Get Out... Buck and Bear

[Singing Bridge]

Public land hunters, what's your favorite method for getting your buck or bear back out to your truck? Mostly being alone when I hunt, I often find myself a long ways from the truck and with no help around....

[dan]

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[Spysar]

A trusted friend. A boat if near water.

[chadhaucke]

Definately a sled if your alone, its the only way.

[James]

Calling Greg (AC Rider) or Mike (Arrowbender) and spending the entire evening, typically until 1-2am, dragging them out.

Seriously I still owe Arrowbender a serious deer hauling, but I think I'm paid up with AC Rider now

[Arrowbender]

Yea. I should shoot one once

[Uncle Lou]

James,

Take it easy on arrowbender. He's no spring chicken. He's pushing 50, you dont want to give him a grabber way back in the swamp.

[Arrowbender]

Baa guUCKK !!! (spring chicken response)

[PLB]

Deer cart for me Got one stashed in the woods way back in one of my honeyholes I must say though a sled works great late season on snow!

[AC Rider]

Quartering them up and packing them out is by far the easiest for me (wasn't able to confirm if it's legal here or not ) but I now have a sled I'm going to try out this fall.

[Singing Bridge]

Man, I love the idea of having help. Most of my spots I'm no where near someone I trust to help though. I have a sled that works pretty well for deer, I don't know about bear though. Can't get a quad to where I hunt either

[magicman54494]

I dont know any easy ways to get them out of most of the places I hunt. A cart wouldn't work. A sled would be tough to get thru thick stuff and they would just be tipping over on the uneven ground. I just tie on a stick and start pulling and pulling and pulling and pulling. They don't come easy or often so I actually enjoy the drag. I never ask for help because I hate to show people where I hunt.

[huntinnurse]

James,

Take it easy on arrowbender. He's no spring chicken. He's pushing 50, you dont want to give him a grabber way back in the swamp.

Now that is funny!!!!!!! I think arrowbender even saw some humor in it. I sure hope so!!!!!! I laugh cuz I'm over 50 and it is no easy feat any more!!!!! Even when it's a doe that may be a whole lot smaller than a buck as I seem to be good at getting!!!!!

[Ack]

I usually worry about getting them out after the fact, but I do keep a cart in the vehicle just in case. If the woods is really thick I use a 1 wheel cart that gets through the thick stuff easier without hangups....for more open woods the 2 wheeler comes out.

[Uncle Lou]

If you guys (bridge and Magic) wont show a good friend that is willing to go in a he!! hole with you, then like AC said cutem up and take'em out in pieces.

I remember hunting elk by myself in CO in 1998. A friend of a friend kept asking me what I was going to do if I killed one. I said I will worry about that next. But clearly in my plan, there was a knife involved.

This was Idaho 2006. Yes, cutem up and getem out