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How are you getting deer in your truck when solo?

Get the deer to the tailgate, reach down for 2 legs on the same side of the animal and lift straight up and onto the tailgate. Done it many times
 
Getting more used to hunting on my own and not really having anybody to call for help for this type of situation. After using the classic be a man and muscle up method yesterday I searched this thread out. Lot of good ideas in here that people have shared. The knowledge in this forum as a whole never ceases to amaze me! Appreciate you all!
 
HuskerInIowa said:
Getting more used to hunting on my own and not really having anybody to call for help for this type of situation. After using the classic be a man and muscle up method yesterday I searched this thread out. Lot of good ideas in here that people have shared. The knowledge in this forum as a whole never ceases to amaze me! Appreciate you all!
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if you routinely lift heavy things by yourself in awkward positions.....then eventually, as you age, you will get a back injury.....it really isn't a question of if but when

when i was in my 20s, i thought nothing of squatting down and picking up a buck by myself with my back all kinds of out of neutral position and bent over.....now that i'm middle aged i don't even consider doing something like that unless it is in a life/death situation....and i wish i could take all those things back and lift smarter from day one because i probably would have fewer back problems now...i think when younger, even though you heal fast and don't feel it, i think you are still doing micro damage to yourself that adds up over time
 
I took two 5 foot sections of and old ladder tree stand. Slid them together and screwed two pcs of 18”x5’ osb on top. That gives me a 10’ long ramp to slide my deer up to my pickup bed. Disassembles into two 5’ sections and easily fits in the pickup bed. I also tie a ratchet strap to my hitch and hook it to the bottom of the second ramp. It keeps the ramp from ever falling off the tailgate when loading a deer. Saves my back!
 
Roger9497 said:
I took two 5 foot sections of and old ladder tree stand. Slid them together and screwed two pcs of 18”x5’ osb on top. That gives me a 10’ long ramp to slide my deer up to my pickup bed. Disassembles into two 5’ sections and easily fits in the pickup bed. I also tie a ratchet strap to my hitch and hook it to the bottom of the second ramp. It keeps the ramp from ever falling off the tailgate when loading a deer. Saves my back!
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That's a good idea.

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iamcorey said:
www.alloutdoor.com

After the Hunt: Loading a Big Animal Alone - AllOutdoor.com

I ran across the above illustration a while back, and figured it was worth sharing with our readers. It shows a method of loading a large animal such as a deer, hog, or bear into a truck bed without herniating yourself or having to go fetch help. You fix a pulley to a rope across …
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I do something very similar to that back board that he made. The way I do it is I lay the plywood behind the truck with the tailgate still up. I then drag the enormous, world class buck (okay, maybe that part is an exaggeration) onto the plywood. Then I wrap a bungee cord or rope (with bungee hooks on each end) around the antlers or neck and hook the hooks over the plywood. I then stand up the plywood and now the deer is hanging on the plywood and then I drop the tailgate. I let the plywood down onto the tailgate. All i gotta do next is lift the othe end of the plywood and slide it in like a drawer. It works pretty well. Like he said in the video, the longer the plywood the easier it is.
The suggestion of using a ladder would work pretty much the same way.
 
My truck is tiny. Lift front of sled and rest on the tailgate. Lift the back and slide it in.

I made a hoist like this video and could rig that up to either lift the load up in the air and just drive under or use it like a winch and pull up and in if it needed to do that

 
This saved the day when I was on a solo hunt in Iowa and had to load a 220 lb dressed buck in my truck.


That last 3 feet can be the hardest of the drag. Folds nice and flat and takes up very little space. Easy peasy.

Disclaimer…If I shot little deer like in the video obviously I wouldn’t need this.:grin:
 
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Switched from a Ram truck to a Jeep wrangler with a hitch haul. Much lower and easier to get a deer in


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