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Post by Dutch on Oct 30, 2014 8:56:41 GMT -5
I hear game carts are great ....but I'm lazy, usually just put the deer in lawn tractor cart behind the garden tractor Oh man, that just ain't right!
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Post by dougell on Oct 30, 2014 10:39:59 GMT -5
We usually kill a couple on my property each year.Most times I just take the Kabota down and scoop them up in the bucket.Then I bring them into the barn,and lift the bucket up to hang them.Now that's lazy.
ATV's aren't allowed on state forests.I wonder what they'd say about a Kabota?
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Post by feathers on Oct 30, 2014 14:11:54 GMT -5
I hear game carts are great ....but I'm lazy, usually just put the deer in lawn tractor cart behind the garden tractor Oh man, that just ain't right! I know ....but I have a aufully bigggg back yard smileys-whistling-823718
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Post by TusseyMtman on Oct 30, 2014 14:25:23 GMT -5
Dragging deer in the snow is pretty easy. If there is not snow, it can get pretty difficult. I have the same cart that loggy has. I have never used it because of my propensity to shoot deer in places where a cart is not practical. As I get older I try to set up fewer steep uphill drags, they will wear you out.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2014 20:56:13 GMT -5
This is what a sled looks like after I use it. We only ever get use out of it before it goes in the garbage.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2014 22:05:02 GMT -5
Wow! Do you hunt rocky terrain?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2014 5:52:50 GMT -5
Yes and it doesn't take much to shred them like this. But if we didn't have it yesterday the drag would have taken a lot longer. I recommend them just they don't hold up.
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Post by CoureurDeBois on Nov 1, 2014 11:16:22 GMT -5
Can't argue with a photo stoupy, but the ones I have are holding up nicely. They have also gone over some rocky terrain, my camp isn't named Rocky Ridge for nothing. We use the Deer Sleigh'r Transport Sled size Magnum. Saw some reviews that stated the new ones aren't as thick as the old ones, don't know. I also did some calculations on weight/square foot, looks like the magnum is made from 10% heaver material.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2014 17:18:47 GMT -5
Can't argue with a photo stoupy, but the ones I have are holding up nicely. They have also gone over some rocky terrain, my camp isn't named Rocky Ridge for nothing. We use the Deer Sleigh'r Transport Sled size Magnum. Saw some reviews that stated the new ones aren't as thick as the old ones, don't know. I also did some calculations on weight/square foot, looks like the magnum is made from 10% heaver material. I like the sleds we bought one from whoever had the same thing it was the first one we used then my dad brought the plastic they use to make these home from work and we started making our own. That sled helped us get that buck down yesterday a lot sooner then if we didn't have it. I shot a doe last year at the same place I shot my buck and didn't have it and wish we brought one up. So this year we got a little smarter and stashed one up where we hunt so we had it to use yesterday. They do save the hide more from getting rub marks on it. My buck got rubbed more then I would have liked but there wasn't much I could do to prevent it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2014 7:29:17 GMT -5
If going the plastic sliding route...hard to beat an Otter Ice fishing sled for dragging just about anything out of anywhere! I know they can take tuff terrain plus abuse. I fitted mine with hyfax runner/rub strips which even makes them more durable. Havent used on deer yet but have drug heavy loads of wood, rock etc and it doesn't even blink...
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Post by blackbruin on Nov 7, 2014 18:39:47 GMT -5
I have a seat belt out of a,wrecked car. Sew in a loop so you can tighten that around the deer and than a non tightening loop up top with the buckle a a sling for over the shoulder, nice and wide.
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Post by cspot on Nov 7, 2014 19:45:35 GMT -5
I haven't used a drag in years. Around here I can generally get the JD Gator within a 100 yards or so and most drags are downhill. Worst drag I have had was my youngest daughters buck this year which was about 100 yards straight up hill. I used to use the tractor like Doug said so that I could also hang them. Now I got an old rope block and tackle from a farm sale. With the 4:1 advantage it makes it easy to hoist to the height that I need to skin.
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Post by dougell on Nov 11, 2014 8:54:58 GMT -5
I have meat hooks hanging from chains off the trusses in my barn.I can either just pull my truck in,hook them up and pull out or I just use a couple small meat hooks on the tractor bucket.I like using individual meat hooks on each leg some the deer can't spin when I quarter them.
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Post by Shawn on Dec 17, 2020 15:38:24 GMT -5
In case you don't have any 16-30 year olds around....a deer cart is a good thing to have. I keep 2 at my Sullivan County camp as I like to keep one out on the mountain I normally hunt plus one in the truck for when I change locales during a hunting trip. key is to make sure they have strong wheels/axles to take a pounding in tuff terrain.. I have a Cabela's Mag Hauler plus one below that my Dad had made at a machine shop which I later fitted with mountain bike wheels/stronger axles. Both have served me well over the years...
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