Post by: RavensdaleYoungBuck on September 18, 2013, 12:03:52 AM
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Post by: SFD2015 on September 18, 2013, 12:13:04 AM
You could also always just use a wheelbarrow. I have on more than one occasion had one in the back of my truck, but I have never used it to get a deer back to my .
Post by: krzy4elk on September 18, 2013, 01:14:47 AM
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Post by: tbrady on September 18, 2013, 07:19:23 AM
Post by: jasnt on September 18, 2013, 07:31:23 AM
95% of my hunting is solo
:yeah:
I like hunting alone. Unless im predator hunting,than and extra set of eyes is sometimes helpful
Post by: 12Gauge on September 18, 2013, 07:57:56 AM
Two or three years ago, eastern WA modern rifle deer hunt, my hunting partner and I helped a guy out who shot himself in the leg with a .22, right after he shot a grouse. I have helped people who got lost, I've been lost myself and gotten my vehicle stuck.
Post by: 12Gauge on September 18, 2013, 08:01:14 AM
Any good methods on hauling a deer out by yourself?
Cabela's has sale on game carts. I think $49.99 right now. That's if you want to haul around a cart.
Post by: RavensdaleYoungBuck on September 18, 2013, 10:00:09 AM
Post by: 300rum on September 18, 2013, 10:07:17 AM
Post by: boneaddict on September 18, 2013, 10:11:43 AM
Post by: Crunch14 on September 18, 2013, 01:48:46 PM
Thanks for all the response guys. So this is my first year hunting, how much meat comes off one deer just so I can get an idea.
My 3x4 Muley had about 140-145 #'s of meat
Post by: Jonathan_S on September 18, 2013, 02:14:30 PM
Thanks for all the response guys. So this is my first year hunting, how much meat comes off one deer just so I can get an idea.
My 3x4 Muley had about 140-145 #'s of meat
:o Got any pictures of that?
Post by: Mtn.Ghost on September 18, 2013, 02:26:05 PM
Thanks for all the response guys. So this is my first year hunting, how much meat comes off one deer just so I can get an idea.
My 3x4 Muley had about 140-145 #'s of meat
:o Got any pictures of that?
must have been 350+ on the hoof :dunno: :chuckle:
Post by: BULLBLASTER on September 18, 2013, 03:02:03 PM
Thanks for all the response guys. So this is my first year hunting, how much meat comes off one deer just so I can get an idea.
My 3x4 Muley had about 140-145 #'s of meat
:o Got any pictures of that?
I'd like to see pics also. That's a giant deer.
Post by: alvin808 on September 18, 2013, 04:25:51 PM
Post by: KFhunter on September 18, 2013, 04:44:40 PM
:tup:
Post by: huntnnw on September 18, 2013, 10:00:34 PM
Thanks for all the response guys. So this is my first year hunting, how much meat comes off one deer just so I can get an idea.
My 3x4 Muley had about 140-145 #'s of meat
:o Got any pictures of that?
:yeah: thats alot of meat off mule deer! most whitetail bucks alive dont weigh that much :chuckle:
Post by: boneaddict on September 19, 2013, 10:10:54 AM
Post by: Jonathan_S on September 19, 2013, 10:39:02 AM
I think you could see three blacktails together and often they wouldn't combine to hit 500#
I saw a "deer" that had 145 lbs of meat this September. It was a 1.5 year old elk.
Post by: jason stevens on September 19, 2013, 10:45:59 AM
I bought that cart last week my daughter put it together. Its good for deer and it worked great for hauling empty coolers to the river then full coolers out multy purpose lolAny good methods on hauling a deer out by yourself?
Cabela's has sale on game carts. I think $49.99 right now. That's if you want to haul around a cart.
Post by: Skillet on September 19, 2013, 11:22:04 AM
Post by: boneaddict on September 19, 2013, 11:44:32 AM
500 lbs :chuckle:
I think you could see three blacktails together and often they wouldn't combine to hit 500#
I saw a "deer" that had 145 lbs of meat this September. It was a 1.5 year old elk.
2nd only to the bobcat thread. 500 pounder thread is probably still alive as opposed to the kitty thread
Post by: Jonathan_S on September 19, 2013, 11:51:41 AM
500 lbs :chuckle:
I think you could see three blacktails together and often they wouldn't combine to hit 500#
I saw a "deer" that had 145 lbs of meat this September. It was a 1.5 year old elk.
