Pulling rope

[Dan-o]

Please forgive me for the inquiry but what do you mean by pulling out an elk?
 For 15years I have helped with quartering and packing out.  How do you pull out with cable or mule tape?

[HereDuckyDucky]

I’ve never killed an elk close enough to a road to make a rope feasible, but it’s a nice thought.

RW

[nwwanderer]

Winches with a long line are pretty common, have saved a bunch of critters that would have been wasted without them.  Whether mud, snow, steep or just not enough man power to get it done in a timely manner they are a great tool. 

[Tbar]

I’ve never killed an elk close enough to a road to make a rope feasible, but it’s a nice thought.

RW

On tree farms they are amazing.

[The scout]

Seems like way more work than it’s worth, and when you have to cut it up eventually 

[MooseStock]

It's actually WAY easier, quicker and your animals tends to stay alot cleaner for eating purposes. You don't gut them until you pull them to the loading place at the road. Load em up whole and take them home to a block and tackle...we have been doing this over 40 years....my partner and I have probably over a mile of haywire sections between us as well as old logging passblocks...not many places your not a mile from a road nowadays...also several times over the years a bull elk that would have taken all day to do in the field is hung and we have went back up hunting and got another....it works well...especially when your 70

[ghosthunter]

It's actually WAY easier, quicker and your animals tends to stay alot cleaner for eating purposes. You don't gut them until you pull them to the loading place at the road. Load em up whole and take them home to a block and tackle...we have been doing this over 40 years....my partner and I have probably over a mile of haywire sections between us as well as old logging passblocks...not many places your not a mile from a road nowadays...also several times over the years a bull elk that would have taken all day to do in the field is hung and we have went back up hunting and got another....it works well...especially when your 70

Yep my packing days at 72 are over. My buddy and I both have a Power Winch in our trucks.
And they work for a lot of other uses too.  Keeping the animal insides clean is a prime concern for us. We hunt we don’t process. Get it up , dress it out and off to the meat cutter it goes.

[The scout]

To each there own, I hunt with be back pack on. Pretty sure I could have it deboned and the first load in my pack before someone could hike back to a truck get all the gear and get it rigged for the drag out. I carry one of those cheap red and white table cloths in my pack to lay out all the meat as I take it off the animal so it stays pretty dang clean. But that’s great if it’s what works for you guys.

[WSU]

I do both and guarantee it’s easier to use a rope if you are a reasonable distance from a road.

[HereDuckyDucky]

Please forgive me for the inquiry but what do you mean by pulling out an elk?
 For 15years I have helped with quartering and packing out.  How do you pull out with cable or mule tape?

That's cool! Unfortunately, I hunt way too far from the road (and in too much deadfall) for this to work.

RW