Who drags deer out of the woods?
11-07-2006 | 05:40 PM
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RE: Who drags deer out of the woods?
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?
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.
11-07-2006 | 06:06 PM
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RE: Who drags deer out of the woods?
For the last 3 years I haven't drug a deer out of the woods even though I have shot 15. This method is great for the liberal doe tag states. I hunt way back in the woods at times where no 4 wheeler, truck, or tractor can get to.When I shoot a deer, I go back to my truck, leave my bow behind, and grab a backpack with a hoist, gambrel, rope, rubber gloves, and a trash bag. Where the deer lies I gut it, tie the hoist to a nearby tree with the rope, lift it, skin it, and bone it, put the meat in a trash bag, and place it in my backpack.
Here in IA they just enacted a law that we have to check a deer in by phone or computer before it can be processed for consumption
11-07-2006 | 06:06 PM
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RE: Who drags deer out of the woods?
We have Telecheck here in Ky also. Front shoulders, hind quarters, and back straps, I also carry a plastic bag in my back pocket. Where I live within 2 days everything is gone with no sign left, lots of bobcats and coyotes, you know they like deer too.
11-07-2006 | 06:11 PM
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RE: Who drags deer out of the woods?
ORIGINAL: Rickmur
Then theres' this:
HC, have you beendoing something wrongfor the last 3 years[&:]?
For the last 3 years I haven't drug a deer out of the woods even though I have shot 15. This method is great for the liberal doe tag states. I hunt way back in the woods at times where no 4 wheeler, truck, or tractor can get to.When I shoot a deer, I go back to my truck, leave my bow behind, and grab a backpack with a hoist, gambrel, rope, rubber gloves, and a trash bag. Where the deer lies I gut it, tie the hoist to a nearby tree with the rope, lift it, skin it, and bone it, put the meat in a trash bag, and place it in my backpack.
Here in IA they just enacted a law that we have to check a deer in by phone or computer before it can be processed for consumption
11-07-2006 | 06:16 PM
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RE: Who drags deer out of the woods?
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?
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?