2nd only to the bobcat thread. 500 pounder thread is probably still alive as opposed to the kitty thread
I think I remember this thread but I can't find it. Was it deleted?
Post by: furiouzgeorge on September 19, 2013, 11:52:41 AM
Post by: Ice Cap on September 19, 2013, 11:58:02 AM
500 lbs :chuckle:
I think you could see three blacktails together and often they wouldn't combine to hit 500#
I saw a "deer" that had 145 lbs of meat this September. It was a 1.5 year old elk.
According to the published book "Deer of North America", the largest mule deer ever recorded was shot in 1938 by Lauren Rowe near Ellens Park, CO. The buck dressed out at 410 pounds so using the standard .1275 figure, the deer weighed 522.75 lbs. live weight.
Post by: MC37493 on September 19, 2013, 02:23:26 PM
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Post by: jasnt on September 19, 2013, 03:40:20 PM
Alot of guys hunt alone. I do it most of the time. As far as packing out a deer alone, it would be exactly the same as with someone else, just would take a little longer and might be a little more work. I can pack out a boned out deer in one load by myself no problem.
+1 de-bone on the spot. Why pack out the waste
Post by: reagansquad on September 19, 2013, 04:08:03 PM
Post by: KFhunter on September 19, 2013, 04:10:58 PM
relax I'm kidding :chuckle:
Post by: Jonathan_S on September 19, 2013, 04:17:35 PM
I happen to be a 6'6" 350lbs former powerlifter
You must shoot a lot of bears :tup:
"...I know this bear looks little but keep in mind, I'm 6' 4" 265 lbs..."
Post by: reagansquad on September 19, 2013, 04:30:28 PM
I happen to be a 6'6" 350lbs former powerlifter
You must shoot a lot of bears :tup:
"...I know this bear looks little but keep in mind, I'm 6' 4" 265 lbs..."
I was 6'4" 265 when I was 14. I think that was another dude talking about me and my bear and being generous about my beer gut. :chuckle:
Post by: oldcamper on September 24, 2013, 09:19:22 AM
Post by: Ductsquatch on September 24, 2013, 11:43:03 AM
I too let friends and family know where I am going and when I plan to return. Then jut do what you planned and all should be ok. Things can happen. I go out for a week at a time regularly. Falling off a cliff, or some other similar thing happens the first day, you could be laying there for quite awhile before anyone even knows you are missing, let alone already in trouble.
GPS and a good map. Or a good map and a compass with good ol'Boy Scout map skills. Either works.
I also carry a Coast Guard approved marine whistle and marine emergency flare. They work wet. Can also be used to start emergency fire.....Blue Tarp....for cover if it rains real bad, or possible use dragging animal.
First Aid skills. I carry a kit in my camp gear, and my truck. While hunting, if I get injured, I use whatever is at hand. Another Boy Scout Skill. (we used to win all the first-aid competitions because we trained, and our Scout Master was a Master Sargent in the Nat'l Guard.) ;)
Flashlight, and headlight. Knife. Para cord. Hatchet.
Extra sox, pants, shirt. I also stash a can of something to eat, a bottle of water. Power Bar of some kind or two.
I also bring my Canon Digital Rebel DSLR w/an 18-225 Macro Zoom. If I shoot something, I'm getting a good picture of it, conditions permitting.
This is all in a typical backpack. The kind the kids carry around at school. Took one of my kid's toss aways.
Enough for me to go out for the day.......yet come back to camp in evening. If I go out longer, I bring different backpack and gear like tent, sleeping bag, propane stove.
Packing out has always played on my mind. I have hunted alone since I was in high school. One year, I shot a buck after hunting, hiking for 3 hrs. Walk over make sure its dead, reach for my knife to gut it, "WHERE'S MY KNIFE?"......retaining strap had come off, knife fell out somewhere.....I keep the knife in the pack now :P So, long story short.......I used my belt to drag that thing uphill for an hour and a half, ungutted, to the nearest road I knew at the time. THAT WAS A DRAG! :chuckle: Got the deer home ok. Went back a few days later to see if I could retrace my route and find my knife. No luck on the knife, but I did find, where I had shot my deer was only about fifty yards from a paved road I could have easily dragged to, then driven to, instead of the muddy logging road I ended up using. NOT had to drag the animal UPHILL for hour and a half.....if I had only known EXACTLY where I was.....or if someone had driven by on the road while I was near enough to hear it. IF. Frogs. Wings. You know the rest.
