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Post by bill9068 on Sept 6, 2016 10:48:35 GMT -5
By that I mean do you drag it out, sled it out, use a four wheeler? I four wheel mine out. Only hunt private property and getting to old to drag out, last time I did that damm near had a heart attack. What do you do?
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Post by oldhoyt on Sept 6, 2016 10:55:20 GMT -5
I use a cart most of the time.
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Sept 6, 2016 11:08:35 GMT -5
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Post by urbanguy on Sept 6, 2016 11:09:08 GMT -5
Cart...Smoker and I tried to drag my buck out last year with a high school kid and I about died. Neighbor had a cart and it made it a lot easier.
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Post by urbanguy on Sept 6, 2016 11:10:14 GMT -5
At home, like this: RANGER DANGER!!!!
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Post by MuzzleLoader on Sept 6, 2016 11:29:13 GMT -5
Ranger or Honda 4 tract.
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Post by nfalls116 on Sept 6, 2016 11:57:59 GMT -5
Like a continental soldier.
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Post by featherduster on Sept 6, 2016 11:59:10 GMT -5
My wife.
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Post by dadfsr on Sept 6, 2016 12:06:56 GMT -5
I've got a Ford 1520 4 wheel drive tractor with front end loader and hayforks on the back (holds a pallet easily) that I can generally get pretty close to whenever we happen to drop a deer in our woods....I've called it my deer recovery vehicle more than once!! It's 1991 model and has probably hauled well close to a hundred deer out in that time!
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Post by medic22 on Sept 6, 2016 12:27:02 GMT -5
Depends. If i the brush is fairly short and i dont feel like getting the cart ill drag it. If the brush is tall i throw it over my shoulders and shudder when blood runs down my back.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2016 12:28:54 GMT -5
We drag to a place where we can get the small John Deere. Sometimes I have to call in the old hunting truck.
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Post by scrub-buster on Sept 6, 2016 12:42:14 GMT -5
I get help from whoever is home in our family. That's usually my mom. She has helped me drag out more deer than I can count. Now that my dad is retired he is home to help. We get a utility truck as close as possible and drag the deer to it. Our property is all hills so its usually an uphill drag.
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Post by dbd870 on Sept 6, 2016 12:59:25 GMT -5
Cart or 4 wheeler if my neighbor is home.
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Post by trapperdave on Sept 6, 2016 13:31:57 GMT -5
Cart.....or my wife or son
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Post by steiny on Sept 6, 2016 13:37:21 GMT -5
At home can generally get an ATV or tractor pretty close. On lease in Illinois we use a cart if we can't get the truck close to them. Out west when we shot one in a real deep canyon, we would tie a long rope or cable (several hundred feet) onto front bumper of 4wd pickup, then back up real slow as one guy walked up the slope with the deer guiding it and preventing antlers from getting hung up. In more remote areas out west, have boned them out where they dropped and packed them out on our backs.
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Post by M4Madness on Sept 6, 2016 14:00:57 GMT -5
It depends on which property I'm hunting. On one property, the landowner will get his tractor if I ask. On all the rest but one I hand drag or use a cart to get the deer to a field that I can drive in. On the largest property I hunt (350 acres), the landowner prohibits any sort of motorized vehicles, so it is cart the entire way. I have never owned an ATV.
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Post by ms660 on Sept 6, 2016 15:05:37 GMT -5
Cat D-3 Dozer, Kubota tractor, Honda 3-wheeler, Polaris ranger, Ford Ranger 4X4 pick Up truck, could be any one of these. If I'm hunting the spoil banks it's going to be me and several buddies with a sled and probably a case of beer.
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Post by beermaker on Sept 6, 2016 15:44:42 GMT -5
Cart or ATV. I used to be very anti-ATV until my hunting party started getting (obviously) older. Us capable "draggers" are not getting younger either. Also, some of us were getting frustrated with spending too much time dragging other people's deer and not enough time hunting. It was getting to the point of only hunting the morning of opening day and then dragging ans skinning all afternoon. Combine that with my refusal to shovel snow from my 100 ft driveway and I justified buying an Arctic Cat. Now it stays at camp and everyone knows where the keys are. It also comes in handy when hunting alone. I shot a healthy doe last year that ran 100+ yards directly down a steep hill and died in a dry creek. If not for the ATV, its bones would still be there. I honestly don't think that two guys could have drug it up that hill, even with a cart.
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Post by henson59 on Sept 6, 2016 15:52:01 GMT -5
It all depends on where the deer expires. The goal is to get it to the ATV path where we can throw it in the back of the ATV trailer and haul it out. To do this we will either drag it by hand or use a product called "The Dead Sled" it really makes dragging a heavier deer a lot easier. I usually try to avoid taking the ATV off unless I need the wench.
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Post by esshup on Sept 6, 2016 17:42:19 GMT -5
Cart, sled, drag without anything, ATV and FEL on tractor. Depending on where I'm at.
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