Driving a car to your hunt
 

How many hunters here drive a car (as opposed to a truck/van/etc) to hunt?

What do you do if you get a deer? Tie him to the roof?

I have seen more than a few pickup trucks with dead deer in the back recently, but I don't think I have ever seen a deer tied to the roof (or hood!) of a car except on TV.

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I would be concerned about the negative image. Little Sally and Bobby start crying when you pass them with Bambi tied to your hood. Now we have two more PETA recruits.



Just my opinion.

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Most car trunks are large enough to hold a deer, I've seen more than one fella at the check station who did ths.

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Here's what I used to do before I bought my Tundra...

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I have a game tray I use for the back of my SUV. I typically cover the animals with a tarp as to not get any PETA recruits. If all you have is a car, no reason you couldn't get a receiver hitch added to your car and buy a game tray.

I went to college in Vermont for a while at a small liberal arts schools. The local paper once had a picture of a group of "deer" hunters who had come up to hunt from the NYC area. They had a successful hunt and tied their "deer" to the roof of a Mercedes sedan. The roof eventually started to bow from all the weight. I would pay good money to see that picture again and would loved to have asked the guys how they got their "deer" onto the roof.

It was a picture of a big Mercedes, roof bowed in from theweight of their "kill": A big black and white dairy cow.

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I would love to see that too! I've listened to and read at least 10 versions of that story in addition to farmers painting “COW” on their livestock. I always labeled those stories as urban legends so any proof otherwise would be welcomed.

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My trunk would certainly hold a deer, as well. Can you imagine tying a buck to the hood? I would hate to see what antlers would do to the paint.

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I heard several versions that are probably urban legends as well, but I actually saw this version. Happened near Brattleboro, VT sometime in the fall of 1991. They might even have a copy of the picture somewhere in their photo archives.

They got pulled over by a state trooper on I-91.

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Had to put a doe in a two seat Honda Civic CRX once.
Good fit but never could get the blood cleaned out.:D

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my trunk would work, but I have friends with trucks!

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Nothing wrong with hauling your kill back on the hood or outside of a car. People, PETA or not are always slowing down to get a good look at serious car accidents; looking for carnage, so a single deer on a hood? :eek: Big deal.

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I put the deer on a tarp in the back of the minivan.

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I drove a car this year for the first time but didnt do anything different then any other year. Simply skin, quarter, and cut off any remaining meat then put it all in coolers or even the plastic tubs from walmart if your local climate allows it. This is all done in the evening after the hunt so i dont waste any hunting time. After getting home, debone everything, freeze the roasts and loins, throw the stew/burger meat in the fridge and make burger sometime the next week. This works best for me as i drive 300+ miles to deer camp, twice (illinois's seperate seasons, whole seperate topic/rant).
Good luck

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Saturday morning we stoped for coffee at the local 7/11. A fellow hunterwas alsoinside the store gathering some thing before the morning hunt. Dressed in ablaze coat and hat with camo pants and boots, he was definatly heading to the woods this morning.This guy was driving a Washington Flyer taxi cab to go deer hunting. Imagine pickingup a fare on the way back from hunting, and you have a deer in the trunk. No room in the trunk for you bags, you will have to tie them to the roof, since the trunk is already full.

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we have a trailer tow be hind that we put it in and sometime its already proseseced

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lol...this reminds me of last deer season (nov 3- nove 18,07) a guy had a small car(looked like a geo metro) on one of these dirt roads my bus goes down. when i saw it i couldn't help but laugh.it was there for a couple straite days.

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Well for me we own 24 acres and half of it is woods so I just hunt here at my house. But whenI go hunting with my friend we always take his truck. But when I go hunting at my uncle's I just call either my grandpa and ask to borrow his truck because he lives a few minutes away or I just ask my uncle if I can use his truck.

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Minivan with the back seat folded down and slid forward. Open up a tarp, insert deer, fold tarp over the top. Done.

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The heat from the engine, the road grime, exhaust fumes all getting to the meat you hunted for. Not worth it to me, coolers or the trunk, only way to go....

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When I started really hunting deer I had a 1968 LeMans Tempest Fastback with a
positive traction rear end. I drove that thing through some of the worst mud roads
Mississippi had to offer. On a rare occasion I had to be pullled out. But I always just
tossed the deer in the trunk. Kept a plastic roll in the trunk to line it. Throw it away
after every kill. We all have to start somewhere!!!!!!
Eric S. Stacy
P.S. Don't put a deer on the hood. Heat from the engine will certainly ruin your meat you spent so much time and money on getting! Trunk or roof !
P.S.S. Make sure the plasticcatches all the blood. If not,when you remove the deer and plastic, you will still have juices rottingnow in your trunk and will take some time to get rid of them.

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Not to hi-jack a thread, but one of my friends in high-school had a '66 Tempest Custom convertible. His father bought it new off the lot and gave it to him in 1986 when he got his license. We used to put the top down and toss a couple billy goat "kids" in the back seat and ride around town. You'd honestly think it was strange, but those little goats got the attention of many girls. They had several they bred to eat, putting them on a spit in the smoker just like a hog. Bright blue, white top, 326/3 on the tree with the stereo blaring and two goats in the back.....there's a "You might be a redneck......" joke in there somewhere. We were young, stupid and had a blast though.

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It wasBaby Blue with a White hard top. Great car. Unfortunately got stolen. Never saw HER again.