Carts - Do you take them with you?

[HoofsandWings]

When heading up a road behind a locked gate, do you take your cart with you or do you come back for it should the need arise?

[tshoote30]

We just come back and get it. 

[Fullabull]

I take enough stuff with me in may daypack, I don't need to drag that around as well. Plus, you never know where you might end up going so you do not want to get stuck having to backtrack ever further to go get it. We leave it and the pack frames in the truck and go back to get them if we get an elk. After getting an elk, you have nothing but time anyway 

Fulla

[tshoote30]

I take enough stuff with me in may daypack, I don't need to drag that around as well. Plus, you never know where you might end up going so you do not want to get stuck having to backtrack ever further to go get it. We leave it and the pack frames in the truck and go back to get them if we get an elk. After getting an elk, you have nothing but time anyway 

Fulla

[carpsniperg2]

we go back and get it. i just bought a elk cart 2 years ago. only had to use it once, but bow was it slick as heck. 3 of us got a bull out, in only 1 trip with pack frames it would have been 2 maybe 3

[fisheral87]

You bet. I just strap it on the back of my buddy's pack. Why wouldn't you bring it? 

[Skinnyman]

I have a pack frame and a hunting partner has a cart. They all stay in the car most of the time. Except when we go somewhere where we have to hike a mile or two in on a road past a gate before going into the woods, and we know we will be going back by there on the way out. Then we take it to that point and chain it up to a tree so someone else doesn't get a free cart. Otherwise to much of a pain, and some carts can be a little noisy, dragging them through the woods.

[Gobble]

I have a game cart that I take on some hunts and drop off at the halfway point from where I will be hunting. That way if I do get something down I only have to go halfway back to retrieve it and I don't spook anything walking into the area I will be hunting

[wannahunt]

If I'm hunting one of the wilderness area's I take it as far as the boundary and stash it in the trees. Otherwise I usually go back and get it when it's needed.

[BlackRidge]

Ya, it'l be a bike this year  

I'll have more reason to break out the real cart after I get my access passes lined up for next year. I don't like the thought of carrying it out into the field with me
 

[bow4elk]

I have big panniers that go with me and a kid bike trailer that weighs next to nothing empty.  It's good to carry extra gear you may need/want too.  And they can handle a good load coming out.  Pushing them full of weight is hell but the ride out can be a dream.

[Mustangman]

I have figured out that if I take a cart or a pack frame, I see nothing. However, when I leave it intentially or not I generally find myself with a downed animal. Of course a pit stop to BBQ a backstrap does lighten the load a little.

[JackOfAllTrades]

I go back and get it.

-Steve

[boneaddict]

I just pull the gate out of the ground and drive to the elk.   Heck with the cart..... I'M KIDDING!
No cart.

[saylean]

I have a cart, still in the box...never used....and I usually dont put it in the truck, unless I am going bear hunting far off...then I might. We do take them with us deer/elk hunting, but we lock them up in camp for if/when we need them.