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Re: Leg Cuff Deer Drag Daveman #10046598 06/20/15
Joined: Sep 2014 Posts: 1,902 Upstate NY T troutfisher13111 Campfire Regular
troutfisher13111 Campfire Regular T Joined: Sep 2014 Posts: 1,902 Upstate NY	I use a small drag made of orange strap. It takes up very little space when folded up, it fits in my front pocket. Anything bigger and I find I don't carry it. I pull their front legs up to their neck, wrap the strap around both and off I go.

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Re: Leg Cuff Deer Drag Okanagan #10046660 06/21/15
Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 96,121 S Steelhead Campfire Oracle
Steelhead Campfire Oracle S Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 96,121	Originally Posted by Okanagan IF you are dragging a deer downhill or sidehill, it is a huge help to have one man drag in front and a second man to hold a rope tied to the deer's hind legs. The back end man keeps the critter's hind end from swinging downhill and brakes to keep the deer from rocketing down (at the wrong place) on slick grass or snow. This is a good catalog of workable ideas that posters have used in their terrain and circumstances. Will admit that I got to laughing thinking about steep terrain, cliffs, blowdown timber and brush, and of dragging much larger deer than whitetails. If we hunt a variety of terrain it is good to know a variety of options, not just of dragging methods but non-dragging. It has puzzled me a few times to find myself hunting with someone who has only one way to do something. One fellow insisted on dragging a large mule deer buck out whole, 250 yards up a slope so steep that to turn the buck loose while resting meant that it would tumble all the way to the bottom where we started. Exhausting, close-minded, and though I helped drag to preserve the friendship, I have not hunted with him again! What amazes me is that people actually drag deer out. "Dear Lord, save me from Your followers"

Re: Leg Cuff Deer Drag Daveman #10047122 06/21/15
Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 20,901 Likes: 1 Deer Park, Tx R Reloder28 Campfire Ranger
Reloder28 Campfire Ranger R Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 20,901 Likes: 1 Deer Park, Tx	That's what I bought an ATV for. "I never thought I'd live to see the day that a U.S. president would raise an army to invade his own country." Robert E. Lee

Re: Leg Cuff Deer Drag Steelhead #10047334 06/21/15
Joined: May 2011 Posts: 56,311 Likes: 9 Oregon Fireball2 Campfire Kahuna
Fireball2 Campfire Kahuna Joined: May 2011 Posts: 56,311 Likes: 9 Oregon	Originally Posted by Steelhead What amazes me is that people actually drag deer out. Sometimes it makes more sense than taking the time to quarter and pack in two trips. This buck was 1 mile from the road, all downhill drag. If we had taken the time to quarter it, we would have had to come out in the dark, through lots of manzanita thickets and poison oak. Instead, we each took a horn and took off. No poison oak and we cleaned it when we hit a two track we could get the truck to. I'm for whatever makes sense at the time. Dandy blacktail. _______________________________________________________ An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack LOL

Re: Leg Cuff Deer Drag Daveman #10047566 06/21/15
Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 25,841 Western N.Y. D dvdegeorge Campfire Ranger
dvdegeorge Campfire Ranger D Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 25,841 Western N.Y.	Buck grab an antler ,doe I cut the back leg where it will be hung from and drag from there My dog is a member of the "Turd Like Clan" Covert Trail Cameras are JUNK 3 Time Dinkathon Champion #DinkGOAT

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Re: Leg Cuff Deer Drag 16bore #10048138 06/21/15
Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 2,922 Kansas/Colorado U USMC2602 Campfire Regular
USMC2602 Campfire Regular U Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 2,922 Kansas/Colorado	Originally Posted by 16bore That thing is dumber than schit. Add it to the butt-out tool, cough silencer, and sling sticks. Take a bite from the CENTER of a piece of rope (just rope, no handle, no clamp or other stupid schit) and loop it around the head, antlers, front legs/head, whatever. Tie each end off to the belt/bag cinch on your pack and start walking. All the pressure is on your hips, not torquing your back, neck and shoulders. Think 4X4.... Yep......

Re: Leg Cuff Deer Drag luv2safari #10048338 06/21/15
Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 57,494 Alaska R rost495 Campfire Kahuna
rost495 Campfire Kahuna R Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 57,494 Alaska	Originally Posted by luv2safari If I find the deer on the wrong side of the mountain anymore, that deer continues to live a charmed life. All my favorite mountains have grown a lot the last few years. Even simpler here since we hunt moose. We don't even go to the "other side of the mountain" We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....

