Deer/game cart recommendations please

Anybody use them and can recommend what they have. Looking for one for both deer and hauling critters out if that's possible. Thanks!!

I have a aluminum deer cart you pin together, 16 inch solid bike type tires. Used for deer and firewood at my little cabin. I use pulltight straps, deer in rough ground can come off. I also like the plastic sleds they sell for deer, narrow and long. They have tiedown holes. The sled is probably better for deer, even without snow. Depends on where a deer drops as to which way, cart or sled. I use an Otter sled for most snow trapping.

I have a Kill Shot big game cart. Solid rubber tires. 500 lb. capacity.
I have hauled out several deer and bear by myself in the mountains here in WV behind locked gates. Longest haul was just under 2 miles.
Your height can be an issue. With your hands behind you as you pull, the height of the handle can be important. If you’re taller the cart handle may be to high as you pull making the cart want to drag ground in back. Hope that makes sense.
If you’re short the opposite is true.
Some makes may have adjustable handles. Mine doesn’t.
Inflatable tires would worry me with puncture's.
In really soft ground narrow tires like mine has can sink in mud.
Width of the cart is important so animals will fit.
I put heavy screen on mine as legs and the head tended to fall through the gaps.
I lived in SE OH for over 50 years. Carts should work well in OH.
Easier than dragging. I drug one buck out by myself here that was over a mile in. That’s why I bought the cart.
Then can tip over on steep ground. Also they can run you over going downhill. And trying to pull up steep hills can be impossible. Wheras you can drag uphill.
Here I stick to the old abandoned logging roads.

I also have a Jet Sled. Have used it here for a bear and a couple of deer that were in places too hard to get the cart in.
Easier than dragging. Much harder than the cart.
Cool thing about the sled is it makes loading the animal into a truck by yourself easy.
Just use 2 boards 2”x 6” x 8’.
Lay them with one end on tailgate and the other on the ground about 6” apart. Then push sled with animal into the bed. Don’t pull!
Most of mine don’t go into a truck. National Forest is out my back door.
When you live and hunt alone you gotta find ways to do things by yourself!
I’m 65 and kill most animals a mile from my house with no roads.

someone was posting one a few years ago here 4 pneumatic wheels with a pivoting axle to roll over small down trees and roots

What I use

I purchased one three years ago.
I will never buy another style.

sled

I've got the hawk crawler, great cart with terrible pneumatic tires. The articulating axles/tires are great for going over logs and the low center of gravity keeps it from tipping over. I left mine in the woods for a couple of days and bear cubs chewed up the tires. They were lousy tires and wouldnt hold air. I replaced them with Harbor Freight solid tires.

Wife bought me a Hawk Crawler a couple years ago. I have used many carts for hauling deer, supplies, goose decoys, etc. and the Hawk is by far my very favorite. I have hauled it through acres of beaver-chewed trees, stumps, everything and the pivoting tires go over everything easily.

You will not regret it!

Moosetrot

Seems perfect for you...

Too small but would be perfect for gardening/cleaning out the chicken pen and washing hams.

Thanks everyone for the help, I appreciate it. I like the Hawke one, but it does get a bad rap for the tires. It says in the description the tires are no flat foam filled no leak, but in the reviews people are saying they leak. I thought no flat tires didn't have valve stems. Other then that, they look good.

Best Game cart ever built. I have one and love it, sold my Cable's big game cart.

Frame pack. We used to pull our deer on carts and sleds and since using packs out west we won’t waste the energy pulling a cart around.

Nice

I have a Jet sled and a homemade deer rickshaw, both work great!

I use many deer carts:
Big New Holland 4wd tractor with front end loader.
Medium New Holland 4wd tractor with front end loader.
4 wheeler.
Side by side.
Jet Sled.
Cabelas game cart - mine came with tube tires. Always flat.
Get the solid tires set up as a dually.

I have the aluminum type that can be folded to save space when hauling It has the solid tires Like others said you need to use some straps or rope to keep the deer in place while hauling it .And it works much nicer if you have someone in front pulling and someone in back to help get it over downed trees With 2 people you can pull a full size deer from the woods as easy as walking out without a deer .I have used it enough times to removed adult buck from behind those gated National Forest roads in W VA to know I do not want to just drag them on the ground ever again. .

Best one I’ve seen was homemade. They put wheelbarrow tires on the top frame of a ladder stand. Easiest toting ladder stand I’ve ever seen, flip it over to haul out your deer and equipment.


You could also use wheelchair wheels, but it won’t work as smoothly as the wheelbarrow tires.

When did mules go outta style?

Hawk crawler

Y'all are awesome, thank you. The Hawk got the nod.

I bought one from bass pro about 120 3 or 5 years back. I used it once. Most of the time I'm so far back on public land I don't want to walk back to get the cart. Plus a lot of what we hunt is really hilly and rugged and getting the cart through would be tough.

I end up dragging or in one case packing them out over my shoulders . On the farm they go in the gator.