Drag sheets or trays.

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S&L7x57

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I am in need of a simple drag sheet or tray/sled for a new permission. Its heavy land with a few flints and open, hardwood woodland. If its a rigid tray, it needs to be less than 950 x 500. Lots of historic recommendations on here but I wondered if anybody currently strongly recommended something or had thrown out something useless! Bushwear have several different versions, any experience?
 
Which species? If it's one of the larger ones, see if you can get hold of a bit of conveyor belt from a quarry. Attach an old car seal belt, instant drag mat.
 
Bushware did a drag sheet, got one years ago it works, just wrap carcass in the sheet and pull, no weight if you have to stalk with sheet attached to day sack.
Sled hard type not practical to take with you while stalking.
If you know someone in the Electric business, they use harness for climbing poles, great bit of kit. great for dragging Deer off Hill, or Woods, or flat land.
 
I use a vinyl drag bag made from truck tauntliner. It can take a large Red size wise. It has grab handles or can be dragged on a rope or strap. It also keeps the carcass clean. A1 Decoys stock them.
 
S&L7x57 said:
I am in need of a simple drag sheet or tray/sled for a new permission. Its heavy land with a few flints and open, hardwood woodland. If its a rigid tray, it needs to be less than 950 x 500. Lots of historic recommendations on here but I wondered if anybody currently strongly recommended something or had thrown out something useless! Bushwear have several different versions, any experience?
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I’ve recently bought the bushwear sled for £99. Seems Ok but not overly robust.
 
Have mine 3 years now, still going, and believed me the granite on the Wicklow Mountains is very unforgiving.
Remember you are not pulling the drag sheet, your pulling the Deer in the sheet.
 
S&L7x57 said:
I am in need of a simple drag sheet or tray/sled for a new permission. Its heavy land with a few flints and open, hardwood woodland. If its a rigid tray, it needs to be less than 950 x 500. Lots of historic recommendations on here but I wondered if anybody currently strongly recommended something or had thrown out something useless! Bushwear have several different versions, any experience?
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if your after Roe and or Munties Agricare at Aylesham Nr Canterbury do a fruit slider drag tray it’s perfect the smaller deer, well made and a drag rope as well, I have used these for some time and it’s still in really good condition, good hardworking piece of kit
 
Very hard to get but I have a shappell jet sled, it's more than ten years old and you would not believe the work it has done, Reds and sika but quite a few fallow as well it's tough really tough and if you can plastic weld a skill I urge everyone to learn it will last you for goodness knows how long, but it's so good I have had to do only minor repairs over all those years of hard work, it gets the full five stars from me brilliant piece of kit and without a doubt one of my very best purchases.


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Recently tidying up round a disused dairy farm and came across some old foot dips used during the foot and mouth crisis.

I cut one to the required length and used some old seat belt for the harness........proper tough and light weight I'm well chuffed with it.
 
A sled is always better than a mat or a bag in use

SO if you can, take a sled

If not, then a mat is better than nothing.
 
John Gryphon said:
Glenn on "life below zero' shoots caribou and moose and drags them on what appears to be a sheet of hard tough plastic with the harness attached to the slightly upturned front
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Yes watched him make it 1 programme ,a standard plastic sheet heated to shape the end and "wedged" whilst it cooled to set in the curved shape we all know. But as G/s stated those £9.99 sleds are everywhere for sale here at the minute ,cheap as chips and not too heavy.
 
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