Carrying small game

[dad]

How do you carry your small game when you harvest it in the field?

[Chris Surtees]

I wear a blaze orange vest with a game bag in the back.

CS

[Kevin Bahr]

I use one of those large steel safety laundry pins and pin it through a foot (on the dead animal) and then hang 'em on my belt loop.

[Apex Predator]

Get a four inch long piece of 3/4" pvc.  Tie a stout piece of thin line around the middle.  Tie a loop around the end of the line at about 12".  Thread this loop through your game and then loop it back on to the pvc.  When carrying, both loops should be in the middle of the pvc handle.  I have carried bunches of rabbits this way.

[Jerry Jeffer]

Game pouch in jacket or vest.

[Hawkeye]

You know, if you just b-a-r-e-l-y miss on those rabbits and squirels, you don't have to carry all that weight.  THAT'S why I don't hit them!!    

[BillJ]

Howard Hill used to just stuff em in his quiver (at least that's what "Huntin the Hard Way" indicates)

[ChuckC]

That's what yer huntin partner is for !
ChuckC

[bretto]

Take a wooden dowel 3/4 or a little larger cut a piece as long as Your palm. Drill a 1/4 hole thru the middle length ways. Take some galvanized no. 9 wire about 18" long twist it around a 1/2 dowel and make a eye at one end. Now push the other end thru the dowel bend it 90 degrees on the other end. Make a small stirrup back up to the eye. Leave enough room for a gloved hand. Cut wire to desired length plus 1/2 to 3/4" to bend a small " J " downward. Sharpen the tip of the J with a file sharp enough to poke thru Rabbit or Squirrel hide.

After killing Your game poke the wire behind the tendon on the rear legs and hook the J thru the eye. The weight of Your game keeps it closed. It swivels in Your hand as You walk and is comfortable to carry even with several animals on it.

This only takes a few min. to make and hardly any money. And if the Rabbits and squirrels in Your neck of the woods have as many fleas and ticks on them as the ones around here You'll never carry one in a game vest again.

bretto

[adeeden]

I do Like Kevin, but make bigger "pins" out of #9 wire!

[Brook Trout]

Game bag

[Boone the Hunter]

one thing i learned is rabbits around me have so many fleas you almost can't deal with it, so when i shoot a rabbit i quickly within seconds of shooting it (dead of course) rip all its fur off and cut off the head and feet, then a safe distance away from the fur i finish cleaning it. If you do this all the fleas are still down in the fur, if you wait even a short amount of time they start coming out as the body cools and yikes! i don't even what to touch'em after that happens

[dino]

clean em right there and put them in a ziploc freezer bag.  Don't like cleaning cold stiff rabbits at home.  Plus its less to throw in the vest and ready to go in the freezer at home. dino

[Dustin Waters]

Get an old wire coat hanger, form it into a circle, put a hard hair pin curve just in the ends of it.  So you can clasp it together to complete the loop.  Sharpen one of the points into a sharp point.  When you kill small game, you can run that sharp point between the achilis tendon and the leg and then just thread them on to it.  Then just clasp it to your belt loop or clasp it shut and carry it.  

I can remember carrying this thing when I was too young to shoot squirrels, but you can bet id carry them things all the way home proud as a peacock in my dads footsteps.

[ratgunner]

A vest.

[Nate Steen .]

I use different methods.....I dress it out and store the meat in my backquiver in a plastic bag... or loop a leather thong through the hock/tendon area and tie to my belt loop....or use my Filson 3 gamebag belt pouch which works very well.

[Mo. Huntin]

I'm doing good to get 1 in my hands.  But I think I am going to start carrying a small collapsable cooler in my backpack with a couple of those ice packs in it and just skin it right then and throw it in.