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Ratchet strap run between the two tie downs in the front of the truck bed with a pulley on it. Run a rope through the pulley. Easy way to pull one up a ramp or board in to the truck bed. I drive a one ton dually and can barely get a deer in the bed without it. Wrestled with a huge NY Muzzleloader doe one year and came up with the idea to save me from learning new swear words while covered with fat guy sweat and deer blood.
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Congrads on a Nice Buck!
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Good call, and congrats on the buck!
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Congrats on that buck and we learned some tips in a very short time.
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Very nice buck!
A come along works well too. A little slow but who cares.
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I'd be thrilled with that buck rockchuck! Here's something I found recently. I'm hoping I get to try it this year.
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Deer come apart fairly quickly.
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Nice buck and a great hunt! I used my quad ramps to load my buck into the quad trailer this year.
I'll be 70 in a few months and have a nasty right knee - and because I hunt on private land, I'm pretty much forced to hunt solo all the time.
I killed an elk last week and was lucky to have a neighbor come up with his skid steer and load her whole in the trailer - saved me hours of back breaking work.
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Congrats on a good buck. Glad to see you are still out there getting it done. I guess I'm lucky where I hunt. I can drive the Honda Pioneer side x side pretty close to where my stands are. I am usually by myself. I have Synthetic Winch Rope on my winch. I run the winch rope over the top of the roll cage and it comes down behind the bed of the side x side. Put the tailgate down, Hook em up, push the button and it lifts them right into the bed. Then its off to camp and to the skinning shack.
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Nice job. I miss hunting mule deer in Idaho
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I use a portable winch and a piece of plywood.
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Congrats on getting your buck, RockChuck. And thank you for posting.
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I'm 74 with a bad shoulder. My partner is 77 with bad hips. Yesterday we did a 1 day deer hunt and as we were loading up his Dodge Ram, I had an afterthought. I tossed in 1 section of an ATV ramp. I said it was a just-in-case because if we got one, there was no way that us 2 old farts were going to get anything bigger than a fawn up on his high tailgate. I can hardly get up on it myself. Well, last night I got a good sized buck. Not huge, but big enough to make us grunt dragging him off the hill. Before it was over, I swore that I'd NEVER go out without that ramp again. it saved our butts getting him loaded. Congrats on the deer! 4.5'-5' length of chain w/hooks that'll hook into the box-corner anchor points. Come-Along clipped onto the chain and crank away. Certainly not the only way to get things done, but, it's a fairly inexpensive way and lots of folks already have most of the necessary components, just gotta toss them into the vehicle. Grandpa had a Ford Explorer as his last vehicle. He had a ~3' length of 2x4 with an eye-bolt long enough to poke between the gap in the 60/40 split upright section of the rear seats. He'd hook a come-along to the eye-bolt, put the 2x4 on the front of the upright section of the rear seats, position the eye-bolt into the gap between the 60/40 split, and crank the deer into the back up into his early 80's.
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A few years back I killed a couple cow elk I could drive to and load whole. Got it done with my son and some atv ramps but swore I would have a winch system next time. I put a flatbed on my truck with a receiver on the headache rack so I can move my big winch between the front, rear and headache rack. Haven't killed an elk I can drive to since! I blame it on the winch.
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I've done the same thing a couple times with 1 difference. Next to the passenger door you can just see the top of my Razor. I have a winch rope coming over the corner of the bed, sliding behind a bull ring in the stake pocket. You don't want to do it quite this way, though, if you want to save the hide. Those expanded metal ramps really peel the hair off.
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Congratulations and good thinking
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Since I hunt alone these days @ 78 years old and all my old partners are gone.... These pics are super learning tools. Thanks for posting the pictures and not just a typed description. Ron
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This is a great thread! Congrat's Rock Chuck!!!
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