To drag or to carry? That is the question!
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Not a action picture but you get the idea.
Not all blue drums are the same some are alot thicker.
Cut the lip off to make them slide easy and after cutting them run a blow torch over the cuts to make them smooth.
These blue barrels are ok on flat grassy ground but you hit mud with that flat face then your exerting yersel to drag, my mate made a sled with a flat front on it and coped the quad , buy a sled there not to expensive or if you can pick up an old car roof box with a sloped front then a piece of alloy flat bar along the front face and your rope through it works fine and cheap , I made one for behind my quad to see if it would put up with the pulling , it’s finished but not painted so I’ve not had it out yetBelow one of our Sika Sack's with 3 Roe in, or the "Blue-Barrell" option also works a treat - had big reds in this recently
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The wetter and the muddier the better they slide and another problem I find with the deer sleds I and friends have used have all failed.
Even with a flat face pulling through wet mud it doesn’t sink into the mud?
Is that a burntwood booth?
Think it was Tim , my friend was a Sprayer and he gave me the roof box , that’s where the picture was taking . He sold out to one of the local Whisky Distillers recently so it’s all demolished now .
Not that Ive noticed I've had it in such wet conditions that it starts to float.
Amazing ..
do you only go out when the nearby river bursts it’s banks .. sorry but a barrel shaped like that wouldn’t be fit for purpose where I am and especially not with a Red . But all ground is different . If it works for you your lucky 
I've put lowland hinds in one down in north Devon I just put bungees over the top. But this is all good if pulling by hand if it's always going to be pulled by a quad I would use a aluminium one with a flat bottom with a A frame and tow hitchAmazing ..
It would work with the sika in your area. On a different note I think the area you live is the prettiest area in the UK I stalk and am looking forward to being there in February. Is there anything you recommend doing in cambeltown and where is the best place to eat?Amazing ..
I have considered one of these. But in the woods it could be a pain.
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Some thoughts from and bitter experience.
1) only squeeze the trigger once you are confident of the extraction, and if extraction will be a ballache then don’t squeeze the trigger
2) Roe sacks are mostly very poorly designed as a load carrying device
3) dragging is hard work. I am not convinced sleds make it any easier. If I drag then rope around head and just drag - if its grass, bog and its a little wet makes it a lot easier
4) well designed frame packs - aka American type packs are designed to carry heavy loads, and put the weight properly on your hips via the waist belt. And are long enough for most adult sized men. With a big load you want the weight properly distributed. Roe or Sika sacks don’t do this.
5) if you can reduce the size of the bits you need to carry. Consider that skin, bones etc will only be discarded at the other end so keep the haunches hole, take off the backstraps and fillets, and bone out the shoulders, and take off the meat on the rib cage. Plenty of crows, raptors and small birds (blue tits etc) all will welcome the pickings off the rest of the carcass. Worth chopping / breaking into smaller bits so that it can easily be dispersed.
But appreciate that in many places not really an option to cut up the carcass.
6) often though carrying considerably easier than dragging. Spreading the load with a few people really helps. A pole with animal slung below is traditional way of carrying a whole animal in many parts of the world. Stretchers and stretcher carts have been used / still are used in many places.
7) Quads argos etc all work but are expensive and can make quite a mess to the ground so not always popular. Helicopters are brilliant.
But if you can, best to take a beast where it is easily extracted.
1) only squeeze the trigger once you are confident of the extraction, and if extraction will be a ballache then don’t squeeze the trigger
2) Roe sacks are mostly very poorly designed as a load carrying device
3) dragging is hard work. I am not convinced sleds make it any easier. If I drag then rope around head and just drag - if its grass, bog and its a little wet makes it a lot easier
4) well designed frame packs - aka American type packs are designed to carry heavy loads, and put the weight properly on your hips via the waist belt. And are long enough for most adult sized men. With a big load you want the weight properly distributed. Roe or Sika sacks don’t do this.
5) if you can reduce the size of the bits you need to carry. Consider that skin, bones etc will only be discarded at the other end so keep the haunches hole, take off the backstraps and fillets, and bone out the shoulders, and take off the meat on the rib cage. Plenty of crows, raptors and small birds (blue tits etc) all will welcome the pickings off the rest of the carcass. Worth chopping / breaking into smaller bits so that it can easily be dispersed.
But appreciate that in many places not really an option to cut up the carcass.
6) often though carrying considerably easier than dragging. Spreading the load with a few people really helps. A pole with animal slung below is traditional way of carrying a whole animal in many parts of the world. Stretchers and stretcher carts have been used / still are used in many places.
7) Quads argos etc all work but are expensive and can make quite a mess to the ground so not always popular. Helicopters are brilliant.
But if you can, best to take a beast where it is easily extracted.
What's your opinion on portable capstan winches?
What about a petrol capstan?
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The Distilleries are a great tourist attraction , both of them in Campbeltown and there’s a Gin distillery just 8-10 miles on the Carradale road . Local golf courses seem to attract a lot of visitors also , I think there is 4 including a golf course in Carradale . The Mull lighthouse which is the closest mainland point to Ireland (12 miles) is a nice veiw on a good day but you have to make sure of the weather , and if your lucky quite a lot of sika present of the road on your way there . Depends on your hobbies to I suppose , down here is like everywhere else - lovely on a good day and dreich on a bad one . Are you in a syndicate down here or just booked stalking days Pete .
Portable capstan when you can’t get the quad in , it was steep in bits and getting a straight pull wasn’t easy so 40m at a time , slow but effective , pulled it 400m .
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Because I don't live your way the dreich days are my favourite. I have friends that live your way and have a open invite when ever I like and the same invite is extended to them that they can stalk with me when ever.
If you can get a signal, phone a Uber cab they can get to everywhere else. Sorted.
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