Re: Leg Cuff Deer Drag Steelhead #10048350 06/21/15
Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 57,494 Alaska R rost495 Campfire Kahuna
rost495 Campfire Kahuna R Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 57,494 Alaska	Originally Posted by Steelhead Originally Posted by Okanagan IF you are dragging a deer downhill or sidehill, it is a huge help to have one man drag in front and a second man to hold a rope tied to the deer's hind legs. The back end man keeps the critter's hind end from swinging downhill and brakes to keep the deer from rocketing down (at the wrong place) on slick grass or snow. This is a good catalog of workable ideas that posters have used in their terrain and circumstances. Will admit that I got to laughing thinking about steep terrain, cliffs, blowdown timber and brush, and of dragging much larger deer than whitetails. If we hunt a variety of terrain it is good to know a variety of options, not just of dragging methods but non-dragging. It has puzzled me a few times to find myself hunting with someone who has only one way to do something. One fellow insisted on dragging a large mule deer buck out whole, 250 yards up a slope so steep that to turn the buck loose while resting meant that it would tumble all the way to the bottom where we started. Exhausting, close-minded, and though I helped drag to preserve the friendship, I have not hunted with him again! What amazes me is that people actually drag deer out. I have done it before. Even carried one on a pole once. Then I found out that if you take the hide, and maybe even the bones off/out, if legal, they compact pretty well and its just a walk out. I did it in E TX public land a few times. Not much to it and sure easier than dragging. Did drag a gutted caribou off a hill once, while 2 grizz watched us. Hoped the guts were enough for them, and drug it was was probably half a mile or more down, quite a long drive, one in back one in front to help control the caribou. Got flat and quartered and hung em high in springy spruce trees. Was all there the next morning luckily. We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....

Re: Leg Cuff Deer Drag Daveman #10048432 06/21/15
Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 8,514 rice county,mn whipholt_wahoo Campfire Outfitter
whipholt_wahoo Campfire Outfitter Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 8,514 rice county,mn	An old hunter showed me a trick to make dragging easier. take your knife,and grab the deer by the nose. cut a hole through the nostrils and pass the drag rope through it. you can now drag it by the nose or tie the legs up too. I have yet to see one tear out,and have done it quite a few times. ********************** [the member formerly known as fluffy}

Re: Leg Cuff Deer Drag Daveman #10048464 06/21/15
Joined: May 2007 Posts: 5,105 Dallas,TX C crittergetter Campfire Tracker
crittergetter Campfire Tracker C Joined: May 2007 Posts: 5,105 Dallas,TX	Seems to me like you cold cut some pieces of pvc pipe and make your own for around $5-$10.They do not look like they would be that hard to make.

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Re: Leg Cuff Deer Drag Daveman #10048750 06/21/15
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 5,200 TAX HELL Allenton Wisconsin I ihookem Campfire Tracker
ihookem Campfire Tracker I Joined: May 2004 Posts: 5,200 TAX HELL Allenton Wisconsin	I think it would break as soon as you had to give it a good pull over a log. I use a strap and rig it around the neck and tighten it around my waist until I have to lift it up a little bit to pull it. Makes it easier. The deer before that fell 40 yes from a logging trail with 3" of snow on the ground it was easy cause illegal ATV's went down the trail and packed the snow so it was almost ice. easy 3/4 mi. drag. Ussually though, I shoot my deer 100 yes from a river and let the canoe do the rest. Last edited by ihookem; 06/21/15. But the fruits of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,faithfulness, Gentleness and self control. Against such things there is no law. Galations 5: 22&23

Re: Leg Cuff Deer Drag Fireball2 #10050948 06/22/15
Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 9,948 10,000 H humdinger Campfire Outfitter
humdinger Campfire Outfitter H Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 9,948 10,000	Originally Posted by Fireball2 Originally Posted by Steelhead What amazes me is that people actually drag deer out. Sometimes it makes more sense than taking the time to quarter and pack in two trips. This buck was 1 mile from the road, all downhill drag. If we had taken the time to quarter it, we would have had to come out in the dark, through lots of manzanita thickets and poison oak. Instead, we each took a horn and took off. No poison oak and we cleaned it when we hit a two track we could get the truck to. I'm for whatever makes sense at the time. Dandy blacktail. You cant show us Savage 99 porn without some details please.... Other than that, How was the show Mrs. Lincoln?

