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Post by span870 on Nov 30, 2020 12:10:08 GMT -5
I wish I knew how to post pictures of our cart. It was built years ago by a guy that worked at hoosier trapper. Never seen one like it since. Guy had some type of engineering degree. Anyway, uses bicycle type tires but the are position in the middle. We've had three deer on it and I pulled it myself. If you place a deer on it correctly, it'll actually balance itself. Never had an issue with tippage at all. I really should mass produce them if he didn't patent it. Sounds like what I got also...mine Pretty close but ours is wider and longer. When I get off work I'll take some pictures and one way or another post em.
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Post by bill9068 on Nov 30, 2020 13:10:12 GMT -5
I still drag out deer if I can't drive right up to 'em. Nothing the matter with that at all. You must still be young. I was saying that 5 years ago,I hav even carried them out on my shoulders but not any more. I have problems getting to and into the stand now. My mind said you can drag it and in 2 minutes my body said no you can't fool. So it is no atv no deer for me. I hate it but it is the way it is for me. If you can still drag them out appreciate what you have. Onebentarrow I’ll be 62 in February, excellent health. I’ll be dragging deer to the woods edge for as long as I can, from there either sled, four wheeler or tractor bucket gets it.
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Post by firstwd on Nov 30, 2020 13:55:04 GMT -5
I haven't killed an antlered deer 5 years now, I think. Might actually have been 7 when I shot an 8 pointer with my daughter that she couldn't get a shot on and begged me to take it. That deer still haunts me because I had an absolute tank on camera that was broadside at 40 yards just 8 days later. I honestly only use 1 deer a year now that the kids are out of the house. I try to take a deer and help out those who ask, but I haven't felt any pressure to take antlers in a while. It helps that the entire neighborhood has evolved to chasing big and old deer. Once the poachers, trespassers, and road warriors got ran out of the area that transformation went pretty quick. I thought about this while watching the squirrels play in the rain and snow this morning. At the reduction hunts I truly am after stomachs, so my standards are simply safe, ethical, lethal shot.. I have all 3 possible deer spoken for before I go and everybody knows its no guarantee. As for regular season, my standards and their relaxing have changed over time. Prior to getting my lifetime license the standards were basically if it was legal. After, especially after I had it long enough to pay for itself, the standards stiffened up. Honestly, after having my license for a while I no longer felt the pressure to even go. The lack of stress has made the outdoor experience better in my opinion.
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Post by Ahawkeye on Nov 30, 2020 14:32:54 GMT -5
I wish I knew how to post pictures of our cart. It was built years ago by a guy that worked at hoosier trapper. Never seen one like it since. Guy had some type of engineering degree. Anyway, uses bicycle type tires but the are position in the middle. We've had three deer on it and I pulled it myself. If you place a deer on it correctly, it'll actually balance itself. Never had an issue with tippage at all. I really should mass produce them if he didn't patent it. Sounds like what I got also...mine Nice looking cart for flat unbroken ground. I'd like to see it work where I hunt. I might be surprised.
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Post by onebentarrow on Nov 30, 2020 15:03:04 GMT -5
I haven't killed an antlered deer 5 years now, I think. Might actually have been 7 when I shot an 8 pointer with my daughter that she couldn't get a shot on and begged me to take it. That deer still haunts me because I had an absolute tank on camera that was broadside at 40 yards just 8 days later. I honestly only use 1 deer a year now that the kids are out of the house. I try to take a deer and help out those who ask, but I haven't felt any pressure to take antlers in a while. It helps that the entire neighborhood has evolved to chasing big and old deer. Once the poachers, trespassers, and road warriors got ran out of the area that transformation went pretty quick. I thought about this while watching the squirrels play in the rain and snow this morning. At the reduction hunts I truly am after stomachs, so my standards are simply safe, ethical, lethal shot.. I have all 3 possible deer spoken for before I go and everybody knows its no guarantee. As for regular season, my standards and their relaxing have changed over time. Prior to getting my lifetime license the standards were basically if it was legal. After, especially after I had it long enough to pay for itself, the standards stiffened up. Honestly, after having my license for a while I no longer felt the pressure to even go. The lack of stress has made the outdoor experience better in my opinion. In my younger years I hunted for meat on the table. I was also a workaholic. I could not sit still, I had to be doing some thing. The woods was where I could sit and do nothing but I was doing something I WAS HUNTING. It was my out where I could relax and really enjoy just sitting. Now I am not the workaholic I was but I still can go and just sit. I still meat hunt so my standards are the same,ethical and legal. I may pass a young deer(fawn) now because there are a lot more deer and my odds of getting a bigger body deer are greater. When it comes to horns