How do you get your game out of the woods?

[fish_e_o]

Originally Posted by Homesteader

On a more serious note, I did buy an Otter sled from Peavey Mart, but have yet to test it out. Should be the cats meow.

haha i have a funny story about trying to pull a deer out of a steep valley in one of those.

i sat on the deer and my buddy drove the sled. of course he didn't have a big paddle track and there wasn't any solid snow to grip on so we would peter out up the steep bits and start going backwards.

ohhhh that was a fun day

it would have worked really well if we had more traction

[pseelk]

I've used quads for years.I recently upgraded to a Polaris Ranger XP and havent shot anything scince I aquired it.

[jcrayford]

Originally Posted by pseelk

I've used quads for years.I recently upgraded to a Polaris Ranger XP and havent shot anything scince I aquired it.

Perhaps it's bad luck and you should sell that unit cheap? To me? LOL... Just kidding!

J.

[gitrdun]

4 legs, long ears.

[gitrdun]

Originally Posted by Prdtrgttr

Once you go gutless, you never go back!

X2

[sure as shootin']

Originally Posted by Bushrat

I walk them out to the truck at gunpoint , then I shoot them. This is the easiest way.

Do you think you could get them to jump in the back of the truck, too, because that's another issue I have if it's a big animal.

My truck has a 3" lift on it so it's much more difficult to get a whole carcass in the box although i do have a deer hoist if I don't want to bust my back.

[mad mountain mike]

One step at a time.

[gitrdun]

Awesome pic.

[purgatory.sv]

Originally Posted by Hydro1

This is what I do.
Note: Not me in picture.
For larger game, I just carry out the quarters.
I don't like game carts, I don't like most packs so I carry it.

Originally Posted by Mistagin

When I was a young guy we used to just drag 'em out. Sometimes miles and miles; there were some late nights getting back to camp in those days. When I got older it helped to have another group of young guys do the hard work .

Now I just load 'em on the quad and drive home .
Now a moose, if I ever get one, it'll go in the tub trailer.

Originally Posted by AlbertaWhitetail

i pull mine out by hand because im still young (22) but thinking about getting one of those plastic game sleds for when there is snow. make it a little bit easier. I also like doing by hand because taking a quad into the woods where i hunt & disturbing the area that much i dont like. Already have done 15-20 deer since i started hunting.

Originally Posted by chuck

If its gotta go further than 200 yds it comes out in pieces.

Originally Posted by bessiedog

Usually just drag the deer out.
Last elk I packed I cut in half, strapped it to me kids sled and bombed off the mountain/hill.
Took 6 hours.

My oldest girl was 13 at the time and helped pack the gear, guns, liver, heart and ran a rope to stabilize the load on side hills.

Next time, big stuff gets quartered and packed out on the trapper Nelson.

My back does not aporeciate my macho stupidity anymore.

Originally Posted by Bushrat

I walk them out to the truck at gunpoint , then I shoot them. This is the easiest way.

Originally Posted by gitrdun

4 legs, long ears.

Originally Posted by mad mountain mike

One step at a time.

Some good answers.

[murfee.218]

Usually it's my hunting partner(s) dragging them out. The last moose was with the help of a John Deere. We hoisted it up so we could gut, skin and quarter. Butcher was quite happy, no hair except for evidence of sex and species.

[Big Grey Wolf]

Guys for elk or moose very simple. Cut into quarters. Hoist first quarter on your back and start walking. When you get tired lay quarter on log and walk back to kill site pick up next one. You are wresting while you walk back. Keep up until all animal at truck.

[crownb]

I have a great pic but I can't seem to find it right now so I will just tell the story, my old man was swathing barley late September, I was home servicing the combine and got a phone call from him about a bull moose on the south west corner of the fiekd, I grabbed my bow and off I went. I walked out to the corner with my greasy clothes and all, I gave 3 grunts and bam there was a nice young bull on top of me, one arrow later he was laying dead 20 yards from the field edge. Backed the swather into the willows and used the getting stuck chain and yarded him out to the field. That was the easiest bull moose I ever shot and the tastiest, all grain and alfalfa fed.

[357xp]

Used to use Honda trikes, then came the quads and now I use an Argo. Not an option packing out meat on foot in the swamps out here.

[albertadave]

Originally Posted by mad mountain mike

One step at a time.

You can almost see the smoke from the quadriceps burning. Great picture.

[Springerman]

Originally Posted by LKILR

Shank's mare

Sounds like you have been around the Barn afew times !! I haven't heard that term for 60 odd years. My Mother used to use it when she sent me to the store !!

[catnthehat]

I typically hunt an area of very steep hills, with the truck and the bottom, so getting my deer out is a pretty easy task.
Moose , when I actively hunted and guided , were always hunted close to the river as a rule, and never too far, but they came out in pieces quite often.
Cat

[xxclaro]

You are ALL doing it WRONG! Here's how its done, in STYLE!!!


Ok maybe its not all that, but I can load it in the truck myself, don't need a trailer to pull it and I think I should be able to take things out in moderate size pieces.