ORIGINAL: NY Bowhunter
For some odd reason I always drag my deer to my truck. Not that I really have to. I could drive a 4 wheeler or truck most places to load them. It's a culmination of sortsof the hunt for me. It's the icing on the cake. A celebration of success. Maybe someday when I physically can't do it (or my son gets old enough
) I'll change my ways, but for now I drag everything. I like to torture myself.
As far as the skinning, butchering of the deer in the woods.......... wouldn't that be a little distruptive to the area you're hunting?
No more disruptive than leaving a gutpile in the woods. Every hunter leaves a gutpile.I am only there a 1/2 an hour. Last year I took a doe onlyyds away from a deer carcass from the day before. Life and death is a natural thing for animals. I leave no human scent. The only disruptive thing is that coyotes move in, but they have it cleaned up in a few days. Other little animals amd birds benefit too. It is better than taking the carcass and dumping it in a ditch like what happens all too often by hunters and then giving hunters a bad image.