How to pack and organize a hunting backpack

Alright, what I want to do now is explain to you exactly how and why I keep all of my gear in my back

pack

for a back

pack

style hunt. If you want a quick overview of exactly the gear I carry, you can check out a recent video we made about my 2018, tell me about another hunt that will be in the description below, as well as the link to an article that describes even more, so today I'm going to start basically taking your

backpack

and what I like. The first thing you do is go through all the straps and undo any buckles you have here to open the

backpack

to a larger capacity.

These ones below make it a lot easier when I start to get all your gear in there and that's it. like super tight at the bottom, I can actually fit a lot of things in it, so open everything up, so why have to start? I just put a lot of light things at the bottom, like your tent, your sleeping bag, your sleeping mats in the middle. I'll start playing with some of my food so my layers of clothing because what I like to do is just shove everything in there and get as many air pockets out as possible, you don't really need a giant backpack if you're really conscious of how you're doing. packing up and getting rid of all the air holes, as you will see.

I don't have any dry bags in my entire backpack because all of my clothes will be stuffed into all the little air pockets, so just keep Explaining all that, I'm going to start packing right now, so I'm going to grab my tent. I'll just push this into the bottom and see you could use the compression bag for such a large tent, but for me it compresses a lot. Well, I could push it here. I can push things on top of it and really get it into the position I need. So I like to make this seam a little bit longer, so I'm going to take it and put it on the shallow side and there.

I just compress it in the package and next to it I will place my quilt in the same way and I will place it this way inside the package, although this way I don't want to use that upper volume. I want to use that death. side of this right here, I'm going to put that next to it and I'll see here to loosen this up a little bit, so I put it right there next to it, what I like to do is take some smaller elements and try to find some. little pockets of air push it down just like that and then a lot of times I don't leave my rain gear on top if I know it's going to rain.

I'll keep my rain jacket on the top side but a rain pants I leave on the bottom the best thing I do when I'm packing is just roll things up. Some clothes work better rolled up. I don't like folding them, otherwise let's take a jacket and stuff it under our rain pants. I have found that it works better when I roll them back up. I'm going to push it all the way in. You see. I have a little air pocket down there and I don't want any air pocket. I'm sure everything is compressed. at the bottom, press it like this until my sleeping pad in the middle has another air pocket right here, push that rain fly down, it's going to stay on top, but right now I'm going to start throwing some in of my layers without expecting a lot of rain if I ever zip my rain jacket at the bottom again to fill a bunch of holes, let's do that for now.

I'm going to throw my tie back on the sheet so many times I can get this nice little one writing this. - stick it behind everything you've already packed in there, it's nice that the bottom is really light and basically, or sleepwear, some insulating layers so you can push it down and compress it without worrying about it breaking anything other than It's valuable like an optic or something like that is on the side. I would try to leave a small pocket because I throw my spotting scope on the side of my backpack and I always keep a Crown Royal bag.

My spyglass is in my backpack. In fact, I'm pushing. This, as you can see right on the side, goes all the way up, so if I need to do it easily, you know, access my spotter real quick and I'm walking. I can open the side and grab it, and I also like that it's buried. very low so put it to the side and this is where I would throw my food and also save space. I don't carry an extra bag for food. I'll use one of my game bags because I kept the game. I have a bag anyway, so I could also use it as food explicitly, I only have one one day with the food here, I drop my house on the mountain again.

I try to get the air out of everything, even though it's a game, it's breathable, I still roll it up tight. and small, you know, compress it as much as I can, so the next thing I'm going to do is take the stove and put it in there. You have a big, bulky item that doesn't fit well next to a spotter, but the best thing is that I have all these insulating layers so you can put them in there in a second super super balanced and then I'll have a shaker bottle for my breakfast and that will make noise.

