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I use a deer cart to get the deer out of the woods. Once I get it to my truck, that is when the fun starts. I am thinking about buying one of those deer hoist thingies that attaches to the trailer hitch mount. There have been a few occasions where it would have been a great investment.
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D.L. Cheney and R.M. Seyfarth
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I try to go with friends. but i typically pull from back legs if its a doe on to the tailgate. never really had to drag one a long ways. with the exception of once when i was hunting a field in covington co. and shot a big nanny about 350 yards out ( just to see if i could adjust for windage). had to drag it 400+ yards to truck but had a friend and that was still rough.
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I have a home made "invention" similar to the dead sled which Venator mentioned. I use a piece of corrugated tin that blew off the barn after a storm. I roll the deer onto it, bend the corners inward to prevent snags and have both ends of a rope tied to one end of it. It slides pretty easily over just about anything. Through creeks, over bushes and it shields the antlers from hanging up on things, as well. Do you fold this thing up and keep it in your pocket or do you drag it to the stand when hunting?
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Deer cart, but it is still not easy. It seems like everywhere I hunt the last 200 yards to the truck are uphill!
"After all, it is not the killing that brings satisfaction; it is the contest of skill and cunning. The true hunter counts his achievement in proportion to the effort involved and the fairness of the sport." Dr. Saxton Pope
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How do you get your deer out of the woods and back to the truck? I use one of these http://www.cabelas.com/catalog/largeImagePopup.jsp?productId=753342
I hate making a good first impression. There’s no way I can keep that shit up.
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I normally just through them over my shoulder and walk. Although you guys probably shoot those big deer with the tough meat. 
It is what it is.
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I have a home made "invention" similar to the dead sled which Venator mentioned. I use a piece of corrugated tin that blew off the barn after a storm. I roll the deer onto it, bend the corners inward to prevent snags and have both ends of a rope tied to one end of it. It slides pretty easily over just about anything. Through creeks, over bushes and it shields the antlers from hanging up on things, as well. Do you fold this thing up and keep it in your pocket or do you drag it to the stand when hunting? After a kill I walk back to the barn where its stored. Load it in the pickup. Drive back to the end of the pasture. Drag it to the kill spot and load her up. This 8x3 sheet of tin weighs all of two lbs.
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I have dragged a nice buck over a mile by myself. I have cut a big buck into two pieces and carried him out on my shoulders. I have carried a doe out whole on my shoulders.
Unfortunately, this all happened more than 30 years ago.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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If I'm far back in the woods its usually something like this....
walk up on deer
High five self on such a spectacular shot
Look around to see what route is the shortest back to a road
Start dragging deer
After 10 feet, realize the deer is heavy
10 more feet, switch hands
5 more feet, cuss
5 more feet, try to breathe through my nose and not my mouth
3 feet, gasp for air
3 feet, trip over a stick and bust my arse
2 inches, cuss more
1 inch, drop the damn deer and head back to the truck for the atv
Walk back to the truck, unload the atv.
Drive atv to deer running down every tree less than 3 inches in diameter I come across.
Climb up on rear rack, brace my legs, try to pull deer up onto atv.
My feet slip and I fall off the atv and drop the deer.
Try it again.
Lose grip on the deer and fall off the opposite side of the atv this time.
Tie the deer to the trailer hitch and drag him to the truck.
Swear I'm never shooting another deer by myself again. 
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Mark Twain
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I am a little different than most as I process my own. I have a packable gambrel I put in my back pack along with a skinning knife, gloves and a garbage bag.
