Thread: carrying deer

there is whole thread on how to do it..somewhere on here...I started it and linked to old forum thread about same.... last year I was with two experienced hunters and neither had ever seen hindquarters carried out as a single bit!!!!! in open country the Alex Gale carry belt method is great....pigs hunters ...yip the macho BS photos have ingrained it into heads thats the only way to carry out a pig....wasting 2/3rds of animal when get it home. mate of mine bones them out on the hill...shocked me first time I heard of it,now it makes perfect sence.
a deer has to be very close to car now before it comes out whole.

stag isnt pissed up or skinny...why on earth would you assume its going to be chewy????
food preperation is key...aged nicely that will provide beautiful venison.

Originally Posted by GrumpyKiwi

These days I never shoot for anything other than meat. So I bone it all out and take the heart, liver and kidneys as well. I then ensure the gut, skin etc are not too close to walking tracks, huts etc to avoid negatively impacting others in the area with mess, smell or flies.

These days I take a lot of photos. Just like shooting, a few really good shots among many average shots. The bonus has been that taking the extra time to watch the animals has taught me more about them and now the meat hunts a quicker and cleaner.

In or around 2010, I had two scares about a month apart. I had a very nice 14pt red on private land in the Onga onga area, adjacent to the Ruahine national park. Someone put a round into the dead head (carried upside down) on my back. It nicked the raw neck area and caused me to colour in my jockeys. In the same area about a month later I was carrying a rolled-up skin as I had promised one to a young fella who was wheelchair bound. Again a very similar near miss. Thing is, I was wearing a blaze orange camo head to foot! It was about an hour before dark and the sun had dropped below the horizon so it was in the twilight zone went the Blaze can look distinctly brownish.

Now I use blue, not orange over any animal parts I am carrying. Think about how far away you can see those bloody blue warehouse tarps left all over the bush. They are unmistakable. I noticed this with blue UN helmets and markings in Africa. It was always the thing you saw first. I also noted in Iraq that the embedded journos wore blue. That was like a neon sign to the insurgents, lighting up the unit position. Some found out it was far from insurance against being shot. Anyhow, Blue is extremely visible in all lights.

What annoys me is people who waste meat needlessly and people who can't be effed taking time to ensure they do not leave putrefying animal parts near waterways, huts and tracks etc. It is every hunters responsibility to show consideration to all others who may be in the area or use it after them.

Sorry for being bit ranty but this topic is a real own goal earner for hunters and it is so easy to present to a good image.

Interesting. Have hunted for 60 years continually and a few meat hunting and have never even been close to being shot at (so far as I know). Yet some people can recount more than one real instance.

Totally agree about getting rid of the gut bag and putting everything out of sight. Not sure why you wouldn't.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Interesting. Have hunted for 60 years continually and a few meat hunting and have never even been close to being shot at (so far as I know). Yet some people can recount more than one real instance.

Totally agree about getting rid of the gut bag and putting everything out of sight. Not sure why you wouldn't.

You have short memory old chap...you nearly shot yourself some time back(probably shot your undies) when your batteries shortcicuited and fired a round in your backpack LOL
I know of a few cases of shots hitting folks or deer on their back..... thankfully not happened to me YET... my singing badly while strugling out under heavy load might help.

Originally Posted by GrumpyKiwi

Geez - are you going soft? I used to carry those out all the time. On the family farm in nth Cant. Thing is I was 30 year younger, had not been shot and blown up a bunch of times, had all the cartilage in all my knees. hips, shoulders etc, did not have an assortment of plates screws and shit holding me together and suffered no chronic joint inflammation.

Seriously Mate - nice wee stag! Bit chewy though for my liking. But the back steaks and other choice bits will be good and dogs will get some good tucker.

Seriously?? Not to mention the Bunji-itis in your joints ??

I carried a fallow buck last week 100m with head on, my young fella help pull me up couple creek banks using the antlers, i was broken. Was enough to get a rope to it and drag it up hill.
When i was young we carried all our deer out, head off ears on. I think lack of animals 20 years ago making the most of ever last bit of meat. now having easy hunting and deer numbers if i can get a bike to it whole animal. other wise back legs and back steaks.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Interesting.

Totally agree about getting rid of the gut bag and putting everything out of sight. Not sure why you wouldn't.

Is'nt funny how some "hunters" these days are prone to leaving heads and skins on gates, fences and road sides as if skiteing of their great hunting prowess and yet not leave their mobile number so we can congratulate them.

Strange that.

Originally Posted by GrumpyKiwi

Yeah - OK, Tahr.

Originally Posted by GrumpyKiwi

These days I take a lot of photos.

In or around 2010, I had two scares about a month apart. I had a very nice 14pt red on private land in the Onga onga area, adjacent to the Ruahine national park. S.

would be great to see photos of this stag......the quality has improved no end in last few years,something from 13 years ago will be interesting to compare.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

there is whole thread on how to do it..somewhere on here...I started it and linked to old forum thread about same.... last year I was with two experienced hunters and neither had ever seen hindquarters carried out as a single bit!!!!! in open country the Alex Gale carry belt method is great....pigs hunters ...yip the macho BS photos have ingrained it into heads thats the only way to carry out a pig....wasting 2/3rds of animal when get it home. mate of mine bones them out on the hill...shocked me first time I heard of it,now it makes perfect sence.
a deer has to be very close to car now before it comes out whole.

If you cut the pig up it buggers up driving around town for the next week with it attached to the dog box.

Originally Posted by Tahr

With ears left on.

yes and heart lungs liver all still attached for sale but not head on no waste of energy

or shoot smaller Deer

Originally Posted by EmpireSafaris

Attachment 219722 or shoot smaller Deer

Reminds me of when I was a kid and Bob Swann stayed at our place and dropped off a sika he had shot.
Must have bowled a fawn shit it was small.
Dad laughed about it for years afterwards.

I carry them whole if I'm not too far from the truck. Give the dogs some bones.

Originally Posted by erniec

Reminds me of when I was a kid and Bob Swann stayed at our place and dropped off a sika he had shot.
Must have bowled a fawn shit it was small.
Dad laughed about it for years afterwards.

Fawns are called "handbags" but they are tender.