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Let’s See Your Buck Poles!
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Contributors to this thread:
Chris S 06-Oct-24
Tater 06-Oct-24
butcherboy 07-Oct-24
butcherboy 07-Oct-24
Scrappy 07-Oct-24
Rgiesey 07-Oct-24
FrontierMulie 08-Oct-24
jmiller 08-Oct-24
BOWUNTR 08-Oct-24
badbull 08-Oct-24
Gun 13-Oct-24
WV Mountaineer 13-Oct-24
sdbowhunter 13-Oct-24
Chris S 14-Oct-24
Boreal 14-Oct-24
stagetek 14-Oct-24
Charlie Rehor 14-Oct-24
Bill J. 15-Oct-24
Slate 15-Oct-24
Grey Ghost 15-Oct-24
12yards 15-Oct-24
MichaelArnette 15-Oct-24
Grey Ghost 15-Oct-24
APauls 16-Oct-24
rock50 16-Oct-24
scent 16-Oct-24
Stix 16-Oct-24
Swampbuck 16-Oct-24
Wv hillbilly 16-Oct-24
Chris S 17-Oct-24
tobywon 17-Oct-24
From: Chris S
06-Oct-24
Get your minds out of the gutter! Let see some pics of the game poles at your hunting camps. I’ve seen all kinds ranging from lumber of 2x4 and 4x4 some out of lodge pole pines and others out of metal. Some with ropes some with pulleys others with hand cranks. My favorite was an old metal swing set at my buddies place in the UP wish I had some pics of it. A lot of memories and beers at the ole buck poles around camps exchanging stories, hand shakes as well as making of excuses. Let’s see some pics of your camps sacred spot!

From: Tater
06-Oct-24

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Hey Chris does this one count

From: butcherboy
07-Oct-24

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How about out in the field?

From: butcherboy
07-Oct-24

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Same game pole but was 7 years earlier.

From: Scrappy
07-Oct-24

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From: Rgiesey
07-Oct-24

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One of my favorite pictures. Mike Turner and I in Kansas.

08-Oct-24

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Meat pole we have used over the years in Wyoming for elk. Area in the shade almost all day. Gets meat cooled down quickly after harvest.

From: jmiller
08-Oct-24

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Our bow camp in northwestern WI

From: BOWUNTR
08-Oct-24

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Ed F

From: badbull
08-Oct-24

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Anybody else skin them on the ground and hang them on a nearby tree?

From: Gun
13-Oct-24

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13-Oct-24

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That man weighs 204 lbs. that’s a big mountain buck my brother killed a few years ago.
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That man weighs 204 lbs. that’s a big mountain buck my brother killed a few years ago.
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Same place just a different year
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Same place just a different year

From: sdbowhunter
13-Oct-24

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From: Chris S
14-Oct-24
Need a like button for pictures!

From: Boreal
14-Oct-24

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From: stagetek
14-Oct-24

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14-Oct-24

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Tractors work well too.
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Tractors work well too.

From: Bill J.
15-Oct-24

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From: Slate
15-Oct-24

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From: Grey Ghost
15-Oct-24

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Charlie beast me to the tractor concept.

From: 12yards
15-Oct-24

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Been hanging them in this pine in the yard since 1997.

15-Oct-24
I’m excited to see this, was thinking about building a “buck pole” at our new small acreage

From: Grey Ghost
15-Oct-24
It's definitely interesting to see the various methods. I've never hung a big game animal by the head to skin it, so that always looks odd to me. I also always remove the legs at the knees, and leave them with the gut pile in the field. It makes dragging and handling them so much easier, IMO.

From: APauls
16-Oct-24

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No buck pole just a moose pole

From: rock50
16-Oct-24

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From: scent
16-Oct-24

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20 yrs. this old maple has held some whitetails. scent

From: Stix
16-Oct-24

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Not at camp, but at my house. Repurposed my kids old swing set

From: Swampbuck
16-Oct-24

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Granddaughter’s first buck

16-Oct-24
Gg I was thinking the same thing. Always hung deer up by the back legs. Guess everyone was taught different ways and if it works for you keep it up. I find it easier to keep hair off the meat skinning from the back legs down. Seems like the cut around the neck would disperse a lot more hair on the meat? Tell me the advantages those that skin from the neck down. I’d like to hear the process.

From: Chris S
17-Oct-24
I was always told as a kid in the 80s you hung them upside down so if any blood internally in meat would drain with gravity towards head and leak out not into the hams and hind quarters which have most meat? Sounded good at the time but probably not realistic.

From: tobywon
17-Oct-24

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Lucky for an elevated deck at camp. Usually only hang this high when hanging overnight, otherwise we hang from eye hooks on the lower deck beams.

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