Stupid question from a yet non-hunter!

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Hi Everybody
I have never been hunting and know next too nothing about it, so feel free to call me an idiot. I have been reading this forum for a few months now and i was just wondering how do you get the animals you hunt back home?

The deer in some of the pictures that a posted look to be about 200 lb and a moose would be even more, so again i ask after you kill it how do you get it out of the bush?

sorry for the noob question
 
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This ^^^.
 
It slides easy in snow, but you have to go head first . The fur piles in the snow if you don't.

Or... just stay there and eat it;)
 
There are many ways depending on your situation and what you have at your disposal. You can use a quad if you have one, a canoe or boat works great if you are hunting on or near water or just the old fashioned method, gut , skin and quarter and carry it out or gut it and drag it if you havent too far to go. I don't think the last one will work though on anything larger than a deer unless you have eaten your Wheaties!!:D

So far to date this was my favorite method, pick up the cel phone from in my stand and call my buddies place after my deer was down and have him and his gf come out with the Kubota!! :p
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I'm coming up on 50 years old and I don't own a quad.
Just grab it by the horns and drag it out.

If you have to take it a long way tie it to a backpack..If your lucky it will be too heavy and you will have to cut it in two....No Big.
 
I can't afford a quad and I usually hunt alone. Fortunately most of my hunting, (and so far all of my successful hunting,) is in terrain where I am able to drag the carcass to a point where I can drive the vehicle.
 
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Surprisingly, hunters have been taking large game long before the mechanized hunter craze.
Drag it, and if you can't your obviously going to have to learn how to quarter (or half) it and tie it to a pack frame.
 
Just shot a big 200lbs 8 point last week first I gut it then grab it by the antlers and little by little drag it to your truck.It seems I am always alone when I have killed my last 3 bucks so being in shape does help (gym membership helps) but a 4 wheeler is the way to go if you got the money.
 
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I strongly recommend against carrying your game through the woods on your back. You may end up as a Darwin Award recipient.
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I have blaze orange flagging I tie to the buck/backpack just for that reason.
Generally speaking the idiots don't like to walk as far back as we hunt (might get lost).
Generally speaking you meet some quality people 5+ miles back!

I have carried game off an ugly slope for complete strangers....They had both conditioning problems and equipment issues, so for me it was the right thing to do.
I was coming off the mountain anyway. :)
 
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