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Looking at buying a deer cart whats good whats bad Thanks
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Gray Fox game cart. The best I have ever used. The only bad is the price. There are several YouTube videos about it. Good luck.
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Don’t get one with plastic spokes. Get one with metal spokes.
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Looking at buying a deer cart whats good whats bad Thanks The good: This cart used to be sold and branded by Cabela's as "Cabela's Super Mag Hauler." Light weight, easily maneuverable, and the tall tires go through grass really well. Yeah, it sucks it's made in China. I've used mine for at least 10 years, maybe more, and it's hauled out numerous deer. Matter of fact, we used it today to cart out an early season Kansas buck. https://www.amazon.com/Leader-Accessories-Hauler-Hunting-Capacity/dp/B00LIHHBYCThe bad: "Hawk Crawler Deer and Multi Use Cart." I bought one of these a couple years ago and it's heavy, hard to maneuver, and the low tires get caught up in everything. Everything. https://www.amazon.com/Hawk-Crawler...ef=pd_lpo_3?pd_rd_i=B01D93036U&psc=1
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Got the top tier Cabela's cart about ten years ago and our whole family uses it on easy access deer. Forget it on backpack hunts and trails we've been on in WA, ID and BC.
It handles a deer and a bit of gear well on old roads.
Important: get the full shield covers for spoke wheels! Brush sticks into the spokes otherwise and stops and or damages the cart wheels. Or use the cart only on brush free trails or roads.
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Look for heavy duty wheel construction, I broke an axle on a homemade cart many years ago. It wasn't any fun carrying a 250# buck out 2.5 miles on a stretcher without wheels.
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That Gray Fox cart looked really interesting, until I saw the price tag!! That’s a little steep!
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If you can find a single wheeled cart that is the best in my opinion. My buddy built one, the single wheel is easier to navigate the sage brush hills we hunt. His has a hand brake and even though 2 people can pull push the cart, its usually easier to run bu one person. I had the Cabela’s supermag and used it a-lot for hunting duck refuges. It was great for carrying loads of decoy’s and what ever else we could strap to it. It made our hunts easier than carrying loads on our backs, at least until you were on muddy un graveled trails, those spokes collected mud and instead of rolling you were trying to pull that heavy mess along. Another buddy has a fold up single wheel cart that when folded can be worn like a backpack. Its made from aluminum, I have never been there when it was used , he says it works great. See Game Tote. Its similar to the one my buddy building
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I made my own out of pvc and large bike tires once. Designed it where it folded up. Put straps on it where you could tote it like a backpack.
I never used it and gave it away, but feel like it would of worked. I loaded my younguns on it and pulled them around in it once to test it out.
Like others said, especially where there’s plenty of trees, I’d think a single wheel would be easier to navigate obstacles.
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I use two, a Shappell Jet Sled and a two wheel Adirondack buggy (think it’s from Cabela’s). One wheel would never would never work in the mountains.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Hunter S. Thompson
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Actually, is a better way if you're not going far. 1/4 - 1/2 mile. It slides way better than a deer, even on dry ground.
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If you can find a single wheeled cart that is the best in my opinion. 'ere ya go..... https://www.packwheel.com/
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One wheel would never would never work in the mountains. oh, bullchit..... https://www.packwheel.com/
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Tried different carts in the past, one wheel and two, but the Jet Sled is our go to now. Simple and we lift the whole thing right into the bed of the truck with the deer inside. Helps keep things cleaner.
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I’m into “boats” now, aka the jetsled. When I got mine I put the little woman in it and pulled her around the yard. Has yet to make it to the woods, but it gets used a bunch in my yard hauling stuff around. Only weighs about 12 pounds as opposed to 40+ for my last wheeled cart. In the yard, heavy loads (NOT the wife) get pulled behind the Cub Cadet.
I also prefer the roll-ups to cheap heavy carts, but they won’t hold other stuff like your pack, rifle, etc.
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That Gray Fox cart looked really interesting, until I saw the price tag!! That’s a little steep! But it floats, too, for an aluminum cart (check out the video).
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I have an Otter Sled, which is the same concept as the Jet Sled. Ain't no effin' way I'd use it again on dry ground with an animal of any weight over any kind of distance that might be considered long. I also have a conventional two-wheel cart and it does fine on relatively flat ground. Any time I've used it on any slope and wasn't going straight up or down the slope, any bump would make it want to tip over. I wouldn't buy this style again, even though it works OK in certain situations. I'd get the Neet Kart or splurge on an electric unit like huntsman linked.
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2n1 tree lounge tree stand hunt out of it hand pull the deer out with it
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Anyone use a cart to tote their tree stand in?
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