Never did find that knife. I had it awhile. It was a gift someone gave me when I first joined --You Guessed It-- The Boy Scouts.
My next solo pack out I plan to use the para cord, cut 2 long straight poles, one shorter one, and tie together one of those http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travois (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travois) to drag out whatever I need.
Post by: FLIZZ on September 24, 2013, 07:03:02 PM
Post by: follow maggie on September 24, 2013, 09:55:18 PM
I got sick of hunting with other people- was left to me to do all planning, all the scouting, all the prep for the gear, truck, camper, tent, etc and do all the clean up of gear, truck, camper, tent, etc. plus listen to the complaining about how hunting in WA sucks because there aren't enough critters. It's just more satisfying and enjoyable to go by myself
Post by: pashok23 on September 24, 2013, 10:26:32 PM
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Post by: j_h_nimrod on September 24, 2013, 11:31:40 PM
I hunted in Alaska brown bear country (sometimes for bear) by myself for years and never gave it much thought, I get a laugh of people's phobias of wild animals attacking, you are much more likely to choke on your Mountain House and die than be attacked be a wild animal.
A good pack is your best bet, I am rarely anywhere a cart would be useful so have not even thought of one.
Mt 3x3 mulie last year was somewhere over 250# field dressed! I am a strong 6'2" ~225# and it was all I could do to drag it uphill the 200yds to the nearest point I could get the truck. Got ~120# of meat off it. If it had been farther I would have quartered it or boned it depending. I try to get it out in the biggest chunks I can because butchering it at the house wastes much less.
Just my opinion, take it slow and learn as much as you can. Good luck.
Post by: boneaddict on September 25, 2013, 07:37:58 AM
Post by: 7mmfan on September 25, 2013, 07:56:32 AM
As far as packing game out, totally depends on where you're at, you've gotten good advice on this thread about how to handle animals.
Post by: Jonathan_S on September 25, 2013, 08:13:39 AM
2 people is twice as much smell sound and movement in the woods to spook game.
In my experience, with my wife. It's more like 10x the noise and movement :chuckle:
Since I've been about 14 I prefer to not necessarily hunt alone but be alone. If I'm hunting "with" someone, we split at the truck and hunt separate stands or areas.
Post by: James on September 25, 2013, 09:24:02 AM
Things I do to mitigate risk: I have a small emergency bag that is always in my pack. It includes necessities to survive, I have a PLB incase things go WAY wrong, maps (I like to have three diffrent ones of the same area), compass, log a float plan with friends/family. I recently added a GPS to my gear, and while it’s not something to rely on, it’s another tool.
I was raised in an outdoorsman family so I have a pretty good skill set and am in very good athletic shape, far from invincible, but it’s the little things that add up.
Post by: RavensdaleYoungBuck on September 25, 2013, 04:32:42 PM
I have personal hunted alone 95% of the time my entire life but have also been a professional guide and hunted with or "guided" many friends and acquaintances. I prefer to be on my own, I always have a good time by myself, even when the $?!& gets deep because I know I am doing it from my own choice. But, I have seen way too many people with an overinflated sense of their abilities get in deep trouble but personally am fairly conservative yet fully competent and cognizant of my skills. I don't worry over much about my safety, accidents can happen at any time and if you are relying on someone else it is more likely to happen. That being said, I would not mind having a SPOT or something similar for the unlikely event that something did happen.
I hunted in Alaska brown bear country (sometimes for bear) by myself for years and never gave it much thought, I get a laugh of people's phobias of wild animals attacking, you are much more likely to choke on your Mountain House and die than be attacked be a wild animal.
A good pack is your best bet, I am rarely anywhere a cart would be useful so have not even thought of one.
Mt 3x3 mulie last year was somewhere over 250# field dressed! I am a strong 6'2" ~225# and it was all I could do to drag it uphill the 200yds to the nearest point I could get the truck. Got ~120# of meat off it. If it had been farther I would have quartered it or boned it depending. I try to get it out in the biggest chunks I can because butchering it at the house wastes much less.
Just my opinion, take it slow and learn as much as you can. Good luck.
Thanks a lot. I've been talking to so many people and reading lots of postings from this forum trying to cram as much information as I can to get ready for my first hunt. I'm really excited and it's only a couple weeks out.
