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How far out will you kill an elk by yourself?
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<blockquote data-quote="memtb" data-source="post: 3081895" data-attributes="member: 75451"><p>The wife and I took a pair of "rag horn" 5's about 3/4 mile from the truck. Not very steep terrain, downhill …..we were both in pretty good shape, and wasn't bad. We've quartered and backpacked several from 1/2 to 1 mile out from the truck.</p><p></p><p> In 2012, 7 months after a fusion in my lower back, I drug a whole young bull moose (about a 30" spread) downhill in a sled about 1/2 mile. I drug it down a little drainage/ditch on the hillside, which was about 20" to 30" wide, that had a little bit of snow in it. Not an easy task, the sled was wider than the drainage, the drainage had a lot of little tight switchbacks….rolling the moose and sled over more times than I care to think. That was actually the easy part.</p><p></p><p> I got to the very muddy road at the bottom where my wife was waiting with the Polaris Ranger….. I was pretty whipped. We tried to load it whole….very unsuccessfully! The mud was so bad, I didn't want to take the moose out of the sled to cut the moose in half. So we drug the sled about 3/4 mile down the road with the Ranger, until we found a deep hole to back the Ranger into, making the tailgate much lower….we still couldn't get it loaded whole.</p><p></p><p> Lifting the whole moose was an utter fail. At this point, to hell with the mud….we cut the moose in half. It still kicked our butts….but, we got him loaded.</p><p></p><p> Today…..I'd build a fire and eat the moose right where he fell! memtb</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="memtb, post: 3081895, member: 75451"] The wife and I took a pair of "rag horn" 5's about 3/4 mile from the truck. Not very steep terrain, downhill …..we were both in pretty good shape, and wasn't bad. We've quartered and backpacked several from 1/2 to 1 mile out from the truck. In 2012, 7 months after a fusion in my lower back, I drug a whole young bull moose (about a 30" spread) downhill in a sled about 1/2 mile. I drug it down a little drainage/ditch on the hillside, which was about 20" to 30" wide, that had a little bit of snow in it. Not an easy task, the sled was wider than the drainage, the drainage had a lot of little tight switchbacks….rolling the moose and sled over more times than I care to think. That was actually the easy part. I got to the very muddy road at the bottom where my wife was waiting with the Polaris Ranger….. I was pretty whipped. We tried to load it whole….very unsuccessfully! The mud was so bad, I didn't want to take the moose out of the sled to cut the moose in half. So we drug the sled about 3/4 mile down the road with the Ranger, until we found a deep hole to back the Ranger into, making the tailgate much lower….we still couldn't get it loaded whole. Lifting the whole moose was an utter fail. At this point, to hell with the mud….we cut the moose in half. It still kicked our butts….but, we got him loaded. Today…..I'd build a fire and eat the moose right where he fell! memtb [/QUOTE]
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