Home-made deer drag

WTMR

Well-Known Member
Hi all,

I keep seeing what look like relatively over-priced pieces of webbing being sold as deer drags. Does anyone have links to some decent webbing material to just DIY one myself? This is primarily for reds on the hill.

Thanks!
 
Seeland 850lb drag rope.

Bought as a spare but original still going strong.

£18 posted if interested.

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I use a ratchet strap too. Cheap and multi purpose. I use mine to secure my hoist to a suitable tree branch when gralloching as well as a drag strap.
 
Hi all,

I keep seeing what look like relatively over-priced pieces of webbing being sold as deer drags. Does anyone have links to some decent webbing material to just DIY one myself? This is primarily for reds on the hill.

Thanks!
Car seat belt or the webbing from broken ratchet strap.z
 
I use a 2m webbing sling with some paracord tied to each end.

A piece of seatbelt with paracord/rope on each end would be lighter and better - been intending to do this for a few years but life gets in the way...

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Get a old brush cutter harness, put ring in middle of back and just walk.
Until the deer overtakes you going downhill. Then run, fall over, and slide after it.
:)
I've always just used a length of rope long enough to go over one shoulder and wrap a few turns round the arm on the opposite side.
 
If supplying a game dealer- a drag bag is preferable to keep carcass out of the mud . Being as it’s been so wet at mo.
 
don't drag............ROLL :tiphat:

Most stalkers seem make hard work of getting deer back to the wagon...:doh:
There are situations that hopefully even you will appreciate Tim where sadly drags are necessary. My preferred order is to:
  • Drive to the animal in the car
  • If it has then to be moved to gralloch it elsewhere within reasonable distance, tow the carcass in a Jet sled behind the car
  • Drive the quad to it, gralloch it there and then, and then tow it back to the car in a Jet sled
  • Use my deer crawler to extract
  • Use the capstan winch to recover it to the car/quad and then above
  • Manually drag it in a Jet sled back to gralloch site/car
  • Manually drag it across the terrain
The latter as I said, is a very rare extreme occurrence; previously up on Arran to get the animal to quad track and more recently on an SSI I shoot infrequently, where I'm not allowed to leave the tracks in a vehicle or quad.
 
Get a sheet of kydex in ( try lathoms ) . You can bend it when heated with a hot gun and turn the leading edge up also like a sledge , attach staps ( old car seat belts etc ) 8x4 sheet size . The kydex is really flexible and really tough, you score it deeply and bend it back to size to break.
 
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