Field notes for planning an elk kit, plus plain comparisons with other ways to keep a gear list. The loadout builder, the gear catalog, and public elk loadouts are the app behind these pages.
Backcountry Hunter is a gear loadout app for hunters. It is not affiliated with Petersen's Backcountry Hunter magazine or with Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA).
What to carry on a backcountry elk hunt, split into a shared kit plus archery and rifle variants.
Read →How to split base, worn, consumables, and the meat haul, with planning ranges labeled as ranges.
Read →From tag day to the pack-out: weapon, kill kit, loadout, and the plan you leave with someone at home.
Read →Gear loadouts compared with PreHunt's hunt planner, from PreHunt's own public pages.
Read →When a spreadsheet or LighterPack is enough, and when a hunting loadout app earns the switch.
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