How do you drag game out?

[Rayzor101]

4 wheel drive truck or tractor

 

[bbckfh]

If you're going to put it out gutted, the Velcro straps from Ikea that they put around their rolled mattresses are great.

They have handles integrated, and are long enough to get around the torso of a deer just behind the shoulders.

Makes carrying a deer really easy.

 

[elimsprint]

Rokon all the way. If it's not far from the house I just drag them as shown. If a little farther I bungee on a "crazy carpet" using grommets I add to it to make things easier and if it is really far I use a 2 wheel cart behind the rokon to lift the head and shoulders right off the ground

 

[BillLarson]

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Good way to get shot....

 

[2Ldude]

Last September I used a black plastic ice fishing sled/tub. Medium sized cow elk, 3/4 mile up an old logging road. Figured I'd try loading it whole and then if it was to much weight for me to drag then I'd cut it in half and make two trips. Wasn't bad whole. Go 30-40 yards and stop for a breather for a few minutes then start dragging again. I'm 59 and smoke a pack of cigarettes a day so didn't think that was to bad by myself. we used the same technique with 2-3 of us dragging big bulls up and out of nasty canyons.

 

[freddiej]

I have hunted in California (high SierraNevadas), Idaho, and Montana. In Cali I gutted and quartered the deer then placed the quarters in game bags then in a small light foldable shopping cart. In Idaho (bigger deer) I gutted, quartered the deer and had a foldable flat bed rig I borrowed from a friend that I was hunting with. in Montana I was with an outfitter that had a specialized 3/4" ton 4X4 truck with a sliding bed and winch for Elk, Deer, Bear, and Moose. never saw a moose, saw lots of the other three.

 

[Litehiker]

Hopefully soon on a special hunting electric bicycle.
Normally de-bone, quarter and pack our.

Eric B.

 

[Vinootz]

If you don't have a vehicle you carry it over your shoulders or drag it by the antlers or a rope. Or get two long tree branches and pull it out after fastening. By the way is this some kind of trick question? lol. If not I guess I'd better add that you have to gut first.
Better have some blaze orange on that harvest too !!! Of course you can quarter and sack the pieces.

 

[freddiej]

Just a little FYI, carrying deer over your shoulder or on your back will get you killed by by other hunters. it seems to be a really sickening trend that some hunters will shoot at a set of antlers and not actually see there is someone carrying them. it happened to me, I got shot in the shoulder by another hunter not in my hunting camp. I have also been shot at while gutting the deer hanging from a tree. please someone explain how someone could mistake a deer hanging from a tree ... up and head down for a live deer. also had a hunter shoot at me while I was ... on a bush. I have come to never carry a gutted/field dressed deer over my shoulder or on my back. I suggest no one ever carries a deer through the woods. there are too many stupid hunters out there. I have had people shoot at a deer I was dragging as well. Also a reason I refuse to wear blaze clothing.. I get shot at with that on..
Later Tatters.

 

[WYO300RUM]

If it's far from camp or truck I use backpack . Gut it if you want heart and liver. Easier to get lion's. If not don't gut. Skin it. Quarter it. Debone it .
Put it in good game bags. Pack out.
If close and flat or down hill I may just gut and drag. I don't drag up hill. I'm not a mountain lion or a dumb kid anymore.

 

[John Klingenberg]

A friend of mine shot a huge bull moose in the Nenana valley. I'd never hunted moose before but this thing was like trying to manuever a Budweiser Clydsdale in the mucky foot of water he decided to expire in. Even skinning was a massive undertaking. It took four of us several days to pack it to the road. I swore off moose until I got a horse.

 

[skipglo]

This forum is "Long Range Hunting", implying we're a bunch that are willing to take longer shots on game. I'm my experience, it's rare I shoot game closer to the truck than I am and longer shots means longer distances to drag game out. How do you all drag game out? Any clever devices or tricks to make dragging a deer or similar game out of the field? I just use a rope and lots of leg power but I'm getting older and lazier and might buy/build an easier way to get a deer out. What do you all do?

Get a plastic wheel barrow...quarter it load and go....quartered deer only weights 60-80 lbs.

 

[ruby76]

Close to the road we use long rope, pulley, and the truck. Have used quads if you can get to them, or done my share of .........

 

[DWier]

Helicopter w/ rescue basket

Beam us up Scotty!!