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    Posted: 04 December 2021 at 11:39
Guess I'm ancient.
just found out my backpack is "classic" with vintage campers.

Seems to me I bought the Camp Trails large external frame pack  in 1970, just a little while ago.  It is a welded aluminum external frame with a large canvas bag.  Keeps you cool as it sits off your back, and can carry heavy loads 80# is (was) my max on a 58 mile hike into the adirondacs.

Over the years beside backpacking it has been my trapping basket and game hauler.  Since I can't drag deer any longer (nor any shorter) it goes in the truck so I can butcher deer in the woods where they fall.  Takes two trips out but fine and no falls for me with a staff.

Anyone using an external backpack????  you could then be called vintage.
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I have a pack frame for hauling meat. (Kinda the same thing)

The thing I like about it is it's very lightweight. I have carried a front and rear elk quarter at the same time and it wasn't that bad. 

I like vintage stuff better than the new fangled stuff almost every time, but I'm starting to realize lighter is better. 

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wing, do you skin the quarters in the field, or do you leave it on till home?

Do you have a pack bag or just rope it on to the frame?
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I leave the hide on to keep the meat cleaner. I don't use a bag. I just tie them on the pack with para cord. 

I leave a little more of the leg than I would have to but that makes it easier to tie them and not have them move. 

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