I also hunt alone most of the time. I'll be 68 next February. Last month I killed my 35th elk. None were on guided hunts, and I was hunting alone for most of them. I got him out by myself in 2 trips, dragging each half on a thick sheet of plastic. I've dragged several other bulls out that way on that same plastic.

One year I dragged another bull out over a mile with each half on a kids plastic toboggan.

Another year I killed a bull on an old logging road a mile behind a Forest Service locked gate. I got him out in 2 trips by putting each half in a contractor's wheelbarrow.

I've packed a number of elk out a quarter at a time on my back with a pack frame.

One year I killed a 5x5 bull a couple of miles from the nearest road in the Whitefish mountain range in NW Montana (grizzly country). The first load out, I put one hind quarter and the horns on my pack frame and headed across country down the mountain. By the time I reached the valley floor it was dark and drizzling rain. I didn't have a flashlight, and the valley floor was marshy with numerous beaver dams.

So I crawled under a spruce tree to keep dry, kept a small fire going all night for warmth and to cook pieces of meat. When it got light the next morning I shouldered the pack and walked out to the road in 10 minutes.

For about 20 years I had a couple of horses. I packed quite a few elk out on them, putting a quarter on each side of a panyard on each of the horses.

I also used my horses that way to pack out a Shiras moose that I had killed on a solo hunt 3 miles back in a wilderness in SW Montana. He took 3 trips to get out.

I killed my mountain goat on a solo hunt in a wilderness in SW Montana. It was -15* F that day and the snow was 3 feet deep on the top of the mountain where I killed the billy. I packed his hide out in my pack and drug the carcass out over the snow.

I also killed 3 bighorn rams on solo hunts in wilderness areas in the unlimited tag areas in SW Montana. I packed one ram out on my back and the other two out on my horses.

I have 3 game carts. I built two and bought one from Cabella's. I have packed out several deer and a lot of antelope on them.

My point is if there's a will, there's a way. Like someone else posted, you just cut the critter into small enough pieces that you can handle, and use whatever you can to help you with the pack.