forget about how long you have left to hunt, I'm working on 69 and we leave for a backpack bow elk hunt next week in Colorado, you don't give yourself or the young man enough credit,he learned more than he realizes and you upon reflection have also learned, sounds like a great experience,do yourself and the young man a favor take him back out and work to get him a bull you'll both profit from the trip, God speed your son in Irac, semper fi
Man, is this a pack in backpack hunt? At 69? If it is you are a freakin stud. I'm no candy azz, but this backpacking crap is rough, and I rather enjoy it. TXhunter58 is going in at 51, you guys are getting me jazzed up. I got my pack down in the high 40 lb range, but after lashing on some garmets, it ended up in the low 50ish range. Last year it was 62lbs and it like to killed me.