Recovering a BIG Black Bear
#11
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 9,230
Agreed but using the above scenario, there is a 98% chance that a bear won't be huge. Shoot it, gut it, attach a line to it and slide it to the truck like you would a good sized buck. But, have a few friends on speed dial in case Yogi's big brother decides to come to the party.
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 2,358
Your only real option: rope, stick and a bunch of friends.
In NH we have moose the come out whole, they do it by:
- paying a logger with a skidder
- last resort: chain saw winch or come along and go tree to tree til you are out.
In NH we have moose the come out whole, they do it by:
- paying a logger with a skidder
- last resort: chain saw winch or come along and go tree to tree til you are out.
#13
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Audubon & Red Rock, Penna.
Posts: 4,472
- last resort: chain saw winch or come along and go tree to tree til you are out.
#16
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: North Idaho
Posts: 1,071
get you a magnum deer cart and put the double wheels on it...takes you up to 700lbs...the deer cart works great.
http://www.cabelas.com/product/Cabel...h-All+Products
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#17
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Allegan, MI
Posts: 8,019
[QUOTE=Wilcam47;4106553]get you a magnum deer cart and put the double wheels on it...takes you up to 700lbs...the deer cart works great.
***Those carts are great if you have even terrain without a lot of trees, etc, to interfere. I have the first one in the link you posted and used it for a few years out in Wyoming, but when we started going to the better deer areas with nasty terrain where we had success we found it was easier to bone them out and backpack them out. I also tried to use it a couple times up at my place in northern MI and once it worked fine when the ground was solid and I got on a trail with it. The other time the deer was down in a wetter area where the cart would sink in a few inches and it was then impossible to move it. I ended up boning that buck out and bringing him out in my backpack just like we do in Wyoming.
***Those carts are great if you have even terrain without a lot of trees, etc, to interfere. I have the first one in the link you posted and used it for a few years out in Wyoming, but when we started going to the better deer areas with nasty terrain where we had success we found it was easier to bone them out and backpack them out. I also tried to use it a couple times up at my place in northern MI and once it worked fine when the ground was solid and I got on a trail with it. The other time the deer was down in a wetter area where the cart would sink in a few inches and it was then impossible to move it. I ended up boning that buck out and bringing him out in my backpack just like we do in Wyoming.
#18
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Audubon & Red Rock, Penna.
Posts: 4,472
We have a deer cart and it's not to good in our terrain. Swampy or rocky, overgrown with blueberry, laurel or overgrown clear cut. It was a chore to get the cart back in by itself.
#19
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Eastern wv
Posts: 3,649
here is what ya do, build one of these and stash it near your hunting sight, they drag beeter than anything I've found, I've dragged200 pounders a mile out by myself with it, slides over rocks and leaves like nothing, its indestructible
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