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Title: Cotton or canvas? 4 game bags
Post by: TIM B on June 30, 2011, 12:04:00 PM

What's your choice for game bags?  I'm going to make some from canvas, sheets or may ebb look at some large pillow cases?
Any thoughts?
Thanks

Title: Re: Cotton or canvas? 4 game bags
Post by: Orion on June 30, 2011, 01:44:00 PM

If you're going to be carrying them in a pack all day, whatever ls lightest.

Title: Re: Cotton or canvas? 4 game bags
Post by: elk nailer on June 30, 2011, 07:19:00 PM

My last few trijps to Co Ive sued pillow cases. They work great.

Title: Re: Cotton or canvas? 4 game bags
Post by: Ragnarok Forge on June 30, 2011, 07:55:00 PM

Pillow cases. Get them at the thrift store

Title: Re: Cotton or canvas? 4 game bags
Post by: Shedrock on June 30, 2011, 08:27:00 PM

I believe cotton will breath better than canvas.

I use pillow cases also. Get them at garage sales and such for as low as ten cents a piece.

Title: Re: Cotton or canvas? 4 game bags
Post by: Barney on June 30, 2011, 08:37:00 PM

I've been using the ones from walmart for a long time. Use em and wash em. Been getting a couple years out of them. I buy them when they hit their cheapest usually in the spring. I've used them for caribou, elk, deer and antelope.

Title: Re: Cotton or canvas? 4 game bags
Post by: San Juan Slim on June 30, 2011, 11:05:00 PM

I make my bags out of muslin with nylon cord for a draw string.  They are about the same material as pillow cases but I make them big enough for elk quarters with bones--two large ones for the hind quarters and two smaller ones for the front--with an extra bag for the backstraps and tenderloins and whatever else comes off.  If I bone the meat, I can get by with using only a couple of the bags.  These are much lighter to pack in my elk pack than canvas bags.  Pillow cases will work fine but if you make them yourself, you can sew them to whatever size you like.

Mike

Title: Re: Cotton or canvas? 4 game bags
Post by: trad_bowhunter1965 on July 02, 2011, 11:41:00 AM

I like cotton it not to thick so your meat will cool down but thick enough to keep out the flies and the Yellowjackets.Blake