RE: Dragging the deer out
I hunt in Iowa where party hunting is legal and when we drag on out, we cut between the tendon and bone on both hind legs and find a decent sized branch to run through them. Then have a guy grab onto each end of the branch. We almost always have to haul one or two about three miles back to the truck. Usually the same two guys can drag it the whole way and walk at the same pace as everyone else.