I know your just messin with me. You have been a great friend over the years, In all my years in the back country I have never lost any meat,These martins caught me off guard,they can climb up or down any rope,jump 5 or 6 feet I was nor prepared for them this time,but never again. Losing my...
.This meat was washed, cooled,trimmed dried and bagged,we would remove it from the creek every time we returned to camp,dried it, changed game bags etc.it was not thrown in the creek to rot
Your opinion,I have back country hunted my whole life with no problems keeping meat., I will purchase dry bags and take in some screen to make a cage next year.I had read of an Alaskan guide who submerged moose meat in the creek to keep it,I thought it must work .Thought I could get some been...
Rob,the first reasonable comment I have heard, I have hung meat for years with no problem,this time It caught me off guard I saw the little bugger. Thanks Man
Hung deer quarters in our back country camp.Above the crick in the shade, perfect temps.but in the morning a pine martin chewed through my game bag and ate a lb or 2 from a quarter. Nothing I tried could keep them out of the meat. In desperation we sank the meat in the crick for the next three...
Dog food works .but is way expensive. I use 3-way sweet from the local feed store,about 10$, for 50lbs. Out dated bread and sweet rolls from the local distributor 20$ a pickup load, Used cooking oil from the local cafe-Free, I buy bait sweet and attractant from Master Baiters ,Howe Idaho(on...
He is a dandy! We are 45 min to the trail head,50 min into our campsite by horse and then a mile or so to our bait site. We set up the site and left for a week.he came in the first time
4hrs after we left!!
Normally late May is the best,But the last two years with very little snow in most of the Central mtns,it is getting earlier each year,The bears are just coming out of hibernation earlier.The problem last year was early warm weather caused them to rub real bad. My bait is going out the first...