Transporting Deer

[Stalker62]

Also... 666 miles in a 110? I hope the trailer was a diesel bowser.

I would start with a full tank. Two refills on the way up. One tank for the week's stalking. Two tanks on the way back down.

I also carried two 20 gallon Jerry cans.

What on earth was I thinking?

 

[Freeforester]

Got that beat...tho' similarly youthful 'CD'....Took elderly Mother from North Of Lancaster to stay with friends outside Plymouth. Left home around breakfast, arrived mid-afternoon. Left for home straight away. Arrived home only to receive a phone call, Mother taken ill ! Drove straight back down to Plymouth (complete with oxygen cylinder), collected Mother and drove straight back to Royal Preston Hospital and stayed the night there, asleep in a chair ! That was 320 odd miles x 4 ...if memory serves, I did it within 24 hrs.
Apologies to the 'OP' for going off point.

Transporting ‘dear’, CD.

 

[StephenToast]

I would start with a full tank. Two refills on the way up. One tank for the week's stalking. Two tanks on the way back down.

I also carried two 20 gallon Jerry cans.

What on earth was I thinking?

I imagine your thinking went along the lines of...

I don't need all these pound notes cluttering up my pockets but that nice man Mr BP looks nearly destitute, why, he only has one ivory backscratcher. I know. I'll think of an elabourate way to donate money to him without making it look like charity. That way he can have two ivory backscratchers AND his pride.

 

[nickjackson]

Personally I do what others have said above, in order:

1. Use a local gamedealer
One place I help with has a dealer in the local town so we pass it on the way out and drop them off on the way back down to the A9

2. Use a national game dealer
If you are near Inverness the bigger guys will collect if you have a few carcasses. For a fraction of the cost of a chiller trailer my pal who I help bought a mobile larder It's a converted single garron pony trailer and he fitted a winch, fly proofing and ventilation. It stays on the forest on a track near the public road. In the winter carcasses obviously keep for a good few days and in the Autumn the dealer collects daily.

3. Get to know a neighbour
Another friend who lives on the east coast but rents a forest on the west joined the DMG and got to know the stalker on a neigbouring forest. For a bottle of whisky at Xmas he can use his larder and the dealer collects from there

4. Bring them south
This winter when the dealers in Scotland dropped the price below £1 per K etc I was bringing carcasses down south to sell to places where we were getting a better price. It pushed me to get rid of my Discovery (could get 3 reds in a big plasterers bath) and buy a Hilux!

 

[Stalker62]

I imagine your thinking went along the lines of...

I don't need all these pound notes cluttering up my pockets but that nice man Mr BP looks nearly destitute, why, he only has one ivory backscratcher. I know. I'll think of an elabourate way to donate money to him without making it look like charity. That way he can have two ivory backscratchers AND his pride

It is certainly true that a 110 does have a tendency to pull to the left as it needs a petrol station.

The only time I ever had it pull to the right when I was heading North, was as I approached the House of Bruar.

Turned out this was my wife grabbing the steering wheel.

Funny thing - it pulled to the left on the way back down South...

 

[Stalker62]

All to claim the mileage allowance rather than take a travel warrant

You actually did the miles to claim the mileage?

Well that's novel...

 

[camodog]

Transporting ‘dear’, CD.

Sorry, wrong kinda' 'deer'......Well I suppose I could claim some sort of connection to the 'post'....my Mum was 'an old dear'. And I did transport her after all !

 

[jcampbellsmith]

..... There is 5 of us in the syndicate and plan to all go up together once a month......

How long do you think that plan is going to last?
Regards
JCS

 

[Goldfinger2020]

How long do you think that plan is going to last?
Regards
JCS

I know what your saying....... however I have block booked digs for the dates arranged so I’m going at least once a month. Hopefully the others join me

 

[sikamalc]

Depends on what species I guess. But I assume Red, Sika and Roe? If you need to transport them and keep them chilled on site, I would hire a small chiller on a trailer. There are companies where you can hire them from, and a portable genny.

 

[Woodsmoke]

Got that beat . . . . That was 320 odd miles x 4 ...if memory serves, I did it within 24 hrs.

No chance! 954 miles in 19 hours beats your piddly 1280 in 24. And you had the comfort of a heater, radio, wheel at each corner, etc.

I was proper hardcore

(and more apologies to the OP )

 

[camodog]

No chance! 954 miles in 19 hours beats your piddly 1280 in 24. And you had the comfort of a heater, radio, wheel at each corner, etc.

I was proper hardcore

(and more apologies to the OP )

Who said anything about a radio, heater and four wheels ?

And more apologies to the 'OP'S.

 

[tom308w]

put them in gamedealer if you want to bring one home shoot one the night before you come home
atb tom

 

[redlab]

Ardgay game = problem sorted!!