Suitable motorbike for pulling deer
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He is really struggling with that cross between a tank and a bike, even on flat ground. Imagine it with a Red in tow - would be a comedy to watch if one was sitting on the hill with a flask of good malt and lashings of midge spray! The poor bugger trying to recover it as it falls over on every tunnock, with the bog between them, making for a lovely evening. When it gets to a nice peat bank, the call echoes across the moor, "Dead man walking", just before it falls on top of him, followed quickly by a dead deer with its antlers primed.
Quad bikes can be scary enough.
At the other end of the spectrum, the STORM MPV looks cool, and just the business if you have no friends with a pony. Especially as it has remote control for use when one gets to the iffy bits of terrain.
STORM - HighLand Systems` Makes Mr Musk's Cybertruck look like a Creedmoor in a gathering of 338s and 50 cals.
OK, it is not easy to store, but if one could afford that beast, you would have a spare garage or two, along with one's own estate to dig up with its tracks.
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Cheers Tim
Big carcases in award undulating terrain are tough, and there's no answer to suit everyone in the various situations they encounter.
For me and I've thought of and tried most everything, no matter what if it's big and far away in tough territory it's gonna cause problems lots of them, you have a few choices leave them alone in the really bad stuff, deer move about a lot is there another location more accessible they venture into...?
If the answer is no its out of your boundaries for example, then shoot only early mornings it's much much easier extracting into daylight hours as opposed to dusk working into darkness and the multitudes of problems that gives.
I'm a great fan of the capstan winches I currently have two, a small lightweight pcw3000 and a heavier but much faster eder 1800 of the two I use the 3000 the most for deer and the eder is mostly reserved for tree work but on occasion it's handy if I don't have to carry it to far.
I'll touch briefly on bikes two wheel variety for extraction I've no experience with but honestly I'd doubt it would be worth a f, I've tried the quad it's good but not on my difficult steep terrain.
Best advice is thoroughly plan your hunt with big deer try to find them in the easier location's and only early morning if possible, invest in a winch and sled and a decent length of static rope I find 150 MTs enough you have to factor in the rope as it all adds up weight wise.
In the end there is really no hard fast answer try what works reject what's useless and don't kill yourself in the process....
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308rws
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What you need is one of these: Muffel Caterpillar Vehicle im FREETR.EE Shop
Now that is a piece of kit !
palmer_mike
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It’s a big thing in the USA apparently. Many electric bikes especially manufactured for deer hunting/extraction……
I reckon a small deer strapped across the rear mudguard/rear end of the seat would be alright? By small I mean muntjac or Chinese water deer. I'd only attempt this in the dry on fairly flat ground though. I've ridden trails/enduro for years and getting up wet rock/muddy inclines is sometimes hard enough with just me on the bike! Coming down needs a lot more control which I'm not sure you'd have with a big old beast sliding around behind you? Given the choice of using my truck of my bike I'd pick my truck every time even if it means a more difficult extraction using ropes and such.
I've found the hardest thing to get traction on is wet grass so trying to go either up or downhill in a grassy field trying to drag a deer isn't going to end well. If you're trying to get out of the woods you'd have roots and ruts and probably not defined trail to follow which is going to be a terrible experience. I don't know what kind of experience you have riding off road but if I were you I'd try and borrow a bike off someone and ride it through the areas you're likely to be using it with some sort of dummy weight on the back to represent a deer.
I've found the hardest thing to get traction on is wet grass so trying to go either up or downhill in a grassy field trying to drag a deer isn't going to end well. If you're trying to get out of the woods you'd have roots and ruts and probably not defined trail to follow which is going to be a terrible experience. I don't know what kind of experience you have riding off road but if I were you I'd try and borrow a bike off someone and ride it through the areas you're likely to be using it with some sort of dummy weight on the back to represent a deer.
palmer_mike
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Use your imagination?
palmer_mike
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Buy a horse.
palmer_mike
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Classic SD response.
palmer_mike
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Looks perfect for where I Stalk (arable/woodland). Obvs there will be limits to where it would work.Nice and flat tee shirts no Scottish weather hills no rifle or sticks
The op mentioned Hills lol
They are noisy so go early let it settle as leaving it in the truck at £££ you would never relax
Shoot 2-3 and you would be like a squirrel back and forth to the truck lol
palmer_mike
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The OP mentioned bikes lol.
Im sure he can make his own mind up what’ll work and what won’t given the extent and severity of the ‘hills’ but hopefully he will appreciate that someone took the time to actually answer the question he was asking.
I overall opinion from SD is it wont work for various reasons, if there was a viable solution then there would have been a stand at the last show selling them lol Like carp fisherman they have a power buggy to get around the lake, they are rated for 80kg and 700 quid lol
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