HUNT LIGHTER GET READY PART THREE
That’s right . . . tote that around for the whole of your trip, keeping it in your pack. Don’t use it. Carry it for the whole trip, even during the pack-out with venison or trophy.
Why would you do that? Crazy talk!
What a difference it would make to how much extra energy you’d use up, and how much ground you might have otherwise covered with ease.
But, in effect this is what many hunters are already doing with what they carry and use on trips . . . lugging an unnecessary 3kg. I’m suggesting that by reading this series you will have trimmed at least 3kg off your load and be ready to hunt lighter and more efficiently this summer!
Hunters need to constantly make decisions about what is unnecessary against what is really needed to be both efficient and safe. Be wary of adding to your overall weight or bulk . . . and beware of a SUGAR overload from a “Slightly Unnecessary Gear Acquisition Reflex.” In the last issues we’ve concentrated on packs and shelter in finding strategies to trim down . . . remembering that reducing the weight and ‘bulkiness’ of what you carry actually means you can
