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Offline Wazukie

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Re: How would you transport a downed elk in a mid sized sedan...
« Reply #15 on: August 15, 2013, 11:57:47 AM »
:yeah: We have transported several elk in a Suzuki Jeep, just bone it out and put in coolers.  I agree with Jacklope.

Suzuki doesn't has never made a Jeep!  Please do not degrade the name of a Samurai by calling it a Jeep  :chuckle:  To the OP, it'll fit, just do what everyone has already suggested, except for tying it to the top :yike:
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Re: How would you transport a downed elk in a mid sized sedan...
« Reply #16 on: August 15, 2013, 12:01:22 PM »
:yeah: We have transported several elk in a Suzuki Jeep, just bone it out and put in coolers.  I agree with Jacklope.

Suzuki doesn't has never made a Jeep!  Please do not degrade the name of a Samurai by calling it a Jeep  :chuckle:  To the OP, it'll fit, just do what everyone has already suggested, except for tying it to the top :yike:

 :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: Still looks like a jeep! 

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Re: How would you transport a downed elk in a mid sized sedan...
« Reply #17 on: August 15, 2013, 12:37:09 PM »
my buddy stuffed last years 4x3 in his acura legend. Whole, minus the gut pile. Trying to find one with the trunk open.

wait, was that a 4x3 with single eyeguards, doubles, or inclusive?!   :chuckle:

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Re: How would you transport a downed elk in a mid sized sedan...
« Reply #18 on: August 15, 2013, 12:46:38 PM »
:yeah: We have transported several elk in a Suzuki Jeep, just bone it out and put in coolers.  I agree with Jacklope.

Suzuki doesn't has never made a Jeep!  Please do not degrade the name of a Samurai by calling it a Jeep  :chuckle:  To the OP, it'll fit, just do what everyone has already suggested, except for tying it to the top :yike:


The opposite is true.  Calling a Suzuki a Jeep is an insult to any Jeep.  Except the Compass and Patriot.
Kindly do not attempt to cloud the issue with too many facts.

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Re: How would you transport a downed elk in a mid sized sedan...
« Reply #19 on: August 15, 2013, 12:49:08 PM »
Why don't you swap vehicles with the guy who backed out for the hunt?

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Re: How would you transport a downed elk in a mid sized sedan...
« Reply #20 on: August 15, 2013, 12:50:56 PM »
How about a tow hitch and a cheap harbor freight trailer?
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Re: How would you transport a downed elk in a mid sized sedan...
« Reply #21 on: August 15, 2013, 12:51:08 PM »
Why don't you swap vehicles with the guy who backed out for the hunt?

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Re: How would you transport a downed elk in a mid sized sedan...
« Reply #22 on: August 15, 2013, 12:57:25 PM »
How cold is your air conditioning?  You may not even need any coolers........   ;)
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Re: How would you transport a downed elk in a mid sized sedan...
« Reply #23 on: August 15, 2013, 01:01:20 PM »
Ive hulled out a 4x4 with saturn sw once lol

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Re: How would you transport a downed elk in a mid sized sedan...
« Reply #25 on: August 15, 2013, 01:08:10 PM »
in the back seat with the a/c cranking !

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Re: How would you transport a downed elk in a mid sized sedan...
« Reply #26 on: August 15, 2013, 01:11:48 PM »
I fit a quartered bull in the back of my samurai. It was tight. The antlers came over the seat and I had to duck to drive.

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Re: How would you transport a downed elk in a mid sized sedan...
« Reply #27 on: August 15, 2013, 01:16:58 PM »
Hauled a gutted, whole deer in the trunk of my Maxima one year.  Just gotta have priorities!  A little blood on the trunk carpet gives you credibility in certain crowds....

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Re: How would you transport a downed elk in a mid sized sedan...
« Reply #28 on: August 15, 2013, 01:25:44 PM »
Here is what I did in a Honda Civic.

1.  Bring a large blue tarp and an old sleeping bag
2.  Quarter elk
3.  Lay tarp in trunk
4.  Cover entire bottom with bags of ice left in the bag.
5.  Put quarters on top of ice
6.  Cover quarters with rest of tarp
7.  Lay old sleeping bag over the top
8.  Drive the rest of the way home with the AC on or windows open.

Should work just fine.
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Re: How would you transport a downed elk in a mid sized sedan...
« Reply #29 on: August 15, 2013, 01:34:28 PM »
I put a froze solid whitetail doe in the back seat of a rental car once with it's feet sticking out one back window.
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