Re: Leg Cuff Deer Drag Daveman #10055648 06/23/15
Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 7,132 NW La. R Reloader7RM Campfire Tracker
Reloader7RM Campfire Tracker R Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 7,132 NW La.	I picked up this deer drag in '08 and she hasn't let me down yet. Lots of game has hitched a ride.

Re: Leg Cuff Deer Drag Daveman #10057574 06/23/15
Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 11,695 MOGC Campfire Outfitter
MOGC Campfire Outfitter Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 11,695	Can't use those where I hunt. I gutless debone and quarter for the backpack hike out. I quit that dragging stuff, don't gut them either and don't miss it one bit. Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Re: Leg Cuff Deer Drag humdinger #10061326 06/24/15
Joined: May 2011 Posts: 56,311 Likes: 9 Oregon Fireball2 Campfire Kahuna
Fireball2 Campfire Kahuna Joined: May 2011 Posts: 56,311 Likes: 9 Oregon	Originally Posted by humdinger You cant show us Savage 99 porn without some details please.... That was an Oregon hunt for my buddy John, Last day of the season. I spotted him bedded at 900 yards and John put the stalk on him to 50 yards or so. He got him with a 300 Savage in a 99R. A young deer, but a 5x7 blacktail. _______________________________________________________ An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack LOL

Re: Leg Cuff Deer Drag Fireball2 #10067540 06/26/15
Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 9,948 10,000 H humdinger Campfire Outfitter
humdinger Campfire Outfitter H Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 9,948 10,000	Originally Posted by Fireball2 Originally Posted by humdinger You cant show us Savage 99 porn without some details please.... That was an Oregon hunt for my buddy John, Last day of the season. I spotted him bedded at 900 yards and John put the stalk on him to 50 yards or so. He got him with a 300 Savage in a 99R. A young deer, but a 5x7 blacktail. That is real hunting and done with a "red wool" cool rifle (not tacti-cool). Its a trophy in my mind. Other than that, How was the show Mrs. Lincoln?

Re: Leg Cuff Deer Drag Daveman #10068066 06/26/15
Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 29,882 Likes: 6 Burns/Hines, Oregon, USA 1minute Campfire Ranger
1minute Campfire Ranger Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 29,882 Likes: 6 Burns/Hines, Oregon, USA	I did some substantial deer dragging in my ignorant youth. If one is getting out there, a good pack frame is the only way to go. A couple hundred yards to the rig, then OK. Believe me, drags and carts will only go straight up or straight down in this environment. There is only one way to side hill with a load in this country. If one is going down, even a dead deer or elk can often take care of that task on its own. One can have his deer fall into the river from 1/2 mile away. Last edited by 1minute; 06/26/15. 1Minute

Re: Leg Cuff Deer Drag Ringman #10104108 07/05/15
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 10,954 Texas kenjs1 Campfire Outfitter
kenjs1 Campfire Outfitter Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 10,954 Texas	Originally Posted by Ringman I took a 5'X7' "plastic" tarp a couple years ago to put the deer on. It reduced the effort by about 50%. I thought that was what this guy was going to talk about. +1. Beat me too it. Works great. When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are something to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honors are something to be ashamed of . Confucius

Re: Leg Cuff Deer Drag Pete E #10106384 07/05/15
Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 69,396 Likes: 4 Filer, ID Rock Chuck Campfire Kahuna
Rock Chuck Campfire Kahuna Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 69,396 Likes: 4 Filer, ID	Originally Posted by Pete E Originally Posted by Gunplummer I have been tying up the legs to the head before that guy on the video was even old enough to hunt. For dragging, that's the place to start. Or just tie off around the neck and jaw and let the legs fold back... Some folks like very short drag ropes with a T handle so you sort of lift the front of the carcass as you drag while others prefer a long rope.. A loop around the nose helps lift the head and keeps the nose from hanging up on stuff. It probably works better with mulies than whitetails because of the antler shape but a nose dragging in the dirt is like a plow. I haven't tried tying the legs like that. I can't see the advantage. “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.

Re: Leg Cuff Deer Drag Daveman #10106664 07/05/15
Joined: Apr 2001 Posts: 12,895 North Wales, UK Pete E Campfire Outfitter
Pete E Campfire Outfitter Joined: Apr 2001 Posts: 12,895 North Wales, UK	Lots of folks do tie the legs off forward, usually if they are dragging/lifting with a short rope..It seems to work better for hinds/does or anterless stags/bucks. I have also seen people tear a hole in the bottom a feed bag and thread the drag rope through such that the bag ends up covering the head and the neck of the carcass.. Lots of ways of doing it, but at the end of the day you're still dragging! Men of Harlech

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