I’ve got a place that I hunt that produces some good bucks about every year and it 300 ft to the bottom of the gully. I can kinda get a four wheeler to the edge or if it’s dry u can make it down but it’s hell to get back up. I was gonna get some long ropes and have it set up that I could tie a rope to the deer and hook back to the fourwheeler and drag them up the mountain. It’s either that or a helicopter.

Yep. The bearded butchers have a good video on YouTube of them processing a deer which really dives into finding the joints and where to cut to get legs and hindquarters off without a saw. I’ve packed out a handful of deer and I’ll never go back. Here’s what I use.

Easton Full Bore internal frame pack (I don’t think this is available anymore but larger internal frame packs should work)
Kodiak skinning knife with gut hook
Game bags from sportsmen’s warehouse. I bring 3 with me. 2 for the hindquarters and shoulders, 1 for backstraps, loins, hearts etc.
Old sheet to lay the deer on when cleaning. Helps keep the meat from getting dirty.
Set of rubber disposable gloves
Set of bungee cords in case I need to strap gear to my pack.

Same!

My friends and I all use jet sleds they are great

I keep a 1200 feet of rope in the truck. Tie it to the truck and drive. Jet sled works great too.

This. Only it’s a real bad time to find out your winch don’t work. Took me 2 hours to get Janet’s 8pt out of woods last year. Would’ve been 15 minutes if winch worked even though it was about an 80 degree incline. Worst job getting a deer out in years but worth it as it was her 1st buck in 6 years.

I had an old alice pack for a long time…now i just got an old jansport that come from the lost an found bin …i carry one knife and a means to keep an edgebon it…a hook to hold and lift the meat so i dont let it slip an fall in the dirt…an trash bags…you can fit a whole deer in regular old backpack…id just get one of them crushable packs off amazon an put it an my other stuff in a good fanny pack…i carry my loc on an my little backpack..thats it…i drug one deer 2 years ago about 75 yards …farthest uve drug one in a long time…an i ajnt gonna drag one…if its a buck i might like to mount…ill cape that sucker out layin on the ground..come out with a hide an a head…aint no draggin..not no more

If I really was serious about the eating part of deer hunting I would practice de-boning a couple of does. Lot of work involved cleaning an animal in the woods verses hanging on a pole. Really tough to keep wood debris off the meat. I had a buck one morning I shot on public that I had to drag out then get checked. The day started out in low 40's, but warmed up quick. Long story short, I noticed the meat on that deer just didn't taste as fresh as deer in the past taken on private land in the evening on a cold night near or below freezing all night. The meat usually taste better the faster you can get it to the cooler. So, really a lot of factors to consider if quality meat is the objective. For me, it would have to be a really big wall hanger if I was far away from a cooler to haul one out a long way. I would probably let a lot of bucks go and just shoot one every now and then and go for easy to haul out does for meat.

Exactly.

I bought a Warn drill powered winch. I use that to drag them up out the valleys of Southern Indiana. Then use Winch to pull them in back of truck.

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Tucker atv in jackson sold me a back end winch for my polaris - great for getting a buck in back of polaris

Not sure how far it reaches. Think it was called Bowed Up Loader. Jackson atv in jackson,al would know

You can get one of those hand crank winches that goes in the receiver hitch or you can weld a bracket on the headache bar and mount a winch to it albeit that is a fairly expensive mod.

I'll tell you another method. Keep you a long 2-3 inch wide tow strap in your Ranger. Drag the deer to a close tree and tie the tow strap to the base of his antlers. Back the Ranger up to him and tilt the bed down, then pull the deer to the edge with his head just over the lowered tailgate. Thread the tow strap around the top bar on the roll cage (headache bar) and then tie it to the tree. Get in the Ranger and pull forward slowly and the strap and tree will load him up for you.