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Anyone have a game cart to recommend?

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My Spring scouting has lead me to a piece of public land that requires a 2 mile walk from the nearest parking. The area is 90% hardwoods and 10% riverbottoms/marsh. I will be hunting mostly the transition between the two, but as the season goes on, I'm sure I'll move into the thick n nasty stuff along the river.

Unfortunately, most of my hunting partners are married and buried and do not have the time or desire to hike as far back as I go, so game cart will be very important during solo hunts.

Lots of brands and styles out on the market. Anyone have one to recommend?

Thanks!
 
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if you can weld, id recommend building your own. that away it would be set up to your own liking. I built mine about 20 years ago and I got it adapted to fit behind a bike for hunting wma land.
oh yea. I got $12 in this one
 
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I’m going to go with a dead sled, or something similar. They roll up nice and compact so I can leave it inside the cab of my truck. I hunt 1.5-2.5 hours from the house and would rather not worry about a cart being stoked out of the back, much less having to load it on every trip.
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Id like that to keep in my boat for hunting the waterway. were u get it?

IkemanTX said:
I’m going to go with a dead sled, or something similar. They roll up nice and compact so I can leave it inside the cab of my truck. I hunt 1.5-2.5 hours from the house and would rather not worry about a cart being stoked out of the back, much less having to load it on every trip.
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Cut 'em up! I hardly ever drag one out anymore, even if it's less than 100yards. If it's not legal, be sure to write your CEO and let him know he's a silly-head expecting folks to drag a deer 2 miles out. Screw that noise.

I understand not leaving guts on the roadside or in a food plot, but guts in the woods and swamps rarely make it past the second night.
 
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Nutterbuster said:
Cut 'em up! I hardly ever drag one out anymore, even if it's less than 100yards. If it's not legal, be sure to write your CEO and let him know he's a silly-head expecting folks to drag a deer 2 miles out. Screw that noise.

I understand not leaving guts on the roadside or in a food plot, but guts in the woods and swamps rarely make it past the second night.
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we do that also
 
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It was a bit of a learning curve for me, but there's no comparison. I can have 40lbs of meat on my back in maybe 20 minutes. I skin and debone the quarters and throw it all in a trash bag. No stopping to rest on the way back out and all I have to do at camp is throw it on ice, shower, and drink a beer. I've also, no lie, shot a doe while I was cleaning a pig that way. Put them both in the same pack.
 
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Nutterbuster said:
Cut 'em up! I hardly ever drag one out anymore, even if it's less than 100yards. If it's not legal, be sure to write your CEO and let him know he's a silly-head expecting folks to drag a deer 2 miles out. Screw that noise.

I understand not leaving guts on the roadside or in a food plot, but guts in the woods and swamps rarely make it past the second night.
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This might be the best solution! Game bags are cheap and I already have a good pack for this. I'll check the laws in MI.
 
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Heck, even if the refs require whole animal, I field dress.
Opening the chest cavity and removing everything is of utmost importance in warm weather. If challenged for leaving a gut pile I would say that allowing the meat to spoil, when I could easily take steps prevent it, would be a violation of the wanton waste laws of Texas


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IkemanTX said:
Heck, even if the refs require whole animal, I field dress.
Opening the chest cavity and removing everything is of utmost importance in warm weather. If challenged for leaving a gut pile I would say that allowing the meat to spoil, when I could easily take steps prevent it, would be a violation of the wanton waste laws of Texas


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EXACTLY!

This is why I oppose weigh-in stations and no-field-dressing rules. There are better ways to achieve what they try to accomplish. Ways that aren't a massive pain in my saddle-padding and don't result in spoilt meat.
 
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