Cotton or canvas? 4 game bags

[TIM B]

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

[Orion]

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

[elk nailer]

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

[Ragnarok Forge]

Pillow cases. Get them at the thrift store

[Shedrock]

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.

[Barney]

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.

[San Juan Slim]

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

[trad_bowhunter1965]

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