Deer sleds?

[Hummer]

This was a good discussion so I thought I'd revive it to see if anyone has had additional experience with particular game carts or sleds. With both pronghorn and deer hunts coming up I've been concerned about how I'm going to get any animals out, especially since I hunt solo. My days of dragging them over the ground are over and I'm not keen about deboning in the field and carrying the weight on my back.

Three years ago with help from six friends we packed a bull moose off of Pawnee Pass with three sleds over 8" of snow. https://www.rei.com/product/162103/p...xpedition-sled The sleds are narrow at 20.5" wide which made it possible to get around rocks and logs along the narrow trail. A wider sled would have been near impossible to use. So, two years ago I used one of the sleds to haul a pronghorn a mile and a half over the NW prairie. It worked okay downhill and over good grass but uphill and over rocky terrain was a slog with too much friction. The sled needed wheels.

Cabela's in GJ has only the cheapest $99 game cart in stock so I did a little web searching and pulled the trigger on a Hawk crawler game cart. https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1019987761?pid=506815
It's heavy compared to other carts but has four heavy duty wheels. Wheels seem to be the weak link in many game carts. This model might also be useful for pulling firewood logs from the forest.