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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: 3nails on May 14, 2011, 11:26:43 AM

Title: Deer dragging pics
Post by: 3nails on May 14, 2011, 11:26:43 AM: Due to the rain today and cabin fever I decided to look at some old hunting pics. Came across some cool ones of dragging out deer. I'm still pretty new to this site and couldn't find a thread on this so......anyone else got any good ones?
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Post by: 7mag. on May 14, 2011, 01:55:59 PM: Cool pic. I've never thought to take a picture during the drag out, I'm usually pretty busy. :chuckle:
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Post by: stormin85 on May 14, 2011, 04:06:14 PM: thats a cool idea though, i like the pics of the other things involved in hunting besides just the sitting behind your deer pic, those are still good but its cool to see the others.
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Post by: asl20bball on May 14, 2011, 04:09:02 PM: cool pic. Did he fall in the creek cause your drag just got heavier. Love the snowy background.
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Post by: 3nails on May 14, 2011, 06:14:16 PM: My boy with his MT whitetail.
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Post by: vandeman17 on May 14, 2011, 06:34:07 PM: That is a cool pic 3nails. I will post mine of my Montana whitetail soon. Looks like a nice buck too.
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Post by: 3nails on May 14, 2011, 10:05:19 PM: A nasty drag uphill through the nine bark.
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Post by: Armadillo on May 14, 2011, 10:16:10 PM: thats nasty stuff right there
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Post by: bobcat on May 14, 2011, 10:24:21 PM: Love the pictures, but I just gotta ask- WHY do you drag deer out like that? Especially when it is an uphill drag? :yike:

I've done it, but I won't do it anymore. Much easier to cut them either in quarters or in half and pack it on your back.
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Post by: Armadillo on May 14, 2011, 10:27:19 PM: I like draggin them downhill myself
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Post by: bobcat on May 14, 2011, 10:30:52 PM: Don't even like dragging downhill. Unless it's only a quarter mile or less.
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Post by: deerdog on May 14, 2011, 10:39:06 PM: Quote from: bobcat on May 14, 2011, 10:24:21 PM
Love the pictures, but I just gotta ask- WHY do you drag deer out like that? Especially when it is an uphill drag? :yike:

I've done it, but I won't do it anymore. Much easier to cut them either in quarters or in half and pack it on your back.

:yeah:

I agree Bobcat find it much easier to pack them out. And I can go longer distance without having to stop and rest!
Title: Re: Deer dragging pics
Post by: 3nails on May 14, 2011, 10:39:50 PM: Quote from: bobcat on May 14, 2011, 10:24:21 PM
Love the pictures, but I just gotta ask- WHY do you drag deer out like that? Especially when it is an uphill drag? :yike:

I've done it, but I won't do it anymore. Much easier to cut them either in quarters or in half and pack it on your back.
Because a hundred yds up the hill is this! :IBCOOL: I have to bone out so many animals that I get, I'll do almost anything to get one out whole.
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Post by: benhuntin on May 14, 2011, 10:42:51 PM: Shoot em on the road its way easier :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Post by: 3nails on May 15, 2011, 08:33:15 AM: My son and my daughter (10 & 12) dragging out her first deer. MT
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Post by: 400out on May 15, 2011, 08:47:38 AM: LOL every kid should have that memory in their head :chuckle:
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Post by: Kowsrule30 on May 15, 2011, 01:23:33 PM: Nice pics..... But I'll never drag again!!!!!! Got a game cart and some nice pack frames...... ;)
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Post by: steen on May 15, 2011, 01:41:05 PM: Getting a deer out whole makes for a nicer carcass to hang and less waist of meat. Every cut you make you have to cut that off before wrapping unless you wrap immediatley. If you take it out bone in you'll waist less than if you bone it out. We usually also go over the carcass for shot placement and bullet performance. It's like the Biology class I never took in high school, love it!
I'm draggin out my daughter's doe from last season.

