Your Favorite Way To Drag/Haul Deer?
 

I've seen or heard of many different ways to haul a deer out of the woods. Besides just driving up to him in your pickup or hauling him out with your 4-wheeler, LOL!, what ways have you taken him out?

I still do it the old fashion way if it's a real short drag; just grab the antlers and go! I'll also have a drag rope and slip around the neck attached to a stick and pull leaning forward with both hands on the stick behind my back.

I have other ways too, but would like to hear yours. I think I've seen them all, but we'll see! Do you have a unique way of getting deer out of the woods or how do you do it?

This is for entertainment, but would like to learn a tip or a slick trick!

iSnipe

If its going to be a short drag then yes I just break out the ole harness rig that I carry and start dragging. But if it's a long one I take everything back to the truck and get the deer dolly.
As I hunt mostly public land and no motorized vehicles are allowed it my only way to get them out,

I have recently perchased a deer dolly as well. I am not so sure it will work up here very good with all the slash left in the woods from wood cutters.. A short drag is to grab the antlers and go with it. A long drag I would tie a rope around it's neck and bring both front legs up. I would sue the same rope to hold the legs up so it's feet are secured by it's ears. Then with the remainder of the rope it would go over my shoulder and cross my chest . This would bring the deers head roughly up to my waist. In this fashion it bring the front half up off the ground making the drag much easier. After all dragging with only half a deer on the ground only requires about half the pull..

Stick and rope for me....used a game cart once and it worked very well.

..over snow.. ;)

I have a deer drag in my pack and tie it off to the base of the antlers then I pull the front legs up under the rack and a half hitch around the front legs to keep them there to eliminate drag then another half hitch around the nose to keep the head up. The drag fits over my chest and I pull them out.

Im in the Coast guard so They issued us a SEA BAG, I just throw my deer in there and grab the straps and where Him out like a back pack. A couple weeks ago I couldn't find it because it had been packed up over the summer so I just used a regular dolly for like appliances and just bungyd him up on there and off I go.

I'm in for a new experience as I've never done this but if I get one, I have to drag one.

Dad gave me a deer drag <rolled up orange mat> recently while squirrel hunting. I asked him what it was while I was reading the side of it and the turkey told me it was to be used to bring my squirrels out of the woods! :D The jokester! He makes me laugh! :lmao:

I bought a game cart last year, first year three deer hauled out. Paid for itself already. Unless it's a real short drag, I'll go back to the truck and get the cart. No more busting my butt.

Make a slit behind the columella (the part between the nostrils) just about a half inch back or so and run a rope thru it and tie a knot. Put the deer's front legs behind its head (if you do it right, they'll stay) and drag on!

You'd think that there's no way you could haul a deer that way...that the columella would just snap under the weight of the deer, but it's the other way around. It would take a lot more than the weight of the deer for it to break. Also, when you have the front legs locked behind its head, you seldom snag on anything. It a VERY smooth way to drag a deer.