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<blockquote data-quote="Browninglover1" data-source="post: 527913" data-attributes="member: 29966"><p>Guys to be fair they were not huge bulls but I've done the same thing with 4 different elk. The first time we tried it we were back in a little farther than we wanted to be and there was no way in hell I was going to make two trips (there were two of us, which would have been 4 backpack loads) to get the spike elk out. So we decided we'd try to do it in one trip and we loaded our backpacks up. Then we put them on while they were on the ground, but they were so heavy we had to help each other stand up. A mile and a half later we were at the truck and couldn't believe we had done it. </p><p></p><p>That night I shot a MUCH bigger bodied elk and it took me 3 back pack loads to get him out but I only had to take him about a quarter mile out to the truck. That winter we got an average sized cow and got her in two backpack loads and then last fall we got another spike and that's the load I talked about in my first post. So my first post was probably a little misleading if people thought I was packing out a huge bull, but the spikes we shoot are as big as the cow elk we've shot through the years. However I've heard the cows in Wyoming are bigger than they are here so take that for what it's worth. But my pack had tons of room to spare with the load mentioned in my first post and I don't know how much it actually weighed but I was super glad when we got to the truck. By the way every time we've packed an elk out like this it's been all down hill, I don't think my legs could handle it if I had to go uphill farther than the 100 or 200 yards to get to the ridgeline.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Browninglover1, post: 527913, member: 29966"] Guys to be fair they were not huge bulls but I've done the same thing with 4 different elk. The first time we tried it we were back in a little farther than we wanted to be and there was no way in hell I was going to make two trips (there were two of us, which would have been 4 backpack loads) to get the spike elk out. So we decided we'd try to do it in one trip and we loaded our backpacks up. Then we put them on while they were on the ground, but they were so heavy we had to help each other stand up. A mile and a half later we were at the truck and couldn't believe we had done it. That night I shot a MUCH bigger bodied elk and it took me 3 back pack loads to get him out but I only had to take him about a quarter mile out to the truck. That winter we got an average sized cow and got her in two backpack loads and then last fall we got another spike and that's the load I talked about in my first post. So my first post was probably a little misleading if people thought I was packing out a huge bull, but the spikes we shoot are as big as the cow elk we've shot through the years. However I've heard the cows in Wyoming are bigger than they are here so take that for what it's worth. But my pack had tons of room to spare with the load mentioned in my first post and I don't know how much it actually weighed but I was super glad when we got to the truck. By the way every time we've packed an elk out like this it's been all down hill, I don't think my legs could handle it if I had to go uphill farther than the 100 or 200 yards to get to the ridgeline. [/QUOTE]
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