Horses, Horns, Pack Strings....

[Colorado Cowboy]

Yep, especially when it snows! If you look at picture #4, that's my son. We like to get above the timberline and look down on those depressions that are below us. the wind always seems to blow from below us and the deer like to bed down in the warm sand out of the wind. Shot some really nice bucks that way.

 

[OregonJim]

That first shot is insane..... thanks for sharing guys.

 

[ElkTrout]

Heck of a pack string in that first pic.


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[ElkTrout]

Not exactly the same as horses but here is my pack string! Can't ride them but they sure are nice packing out game!


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[OregonJim]

Awesome pics guys,
I don't want to hijack this PHOTO thread but this got me wondering about advantages of certain pack animals.
I'll start a new thread but for those of you have the experience please weigh in with advantages and disadvantages of each.
Thanks again

 

[Drelk]

Here's a couple of pics of my mule. Great animal. Fast. Sure footed. Comfortable to ride. Cover a lot of country in a hurry.

Last pic is of my old gelding that had to be put down three years ago. Slow. Steady. Super safe. Never got anywhere in a hurry. But you always got there.

 

[CoHiCntry]

Not exactly the same as horses but here is my pack string! Can't ride them but they sure are nice packing out game!
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That's pretty cool Elktrout! Are those your animals or do you rent them?

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

Drelk....nice looking mule. Love them for their comfortable ride, smart too!

 

[Brushstomper]

Cool pics guys!

 

[Jrod]

I am over the fashion, but that animal is huge

Here are a couple from a hunt were I took an elk in Wyoming, Area 7 . Pardon the fashion statement on the pants & gaitors. View attachment 9158View attachment 9159

 

[Arrowslinger]

Three 6 points in 36 hours from Eastern Oregon's backcountry.

Here's one of two goats we used to pack out two Northern California Blacktails:

Short hunt from the house:

 

[CrossCreeks]

Is that a goat in the second picture ? I do no think I have seen them used before !

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

Is that a goat in the second picture ? I do no think I have seen them used before !

Illegal to use goats in Colorado.

 

[Arrowslinger]

Is that a goat in the second picture ? I do no think I have seen them used before !

Sure is.....packed out an entire boned out blacktail -rack and cape in my pack on right.

 

[MaxPower]

Wish I had better pictures, but here are a few from the Bridger Teton National Forest.

 

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[2rocky]

Zia I always wonder if the horses with the pole across the butt get a sore there...

Here is my 73 year old dad and 68 year old mother leading the pack horses on a Summer Trip we did last Summer. I was afoot, and the folks were riding our stock.

I wimped out and used soft panniers on Sawbucks but we were moving every other day about 12 miles. It was just easier. total of 38 trail miles in 5 days.

This is Hells Canyon Mule Days in Enterprise, Oregon. About 1994?

Bro-in-law's 2009 Wyoming bull elk Wide enough to go tines down.

 

[2rocky]

Anyone wanna guess what happened next?

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

Looks like someones pissed off!

 

[mntnguide]

Few more..the last one...The difference between having a good pack animal or a bad one...The good ones stand still when things turn upside down.