actually i fight naked, i find not being hit is allways better than being hit no mather the armor you're wearing, armor gives you to much of a weight penalty, that affects both your speed and your stamina, so i drop everything i don't need in a fight. i only dress for the cold months, and even then only when i don't plan to fight.
for carrying several hundred lbs meat i usually do several trips, and if i'm far enough to warrant that, i take advantage of rafts, if you drop something on top of a raft it's transported with you when you move.
it's also quite difficult to find where you left the meat on the zoomed in map, so one trick i discovered is, i put everything in my inventory, even if i cannot move with it, then press enter to zoom out, then on the zoomed out map you can drop whatever you want and it'll appear there. you no longer have to search it on the zoomed in map, just memorize a few landmarks like lakes and mountains and do several trips to recover your prize