The Meat Pole

Bow hunting is now upon us but the weather has been unseasonably hot with temperatures into the 80s and 90s.  Yikes!  If someone was fortunate-enough to kill a deer they'd never have an opportunity to hang it from the meat pole.  The carcass would have to go directly into the machine shed and someone would be up into the wee hours skinning and butchering the animal.

Not fun.

In any event the weather conditions will moderate very soon and before too long hunters will be patiently waiting for the opportunity to take a big game animal and the meat pole will be erected in anticipation and festivities will follow.  Some of you readers may recall that deer hunting around this locale has been generally excellent and there was even a short moment we ran out of places to hang our deer before butchering. Something needed to be done and it was only a little more than a year ago the brainchild of a easy to assemble, easy to disassemble, meat pole was born.  And that nifty, new meat pole received considerable use last year both early and later in the season.  As initially easy to put-up and take-down some glitches manifested themselves - namely inexpensive rope that was both slippery to hoist and slippery to hold a deer.

Those technical shortcomings have been remedied.  All the rope was replaced with marine-grade, solid-braided nylon anchor rope - complete with loops for easy of hoisting. Additionally, carabineers have been installed so that these heavy-duty big game gambrels can be easily attached and detached with a click. 

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Purchase these online from the comfort of your laptop or tablet at the Sportsman's Guide - they're more affordable than Cabela's. 

We now have the capacity and deer camp luxury to hang one deer in the shed and five more from the meat pole.  Six total.

Raising a toast to homegrown American ingenuity and hunters.