Carrying critters
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08/13/18 11:33 PM
08/13/18 11:33 PM
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Joined: Oct 2015
Posts: 2,530 Fingerlakes New York
robert.d12
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Fingerlakes New York
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How do you guys carry you critters when you can't get a vehicle to them? Coyotes when well off the path, beavers in the swamps,...etc. What is your preferred way to get them out? Or is just grabbing a back leg best?
The beauty of the second amendment is it wont be needed until they try to take it. -Thomas Jefferson
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Re: Carrying critters
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08/13/18 11:59 PM
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Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 45,505 james bay frontierOnt.
Boco
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Big canoe pack with a Tump line for hiking out with beavers.3 or so in one trip depending on size.Used to pack 5 in the younger days.About the same weight as a moose quarter.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Carrying critters
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08/14/18 12:07 AM
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Ditchdiver
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I throw what I can in my Fiber-Tuff pack basket, the rest are carried by hand.
When life gets me down..... you know hunting/trapping season is closed.
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Re: Carrying critters
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08/14/18 12:33 AM
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Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 293 Barron Couny, WI
John Deere Steve
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Carry some in my pack. I aslo have a few (handles) made from a piece of conduit 6 inches long with a cable through it. Adjustable loop on each end. Put one front foot and one back foot of a critter in each loop and they are much easier to carry!
Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine!
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Re: Carrying critters
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08/14/18 05:48 AM
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jabNE
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I carry a couple of old shoes strings wrapped up and in my pocket. I can tie four legs together on a coyote and carry them out feet up, body down, like a suitcase.
Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a trapping license and that's pretty close.
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Re: Carrying critters
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08/14/18 10:50 AM
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Joined: May 2015
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ilbucksndux
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Most of the time I throw them in my pack basket and then carry in my hands. A few times I have had to walk to some remote beaver ponds. Set them with my 4 wheeler but 2 flat tires that I didnt have time to fix made me walk. It was an honest 3 mile walk and down a big ridge. I ended up with 5 big beaver 6 coons a couple of rats and an otter. My first thought was I was gonna pack them........HA. My next thought was to pack the beaver out a couple at a time,at least to the top of the hill, nope. I ended up skinning the beavers,and while I was at it I thought what the heck and skinned everything in the woods.
I went home and fixed my flat tires.
Gary Bartlow
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Re: Carrying critters
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08/15/18 09:37 AM
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Joined: Dec 2006
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Hern
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ThisIsNotaStep says- I have a couple of ropes about 30" long with small spliced loops on the end. One loop for a front foot, the other on the back foot and hang them over my shoulder like a purse.I use something similar, from time to time. Paracord & Mystery Braid
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