What a rush...
Contributors to this thread:Equipment
From: shade mt
28-Nov-22
Anybody else get a rush, when you finally unstrap a heavy pack?
Just got done packing out two big whitetails roughly 3 miles in one load (de-boned)...not sure what my pack weighed, with meat and gear but wow talk about a rush when i finally unloaded it off my shoulders....It took me a couple seconds to get over that rush.
From: KSflatlander
28-Nov-22
By rush do you mean a feeling like you’re floating? I feel super light after taking off a backpack you have been walking all day in.
From: wyobullshooter
28-Nov-22
Only if “Thank God that misery’s over!” qualifies as a rush.
From: Brotsky
28-Nov-22
I don't get the rush until I crack the first blue smoothie after dropping the pack in the truck bed.
From: caribou77
28-Nov-22
I feel like I can jump ten feet straight up…. Until I try… Then I remember white men can’t jump
From: shade mt
28-Nov-22
iv'e packed out before, just never had it quite that bad. Felt like i was going to float away, literally.
should have weighed it, pack held up great, was pretty impressed with that
From: Inshart
28-Nov-22
For sure. Few years ago, 3 of us packed out a big bull, a long way over some incredibly steep terrain. When we got back to camp, we weighed our packs - mine was 120 pounds. When I took it off - yup got that head rush your talking about.
Then took a beer out of the cooler and slammed about half of it. It was warm and came back up through my nose as I coughed and spit - NOT a good rush at all.
From: Bake
28-Nov-22
Whenever my buddy and I pack out an elk, the Metallica song "My Friend of Misery" goes through my head
From: cnelk
28-Nov-22
I haven’t packed out as many moose as some, but I’ve packed out 3 more than many have.
I would much rather pack out elk miles than a moose 1/2 mile.
Definitely a rush when you drop the pack
From: Beendare
28-Nov-22
Pack…sure…but taking off those bloody jeans and getting in the shower after a long pack out and 3 hr drive home is heaven.
From: Huntiam
29-Nov-22
Nope never got a rush from packing any animal out!! I get a rush from many things, but that’s not one
From: WV Mountaineer
29-Nov-22
The deer I pack out usually come a long ways. And, all but one have come out in one trip. It’s a lot of things. But, a rush isn’t any of it. I usually just collapse on the cooler in camp and cool down for a while. Just long enough for the stiffness to set in. That’s when I realize that life is good.
From: Bou'bound
29-Nov-22
Ahhhhhh no. Definitely no.
From: fuzzy
29-Nov-22
Big whitetail buck to me, =180# live weight about 65 to 70 pounds boned out. Big whitetail doe =135# live weigh 48 to 52 pounds fully boned out. So you're packing at least 100# maybe as much as 140# damn I BET it was a rush! Met a guide in a Newfoundland hunting camp who packed out his hunter's 3 YO bull moose in one go (hunter carried the rack and cape ) about 250# to 280# of meat. I was a sturdy fella in my day but Whew! Yall have my respect!
