I'll agree with that. My days of dragging deer long distances or through nasty stuff are over.

A few years back the forester who manages the timber on our lease sent in a crew of Mexicans with industrial size brush cutters (a circular saw bladed weedeater on steroids) to thin a 50 acre patch of really thick eight foot high pines. They muscled their way through the mess laying down nine out of every ten trees, leaving foot high two-inch diameter stumps under a carpet of waist high downed trees that resembled a pile of jackstraws with limbs. I shot a doe on a plot next to that cut and she made it about 80 yards into the laid down trees. I damn near died getting her out of there. Even though it was only 80 yards, it was the only time I ever considered abandoning a downed deer.