I do not really careIt is still meat on the table and i do not hunt an area with an abundance of bucks or big bucks. Another factor is in my 40+ years of hunting I have only had 1 buck give me a shot after I harvested my buck so that means if I had not shot the first buck that gave me a good shot I would not have killed meny thus no meat on the table. I know there are areas that have good populations of bucks and big ones too. If I hunted those places on a regular basis my standards may be different than what they are now. I have gone on some guided hunts knowing I would be required to pass deer and had no problem but I knew that the odds were good I would see a better buck because of the management programs there. I will not belittle a man that hunts for big horns if that is what makes him happy By the same reasoning he should not condone me either because I killed tomarrow trophy today. As he does not know the happiness and satisfaction it gave me. If you read my post on the tracking dog buck recovery you will see it was not a big deer BUT I was so happy at the recovery I could have cryed tears of joy. It was a long and taxing recovery. I will remember that recovery for a long time not just because of the circumstances but because of the joy I was over come with at the recovery. Onebentarrow
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Post by greghopper on Nov 30, 2020 15:09:58 GMT -5
Sounds like what I got also...mine Nice looking cart for flat unbroken ground. I'd like to see it work where I hunt. I might be surprised. Goes good in the hills and big woods where I hunt in SouthEast Indiana! No flatlander here..😉
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Post by span870 on Nov 30, 2020 18:29:13 GMT -5
@woody Williams I sent those pictures. Not sure how well they'll show up on the ol jitterbug phone greghopper I'd say ours are real close if not made by the same person. To add pictures of product are patent pending and tm'd
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Post by span870 on Nov 30, 2020 18:32:53 GMT -5
Sounds like what I got also...mine Nice looking cart for flat unbroken ground. I'd like to see it work where I hunt. I might be surprised. You'd be surprised how well they work on unbroken ground and over logs. The center of balance is way different than any manufactured ones commercially. We used ours to carry decoys in and out of fields of cut corn. Stubble stalks and mud never posed any issue
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Post by Woody Williams on Nov 30, 2020 18:41:22 GMT -5
Nice looking cart for flat unbroken ground. I'd like to see it work where I hunt. I might be surprised. You'd be surprised how well they work on unbroken ground and over logs. The center of balance is way different than any manufactured ones commercially. We used ours to carry decoys in and out of fields of cut corn. Stubble stalks and mud never posed any issue See.. hunt-indiana.com/thread/67262/span870-deer-cart
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Post by Woody Williams on Nov 30, 2020 18:42:57 GMT -5
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Post by esshup on Nov 30, 2020 18:58:56 GMT -5
Like Deadeer said, the spoked bicycle wheels are known to catch sticks and bend. They make covers for them out of plastic to stop that. For soft ground a wider wheel is nice, and I've seen kits where you put 2 wheels per side. Tires that use inflated air have a tendency to go flat just when you need them. The bigger diameter the wheels, the easier it is to roll on uneven ground.
I have a cart from Cabelas that is rated at carrying an elk, and have had 2-3 deer on it at the same time. Worked perfect. ratchet straps will help keep the deer on the cart, although bungee cords will work fine too. Use something to tie the antlers in the middle so they don't flop and catch branches/saplings.
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Post by grey squirrel on Nov 30, 2020 22:38:38 GMT -5
I used to relax my standards when gun season started. I prefer to bowhunt and by relaxing my standards, I don't mean shooting a smaller buck than I would want to earlier in the season but by not hunting the same as I would in bow season. I would always move or pick a stand where I could see and shoot several yards all around me for firearms. That strategy didn't pan out too well for me. I went back to using the same bowhunting stands for gun season and it helped me see the deer I was wanting to see if that makes any sense. Being able to see and extend my range with a gun didn't help me stay in the quality of bucks I wanted the opportunity to take. But staying in my bowhunting stands kept me seeing those type of bucks
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Post by INhuntin on Dec 1, 2020 11:55:21 GMT -5
I hunt public land so what are STANDARDS? LOL just joking. My standards stand firm but I can't say that for other hunters around me. I mostly hunt for meat if I see a buck that is of good size the antlers are just a bonus. But I have seen deer shot that are so small it wouldn't be worth the work to process them. The woods I hunt is very low on bucks so if I can I let them walk as long as I have meat in the freezer. I have been told the bucks can breed themselves to death if the buck to doe ratio is too high so I take does to bring the ratio back to something workable.
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Post by squirrelhunter on Dec 1, 2020 13:38:14 GMT -5
I don't have any standards,any deer I get a shot at I take,especially since now I'd about have a heart attack if I saw 1.
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