I'm 59 and hunt the Uwharrie Mountains here in the Piedmont of North Carolina, have since the mid-80s...
I hunt alone and I don't drag deer...I punch the tag, call them in with my cell...I then use a rachet pulley and get them hung in a tree...To do this, I have to gut them, pull them to a good tree, I like to find 2 trees about 6 feet apart...I either screw in an eye bolt or tie a rope around the tree about 7 feet up...I then pull the deer up with the rachet pulley...Once I can't pull anymore, I tie the rope to another tree with the rope about 3 feet off the ground...Then by walking up the rope I can pull the deer the rest of the way up...
I then bone it out, put the meat in garbage bags, cut the antlers off with a small saw and come out with it...
Here is one I killed a couple of years back...
Here he is hung, ready to skin...
