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Looking for ideas
Up in the Adirondack's were I hunt the northern zone. You can't use any motorized vehicles.
To get you game out.
And as a official senior now. And hunting up there by myself, if I drop something big. There is no way I am going to get it out in one piece.
So last yr.I picked up a neat two bladed saw
One bone blade the other wood.
I just seen a ,sled LL bean. Looks like it rolls
Up. And has 3 straps to tie down gear or what ever
You need to transport. Says it's good for uneven ground., I like that. Cuz the Adirondack s
Has a lot of that.

I have had a roll-up sled (or mat) for several years. Do not remember where I got it. It has grommets for lashing the deer to the mat and grommets for tow ropes. I have used it many times.
If you are dragging a deer through woods or grass it glides easily. If you get to a plowed field (like we have in Illinois) it will wear you down pretty quick. Too bad you are not allowed to use motorized vehicles - because it works great if dragging with a 4-wheeler.
We have some hills and hollers here but would not compare to what you deal with.

That's what I was looking for, but can't find.
Gander mtn. Doesn't have them anymore , Natchez shooter supply doesn't have them anymore.?
Guess I will hit LL bean.

My buddy and I hunt mostly in the Wildlife Management Areas here in South Carolina. There are "fire" roads running through the areas. No vehicle traffic allowed, but the roads are pretty decent. Buddy keeps a wheeled cart in this truck. Drag animal to nearest road, and the other guy goes to the truck and brings back the cart. Works well for out situation.

Thanks guys
The place were I plan to hunt this fall has a New
Trail cut tru. It and a nice rigge I want to clime up on
And check out , that over looks on one side ae big beaver swamp. The other side is all hardwoods.
And before the hardwoods is some fir.trees

This is similar to the drag that I have. It may be where I got mine years ago.

Check out Cabelas Item # IK-420202

Just did, never seen one with a bag to put the deer in . that's the same price as LL bean's. 39.00
Thanks

Mine did not come with a bag to put the deer in.

On another site , a yr. Ago a guy told me he doesn't bring any bones out of the woods, and he doesn't guy them out eather , he cut"a all the meat off ,
And puts everything in canvas bags that he made.

Shame on me, I just drove 20 miles to our LL Bean
Store. Never set foot in the place before, and by the way , won't again.
I thought the place to by a LL Bean. Game drag
Would be in one of there stores. WRONG.
I didn't see one thing for hunting, maybe a flashlight.

biglever wrote:Shame on me, I just drove 20 miles to our LL Bean
Store. Never set foot in the place before, and by the way , won't again.
I thought the place to by a LL Bean. Game drag
Would be in one of there stores. WRONG.
I didn't see one thing for hunting, maybe a flashlight.

Yeah, funny isn't it (not really). More clothes (not outdoorsy stuff either) than practical stuff. Just get it off the website with free shipping.

Ha ha ha. That deer on the Cabela's site looks like he's tucked in for bed. I'll probably get the LL Bean one. Thanks for the tip.

Just ordered mine from LL bean on line

When I started in 1964 I could grab one by the horns or the hind feet. As the years went by I went from the one that you can put around your waist to a full harness. Now, the only way it is getting out of the woods is if one of the guys loads it on the four wheeler!

I here ya.
This is why I got the saw and now the sled.
It's comeing out in chunks.

It was sitting on my porch when I got home

biglever wrote:Looking for ideas
Up in the Adirondack's were I hunt the northern zone. You can't use any motorized vehicles.
To get you game out.
And as a official senior now. And hunting up there by myself, if I drop something big. There is no way I am going to get it out in one piece.
So last yr.I picked up a neat two bladed saw
One bone blade the other wood.
I just seen a ,sled LL bean. Looks like it rolls
Up. And has 3 straps to tie down gear or what ever
You need to transport. Says it's good for uneven ground., I like that. Cuz the Adirondack s
Has a lot of that.IMG_20141027_094920_779.jpg

Kinda late on this one but being a senior myself thought I'd show you what I've been using for about ten years now. I picked up the sled at a Duhnams store and it slides well on grass, snow and dirt, just added a thicker rope as the one that came wit it broke right away. This year I want to get a little deeper one that they make so I can throw my stuff in it so not to be caring the extras.

many years ago when we hunted an area where we couldn't use motorized vehicles to go into the woods, we tried different deer drags .... all helped but none made the job much less taxing .... after trying the drags we moved to carts ===> https://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywo ... u2mono2n_p .... for us, they worked much better for hauling equipment into the woods and deer out

This past bow season my neighbor who is 76 shot a 11 point 190lb. buck and came over and got me to help drag it out. Well, I just turned 70 so heres two old farts going to drag this monster out, Right! My neighbor just bought one of those carts and we couldn't even get it on the damn cart it was so awkward. Being that there was so much brush and branches it would have been hard to wheel. I went back and got the long sled and the deer barley fit on that thing but we did pull him out to where we had the truck. The sled glided over the brush and branches. The weight of the deer pushed down the small
brush and high grass. I know neither one of us alone could have done it alone though.

Thanks for your post.
That's why I got a saw. And the sled. Guys from out west told me they don't even gut the animal ,just take all the meat off,put it in canvas bags , and bring it out.,and the rack.
They De-bone all the meat, why carry all the bones out
When your just going to throw them away anyhow.