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi757.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fxx215%2Fsteen_photos%2FTessas%2520hunts%2F026-1.jpg&hash=8b6ce2dbd320333f509e075344e9b2d5298b8281)
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Post by: bobcat on May 15, 2011, 01:59:38 PM: Well I don't bone out deer completely. I quarter the rear half, and I remove the shoulders. Then I basically bone out the rib cage, taking the backstrap off, and the tenderloins from inside, and then whatever meat I can get off the ribs, and the neck. I leave the bone in on the hind quarters and the shoulders. But it sure makes a lot smaller load if you can leave the rib cage, the legs, and the neck, and sometimes the head, in the woods. I don't think I lose any meat by doing it this way.
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Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on May 15, 2011, 02:52:04 PM: My sons first bow kill ... 2x3 blacktail ..made sure they finished the job... 8 YRS OLD ... :IBCOOL: :IBCOOL:
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Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on May 15, 2011, 02:58:30 PM: I have noticed one thing about the photos on here .. you guys on the eastside sure must enjoy the open and bright areas to hunt .Over here on the wetside if your a timber hunter like me its always dark and I always loose about 45 min of daylight when I am hunting big timber .. this picture was taken in the morning around 11 am and it looks pitch black out... just thought I need to clarify that !!
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Post by: robodad on May 15, 2011, 03:05:03 PM: Here is my proud neice, she did all the work except for the gutting business !! This is her first deer !!
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Post by: gotshot on May 15, 2011, 05:01:44 PM: Don't have the pictures but my son will never forget dragging out his first deer on Hancock Kapowsin. I had a hernia operation a week earlier so I could not help, so when I took the rifles to the truck he started draggin. He drug it about a quarter mile before getting help but could not of been happier.
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Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on May 15, 2011, 05:25:07 PM: Quote from: robodad on May 15, 2011, 03:05:03 PM
Here is my proud neice, she did all the work except for the gutting business !! This is her first deer !!
Thats cool .. love seeing kids bagging up deer !!
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Post by: wilsongideon on May 15, 2011, 09:56:42 PM: Theres dragging out deer...then theres a drag of a drag. hunting is fun, dragging out deer is hard work
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Post by: iRem on May 15, 2011, 10:24:10 PM: I love seeing others drag deer out of the woods. It's good to see that others struggle just like I do when I need to drag a deer out from the bottom of a ravine and the only road is straight up!
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Post by: Mandownitis on May 16, 2011, 08:16:55 PM: Deer cart.
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Post by: Pathfinder101 on May 17, 2011, 04:07:22 PM: This is actually CoryTDF with a buck a few years' back. I call this; BEFORE and AFTER :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Post by: Pathfinder101 on May 17, 2011, 04:08:45 PM: ...and THIS is how we do it now... :tup:
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Post by: 3nails on May 17, 2011, 09:46:19 PM: Quote from: Pathfinder101 on May 17, 2011, 04:08:45 PM
...and THIS is how we do it now... :tup:
I like it.
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Post by: wsucowboy on May 17, 2011, 09:54:25 PM: Quote from: 7mag. on May 14, 2011, 01:55:59 PM
Cool pic. I've never thought to take a picture during the drag out, I'm usually pretty busy. :chuckle:
:yeah: :chuckle:
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Post by: winston2789 on May 17, 2011, 09:57:40 PM: not during the drag but finally back at the truck after 4 hours in the dark, just lucky my rino made it!
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Post by: Sneaky on May 21, 2011, 08:29:34 PM: ^^ that is an AWESOME picture and an awesome buck. Congrats
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Post by: vandeman17 on May 22, 2011, 12:07:25 PM: Dragging out my Montana buck
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Post by: Aeron on October 05, 2019, 03:50:10 PM: I don't have any pics of my last deer dragging adventure, but it was certainly no picnic....dead deer deep in a ravine with a burned out forest between me and the truck. Anyways, I was dragging this thing up this hill, obviously struggling, moving about a foot or two with every tug of the antlers. I look up, and there is this other hunter watching me...he was actually watching me field dress the deer, and then watched me bust my a&# trying to get it out of the woods. Not once did he ever offer to give me a hand (even just to get it up the hill). When I get about 3/4 of the way up the hill, he walks off....
Now, I am not sure what the "official" procedure should be, but I do know if the roles were reversed I would have offered to lend a hand.
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Post by: jackelope on October 05, 2019, 04:12:02 PM: Wow. Epic 8.5 year old thread resurrection .
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Post by: Pinetar on October 05, 2019, 04:17:32 PM: Quote from: jackelope on October 05, 2019, 04:12:02 PM
Wow. Epic 8.5 year old thread resurrection .

No doubt, loved the pics!
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Post by: jeffro on October 05, 2019, 04:20:57 PM: I don’t have any pics either, but years back we hunted the naneum fevers year and had finally patterned the other hunters that were always there in the same spots.
There was this one group that always did a “drive” up a pretty gnarly draw.
5 guys pushing p, two shooters on top.
We, 3 of us, found places to sit in the middle and got 2 medium sized 4pts.
On the way out dragging the first one, partner still back dressing his, the pushers showed up and helped us get us carry #1 to the truck.
As soon as we got there, heard a rifle shot, a minute later another.
My partner radioed me and said the 2 shooters had each fired.
Went back in the woods to retreive #2 and found out they both got BIG bucks.
Karma I guess?
With 10 of us there it was pretty easy work to haul out the last 3.
Gave those guys and there deer a ride back to their camp, saving someone a couple mile hike, and they fed us along with some beer and whiskey, and we’ve been friends ever since. Don’t hunt there much anymore, but if I’m in the area I’ll always stop in to say hi or if they call I’ll be there to help.
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Post by: TVHunts on October 05, 2019, 04:59:52 PM: Quote from: jackelope on October 05, 2019, 04:12:02 PM
Wow. Epic 8.5 year old thread resurrection .

Thought the same thing, Digging deep for sure. Awesome pictures and thread, hoping there are some added pics from 2019 :tup:
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Post by: 7mmfan on October 05, 2019, 05:59:35 PM: Quote from: jackelope on October 05, 2019, 04:12:02 PM
Wow. Epic 8.5 year old thread resurrection .

This may be a record
Title: Re: Deer dragging pics
Post by: fowl smacker on October 05, 2019, 06:14:39 PM: Idaho last year, I'm on the top end of the rope. This was the "easiest" way up. The pic doesn't even do justice on the steepness of this 600 yard climb.