From the field to the truck

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How do you get your game from the kill site to your vehicle?

I noticed some interesting contraptions in the 'Hunting Gadgets' thread so now I'm wondering what strategies and techniques people are using.

So tell us how you do it, anything from grouse to moose!
 
Usually drive right up to the animal yea it is kinda awkard to lift a body of the ground on to the tail gate of the truck so I have a thirty foot tow strap and i tie it to the moose or elk and run the strap over the roof around a tree and back to the front tow hook and back up. The animal slids forward on to the tail gate . Some one has to grab the head and help it up . Done it with suberbanas well.
 
I've dragged enough deer with a shoulder harness to know that I want something that makes 'em slide easier.

I'm going to rig something up with Krazy Karpets I think...
 
normaly i just muscle them out attached to my FAS harness with a tow strap but me thinks thats gonna be a tad difficult this season LOL
 
Cheap molded plastic sled - My deer last year was 3 miles from the road, which I had to hike 3 times, once with the deer. I'm going to rig up a crazy carpet type thing with rivets in it for this year - I ran into a guy dragging out a buck with one last year, it looked handy.
 
Last season's moose was drug out to the road with a winch attachment for a chainsaw. it just bolts on in place of the bar and is chained to a tree or other solid object. takes a while due to the limited distance it will pull befor you have to reset it, but it beats pulling it out by hand.
 
On My '98 Gm, I had built and angle iron frame that bolted into the stake pockets which had a piece of 1 1/2" HSS, .125" wall run the width of the truck box. This piece of tube had three short sleeves on it, two outside ones for stopping the quad from going through the back window of the truck, and the middle one just had a ring on it to hook to the winch of the quad for ultra quick tying down in the truck. I found a pulley at the local auto parts store and would hook that to the middle ring on the tube. Now I could park my quad off to one side of my quad ramp(leaning on the tailgate), run the winch cable through the pulley back to the animal right by my quad. Aside from holding the antlers from getting snagged, it was near effortless to drag my 38"
Bull moose into the box. It was a sweet rig.
The old vinson gets used to drag the animal to the truck, unless the John Deere can get within grapples reach!
 
If you like to hunt around a pond/lake then bring a canoe or small rowboat. It's alot better to load it up and paddle across water then have to make a (or multiple) trips around and back to the truck :)
 
Last year all three deer we took were a 1/2 mile from the truck.I dragged them back via rope and muscle.We had a good snowstorm 2nd day of the season and my 2wd chevy was useless on the trails.we also take a cheap molded sled but I forgot it last year.
 
ya'all don't mean you guys will ackley yank the pin on a critter that's waaaay off'n the road?...caint imagine it:D :rolleyes: :) :p

actually I've been in on moose and elk kills where we had to skin and quarter in the bush..........shot fired at 7ish...back in camp with four elk quarters on top the Samurai about midnite.....I should dig up those pics and scan them...
 
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We pack a 45 gal. drum, full of about 750 feet of 3/4" double braid rope. One snatch block at the road edge for a re-direct, and make sure you have enough road to run backandforth on. 2-way radios help, as hand signals are out of sight. One occasion we had to add a choker sling, 15ft towrope, short chain, and the last three feet was made of 10ft of 1/4" folded-in-four (that was a big cutblock !).
 
If you have help....tie the deer to a pole "Indian style" (I hope Greg doesn't get pissed at the terminolagy) Seriously easier than even two guys dragging.
100 lbs (each) on the shoulder is way easier than dragging.

Moose/Elk: 1 or two quads, map a straight line with the GPS from the closest trail/road, and chainsaw a path to it.

Ryan
 
We use sky hooks to winch them above the trees...

Crazy carpets with holes and grommets to tie it down... use a pulling harness and one man can pull a couple of hundred pounds easily!

I watched young Luke pulling a Big buck last year with a shoulder harness. He is 15, 6'1" and 210lbs, he was on this big deer by himself and he was pulling like a race horse... the deer must have weighed 200 and it was catching air on the moguls!:eek:
He dragged it about 1/2 a klick in one pull. His younger brother Dan is an inch taller and 30 pounds heavier... I am never dragging another deer as long as I live.;)
You don't need a lot of gadgets if you have a lot of young muscle.:cool:
 
In my youth (ha) I used a backpack and carried a number of elk out in quarters or deboned. Little too old for that crap now - five trips 12 miles each way to get my big one out!!!

Best loading adventure was one of my last hunts with my Dad - shot a moose on a hillside above the trail, maybe 80 yards. We backed the truck into the ditch and went up the hill to get the moose. As we turned him over, he started to slide down the snow covered hill, picked up speed, and slid halfway into the truck before he stopped! :p

But most of the time it's just hard work - chains, ropes and winches, If I can get the quad in, I winch an elk up a tree and drop a half or a quarter on the back rack. The harder the job - the better it tastes; according to Dad. :D
 
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