Once I have a kill, I find a strong limb and string it up. I bone out the hindquarters, inner/outer backstraps and if anything left may get some off the front shoulders and neck. I like to shoot through the front shoulders if I can. I put it all in the garbage bag and pack it out. Not much left once I am done and the yotes clean up the rest. Can be a little tough packing it out but not as tough as trying to drag one through the woods. I don't own a 4wheeler so that is not an option to me. X2
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Mark Twain
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If I'm far back in the woods its usually something like this....
walk up on deer
High five self on such a spectacular shot
Look around to see what route is the shortest back to a road
Start dragging deer
After 10 feet, realize the deer is heavy
10 more feet, switch hands
5 more feet, cuss
5 more feet, try to breathe through my nose and not my mouth
3 feet, gasp for air
3 feet, trip over a stick and bust my arse
2 inches, cuss more
This is how I used to do it, notice my signature line 
"Don't let a dead deer kill ya"
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Johnnyreb, precisely why I now drive up to and load every deer I shoot, usually after I have called for help.
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Only drag it as far as I have to then go get the truck.
If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.-Mark Twain
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as close to the tractor's reach as possible, then the boompole does the rest
"The aggies are going to destroy bama"
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Guess I'm about to have to figure out how...I've got a bunch of free time for hunting right now but none of my hunting buddies can get free. I hate hunting alone just b/c of all that could possibly go wrong. Hell, anyone wanna go hunting near Linden/Magnolia area 
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You forgot the part bout turning the ATV over! If I'm far back in the woods its usually something like this....
walk up on deer
High five self on such a spectacular shot
Look around to see what route is the shortest back to a road
Start dragging deer
After 10 feet, realize the deer is heavy
10 more feet, switch hands
5 more feet, cuss
5 more feet, try to breathe through my nose and not my mouth
3 feet, gasp for air
3 feet, trip over a stick and bust my arse
2 inches, cuss more
1 inch, drop the damn deer and head back to the truck for the atv
Walk back to the truck, unload the atv.
Drive atv to deer running down every tree less than 3 inches in diameter I come across.
Climb up on rear rack, brace my legs, try to pull deer up onto atv.
My feet slip and I fall off the atv and drop the deer.
Try it again.
Lose grip on the deer and fall off the opposite side of the atv this time.
Tie the deer to the trailer hitch and drag him to the truck.
Swear I'm never shooting another deer by myself again.
"Why do you ask"?
Too many people spend money they don't have , on things they don't need, to impress people they don't know.
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Never shoot a deer I couldn't get my fourwheeler or tractor to.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
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You forgot the part bout turning the ATV over! If I'm far back in the woods its usually something like this....
walk up on deer
High five self on such a spectacular shot
Look around to see what route is the shortest back to a road
Start dragging deer
After 10 feet, realize the deer is heavy
10 more feet, switch hands
5 more feet, cuss
5 more feet, try to breathe through my nose and not my mouth
3 feet, gasp for air
3 feet, trip over a stick and bust my arse
2 inches, cuss more
1 inch, drop the damn deer and head back to the truck for the atv
Walk back to the truck, unload the atv.
Drive atv to deer running down every tree less than 3 inches in diameter I come across.
Climb up on rear rack, brace my legs, try to pull deer up onto atv.
My feet slip and I fall off the atv and drop the deer.
Try it again.
Lose grip on the deer and fall off the opposite side of the atv this time.
Tie the deer to the trailer hitch and drag him to the truck.
Swear I'm never shooting another deer by myself again. I left out that part and the part where I strain so hard to get the deer on the four wheeler that I fart and have to stop everything and go check to see if I did more than fart. 
"We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."
George Orwell
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things that make you go hmmmmmmm
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This is how I do it. 
doecommander out...........................
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I am a little different than most as I process my own. I have a packable gambrel I put in my back pack along with a skinning knife, gloves and a garbage bag.
Once I have a kill, I find a strong limb and string it up. I bone out the hindquarters, inner/outer backstraps and if anything left may get some off the front shoulders and neck. I like to shoot through the front shoulders if I can. I put it all in the garbage bag and pack it out. Not much left once I am done and the yotes clean up the rest. Can be a little tough packing it out but not as tough as trying to drag one through the woods. I don't own a 4wheeler so that is not an option to me. 3toe, which packable gambrel doe you have?
Do you want to hear him gobble, or do you want to kill him.
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