I too bow hunt alone most of the time mostly because I use all my vacation P days sick days and swap days as much as I can during hunting season. My frends can't get that much time off. I have already worked it out that I have the hole month of Nov. off and I 'm slowly but surly working on Dec. When I get a deer I just do the best I can I gut it out and drag it out a little at a time and I'm the type who hunts at least 1/2 mile in the woods so it takes a while. (I'm not as young as I used to be) I bought a deer cart but I think it's more work trying to push that thing in the woods getting stuck on everything, there for logging roads and well maintained paths.