Best Method to Move / Drag Bear...

[Fishfanatic]

Anyone,
Looking for your methods on how you move your bear after harvesting your animal.

The reason for this question, it that I will be hunting a area more remote than I have in the past and I'm not that close to a road.

What methods have you used in the past to move a bear by yourself???

ALL IDEAS WELCOME.

Thanks

[Perch Jerker]

I'm 'planning' on bringing a plastic tarp, a heavy sled, and bungee cord & rope. After gutting it, roll it up in the tarp and tie/bungee it to the sled. Drag it out. Shove bags of ice into the body cavity and haul butt to the registration station. Regester it. Drive back and skin & quarter it immediatly. Cool it down in coolers with ice or a chest freezer.

PJ

[Swamp Scooter]

If you cannot use an ATV and a trailer then try and get help. You might be able to use one of the wheel canoe carriers too.

You may want to be prepared to quarter it and pack it out in ice chests. Do not lay meat on meat even in a cooler with ice, it will sour.

If the weather is cool enough you might also bring a come along out and gut the bear at the kill site and then rig the come along to hoist it up in a tree for a couple of hours until you can go to the bar and recruit help. Offer to buy the booze/beer and you may be successful too.

Also if you are not cutting it up yourself then make sure you have a butcher in town with a 24 hour number you can call so you can get it in and cool ASAP. Maybe the butcher can help with ideas too on who might be able to help or a better way to preserve it and get it out.

Bear hunting is a lot of work but very rewarding. Good luck.

[outdoor ran]

Your best bet is to shoot the bear, jump out of the tree and chase him back to the road. Timing is everything. Make sure you get him going the right direction and he dies along side the car Boy they don't drag easily, nothing to hang on to. I shot one last year that dressed at 290 and it took 5 guys 4 hours to get him to the road. If you do find a couple of people to help ya, find a body bag with handles. Or make a gurney and try that. Good luck

[GunDr]

Body bags do work very well. Used them several times in Ontario. A fellow that hunted with me is a mortician, he brought the bags. We leave them at the outfitters.

GunDr

[deerdragger]

We use one of those mega-heavy duty deerdraggin'/ice fishing sleds. It's about a 1/4 inch thick heavy plastic. I pulled out my bear (250 lb. sow I took on opening evening) by myself with that sled. It helped that the bear ran towards the truck when I shot it...It was about as easy as dragging a deer.

It's rigid enough that it can be carried over rough terrain or hoisted into the back of your rig.