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    Quote Originally Posted by dannyb View Post
    I dropped a few deer at Wormsleys game chiller in the last week there was a heap in there hung by the top jaw from a professional culler (all from the same shooter).
    I generally don't leave the head on but I do hang from the front legs simply because I find it easier to lift the deer that way and get the hook on the rail above my head, put hook through front leg then bear hug the chest and lift as high as I can then whack the hook over the rail at the peak of the lift.

    Come to think of it, pretty sure the bulk of the deer in the chiller where hung by the front leg/s
    Hanging from the brisket is better again

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    Quote Originally Posted by Moa Hunter View Post
    Hanging from the brisket is better again
    No doubt, dunno if I could lift the brisket above my head with the rest of the deer attached to it still, generally I just hang by 1 front leg
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    Well I sure as hell couldnt lift ANYTHING above your head mate.....fark just about need oxygen mask up that high
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    Quote Originally Posted by Micky Duck View Post
    Well I sure as hell couldnt lift ANYTHING above your head mate.....fark just about need oxygen mask up that high
    Trust me it's not as graceful as I explained it
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    Ive hung hundreds of deer in the chiller from back hooks and never had a problem with toughness, i have had issue's hanger back steaks taken from the field and put in the chiller for 1-7 days been tough off prime animals

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    I often wondered how the Germans actually ate some of the tough deer I sold.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gamehunter View Post
    I often wondered how the Germans actually ate some of the tough deer I sold.
    Not to mention the fly spray, hosing down and dousing with vinegar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gamehunter View Post
    I often wondered how the Germans actually ate some of the tough deer I sold.
    yes some of the stuff I sold was not what I would eat myself - barely passed sniff test - and yet got the money - had venison once in a fancy restaurant in Rotorua - hell it was manky -
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    Quote Originally Posted by Moa Hunter View Post
    I made up a meat frame to carry deer and it makes it a lot easier than piggy backing them. All the weight is transferred to my legs and taken off my spine by the gut belt on the harness.
    Totally agree with you re meat quality
    I've only carried a deer on a pack frame twice from memory, the first with a guy that always wore a frame and insisted we use it. Bloody near wrecked my back as the neck and arse punched forward with every step and it was too heavy for him.

    The second time I packed in some polythene for a bivvy on a frame pack and packed a deer out on the frame but stopped the forward slapping of each end by tying neck and arse back and up and it was a lighter deer.

    You can see in photos it was yonks ago by yellow swannie and big jim torch.
    I pikaud every other deer since and now cut them up into bits, but still have memories of that flying feeling you get when you drop that deer at the truck after a long carry.



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    Just wait till this is commercially available and straining under the weight of an intact deer carcass will be a thing of the past.

    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...ay-adventure-0


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