
From: bullelk
07-Dec-17
Idaho last weekend cow.
From: Broken Arrow
09-Dec-17
Not from this year, but, I like the this picture, my brothers big whale tail 5 point. The bull made his last rub on the back of my brothers neck, the base of the antlers were hard on the skin.
From: elkman52
12-Dec-17
cheesehead mike that pic. brings the term "Wide Load" to mind....very nice
From: WapitiBob
13-Dec-17
From: BRI
13-Dec-17
From: deerslayer
13-Dec-17
The only way I like to do it.
