Packing Out Your Buck 
(Continued from page 669) 
watching the compass if necessary, etc., 
even an animal of two hundred pounds 
may be packed a goodly distance. The 
heavier the animal the shorter the re- 
lays of course. 
There are many advantages in this 
form of carry. The hunter has his 
arms free to fight brush, help himself 
over logs, etc. Freedom of the arms 
may be aided: further by drawing the 
deer’s hind legs closer together with 
a piece of string and tying them. This 
prevents the leg-loops sliding over the 
shoulders of a narrow or sloping-shoul- 
dered man—a very important consider- 
ation. 
The weight is centrally located. It is 
just about where a packsack would lie 
and sticks close to the body—a matter 
of great moment while trying to pre- 
serve balance in following logs, getting 
over them, fording streams, etc. A 
burden that swings about is a veritable 
nightmare when the carrier is negotiat- 
ing such difficult places. Also most of 
the weight falls upon the shoulders 
where most packers like it to be. 
One can rest without getting free 
from the animal by sitting or reclining 
by a log or stone, allowing the hams 
of the deer to rest upon the log, just 
as every trail-wise woodsman rests his 
packsack. It is easier also to get going 
again from this position than to throw 
the animal off and then have the strug- 
gle of rising again. 
It will be found that when the head 
of the animal is not discarded that in 
falling to right or left it tends a trifle 
to disrupt the balance of the load. This 
can easily be remedied by holding the 
opposite hind leg with the hand or by 
resting the rifle on it. Indeed the pro- 
truding hind legs make a rather con- 
venient rifle rest at any time. In the 
case of a large deer with heavy antlers 
this trouble over the head may be reme- 
died in another way. By drawing the 
head back — straight back —the neck 
may be bowed- until the horns lie upon 
the deer’s own back, and by means of 
a string the right horn can be tied ‘to 
the right foreleg and the left horn to 
the left foreleg. The tighter the head 
is cramped back the better. It then 
has a rein on it from either side and 
cannot wobble, thus keeping the weight 
fairly in line with the deer’s backbone 
—and also the packer’s backbone. 
In case the hunter does not wish to 
mutilate the front shanks—(for the 
feet may be turned into rather pleas- 
ing souvenirs around the home)—it is 
not necessary to cut them in the above 
manner. A double hitch around the 
shank with a bit of stout twine—and 
no hunter should go into the woods 
without some string in his pockets—tied 
tightly into the knife-holes at the hock, 
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