Who drags deer out of the woods?
11-07-2006, 04:29 PM
#1
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: IOWA/25' UP
Posts: 7,145
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. I can skin and boneout a deer in 20-30 minutes. I am not dragging out the useless weight of bones and hide; unless it is a nice buck of course. I have no deer carcass to get rid of and I'm not skinning out some week old, cold or frozen deer like 90% of the guys around here do. This does not affect deer in the woods and I have seen deer walk right beside a fresh carcass. Basically the same thing that elk hunters have been doing for years.
EDIT: Of course this will not work in states that require deer to be taken to a checkin station. 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. No big deal; check it in by either method and than skin it and bone it where it died. Dragging deer out of the woods is too much work for me; I have grown smarter in my 40's.
EDIT: Of course this will not work in states that require deer to be taken to a checkin station. 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. No big deal; check it in by either method and than skin it and bone it where it died. Dragging deer out of the woods is too much work for me; I have grown smarter in my 40's.
11-07-2006, 04:36 PM
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Dominant Buck
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 39,060
RE: Who drags deer out of the woods?
ORIGINAL: Germ
My tractor[8D]
My tractor[8D]
If not a lot of times the greens folks will do it for me. Even going as far to ice it down before I come back to get him.
11-07-2006, 04:39 PM
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Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: PA
Posts: 9,085
RE: Who drags deer out of the woods?
i usually drag if i cant get my truck to it. or drag it as far as i need to to meet it with the truck. your ideas not bad...but unless im in the deepwoods i wouldnt bother. just nicer to do it in the luxery of home i think. heck ive drug deer about 2 miles..actually me and dad drug 2 out of there a couple times..and drug 3 one day. the day we had 3 dead we had snow which made life easier..still took about 3hrs..but by the time we walked to the truck and back skinned and processed 3 deer and caped the buck etc and then humped out 3 bags of meat we could drug them there and been gone by then....like we were lol.
11-07-2006, 04:40 PM
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Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Iowa (Heartland USA)
Posts: 3,249
RE: Who drags deer out of the woods?
What do you do with the tag? I hope the land you are leaving your remains behind on is your own. I personally, tag it, load it up on the trailer behind the ATV and then hang it in the barn to bleed out. After 5 - 10 days I go and process the deer, turn the hide over to a tanner and dispose of the rest properly. When it's someone else's property, I always want to leave it in better condition than I found it. (Minus one deer of course).