I take out this mixing ball, I just throw it in. my backpack anywhere and then fill the space because it's obviously very valuable space when you're packing. I'll hold up anything I can hear, like my gloves down the bottom and my hat next to the spotter I'm now going to wear. another one, my layers of insulation and I'll use it around these empty spaces next to the spotter and next to the stove and then I'll grab my extra bag of drone berries. I want to keep it on top, get in the flow and get some. water that there and then all the rest of these play bags, you could put them underneath sometimes I use them on top again just to fill the gaps, a bunch of air bags and then the removable camp, you could put it on top, but I have There's a lot of room here, I usually leave it on the side where all my safety gear is and then we get to the cable, oh then it rains flying on the top, I just understand you want it to rain again and close.

Go down as far back as I can and my tent pegs and then at this point I'll finally start to zip up a little bit higher. You know, this is when I will feed my water. In a way I say that this with the top is to place Adama don. Don't try to put in any sleeves or anything like that. I would like to pass this on this side, the bladder full of two liters, the biggest thing you see trying to make a king on the top of your backpack. I'm going to set that up. this little corner here that insulating layer, if I ever sit with a glass for a while, I'd like to keep it on top of my backpack, you know, it's like the volume of the backpack as I pack it, it still stays like a nice round. shapes and filling all those air holes toilet paper that you take the air out of I'm going to put this in the south side pocket here along with the extra muzzle bullets from my lighthouse I'm going to carry three powders, a bunch of bullets and a bunch of primers and the top let's create a lot of my pocket.

I'll put the rear seatback support on top for easy access and within reach of the mini that will be somewhere. I want to try to grab the case. I need it, so I put it on top. I'm going to preside. I'm going to put that in the backpack, as well as my mom's little starter and then I'll have this around my neck. I'm getting close to the shot, but we're going to be walking right now. It will show the top of my back with the zipper up and now we basically have a package all together. What I add to the bottom will be my glass pad.

You know, I'm finally off the stage. Let's start adjusting things. I like to squeeze everything in because I don't like things moving on my sides and then since I'll have a muzzleloader on the side of my body, I'll try not to avoid always putting the calluses on my right side. Mazal on his right shoulder put something big like a tripod on the left side so I'm going to put my trekking poles here checking the poles. Sometimes I'll walk with them or just put them in my backpack right now. To use one for walking, put this trekking pole here, try to separate it from my body and this other side will be where I put my tripod a lot of times.

I just kick two legs in there sure enough or we could go with all three. If you want and this, I always try to make sure I keep the tripod arm away from my body. Sometimes you can beat that thing here that will move to trap you inside the body. I would avoid it, I can just walk. down, you know, let's take these last ones, good for keeping a boat tight and racing with passion, some extra straps that get caught in the debris, scaring the animals, there you have it, it fits everything and you can see I have tons of extra space so I can easily pack for the rest of my two days and I've had both days of food sitting out so I pack everything loaded for the three day backpack uh okay and I do a quick rundown of where I was packing all my items again, so I pack everything light. stuff on the bottom so I don't want a heavy weight sinking on me so my sleepwear on the bottom has layers of insulation in the middle layer.

I start putting some of my food in that is getting a little heavier and I try to keep a lot of my heavier items on top of my backpack so you know if you had an extra optical scoop on top and my spotter on the side they are still quite high and then I also want to store a lot of items that I might need at a moment's notice. notice I want to have buried it at the bottom attack on the tread dig you know something there so keep a rain jacket on top a rain fly I keep all my headlights in my safety gear easy access on the outside of this little pocket right here it is It's quick and easy to get extra bullets and then you know all your extra snacks sometimes you put them on top to try to keep everything

organize

d in your backpack.

You know where everything is easily accessible, like I said, you don't want to put things that you need. a thinner than ever pack is a good solution because you never know when you need it, yeah you just have to learn it, put it all in there and make it super tight as you can. I said making those airbags happen is the key, like this is a 3300 Pack I can easily spend six days with this pack. I hope you enjoyed this segment on how to pack a backpack. As always, I appreciate your comments. If you have any comments, please post them below.

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