Nightmare recovery picture.

[Exophysical]

Buddy sent me a great picture he snapped while helping me recover a 200+ lb buck a couple weeks back. Four and a half hours in, me taking a break halfway out of the second last ravine... yes I really should have quartered it.

IMG_5692 (2) by https://www.flickr.com/photos/153108294@N08/, on Flickr

[Crazinamatese]

Looks like you ditched the sled at the bottom

[Exophysical]

Looks like you ditched the sled at the bottom

Good eye!

Past a certain point, the sled just wants to slide backwards too easy, while it isnt much fun I often have to take take deer out of the sled to get up slopes.... this slope was WAYYY past the point where a sled is any use!

I was pretty impressed that sled survived the trip down into the ravine. I sort of lost control of it about 3-400 yards back, wasnt to concerned as I expected it to hit a tree and stop before it got to the ravine... instead it weaved itself around and over all kinds of obstacles picking up speed, then launched itself and the deer into that ravine.

[Exophysical]

Whoops.

[Crazinamatese]

Looks like you ditched the sled at the bottom

Good eye!

Past a certain point, the sled just wants to slide backwards too easy, while it isnt much fun I often have to take take deer out of the sled to get up slopes.... this slope was WAYYY past the point where a sled is any use!

Not sure what you yanks use for sleds, but I was really impressed that 5' Pelican sled survived the trip down into the ravine.

I have the same sled.

[Exophysical]

I have the same sled.

Cool, IIRC Pelican is out of Winnipeg. Wasnt sure if their sleds were common south of the border. I have a bigger Pellican with wear strips that I pulled behind my skidoo when I trapped. For its modest price it has also been impressively tough.

[Jackson Marsh]

That's steep. Dragging deer uphill is no fun, especially slipping and sliding in the snow. Great picture.

[hunter_mike]

Looks like fun hahaha

[Crazinamatese]

I have the same sled.

Cool, IIRC Pelican is out of Winnipeg. Wasnt sure if their sleds were common south of the border. I have a bigger Pellican with wear strips that I pulled behind my skidoo when I trapped. For its modest price it has also been impressively tough.

Yes! I’ve pulled mine through swamps through woods, used it for ice fishing, and aside from usual scratches, its still solid.

[muddy]

Brute force and ignorance wins every time.

[Uncle Lou]

Congrats on earning a long drag out. I have been missing those long drags the last couple years

[Exophysical]

Brute force and ignorance wins every time.

Lol, you must be a millwright too?

[Horizontal Hunter]

Congratulations on a great buck.

What a brutal drag. On the plus side it just makes the meat sweeter.

The days of me doing that are long gone.

FWIW:

A few years back I shot a buck that died up agains a tree theee feet from a drop off like that. After that I made a portable tree mounted hand winch that stays in the truck “just in case”

I made a collapsible copy of Wiscoz7s’ winch in this thread.
http://www.thehuntingbeast.com/viewtopic.php?t=27737

[BJ99Robinson]

You made a lasting memory.

[Moose]

Thats a rough one! Im not sure if it would be easier with or without snow.