Advice please

[Tim.243]

The killing floor in an abattoir is generally in a bit of a state with blood, muck and water. Its also set up to maximise efficient handling of heavy or very heavy carcasses with rails and hoists. Our situation is very different unless you’re operating a mass cull in a park.
I have no problem with a suspended gralloch, but its an unnecessary faf on clean ground, especially with the bigger species, once you get it off the ground you can’t reach the upper end so you end up hauling it half way up, making your cuts and then pull it up further.
If you want do it, go right ahead, I’ll make the coffee and give you a hand, but if you have to go to the car to get your stuff, I might just have it done by the time you get back.

Yes I agree, however the killing floor is a mess but they don't clean them out on the floor which the point I made...
As they go on a chain and on the rail...up up and away...
One my own I have managed to get big spikers on the tail gate then clean them out as it is a better working height also gravity is an advantage. Not bent over also nick the legs and they snap off v easy with a bit of pressure against the tale gate...
No right or wrong way just how we do it...

 

[Tim.243]

Ah I understand now ,basically a handle ?

Dave how have you done deer in the past as I drag muntjac also roe out of woodland also a long way from the shot area...
What ever you use in the past it will just need to be a bit bigger!!

 

[Foxholes Country Pursuits]

We stock Shappell Jet Sleds in 2 sizes. Bigger one for reds and the Junior size up to fallow. Bigger one can be supplied with a custom built quad trailer, which packs into the sled. Sled only fills half a pick up load bed. Superb design makes dragging easy and carcasses are kept clean during extraction. £150 or £199 for the larger version. Not on our website yet, so phone if you fancy a chat. Cheers, Glenn 01524 793007

 

[Woodsy]

A rope is ok if you’ve only got one deer to move but with fallow you’ll inevitably have more than one to deal with on occasions. So try to shoot multiples a few minutes before the farmer does his rounds, as I did here by chance one winter morning. I was just starting to psyche myself up for a few repeated drags when the tractor came trundling along the lane. It was like an angelic vision in my eyes at the time!

 

[Davestuart]

Dave how have you done deer in the past as I drag muntjac also roe out of woodland also a long way from the shot area...
What ever you use in the past it will just need to be a bit bigger!!

Roe have been prepped on the ground normally where they drop if suitable and carried out as not that heavy but not had the luck or the grounds to do anything bigger

 

[muddy42]

If you gut it fairly quickly after death you’ll get just as much blood out, especially with a chest shot.
Even if I accept that hanging it up gets more blood out, the difference in weight between the 2 methods is going to be minimal, less than a Kg.
If I’m leaving it there and going for another I roll it onto the belly to let it drain and keep the bastard ravens out and tie a plastic bag on a stick to keep them away.

We'll have to agree to disagree then! I think the few minutes it takes to suspend and leave a deer hanging is generally worth it. But then it can depend on so many factors, like whether there is a tree nearby, whether I think it safe and cold enough to do a full field gralloch and whether I can get the quad right underneath.

 

[Tim.243]

Roe have been prepped on the ground normally where they drop if suitable and carried out as not that heavy but not had the luck or the grounds to do anything bigger

Good stuff and good luck. One bit of advice...don't post a write up of dragging a deer a short way over fallen branches so you can get it on some plastic sheet to drag it the rest of the way..
Other wise the deer gods come out wanting a full expatiation....

A have better responses these days.....Again good luck

A Long Drag....

With some late sunshine predicted I thought it would be worth a look where my trail cam has picked up a few fallow passing through. There are two routes into my high seat but the recent high winds have covered both trails with a carpet of leaves and twigs. What breeze there was put pay to one...

www.thestalkingdirectory.co.uk

 

[Dunwaters]

We'll have to agree to disagree then! I think the few minutes it takes to suspend and leave a deer hanging is generally worth it. But then it can depend on so many factors, like whether there is a tree nearby, whether I think it safe and cold enough to do a full field gralloch and whether I can get the quad right underneath.

Depends on the size of the deer too..