Post by: Ductsquatch on September 25, 2013, 05:13:01 PM
Remember to bring a camera. ;)
Post by: Song Dog on September 25, 2013, 05:24:20 PM
Post by: Hermit on September 25, 2013, 05:29:55 PM
Post by: Ductsquatch on September 25, 2013, 06:06:36 PM
I always hunted alone. Now that I can't walk much, my wife won't let me. She goes with me in case I fall. I used to get them out with a wheelbarrel. OR if it was a Island deer I just packed it out in my pocket.
Your post makes me think this forum should have forum section that deals with hooking up people with disability challenges that still want to hunt with people that are physically able to assist them. I know there is a section for trying to find someone to hunt with, but THIS would be a little different.
I am sorta doing this with my 78 year old Dad now. He wants to hunt. But VERY limited in his mobility.....I have already scouted out 3 different trail junctions where he can blind hunt....close to the road so he doesn't have to walk too far.
I LOVE your comment on the Island deer.......I have cats at home that are bigger than that! :o
Post by: LittleHunter on September 28, 2013, 07:41:15 AM
I'm 6 foot 185lbs pretty strong and do my best to stay fit. But I pushed the limit one year a while back and it seams like I still haven't learned. I stayed back and only hunted Washington that year do to my wife being pregnant with are first child. She was having some problems through the pregnancy but nothing major. But being young newly weds and paranoid with a baby on the was I wanted to stay close to home foe the hunting season.
The was back to feeling pretty good and not getting out to hunt yet that season. She finally gave me the OK. With elk season only 2days away I headed up to the hills to a area that I'm really familiar with that next morning. Everybody knows how the hills get the few days before elk season. So with the lack of finding a place to camp and hunt that wasn't allready claimed I decided to pack in.I remember going through all my gear seeing what I really needed and fitting it in my pack and as I was walking up the trail in a t-shirt as it was a really worm and sunny day. Not really knowing where I was going to pitch camp just knew I wanted to get far enough back in to where I wouldn't be cought in the opening day morning mess. So I finally after eight hours of pack in I found a little grass clearing that looked perfect to set camp. After getting situated I polled out the binos and spotting scope and started glassing up in the basins to see what I can see. Not seeing a any animals besides the chipmunks in camp I was starting to have my doubts. Finally about a half hour or so before dark I spotted a small herd of elk allmost at the very top of the basin. From there I was planning how I was going to go after them in the morning without blowing them out of there.
So after making a little fire to cook my dinner I was going over and over in my hear with a game plain and trying to figure out how long it would take me to get up there. I finally had a plan and stuck with it. I was going to head out of camp at 2am and go up the drainage over and cut up to the bench to where I would have a vatage point and wait until light. 2am comes along and I'm heading out and I finally to to where I want to be with 20 mins to spare until shooting light. That was the longest 20mins. Finally its getting to where I can see and I hear rock falling then I catch the accost the basin heading the other way so now I'm on the move to cut em off. I get over there just in time as there heading up and over to see 11 cows and 1 bull and watched go up and over. As I was getting ready to get up and move on I caught more movement. 2 elk strageling behind they were spikes. Now I'm on the gun heart is racing waiting for a clear shot as there almost to the top. Finally as one got to the top he turned broadside. I quickly judged about 300 yards put the crossairs behind the front shoulder and touched off. The bullet hit home. He hunched up going in circles his lunges were sticking out of his side like party balloons. But not going down after the first shot I chambered another round and touched off. He fell over the back side after the second round.
I could hear him sliding down the shell rock shoot and then I hear a Wearid noise thinking that didn't sound good. After sitting there for a few mins taking it all in shooting my fist elk finally the age of 21. I make my was over to him and when I get to where I last seen him I look down and he is wedged up under a tree that has fallen over. I'm not talking about a little tree either. So now have to deal with a big object in the way while cutting him up. After many hours later I finally got him quartered up up with the front quarters and strip meat on my pack and the hind quarters haghing in a tree in the shade. After all is said and done I stroll back in to camp around 5pm. Exausted and legs worn out I crack open one of the six COORS LIGHT that I packed in that happen to be worm but still tasted really good at the moment. Then I crack open another as I'm cooking up one of the tenderloins from the spike I just harvested. I crack open another one to wash my meal down. Sitting around the fire as I was heating up some water to clean up my knifes and wash me up with the t-shirt that I tore up that morning to use after taking a growler on the side of the mountain. Yep I crack open another one. Then reaching into my pack and pulling out the water bottle that I fulled up with some rum (Caption Morgan's).
