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<blockquote data-quote="Reelamin" data-source="post: 2960808" data-attributes="member: 42157"><p>I will hike some rough country, and I just do not do the super dangerous stuff anymore. I have some vertigo all the time, and straight drops scare me the last 5 years. If we have two of us to pack out a deer I'll hike in 5-10 miles and spend some days. If just me I try to limit it to a couple miles for deer. </p><p>I bone out the meat and cape the skull if I have time. (Saves about 7lbs not packing skull/jaw bone out) If I have to pack it much more than a few hundred yards I bone it out.</p><p>I am still able to go pretty much where I want and I know I will fall down. Luckily I am still agile enough to roll, and move to minimize impact and not smash my bow/rifle. </p><p>This years buck was in stupid steep terrain, with blow downs for about a half mile. The steep where you have to step sideways because your foot from heel forward wont bend enough to touch the ground. I got into it without major falls just some stumbles and falling backwards against the hill on my butt. I boned out as well as I could, and did not have the time to cape the skull. Split the meat up about equally with half and skull cape on pack. I would take the pack down about 50-100yds, then go get the bag and rifle leaving the pack. I fell forward and did the turtle a few times each until I got out of the blow downs . Packed out 70lbs of meat and 20lbs of skull/cape. All told from hiking in 3/4 mile after spotting it, shooting, boning, and getting out to the truck little over five hours.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Reelamin, post: 2960808, member: 42157"] I will hike some rough country, and I just do not do the super dangerous stuff anymore. I have some vertigo all the time, and straight drops scare me the last 5 years. If we have two of us to pack out a deer I'll hike in 5-10 miles and spend some days. If just me I try to limit it to a couple miles for deer. I bone out the meat and cape the skull if I have time. (Saves about 7lbs not packing skull/jaw bone out) If I have to pack it much more than a few hundred yards I bone it out. I am still able to go pretty much where I want and I know I will fall down. Luckily I am still agile enough to roll, and move to minimize impact and not smash my bow/rifle. This years buck was in stupid steep terrain, with blow downs for about a half mile. The steep where you have to step sideways because your foot from heel forward wont bend enough to touch the ground. I got into it without major falls just some stumbles and falling backwards against the hill on my butt. I boned out as well as I could, and did not have the time to cape the skull. Split the meat up about equally with half and skull cape on pack. I would take the pack down about 50-100yds, then go get the bag and rifle leaving the pack. I fell forward and did the turtle a few times each until I got out of the blow downs . Packed out 70lbs of meat and 20lbs of skull/cape. All told from hiking in 3/4 mile after spotting it, shooting, boning, and getting out to the truck little over five hours. [/QUOTE]
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