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NW GA Ridgerunner

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I took a 4/ yo with a broken right main beam and a few broken tines Friday morning in pretty heavy fog as he came by running a doe. It was a rifle kill made shooting free hand turned completely around in my Summit Viper to get the shot. Thankfully I had both a Hawk Crawler cart and a deer hoist or I would have never got him out of the woods and loaded up. I really should not hunt alone at almost 72.
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Nice buck congrats
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Nice buck!!

I know what you mean about hunting alone. I have had to learn to pace myself and invest in the tools to make it easier.

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Congrats!
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He looks pretty "chunky"!! :lol: :lol:
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Congratulations! How well does the crawler work on hills?
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Ankh wrote:
Sun Nov 14, 2021 10:05 am
Congratulations! How well does the crawler work on hills?
When I shot him he ran about 40 yards before piling up which took him to the backside of the ridge I was hunting. It is steep and if he had run about 10 more yards it drops off fast enough to where he would have slid to the bottom and I would have had to go for help. I got him gutted out and on the cart and actually pulled him almost 150 yards along the side of the ridge because the top has several blow down tress blocking the way. I thought at first that the cart rolling sideways would tip over from his weight but it stayed up and rolled fairly easy. It was not very steep on the sideways roll out as I stayed as close to the top as possible and still clear the blow downs. I was impressed (again).
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Thanks for the feedback it sounds like a great cart.
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Congrats! You are sure killing them this year! :thumbup:
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Congratulations on the good buck!
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Good system you have there Brother.
Nice buck!
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Way to go Robert, with the temps dropping the buck activity is definitely picking up over here too. Congrats :thumbup:
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Congrats on a nice one :thumbup:
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Congratulations
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Normous wrote:
Sun Nov 14, 2021 5:14 pm
Good system you have there Brother.
Nice buck!
Every ridge runner I arrow ends up in the creek :crazy:
I have had several do the same thing and always on the wrong side of the ridge.
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