Which Fabric do the Gurus recommend.

[Tonykarter]

slaughtered meat

sleep on something that you've cut up dead animals on

After we slaughter them there is no nap. There is only work. We owe a responsibility to the animal not to waste it, but to immediately process it and get it out of the woods and into an ice chest. Once we do that then we can sleep. I think he is referring to sleeping on it prior to making the kill.


Here is an idea for the tarp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6h0r4d9HfU. http://www.survival-solutions.com/o-...--details.html
You can get by with a net hammock, but I have used them previously on my hunting trips for midday naps and they offer minimal utility and comfort. My experience has been that they are cold due to the net exsanguinating the blood from my bottom side more efficiently than a solid material hammock. All hammocks do this, but a net hammock obtains a special sadistic satisfaction in doing it. Carry the few extra ounces of a material hammock and enjoy that noon nap. Heck, at my age that's the best part of my hunt! I currently use my old gateway hammock that I haven't used in years, my little Grand Trunk. It's good enough for an hour or two nap, packs down well into my pack, including its suspension. It will make do for now, but I am on the hunt for a longer ultralight hammock to replace it, lighter, but longer to achieve greater comfort.

As for the meat ground cloth: Take a large contractor's garbage bag. It offers multiple uses, has more utility. The biggest of them can be used as a makeshift bivy sack, or awesome poncho. Good Hunting! Please pass on the legacy of this most basic American heritage!

[jellyfish]

+1 on two different pieces of fabric.

I can see using the tarp/meat cloth as the same piece of fabric, but what if it rains when you are in the hammock? You'd get soaked through.

If the tarp is separate, you could use both at the same time.

If you are planning to field dress and pack out game, then you must be pretty strong, so what is another 16 oz in your pack?


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[xtrm611]

I'm looking to carry a tarp in my hunting pack that I can hide under in the rain, turn into a hammock for a lunch time nap, and throw meat on top of when I'm boning something out. Light, water resistant, and easy to clean blood off when I get home. Any recommendations of what material to use?

jellyfish, I love how you always think outside of the box, it gets the ideas rolling! Lots of excellent info so far for you and the rest of us interested in the same topic.

[jellyfish]

I am willing to trade hammock sewing for game, so long as it isn't elk. I have never developed a taste for elk.


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[Tyst Död]

Fabric? No. I've been an avid hunter for almost 30 years and would never lay or butcher on fabric. They are dressed, hung and processed. Meat can be stored wrapped in plastic.
Bring a sheet of plastic with you, don't use items you sleep on or under. It's not very sanity and will not smell pretty after awhile.

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[Newjack]

Had to laugh at the the great comments on this...

[MagnaFabrics]

Try something like Burlington Maxima fabric. It has all of these characteristics and it is engineered to be imprermeable to blood.