noharleyyet
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Man with a plan...and pics to prove it . Well played OP. Nice bull.
How to extract an elk from the woods
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406Born
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Nice elk and nice job getting him out. I like your style.
Southern Elk
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I'd do it in a heartbeat if I could ever find one close enough to the road. I grew up hanging all of my deer to clean them. I'll never get used to cleaning animals on the ground. Did it 4 times this year though.
Love it! Your story reminds me of my first ever MT Bull. Dragged him whole, no sled, all alone, pulling by just the antlers, .67 of a mile through sage fields to a little two track. I got my truck down to him and I very obviously could not load him by myself, but I was a bit stubborn at the time and I was not going to cut him in half after all I had been through to get him out whole. As it was getting dark I was starting to come to the conclusion that I would maybe have to cut the thing in half, when a truck with 3 local guys came down the very same two track I was on (which I had not seen anybody else use at all that whole entire day). The driver got out of the truck and said, "well I guess we're gonna have to help you since your parked in the middle of the road". The 4 of us got him loaded and I was on my way. But, my 2 wheel drive truck couldn't get up the frozen hill and so the 3 guys had to chain up and tow me out of that icy hole. I thought it was a good idea at the time, but 19 year olds don't make good decisions, so that's my excuse.
At least i didn't have to explain myself to the local guys for why I wanted to get him out whole; they had a 3 pt. bull and a cow loaded whole in the back of their truck too.
Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
Wow! I drug a lope across a sage field and thought I was a going to have a heart attack. Can't imagine dragging a bull across that mess.
idnative1948
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Way to go! I am impressed. We did almost the same thing with my brother's moose in October, but ended up having to cut him in half to get him in the truck.
Cerebral Stalker
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Everything looks bigger close to the truck. Way to get one in the truck whole!
I've been involved in a couple of loading the elk whole into the back of the truck. I must say I don't understand the appeal of giving ourselves hernias doing it.
Maybe I'm missing something.
Mr.Natural sez, "Use the right tool for the job!"
I don't know about hand dragging an elk,but I have gotten real fancy with pulleys,come a long & rope before.
6mm Remington
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That's awesome and it is also a really nice bull! Congratulations. To get an elk or any animal like that my buddy and I call it, "CASHING IN A COUPON!" It takes a lot of back-breaking heartache days to earn one of those Coupon elk usually!
I dragged him for hooouuurs and I don't remember the actual dragging being that bad, especially in the bare spots. But I definitely agree with you that getting hung up in sage was absolutely miserable; still remember trying to weave around that stuff. Never again.
Throw in a couple of 2x6s for sliding/ramps and there isn't anything you can't get in or out of a truck bed. I once took a topper off by myself with only 4x4s.
Highground
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Haha truck extraction is sometimes the real killer!
Wisconsinhunter
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This is my favorite elk story to date.
