RE: what do you solo hunters do??
 

I hvae pulled, tugged, drug, lifted, dropped, uphill, down hill, even had to use a climbing rope once to pull me adn the criter out of a hole. I have had them drop at 11,000' elevation and at 500', moved em with wheel barrows, come-a-longs, block and tackle, pack boards.... and in the end I finally found the best way to get it done.

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RE: what do you solo hunters do??
 

I've almost always hunted alone. I take a cotton lead rope to use as a drag rope, and a canteen!!!! It's a lot of work to drag 160-200# animals over miles and miles of nasty terrains, and it stirs up a heck of a thirst. I've never had any trouble loading game, but I'm a high school power lifter, I can deadlift over a thousand pounds, so lifting a little deer into a truck isn't much trouble.

My worst experience with something like this wasn't a deer at all, it was a calf. My old man told me it was sick out in the field, and I had to go get it. I got out there, my hound found it, 4 and a half miles from my truck, I gutted it and started dragging it, then loaded it into the truck, the hole thing took me about 5 hours, a half hour to load him into the truck, weighed him later at 435#, never want to do anything like that again, in fact, that's why I passed up an elk trip at ft. riley I got offered that year, they don't like people to bone them out on the air force base, so you're supposed to pack them out whole.

RE: what do you solo hunters do??
 

I think tying the rope to a tree and the pickup backed up and the deer pulled in to the back would work for me since i have a pickup and a rope the deer well sometimes thats a little harder to come by. P.S. take a youngster hunting keep hunting alive<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

RE: what do you solo hunters do??
 

I carry rope and a come along and it works
out pretty well the deer kady works for get
ting it on your atv!!

RE: what do you solo hunters do??
 

If its that big that I cant drag it out by myself....I have my cel and a couple buddies that live close by. They would even stop watching Bonanza for some free venison. <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>


AllenC

RE: what do you solo hunters do??
 

I saw a post from a female about this a piece of plywood about 5'long and 2'wide. She would take the plywood and lay it on the ground, get the deer on to the plyboard, lift one end up to the tail gate and then get up in the back of the truck and pull the deer up the plyboard. Sort of as a ramp. Sounds like it may work.