carrying deer

[Ron LaClair]

Ron, Are you sure thats not a Nash? Ben  

yep it is a Nash. I had a Hudson a couple years after that and just got a might confused there for a minute.    :rolleyes:    

   

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Ron,old age catching up on you?

[fyrfyter43]

Originally posted by Jerry Jeffer:
I even had one sitting up in the passenger seat, and that one got more looks then any of them.

When I first started hunting the old-timers in our gun club used to tell a story about one of the guys. Seems he wandered off at lunchtime to take care of business, and while he was gone they propped a buck up in the drivers seat, front legs on the steering wheel.

[WidowEater]

I cant seem to recognize Mr LaClair without the beard

[Rico]

With gas going ever higher it might be time to start strapping those deer back onto cars and those little compacts will make a little deer look big.
  Maybe after some non-hunter sees a few they will be come desensitized

[Jeff Roberts]

It is generally hot down here in the south even during Oct. and the early part of Nov. I always bone my deer out as soon as possible and get them on ice. Not really concern with the public's view but more concern with my meat. Cooling it down goes a long way to insuring a better tasting piece of meat.

[laddy]

If I have my little car I either have the GW call for help and help will bring my van or their pickup.  Or one of the other hunters will drop the deer off at my house if they are available.  Fair trade for the use of my deer cart and arrows I have fletched for them.

[ChuckC]

Stump.  I know how you feel, but unfortunately, this is 2008 and not the 70's.  We have to get along.  

In Wisconsin, the law may have recently changed, but even when the law was in effect, we used to teach the new hunters (and their dads...) to put the animal in the back of the truck and have a portion of a leg exposed.  It meets the letter of the law.. it is in plain sight, allowing a passing DNR agent to ask questions if they want (likely won't).  This was encouraged by the DNR warden in our group to allow us to take a slightly low... but not invisible... profile.

Even if you don't like the idea, keeping it covered keeps it clean and out of the sun, etc so it eats better when you get to that.  If you drive far, I would stop at a filling station and buy a bag of ice to stuff in its chest cavity, making sure it won't fall out on the road.

Nope.. I am proud to be a hunter, and not at all embarrased or scared to let the world know it, but I think nowadays we don't need to shove it in their face.
Later
ChuckC

[Ron LaClair]

[PASQUINELL]

Well I have to agree with ChuckC. We in our camp still leave the tailgate down to show off a nice "rack" deer in the North woods of Wisconsin while having a couple of barley pops, but where you start running into issues are the city areas or urban areas. There is just something about driving down I94 and seeing a deer with gut side out tied to a trunk of a Cavalier. Unfortunately it is a different world now and I am not sure I like it but what are you going to do. I dont care one way or another but some find it offensive.  The ice in the chest cavity and wrapped seems to keep it cool until I can get home to process.

[Full Quiver]

I have used a hitch haul & it works great. It is usually hot during much of the season here in Okla. so I stuff one or two bags of ice in the body cavity & have never had any problem. Wrapping it in a tarp would help keep the cool inside the deer. I don't really care what the anti's think as most probably don't have a clue why they are anti-hunting . But I also try not to be offensive,(most of the deer I kill aren't anything to brag about anyway.
   :rolleyes:    

[COWBOYROY]

THE ONLY THING I`VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THE HITCH HAULERS IS ALL THOSE EXAUST FUMES ARE GOING INTO YOUR FRESH MEAT AND CONTAMINATING IT WITH HYDROCARBONS,NOT BEING NEGATIVE JUST PRACTICAL, JUST COVER IT UP GOOD AND BUNGEE CORD IT