Drag kit.
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According to a number of members my home made drag kit needed more work on it...however the speed of this 70kg live weight Fallow was quite a pace...
The cries of It won't work faded away very quickly
300 yds as quick as you like
Deer Tray Covers Deer Drag Green
NEW from Deer Tray Covers, The Deer Drag! Available in Green or Orange, these deer drag ropes are made from a heavy duty, lightweight webbing with heavy duty stitching. Featuring a heavy duty, stainless steel D-ring, these drags are suitable for even the bigggest deer on thi hill. Each drag...
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These work well and for not a lot of money.
Aha.
Getting old. Hilly heavily forested ground. Draging Sika PITA. Carrying Sika also PITA.
Mean git.
Big trays no use as you have to lug them about.
Forget quad, too mean.
Barrows are useless on the ground.
Can't be something I go back to in the car, then back up the hill.
Capstan too £££ too many kg.
Dont fancy some of these drag systems ££ and/or some reviews show them splitting on the first day out
So...
Heavy duty deer drag plastic thing. Rolls up. £9 on Amazon. So if it only does a few trips who cares. Works very well. Game changes and <£10. I think they were for ice fishing originally.
Plus
Cheap Petz Pulley £15
50m of paracord, comes with karabiners.
So I can tie it up in the drag, haul it along without any friction. Downhill is safer as well. Then when I get to the inevitable steep section pop the pulley on loop the paracord through. Walk up the hill, one one end clips round a tree, pull the other end and its half the weight.
Cheap, compact, light.
Getting old. Hilly heavily forested ground. Draging Sika PITA. Carrying Sika also PITA.
Mean git.
Big trays no use as you have to lug them about.
Forget quad, too mean.
Barrows are useless on the ground.
Can't be something I go back to in the car, then back up the hill.
Capstan too £££ too many kg.
Dont fancy some of these drag systems ££ and/or some reviews show them splitting on the first day out
So...
Heavy duty deer drag plastic thing. Rolls up. £9 on Amazon. So if it only does a few trips who cares. Works very well. Game changes and <£10. I think they were for ice fishing originally.
Plus
Cheap Petz Pulley £15
50m of paracord, comes with karabiners.
So I can tie it up in the drag, haul it along without any friction. Downhill is safer as well. Then when I get to the inevitable steep section pop the pulley on loop the paracord through. Walk up the hill, one one end clips round a tree, pull the other end and its half the weight.
Cheap, compact, light.
dpaterson
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I’ve got one of these and it works very well.Deer Tray Covers Deer Drag Green
NEW from Deer Tray Covers, The Deer Drag! Available in Green or Orange, these deer drag ropes are made from a heavy duty, lightweight webbing with heavy duty stitching. Featuring a heavy duty, stainless steel D-ring, these drags are suitable for even the bigggest deer on thi hill. Each drag...
These work well and for not a lot of money.
Overlay
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-plasterers bath reduced to 10” all round full 5mm aluminium strap riveted on side turn buckle each side of one end with 7 strand stainless cable to centre of end point straight on to a proper non stretch tow rope and a good harness ( mine is a leather Roe sack harness) get the height to tension right and it follows you with little effort
To get it right find your towing length from the harness to just get the nose plane up against your height, the easiest manual way I've found to date, carcase is 100% clean as well, you can get a clip on cover for it as well
I’ve two now and they are really robust
Get the best you can, no fun running out of steam when you still have another in the wood waiting
To get it right find your towing length from the harness to just get the nose plane up against your height, the easiest manual way I've found to date, carcase is 100% clean as well, you can get a clip on cover for it as well
I’ve two now and they are really robust
Get the best you can, no fun running out of steam when you still have another in the wood waiting
Ive just made a tray out of a plasterers bath , jet washed & scrubbed to within an inch of its life, caned with hydrogen peroxide and insect mesh over the top secured with a huge bungee. I have a couple of industrial harness' & some lengths of webbing i could frankenstein into something useful.
HonestJohn
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A good shooting buddy
Overlay
Well-Known Member
Go for it bud, anything to keep a carcase clean and easier to extract is always worth doing, don’t worry about basic - basic works 100%. good luck
Plasterers baths are built to last, I strengthened mine and balanced the pull it works perfectly
I can’t quite see how it’s attached to the front leg?
Rafter
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I make 2 lengthwise cuts in the skin on the shin about 25mm apart and 80mm long and thread the strap through.
I used to carry deer either with the front leg through the back a la a backpack (blood leaks out and ends up down your back and pants, plus on a big animal the neck flops around and is a pain), or when I was targeting big reds I carried a pack frame and strapped the carcass to that.
The belt is an improvement on both of those methods - although he biggest deer I ever backpacked was a 132kg red back when I was young, fit and stupid. I couldn't stand up with that on now (35 years later) - I carried a 78kg red out about 5 km a couple of months ago and it nearly crippled me. I need to find a young guy to take hunting.
I used to carry deer either with the front leg through the back a la a backpack (blood leaks out and ends up down your back and pants, plus on a big animal the neck flops around and is a pain), or when I was targeting big reds I carried a pack frame and strapped the carcass to that.
The belt is an improvement on both of those methods - although he biggest deer I ever backpacked was a 132kg red back when I was young, fit and stupid. I couldn't stand up with that on now (35 years later) - I carried a 78kg red out about 5 km a couple of months ago and it nearly crippled me. I need to find a young guy to take hunting.
What does your strap look like out of use?
By which I mean is it set up in loops or is it literally just a strap?
It looks like a very simple, effective technique but I’m struggling to picture how you set the strap up.
Rafter
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Its just 2m of webbing, with the buckle of my Fathers service dress belt sewn on one end, and when I'm hunting I just wear it as a belt. When the deer hits the deck I take it off and get to work. It only needs to be about 1300 long, but I've made it long enough to go around me twice, just for convenience.
More photos for illustration. The running shoes in the first photo weere for crossing the river in the background, and I left them on for climbing the hill back to the camp.
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