.308, thankfully the yotes didn't find her. As far as pulling her back up that creek bank, I left her at the bottom and pushed my son up to the top and then went back and grabbed her. It was a bit of a struggle due to the steepness of the embankment, but thankfully she was just a yearling and her weight really didn't prove to be too much of an obstacle. There would have been no way I could have done that with a mature corn-fed Illinois deer!