This is bush hunting. Wife's buck, story, tips.

[Bushleague]

Originally Posted by 58thecat

Great buck, great write up only addition to this is when I wonder through the bush I carry a pack and use the gutless method to get the deer field dressed, debone the meat, keep the parts required legally to identify the tagged deer and carry the deer out, sharp fillet knife makes it about a 30 minute job start to finish and one person can easily carry a deer out this way, a lot less sweat and grief getting out.

Or if close enough I have my sled in the truck.

Beauty buck for sure and a great hunt.

I use the sled often, but going up a steep grade with it sometimes doesn't work very well because of its tendancy to slide backwards much more readily than it wants to slide forwards. Often I have to pull the deer out of the sled and drag it up steep inclines by hand anyways.

This incident did have me thinking about quartering the deer and using a pack frame, but I hate hunting thick timber with a pack on, and the padded strap on my shoulder make it harder for me to shoot quickly, the rifle just doesn't want to find its way home. I typically only have a belt pack and what I can put in my pockets for a day of bush hunting. That said, going back to the truck for a frame wouldn't have been too hard in this case, the distance was less than a kilometer I think.