Place to strap a deer on my bike?

[sgtboring]

I have a 99 RT and I am trying to figure out how I can use my bike for hunting. I want to carry home the dead deer but what to avoid using a bike trailer (I think they are weird :brad :brad :brad . Any suggestions? :D

[jdmetzger]

I have a 99 RT and I am trying to figure out how I can use my bike for hunting. I want to carry home the dead deer but what to avoid using a bike trailer (I think they are weird :brad :brad :brad . Any suggestions? :D

Switch to small game. Another option is go to your local butcher and carry it away in nice "ready to cook" slabs. Finally, you could bring 2 pairs of roller skates with you. You may have to wait for rigor to set in, first. :p

[riderR1150GSAdv]

You may have to wait for rigor to set in, first. :p

Eeeeeeeewwwww:rofl :rofl

[41077]

Were you planing to shoot the deer or just run it down?

[flash412]

Just gut it and then bungee it over the luggage rack. Any parts touching the muffler will be ready to eat as soon as you get home.

[Belquar]

I have been using my GS to hunt. Gets me into the woods better. I have big micatech pilot cases and with the top case off, and the pillion seat off it makes for a nice shelf to strap a carcass. However....I have not had the opportunity yet. Right now it is currently rigged up with my shotgun and climbing stand on it. Tomorrow is the last day of firearms season here in Jersey though so it will be back to the bow then. I carry a tarp too, cause the law prefers that we not cart around dead animals in full view of the public. I figure folks will figure it out though with hooves hanging and blood dripping from my bags. :D

Good luck hunting. I am getting annoyed. Worst hunting year ever for me so far.

Brian

[GeneT]

I have been using my GS to hunt. Gets me into the woods better. I have big micatech pilot cases and with the top case off, and the pillion seat off it makes for a nice shelf to strap a carcass. However....I have not had the opportunity yet. Right now it is currently rigged up with my shotgun and climbing stand on it. Tomorrow is the last day of firearms season here in Jersey though so it will be back to the bow then. I carry a tarp too, cause the law prefers that we not cart around dead animals in full view of the public. I figure folks will figure it out though with hooves hanging and blood dripping from my bags. :D

Good luck hunting. I am getting annoyed. Worst hunting year ever for me so far.

Brian


Lucky Deer

;)

[RandallIsland]

If you gut it, you could just wear it home like a big furry parka. :wow

[PacWestGS]

Ooooops, I thought he said beer :bottle . My Bad. That's the first thing I learn how to do, strap beer onto my bikes.

A deer, guess that would depend on the size of the deer(ly) departed hoved field rat. Don't know why you couldn't just field strip it and pack the meat into a rubberized duffle or backpack.

There are other animals in the forest that will hide the hide unless you are hunting in Central Park... :brow

[Belquar]

Ooooops, I thought he said beer :bottle . My Bad. That's the first thing I learn how to do, strap beer onto my bikes.

A deer, guess that would depend on the size of the deer(ly) departed hoved field rat. Don't know why you couldn't just field strip it and pack the meat into a rubberized duffle or backpack.

There are other animals in the forest that will hide the hide unless you are hunting in Central Park... :brow


I don't know about PA but here in Jersey they require intact carcass at the check station. Afterwards, in the freezer, you still have to have all your meat labeled with you validation number to "prove" you are legally allowed to posess the venison. They make you jump through a hoop or two around here. When I lived in Colorado, you didn't even need to hunt. Just put yourself on the roadkill list and be willing to get up at 0dark-thirty and go harvest a fresh elk. You can get a considerable amount of meat off an elk. They usually fare somewhat better than the cars.

[tourunigo]

[QUOTE=SFDOC]Ooooops, I thought he said beer :bottle . My Bad. That's the first thing I learn how to do, strap beer onto my bikes.


:type ...Dang! my comprehension ability is depleting as well. I thought he meant 'dear' and although Mary and I have strapped beer to bikes strapping my dear to the bike is not possible. Kick boxer sort she is. :eek -Bob

[MCMXCIVRS]

If you gut it, you could just wear it home like a big furry parka. :wow

Or, put a helmet on it and make it ride pillion. That should get some looks.

[john1691]

You want to strap a deer carcas to your bike, but you think trailers are weird???? :D

john1691
2000 K1200RS

[sgborgstrom]

snip I carry a tarp too, cause the law prefers that we not cart around dead animals in full view of the public. I figure folks will figure it out though with hooves hanging and blood dripping from my bags. :D

Brian

Paging Helen Twowheels to the niche marketing department...

[PUDGYPAINTGUY]

Not to be gross, but if you clean out the intestines, just break the ribcage down and the carcass will collapse easier into a smaller size around a topcase rack. Bodies can be made rather compact this way. You may need to crack the spine too but probably not. Just use some ratchet straps to pull the hooves in. It works on other animals and so I can't see why not on deer.

[PAULBACH]

Try this. Add at least one red LED to nose.

[Belquar]

Not to be gross, but if you clean out the intestines, just break the ribcage down and the carcass will collapse easier into a smaller size around a topcase rack. Bodies can be made rather compact this way. You may need to crack the spine too but probably not. Just use some ratchet straps to pull the hooves in. It works on other animals and so I can't see why not on deer.

