What is the best ATV for Deer Hunting

[300Sniper]

Ill dig up video during the week of lots of moose we've pulled out. We have 3 guys with hondas, 2 400's and a 500. No way can thise bikes do it alone. Perhpas we hunt different terrain then most but no single quad, weather it be my 700 cat or the 3 guys that have the 660 yamahas were able to do any mosse alone let along a small honda.

[dutchhunter]

I would like to see how you are rigging your moose to your bike .one bike is all we ever needed to pull them out .Dutch

[300Sniper]

Ill post video during the week when i have some time to edit. I think my definition of bush is different then others. Even in some clear cuts where 1 bike flipped 4 years ago it took 15 minutes to get 400 yards and that without any moose attached going downhill. We had to 1/4 that 1 to get it out but not dissimilar from most kill sites.

[oaknut]

Ive pulled out two bulls with my 650 cat. Get the head up and strapped to the rack then plant your two biggest guys on the front rack. Needed a little tug in one spot with the last one as I forgot to take my plow harness off and hung her up on a stump. We hunt some severely rough stuff. Mind you both moose have dropped dead close to an old trail. I think the 300 Suzukis of past take the cake for moose pullers though. Lock them in super low and crawl.

[terrym]

Without being sarcastic, id like to see video of these claims of guys pulling moose out of the bush with 400 and smaller sized quads. Dirt road i can go for or even a small calf but i wont for a second believe them to take adult moose over stumps, rocks, up hills or through clearcuts for a second...

We have been doing for years. I have personally dragged out moose many times with a 350 Big Bear through clear cuts. If I can't keep the front end down I just have someone sit on the front rack. Do you really think people didn't use ATV's to drag moose when big bore bikes didn't exist yet? I remember pulling a bull moose with a 250cc Big Red trike one year. You do know have know how to drive the things though and I think most don't understand how these days.
We don't strap cameras to our helmets though, not our thing.......LoL. But we do know how to get a moose out of the bush.

[300Sniper]

Listen Fellas, with all due respect, if you have the option of putting guys either on the front or back for weight and traction we are definitely not talking about the same "bush". It's all good, just different landscapes. Again, I'll post some video and pr pics later in the week

[jaycee]

We have been doing for years. I have personally dragged out moose many times with a 350 Big Bear through clear cuts. If I can't keep the front end down I just have someone sit on the front rack. Do you really think people didn't use ATV's to drag moose when big bore bikes didn't exist yet? I remember pulling a bull moose with a 250cc Big Red trike one year. You do know have know how to drive the things though and I think most don't understand how these days.
We don't strap cameras to our helmets though, not our thing.......LoL. But we do know how to get a moose out of the bush.

For 32 years now we have been doing the same , the best machines were/are the Yamaha Big BEAR and the Suzuki 300 cc.
Our area north part of 54 is mainly high ridges, tough hunting and we have no trouble with the smaller machines, two years ago one of our guys bought a Yamaha Kodiak, that machine all though it had lots of power was too large to get around many obsticles and we reverted to using the smaller machines.
One thing we do is we cut off the head and strap the whole animal onto a large plastic [HDP] toboggan using ratchet straps. Where we can walk the machine follows, on the ridges we use the winch.
Out of our area we have taken out either 25 or 26 moose using this method with no problems , the farthest was 4 1/4 miles from the lake confirmed by GPS.
We use ratchet straps as you can never tie a moose down tight enough using ropes , they always loosen off causing a lot of grief , using the ratchet straps you tuck the front legs in tight to the body and they don't stick out to get caught up on roots stumps and such.

[MickeyKnox]

The best ATV for deer hunting is one that makes no noise and doesn't smell.

[300Sniper]

Thanks Moe, finally a picture and good story to go with it.

Would love to see video of some of these other claims. Curious as to what some guys consider "pulling a moose out of the bush" especially with small machines.

[impact]

Well, while some of you young lads were still in diaper Suzuki king quad 280 cc was hauling moose out of the bush with a simple rope tied to the antlers. Imagine that!