Um .. why? Why wouldn't you just pick it up and set it in the truck bed? Some kind of extreme physical disability? I'm not trying to be a dick here, I'm truly trying to see the need. My dad is 85, pretty well stove up, but he just packs his buck up to the back of the truck, lowers the tail gate, and puts it in the bed, then shuts the tailgate. Why are you complicating things so much?
The only time I've had a problem getting something loaded was .. well, it was an 800 pound hereford bull I shot. I did manage to get it up into the truck bed whole (minus guts of course) but that was kind of a bitch.
-- tangent ... need to share. It's Sept 12, right? there's a frickin buck walking around the yard with his neck out straight, lip curled, sniffing does. Sure seems early for that.
Tom
Only time I ever struggled loading a dead animal. was the first elk I ever shot in Colorado... Being a flatlander, and shooting it way down in a deep canyon from the road, I was wiped out after getting the 3rd quarter of it up out of that canyon to my truck. It was one of those canyons you dang near had to go up on all 4s to make it up...I was winded bad from the elevation, and my arms and back and legs were like spaghetti noodles after the 3rd trip up.... Luckily some big ole farm boys from Texas came by on a side by side and saw me struggling to get up the last part of the canyon to the truck and one of them jumped out and helped...I took a nap in the truck for 2 to 3 hours and went back for the rest of the elk with no issue...Learned a lot of lessons, for one, i'm not sure I ever want to shoot an elk in a deep hole like that again without having some help around to pack it out....Also learned to have an alternative way to load an animal just in case. I didn't have a winch, come along, or block and tackle. Just had a little rope and no ramp of any kind....I was young and stupid...
