collapse

Advertisement


Author Topic: How would you transport a downed elk in a mid sized sedan...  (Read 7800 times)

Offline Wazukie

  • Business Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+2)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2009
  • Posts: 2674
  • Location: The Woods
  • Groups: NRA
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:
Matthew 6:33

Offline Austrian Hunter

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2008
  • Posts: 4491
  • Location: Yakima, WA
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! 

Offline 724wd

  • Washington For Wildlife
  • Trade Count: (+2)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Dec 2009
  • Posts: 3884
  • Location: Spokane
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:

Offline Jonathan_S

  • Trade Count: (+6)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Oct 2012
  • Posts: 8999
  • Location: Medical Lake
  • Volleyfire Brigade, Cryder apologist
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.

Offline washelkhunter

  • Region 5 State Delegate #3
  • Washington For Wildlife
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2011
  • Posts: 3549
  • Location: Vancouver
  • Site sponsorhttp
  • Groups: TPE, NRA, RMEF, AST
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?

Offline Thefisherman83

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Sep 2009
  • Posts: 814
  • Location: Tenino
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?
Hunting and Fishing are not matters of life or death... THEY ARE WAY MORE IMPORTANT!!!

"Nothing Makes a fish bigger than almost being caught."

Poles are for skiing, Rods are for fishing!
Team Loomis!

Online pianoman9701

  • Mushroom Man
  • Business Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+5)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2011
  • Posts: 44812
  • Location: Vancouver USA
  • WWC, NRA Life, WFW, NAGR, RMEF, WSB, NMLS #2014743
    • www.facebook.com/johnwallacemortgage
    • John Wallace Mortgage
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?

 :yeah:
"Restricting the rights of law-abiding citizens based on the actions of criminals and madmen will have no positive effect on the future acts of criminals and madmen. It will only serve to reduce individual rights and the very security of our republic." - Pianoman https://linktr.ee/johnlwallace https://valoaneducator.tv/johnwallace-2014743

Offline Curly

  • Trade Count: (+2)
  • Legend
  • ******
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 20921
  • Location: Thurston County
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........   ;)
 :chuckle: 
May I always be the kind of person my dog thinks I am.

><((((º>` ><((((º>. ><((((º>.¸><((((º>

Offline pendoreilleadventures

  • Moose Whisper
  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jul 2008
  • Posts: 922
  • Location: Cusick, washington
    • https://www.facebook.com/brian.benham.16
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

Sent from my SCH-I510 using Tapatalk 2

“Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians--except for the occasional mountain lion steak.”
― Ted Nugent

Offline CoryTDF

  • Make it Rain!!!
  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+5)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Feb 2009
  • Posts: 3184
  • Location: Walla Walla
  • Look at me I'm blowing a duck call!
CoryTDF

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797), British statesman and philosopher

Offline coachcw

  • Past Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Old Salt
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jun 2009
  • Posts: 8821
  • Groups: Team getsum !
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 !

Offline FANATIC

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Hunter
  • ***
  • Join Date: Nov 2007
  • Posts: 169
  • Location: renton
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.

Offline Shawn Ryan

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jul 2008
  • Posts: 1026
  • Location: Battle Ground, WA
  • Snoozing in elk country.
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....

Offline dreamingbig

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: May 2007
  • Posts: 2814
  • Location: Mukilteo, WA
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.
@mukbowhunt
Avid Bowhunter
Maxxis 35 / Trykon XL

Offline NRA4LIFE

  • Site Sponsor
  • Past Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+10)
  • Old Salt
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2007
  • Posts: 6057
  • Location: Maple Valley
  • Groups: NRA
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.
Look man, some times you just gotta roll the dice

 


* Advertisement

* Recent Topics

I'm Going To Need Karl To Come up With That 290 Muley Sunscreen Bug Spray Combo by highside74
[Today at 11:07:49 AM]


Kings by Gentrys
[Today at 11:05:40 AM]


49 Degrees North Early Bull Moose by vandeman17
[Today at 10:45:30 AM]


Nevada bull hunt 2025 by High Climber
[Today at 10:32:52 AM]


2025 Crab! by ghosthunter
[Today at 09:43:49 AM]


AUCTION: SE Idaho DIY Deer or Deer/Elk Hunt by Dan-o
[Today at 09:26:43 AM]


Survey in ? by hdshot
[Today at 09:20:27 AM]


Bear behavior by brew
[Today at 08:40:20 AM]


Bearpaw Outfitters Annual July 4th Hunt Sale by bearpaw
[Today at 07:57:12 AM]


A lonely Job... by Loup Loup
[Today at 07:47:41 AM]


2025 Montana alternate list by bear
[Today at 06:06:48 AM]


Accura MR-X 45 load development by kyles_88
[Today at 05:27:26 AM]


Son drawn - Silver Dollar Youth Any Elk - Help? by Boss .300 winmag
[Yesterday at 09:42:07 PM]


Toutle Quality Bull - Rifle by HntnFsh
[Yesterday at 08:09:14 PM]


MA-10 Coho by WAcoueshunter
[Yesterday at 02:08:31 PM]


KODIAK06 2025 trail cam and personal pics thread by kodiak06
[Yesterday at 01:52:01 PM]


Blue Mtn Foothills West Rifle Tag by Trooper
[Yesterday at 01:18:40 PM]


GROUSE 2025...the Season is looming! by Dave Workman
[Yesterday at 01:01:22 PM]

SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2025, SimplePortal