Pack raft

[Ikeepitcold]

Any one ever use one? Or even heard of one?

 

[Drhorsepower]

If I ever draw an Oregon sheep tag, I will consider using one

 

[Multi-SpeciesHunter]

http://www.pristineventures.com/products/rafts-canoes/pioneer-x-stream.html

Like these? Float hunt in Alaska with one of these sounds nice!

 

[Drhorsepower]

http://www.pristineventures.com/products/rafts-canoes/pioneer-x-stream.html

Like these? Float hunt in Alaska with one of these sounds nice!

The big rig seems to be where it's at!

 

[Ikeepitcold]

Ya like those. Pretty cool I thought. I sure could have used one in ID when we used to elk hunt there.

 

[Fink]

I watched a show just a few nights ago, a few teams were racing across Alaska, and had to use pack rafts. The rafts couldnt been longer than 8 feet. A few guys dumped them on some pretty fast moving water. The small ones look really unstable.

 

[Ikeepitcold]

I watched a show just a few nights ago, a few teams were racing across Alaska, and had to use pack rafts. The rafts couldnt been longer than 8 feet. A few guys dumped them on some pretty fast moving water. The small ones look really unstable.

This show is where I saw the pack rafts. Very cool

 

[Kevin Root]

I've heard of some folks in Alaska that had good feedback hunting and packing using, Alpacka Rafts. https://www.alpackaraft.com/index.cfm/store.catalog?CategoryID=53

 

[tim]

pack rafts are to small to hunt and haul gear. Small rafts are not. There is a difference. Also, just like any moving water sport, you will nead the right gear and knowledge. In the pack raft you will be sitting in water, make sure you are prepared for that.
check out the pumas from aire. small, flyable and can pack some weight.

 

[Bonecollector]

The good thing about the spammers is the fact they revive some old threads and I see who has left the forum. Kind of sad

 

[tim]

I want one, if that matters, just been to busy, preoccupied to buy one.

 

[alaska2go]

I used one on a dall sheep hunt in the brooks range. A awesome way to go to transverse lots of wilderness country.

 

[Winchester]

^^ Now you gotta post the Sheep pic !!

 

[Maxhunter]

^^ Now you gotta post the Sheep pic !!

Exactly. Please show us some pictures

 

[mallardsx2]

I love the idea...BUT, I would poke a hole in that things in the first 5 minutes, and be walking the river the whole way out, likely during the salmon run, when the bears are feeding the hardest and dont want to be bothered....lol

 

[taskswap]

What I can't wrap my head around is, every time I see guys with these they're always pretty loaded with their gear and often going downstream. Show me using one to get a moose out of the back country. (Not poo-poo'ing the idea, I genuinely want to know how that works.)

 

[JimP]

What I can't wrap my head around is, every time I see guys with these they're always pretty loaded with their gear and often going downstream. Show me using one to get a moose out of the back country. (Not poo-poo'ing the idea, I genuinely want to know how that works.)

You place the moose into the raft and then you walk it downstream......They had a episode of Meateater once and that is the way that they did it.

 

[taskswap]

Ah that makes sense, thanks. So do you mostly try to "hunt upstream"? I imagine doing the reverse (trying to pull a loaded packraft upstream after a successful hunt) would be very challenging...

 

[JimP]

If that was the way that I planned on getting a moose out I would definitely hunt upstream. That is unless my way out of the country was downstream, then I would just float down to where the moose was.

 

[DRUSS]

for those who have used these, which model did you use and how well did it handle the weight you had in it? a buddy and i have been thinking about a float trip possible moose and caribou. But at what point are you loaded and done hunting per say? we have used full sized rafts and pontoons on a couple sheep hunts but never one of these pack rafts.