This is what I was going to initially do. Let the topcase do some work at holding the carcass on. Since I have purchased my tree stand it takes up a lot of space going back and forth. I know a lot of folks like to just leave their stands chained to the tree, but I don't always hunt the same area so I carry it with me. When I have the stand, the top case stays in the garage. However, with Micatech pilot cases, and my very large BMW topcase, I am pretty sure I could field dress and quarter a deer and pack it all inside the cases. Lots of room in there.

Gun season ended this evening at sundown. Back to using the bow. Best part....a lot less hunters in the woods. The deer will settle down a bit. Also...with the bow I am not limited to antlered deer only. I don't need a trophy. Just some fresh venison.

[PUDGYPAINTGUY]

Why not use the tree stand as the carrier then? It is an L section right? Mount it in reverse so that it keeps the critter from falling backwards on acceleration perhaps. Otherwise go one step further and collapse the ribs and remove them when field dressing and then the tree stand can either sit on top or below with less space consumption?

[Belquar]

I'll have to post some pics. It is a climbing stand. Geometrically, think two rather large right triangles put together, but I don't put the hypotenuses together. It is hard to describe. Gotta change the set up now to carry the bow. Gun case fit on nicely as a crossmember to brace it.

Won't be hunting much again till January though.

The deer part will be quite easy when that happens. Just leave the stand or deer in the woods, and run something home and then go get the other. Or have the wife meet me with the cage to haul something. I am definitely hauling the deer on the bike. For the novelty of it and to help cool it down.

Brian

[lenrt1200st]

Check out, last page, current Cycle World. LOL

[Pat Carol]

After you finish gutting the deer. Cut it up into quarters. That would make for easy transport.
Personally I would drive my truck to go deer hunting but, I am also spoiled up here in Northeast Michigan because we live in the woods and have a $200,000 deer blind on 41 acres. You could always come here to hunt.
Where we live, deer season is a holiday and a lot like a motorcycle rally. We hunt most of the day and at night tell lies and consume beverages that contain alcohol.


Merry Christmas
Pat Carol

[sgtboring]

After you finish gutting the deer. Cut it up into quarters. That would make for easy transport.
Personally I would drive my truck to go deer hunting but, I am also spoiled up here in Northeast Michigan because we live in the woods and have a $200,000 deer blind on 41 acres. You could always come here to hunt.
Where we live, deer season is a holiday and a lot like a motorcycle rally. We hunt most of the day and at night tell lies and consume beverages that contain alcohol.


Merry Christmas
Pat Carol

I would love to take you up on the offer!

[Belquar]

After you finish gutting the deer. Cut it up into quarters. That would make for easy transport.
Personally I would drive my truck to go deer hunting but, I am also spoiled up here in Northeast Michigan because we live in the woods and have a $200,000 deer blind on 41 acres. You could always come here to hunt.
Where we live, deer season is a holiday and a lot like a motorcycle rally. We hunt most of the day and at night tell lies and consume beverages that contain alcohol.


Merry Christmas
Pat Carol

Do you have to get off the recliner in the "blind" to pull the trigger or can you do it in slippers and a smoking jacket? You could film it and make a show for "O"LN.
:laugh

[YELLOW_S]

Look at Cycle worlds latest issue, very last page....

[msnden]

Check out, last page, current Cycle World. LOL

Here Ya Go, Den

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-4/991455/scan0001.jpg

[KGT1200]

Jus give da deer to the wife, and av' her wait a little while whilst you run dat beemer home and get da station waggon, den put da beemer in da back of da wagon, and come back cause da wife, by now, she will be mad and then put da deer and da wife in da station wagon...

Oh I forgot, whilst you are at da hopuse, don forget da beer,

anyway let da wife take da deer home, and as soon as da oil has ran back in da cylinder heads..you know since da bike wass sideaways in da back of the station wagon an all,...anyways, take off on da beemer in da OPPOSITE direcction of da wife and da deer.

Now...if you were to be stopped by a policeman, be sure and start to explain how you got da blood on yer hands and forarms BEFORE he asked, and dont try to cross in ta Canada, cause up there, they had one of dem chainsaw bandits that did chop his wife

so dats how you haul a dee on da beeemer...

[robsryder]

I have a 99 RT and I am trying to figure out how I can use my bike for [deer] hunting.


I saw this deerslayer photo on an IBR website link. Looks like it is hard on the bike.
http://rides.webshots.com/photo/1447476916026154363bkCZLo

http://thumb3.webshots.net/t/60/60/7/69/16/447476916bkCZLo_th.jpg (http://rides.webshots.com/photo/1447476916026154363bkCZLo)

[bigdelta]

BMW riding and hunting-just doesn't seem to go together for me.

[bigdelta]

Paging Helen Twowheels to the niche marketing department...

:thumb

[bigdelta]

Here Ya Go, Den

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-4/991455/scan0001.jpg

us cityfolk don't see that combo too often.

[SIBUD]

Lucky Deer

;)

Come on up to Illinois where the deer grow big enough to kill you when they come thru your windshield and then you will feel differently about those hooved road rats.