Well, I'm done
Contributors to this thread:Whitetail Deer
From: Habitat for Wildlife
26-Oct-19
Congratulations Jeff!
From: Bou'bound
26-Oct-19
Great deer well done
From: orionsbrother
26-Oct-19
Congrats!
From: Notme
26-Oct-19
Yes this is a crazy ass addiction we have!!! Congrats!!!
From: deerslayer
26-Oct-19
Sweet man! Any more pics?
From: RK
26-Oct-19
Jeff
Good job. Congrats!!
From: Paul@thefort
26-Oct-19
Go, Jeff. nicely done.
From: jjs
26-Oct-19
a labor of love, suggest sled, have used both and a sled is a lot easier. My son burned his ice fishing tent sled up (a good story) and that sled has work very well he was going to trash it and I said no, comes in handy for different hauls.
From: fubar racin
26-Oct-19
Suggest forgetting game carts and sleds they will never be able to complete with a good backpack. Congrats on the great deer!
From: APauls
26-Oct-19
Congrats!!!! Awesome! Ya if it isn’t an easy drag I’m all for cutting and packing
From: Zim
26-Oct-19
Nice work Jeff! Turned 60 during my elk hunt this year, and I have been asking myself the same question lately. I've been putting in 4-6 miles/day wearing rubber boots while power scouting various Indiana public near me weekdays (if a lot is empty). And returning home dead to the world. But I can't quit. I've been so sore I can't go 2 consecutive days. Yesterday I busted a brute bedded in a marsh right on the edge of a pond, in a 30 wide yard funnel. This guy waited until I almost stepped on him to bust out of there. And he bolted right into the pond, making a huge ruckus splashing water for a long time escaping. Got me thinking if I shot one there, what kind of retrieval I may be in for!
Please post a better photo of the rack.
From: OFFHNTN
26-Oct-19
Congrats!
From: IdyllwildArcher
26-Oct-19
Grats Jeff. I'll second the request for more pics.
I'm really surprised he went 150 yards with a sheared aorta. He was one tough deer.
I'm with fubar. I don't drag deer long distances. I think it's a Western vs Eastern thing. If a deer is >100 yds from the road, I just break out an 8X10 foot tarp and bone them out on the spot. Has to be done eventually anyways.
From: bigswivle
26-Oct-19
Congrats!!!!
From: longbeard
26-Oct-19
Way to go Jeff! Congrats!!
From: Elkpacker1
26-Oct-19
Yeah, I am out West and I would bone it however in the east when I grew up in Maryland we had to ck them in at a checking station (Whole)
From: Bowboy
26-Oct-19
Congrats. It's a good thing it wasn't an elk.:)
From: Scar Finga
26-Oct-19
Excellent Jeff, Congratulations!!!!!
From: Will
26-Oct-19
Congrats JTV - beauty of a buck. You earned him more on the way out, than in the scouting and prep from the sounds of it!
From: Scrappy
26-Oct-19
Congrats man, sounds like you earned it. And yes this addiction is nuts. I'm sleeping in my back seat tonight at a public boat ramp so I can hunt a new farm I just got permission on in the morning.
From: Woods Walker
26-Oct-19
NICE one Jeff!!!
From: BigOk
26-Oct-19
Congrats!!
From: INbowdude
27-Oct-19
Atta boy, Jeff! Great buck and great story.
From: Grubby
27-Oct-19
Nice!! I guess I won’t order a deer cart!
From: Buffalo1
27-Oct-19
VG- Congrats !
From: Grunt-N-Gobble
27-Oct-19
Nice. Congratulations.
From: Scooby-doo
27-Oct-19
Congrats, great public land buck! Shawn
From: Trial153
27-Oct-19
Nice work, congrats
From: HUNT MAN
27-Oct-19
Very nice.
From: t-roy
27-Oct-19
Congrats.
From: drycreek
27-Oct-19
After the swelling goes down :-) everything will look and feel better ! Congrats, that’s a heavy buck !
Oh, and you ain’t the only one that thanks God for Aleve.
From: kota-man
27-Oct-19
Nice! Congrats...
From: BIG BEAR
27-Oct-19
Nice deer Jeff.... That kind of drag would kill me.
From: Rgiesey
27-Oct-19
Nice buck!
From: Scrappy
27-Oct-19
That was the first sled I bought, that thing was horrible. The slightest left or right lean and it will roll over. I drug one deer out of the woods with it and one through the snow then through it away. Got a really good ice fishing sled with deep sides.
From: Jake
27-Oct-19
Man is that neck ever swollen. Nice buck Jeff and thanks to the story.
From: 'Ike' (Phone)
27-Oct-19
Nice...
From: spike78
27-Oct-19
Congrats!
From: KSflatlander
27-Oct-19
Hardest working man with a bow. Congrats and well earned. Absolutely a trophy with all the hard effort you put in. Way to go.
From: SteveB
27-Oct-19
And people think it’s easy! Well done!
From: itshot
27-Oct-19
pastrami!!
From: wildwilderness
27-Oct-19
Whitetail hunters always crack me up. 205 lb field dress.... of course it’s a pain to drag out WHOLE. Debone it and save your self the trouble. Try elk a few miles down a canyon, or a moose through a swamp then you can complain about a bad pack out ;)
From: LKH
27-Oct-19
Congratulations. Are you not allowed to skin and quarter deer? Much easier than a drag out. Even if you need 2 trips its much easier on the old body.
From: Rupe
28-Oct-19
Congratulations on a nice buck JTV.
