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buck460XVR · November 28, 2021, 04:23 PM

One reason I quit hunting large parcels of public land was the drag out. In my younger days, dragging a 140-170# deer 3/4s of a mile by myself, wasn't a big deal even if it took a good part of the day to do it. The came those days when I seldom hunted without one or both of the boys within shouting distance. When they and I both got older and that became the oddity and not the norm, I just quit going in so deep on those days I knew a cell phone call wouldn't bring them to help. Then I just quit going in so deep all together. Got so the deeper I went in, the bigger the buck had to be in order to take the shot. Shooting does got delegated to field edges and or relative closeness to the truck. I did the game carts and the tarps too, but neither works well in the swamps and bogs. Nowadays, I hunt private land where I can drive the SxS right up to the animal. If there is a drag, it's downhill. As ol' Inspector Harold Francis Callahan said, "a man's got to know his limitations".

November 28, 2021, 04:23 PM	#16
buck460XVR Senior Member Join Date: December 28, 2006 Posts: 4,342	One reason I quit hunting large parcels of public land was the drag out. In my younger days, dragging a 140-170# deer 3/4s of a mile by myself, wasn't a big deal even if it took a good part of the day to do it. The came those days when I seldom hunted without one or both of the boys within shouting distance. When they and I both got older and that became the oddity and not the norm, I just quit going in so deep on those days I knew a cell phone call wouldn't bring them to help. Then I just quit going in so deep all together. Got so the deeper I went in, the bigger the buck had to be in order to take the shot. Shooting does got delegated to field edges and or relative closeness to the truck. I did the game carts and the tarps too, but neither works well in the swamps and bogs. Nowadays, I hunt private land where I can drive the SxS right up to the animal. If there is a drag, it's downhill. As ol' Inspector Harold Francis Callahan said, "a man's got to know his limitations".