SNAKE RIVER LLAMAS
HUNTING PHOTO GALLERY
Our largest llamas can carry over 150 pounds. By boning this Montana elk, we can easily carry out the hide, antlers and meat with two llamas.
By using llamas, we can easily get into the area where the bulls are located. We don't have to worry about where we shoot them as the llamas can go about anywhere we can. Here we haul out two nice bulls in Wyoming.
On several occasions, we have placed game animals on llamas on their second packing trip. The llamas its no big deal attitude always impresses me. We're packing a desert mule deer on the first llama and a javelina on the second llama during a New Mexico hunt. The second llama was on his second pack trip. We easily loaded him, and he packed the javelina to camp without any problems.
When we packed out a friend's elk in Montana, the snow was so deep near the harvest site that the packs drug furrows in the snow. By using a llama, I was able to hike up into the mountains where we were the only hunters to harvest a fine pronghorn buck. Our stud, Bandit packs the pronghorn meat, head and my personal stuff. In the picture on the right, I carry my only my rifle; sometimes the llama carries it also.
We packed up a drainage and had a big camp with all the luxuries of home, including grommet meals, enough food for 10 days, plenty of food for the llamas. We shot this 7 year 4 month old bull the second day, so we had lots to carry out. The lead llama is caring about 150 pounds and all the rest are carrying between 110 and 135 pounds. We put all the meat, hide and antlers on three llamas.
Bow hunters really like hunting with llamas. They are quiet on the trail. Dwight Schuh, Senior Editor for Bow hunter magazine and field editor, Sports Afield, purchased Snake River Llamas. Stan Roush and many other bow hunters also purchased our llamas.