How do you get your deer out

[broncbuster2]

How do you get your deer out of the woods?

Most that I know do the manual drag, And some I know use an ORV.
I tried something different this year with limited success, I used my horse (for the first time dragging anything).
Here is a picture of that,
How do you get er done?

[louisianahunter]

Jerry my Granddad use to have several horse's and my favorite was the Appaloosa that he had.

He was trained that when you nudged him behind the shoulder and gently pulled on his reins he would lay on his belly, I would then drag the deer behind the saddle (if it was a long ride out, and in the saddle if a short distance) and tie it down, then all you had to do was tell him to get up and he would stand and then be ready to head out of the woods.

He was 16.5 hands, red with white withers and red spots.

I told Marjie if I ever get a piece of land I would have a horse for hunting off of.

Till then I use my ATV or drag the deer to the road and load it into my truck.


Great picture of Blaze.

[hunterdude58]

we had always just did the drag thing until this year when we tried one of the deer carts must say unless it is muddy or the snow is deep these things work great.

[tenbears]

that gets too much fod material in the body cavity. try thiss instead. LOL

[Hardcase]

I've pulled em' out a couple of miles over some pretty rough country, but now I use my ATV. ;D

[louisianahunter]

tenbears thats the way I remember it. Great picture.

[gd3006]

Depends on where I'm at. And what I have at my disposal. Usually it's a couple hundred yards drag to a place where I can get the truck. Although there have been some nice times when I could drive right up to them with a 4-wheeler. Or they're nice enough to drop in a field where I can drive up to them.

gd

[mjedens]

Most of the time I drag my deer. My Grandfather used to feild dress and then carry it out on his shoulders. He was a big and stought man. One time he was carring a small buck out of the woods in Northern Pa. When another hunter saw this deers head comeing through the brush and shot the deer and my Granddad. luckey that he was far enough away that the 30-30 bullett didn't enter Granddads shoulder. But it knocked him down and out for a few minutes. Granddad had a temper, and almost shot the other hunter for shooting him and his allready dead deer. It was not like he had no red on because his wool coat and pants were those old fasion red plad that hunters used in past times. I allways thought about this lession even when draging out a deer to make lots of talking and loud noise to let anyone that happens to be stalking around know that I am there. Lesson is don,t carry, even on a pole between two people as some dumbass might shoot your deer again. I also heard on the news when I was a boy liveing in California that one hunter shot another deer that was tied on the back of a horse. Whioch killed the deer and the horse, and broke the hunters leg when the horse fell from the steep mountain path that they were on. But now days with the 4-wheelers, and the mountain bikes, I think it is safer that by hand or horse. But you never know who is out there, and be safe always. Even try wraping your deer with one of those safty vests when your deer is high enough to be seen. At least with safty red over it their is no excuse of mistaken identy...MJEdens