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Turkey vest weight

Started by Bustabeak, March 24, 2013, 04:24:24 PM

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Bustabeak

What's your estimated weight of your turkey vest? Or exact weight if you have weighed it. Seems mine gets a little heavier every year. Of maybe I'm getting weaker every year. 

B-Rad1

First thing in the morning i guess it is probable 10-15lb (calls, decoys, two gobbler lounges one for me n one for my boy etc. ). At the end of the day, after covering some ground if feels like 100lb.


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kevin2

We started backpacking pretty seriously a couple years ago. One of the things that you take serious about packing over nighter trips is the overall weight of your pack & gear. So, the first thing I did when we started getting equiped for Turkey hunting this year, our first year as a family, was to select gear, when possible, that was as light as possible.

Amazing how light your pack can be by paying attention to weight & coming up with small tricks to trim the weight off of current items OR new purchases.

Today, I'm adding a light weight multi-tool. I'm actually doing a modification on the Leatherman Squirt PS4. I'm adding a saw, for trimming, and a hacksaw for whatever I need it for. I'll be using this Turkey hunting, but I'll also incorporate it into my backpacking pack & hunting packs.


Here's a link to the modification I'm doing if interested. At the very bottom is the description of how the fella did the mod.

http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/forums/thread_display.html?forum_thread_id=33095

If you want to trim weight, use the techniques on the packing communities site. They work!

I am going to bag my first Turkey this spring if it is the last thing I do!

hootn

mine will push 15 pounds easy. one time i carried about 15 to 20 pounds extra cause i left 2 rocks in the game bag, my wife was wanting some rocks around the house. forget to take them out and wondered why it was so heavy.

scott

wvcurlytop

18 pounds.  I have considered taking some things out to lighten the load, as who really needs four friction calls in their vest?  But I always talk myself out of taking them out.  Perhaps with age I will change my mind, but so far I'll leave it as it.  I weigh 225 pounds, and I carry that around all day, every day, so what is a few more pounds? 

zeus26

I hope to add about 22 pounds (and a little blood) to mine every time I slip it on!

Crappiepro

Quote from: zeus26 on March 24, 2013, 07:12:18 PM
I hope to add about 22 pounds (and a little blood) to mine every time I slip it on!
:TooFunny:

tomstopper


Bustabeak

I'd say mine is about 18 pounds. It gets heavy quick.

BrowningGuy88

I don't know, but it is not nearly as heavy as the gobbler lounger and my turkey gun combined. Then throw my 250 pounds in to the mix and it becomes a moot point...

turkey_slayer

If not for 10 lbs of food it would be close to 3-4 lbs

wvcurlytop

Quote from: Daman on March 25, 2013, 04:38:48 PM
I don't know, but it is not nearly as heavy as the gobbler lounger and my turkey gun combined. Then throw my 250 pounds in to the mix and it becomes a moot point...

:TooFunny: Ditto, I know what you mean. 

Quote from: turkey_slayer on March 25, 2013, 06:04:57 PM
If not for 10 lbs of food it would be close to 3-4 lbs

Hey my kids want to come hunt with you!!!!  They only go to eat, and they say I never carry enough.. :toothy9:

turkey_slayer

Quote from: wvcurlytop on March 25, 2013, 10:04:48 PM
Quote from: Daman on March 25, 2013, 04:38:48 PM
I don't know, but it is not nearly as heavy as the gobbler lounger and my turkey gun combined. Then throw my 250 pounds in to the mix and it becomes a moot point...

:TooFunny: Ditto, I know what you mean. 

Quote from: turkey_slayer on March 25, 2013, 06:04:57 PM
If not for 10 lbs of food it would be close to 3-4 lbs

Hey my kids want to come hunt with you!!!!  They only go to eat, and they say I never carry enough.. :toothy9:

Lol man I got to constantly eat. I'm the smallest in my group so everybody says I have a tape worm lol