Sitting by the fire sipping on my worm rum I thinking about going and getting the other half of my elk I end up passing out in the dirt. Not in my sleeping bag in my pup tent. Right in the dirt by a little fire that was burning out. I end up waking up sometime through the night cold and shivering with about 2 inches of snow on the ground. I crawled into the tent hoped in my sleeping bag thinking my last two beers would at least be cold. When waking up that mid morning the weather really turned for the worst. Wind was howling so bad it was snowing sideways. I lit my little torch burner to heat some water for oatmeal and heat inside the tent. Sitting there eating thinking the weather should calm down sometime soon. Two day later with the weather the same I decide to pack up all the gear at camp and as much of my elk as I could and hang the rest in a tree near by I made the long walk back to the truck. Half way down the mountain I noticed the weather change my visibility was getting better. When I finally got back to the trail head there was a few camps there. I was able to worm up by a big fire and change in to dry clothes that I left in the truck. The guys in the camps noticed the spike I was packing out and questioned where the rest of it was. Look back up the mountain where I just came from witch you couldn't see. I pointed and said up there. Once they found out I was up there 4 days alone they offered to take one of the horses to recover the rest of my elk. That night I was able to call the let her know things were fine and that I filled my tag and have to wait for the weather to clear to recover the rest of my elk. After their morning hunt and some grub to eat the weather was nice enough to recover the rest of my elk so up we went . Once we reached to where I was camped one of the guys pulled out his GPS and looked at the tracks and asked if I knew I was 6 miles back in there. Nope. From were I shot my elk was another mile.
This was the first hunt I ever went solo on and even tho I wasn't prepared for it. It was still a fun hunt ant I leaned a lot from it. What to take with you and not leave in the truck. Just something I thought I would share and hope you like reading it.
Post by: sakoshooter on September 28, 2013, 11:25:32 AM
Any good methods on hauling a deer out by yourself?
I hunt mostly solo. I also bone out most of my deer. It doesn't take much longer than quartering one but you're not packing out that green, heavy bone. A bunch of small cotton meat bags works great. My wife makes em for me out of scrap material like small pillow cases. Then just put a hefty trash bag for a liner in your pack, insert the meat bags and hoof it back to camp. Great way to keep the different cuts separated too.
Post by: Alchase on September 28, 2013, 04:21:29 PM
I always have one of these drag rope with harness in my pack
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001CM2AZI/ref=asc_df_B001CM2AZI2740492?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&tag=dealt438955-20&linkCode=asn&creative=395093&creativeASIN=B001CM2AZI (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001CM2AZI/ref=asc_df_B001CM2AZI2740492?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&tag=dealt438955-20&linkCode=asn&creative=395093&creativeASIN=B001CM2AZI)
It packs small and weighs hardly anything. Dragging anything up hill is a major effort. I have had to use trees as fulcrums or pulleys and haul deer up hill 20 ft at a time, then move to the next tree.
My first elk ran down into a deep nasty ravine that was full of devils club and died in the middle of mud bog. It was only about 150 yards more or less vertical from a skid road. It took me and my cousin three hours just to get it to the road. Another five hours (about an hour and a quarter each way, two trips each) to get everything to the truck.
If you shoot an elk in a nasty spot, rope is your friend. A good pulley is worth its weight in gold, but I never have one in my pack.
LOL
Post by: splitshot on September 28, 2013, 07:20:20 PM
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Post by: deaner on September 28, 2013, 07:28:21 PM
4. If you don't like the company, you have nobody to blame but yourself.
or the bad company...
Post by: 7mmstalker on September 29, 2013, 10:05:18 AM
its alot easier to be quiet alone, its hard to find a dedicated quiet serious partner, i booted mine because he was like a bull in a china cabinet walking on Christmas tree bulbs :bash: go alone you'll do better :tup::yeah:
That is me!!! Been on both sides of that situation.
Sometimes in a new area that hasn't been scouted, it seems better to cover some ground and "get the lay of the land".
Sometimes I feel strongly that the way to success will be quiet watching and passing time trying to imitate a tree or rock.
Hunting solo eliminates the need to discuss and come to agreements. You get to be in control of the situation, for better or worse!
Post by: buck man on September 29, 2013, 11:30:15 AM
I hope you have a ball and welcome to the ranks :tup: :tup: :tup: :hello:
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on September 29, 2013, 11:37:12 AM
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