How do you get yours out?

[dennishoddy]

That's pretty cool Dennis.

I've long wanted a couple mules. Mule owners are biased, but every one tells me they are smarter than a horse. Having seen horses do some really stupid things, I find that easy to believe. I've never liked horses.

An old guy I talked to one time that used to hunt with mules in the Rockies said if you want a horse to go down something dangerous he knows will get him and you hurt, he'll do it to please you. A mule will look at you and say "You first, dumbass."

I live 4 miles from my dad, so I'm hoping to get one and him get one also, and alternate keeping them in his pasture and mine. Maybe in a few years.

A couple of guys that I work with, have mules, and use them in Co. for elk hunting.
There opinion is the same as yours. A mule will get you there, but a horse.....maybe not.
That being said a flatland horse is a totally different animal than a horse born, and raised in the mountains.
The wranglers up there will take the colts onto the mountain trails to get them used to what is required.

 

[1mathom1]

Not a very good picture of the machine but I use a Yamaha Grizzly most often.

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[r00s7a]

Work smarter, not harder. Most of the time I can get my 4wheeler right down to it. I'm all about dragging or hauling something with machinery and not my legs.

 

[1mathom1]

Work smarter, not harder. Most of the time I can get my 4wheeler right down to it. I'm all about dragging or hauling something with machinery and not my legs.

This. Used a combination of ATV, winch, ropes and a chain to pull one up out of that canyon behind me in that last pic a couple of years ago. Once I got him moving I kept going an pulled him right on an a waiting trailer at the top canyon.

 

[jstaylor62]

I have a pair of very big German Shorthair Pointers. I put pulling harnesses on them and they think its a big game to drag stuff around...besides, my male is trained as a blood tracker...

 

[Parks 788]

up until 2007 it was grab a leg or horn and get to pulling but i havent drug a deer more than few feet since i got my Polaris Ranger..... also beats carrying stands and 50lb bags of feed a half mile or so.... I wouldnt say they are worth the $$$ but its too late now im spoiled

THat's funny. When I first started hunting with my FIL on his 1K acre lease back in the mid-late '90s he would tell me that the 4wheelers were just not necessary, too loud, expensive, scare the game. You name it he had a reason to hate them. SInce the lease is about 2 miles long and 1 mile wide and camp is stationed about in the middle he would walk to and from the stand every morning and every night. He put a lot of miles on his hunting boots.

Well, what do ya know. In 2005 or so he bought a Sportsman 700 and doesn't know how he lived with out it.

 

[kdlong]

depends on where I am at.most of the time I use my 4 wheeler.but if I am back in the roughs where it is impossible to use the atv a good back pack and quarter it up.

 

[WacosSon]

Saw this and looks like it would work really well. Haven't tested it yet, but the concept works:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_1s7tYqW3s

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Tom Sawyer method. Tell your buddies how much fun it is and how much great exercise you're getting pulling that deer out!

 

[RedTape]

Cheap plastic deer sled works pretty good.