I like that, and I 'm getting old and have to use a tractor front end loader to get my bucks up onto the pickup bed. This looks a lot easier.
Or I guess I could shoot smaller bucks!

Im still on the working end of that myself but my brother and I have a few coming up in the ranks.

I took a cheap atv dump trailer and beefed it up with solid wheel barrel tires and built a frame and new deck with a block and tackle to pull the deer up. Was easy to build and works like a champ.

Viking also has a hitch mounted lift that has a flat plate made out of a rim of steel and covered in a expanded metal like a hitch mounted game/cooler mount big enough to put a deer on easily. You put the load on the plate at ground level and use the crank to raise the plate up and swing it into the bed of the truck and shove the critter off where you want it.. Been thinking about getting one to use loading furniture with too. Last I looked they were running about $200. The BH & I chase antique furniture 52 weeks a year and loading a heavy arsed 5'-6' long solid oak dining room server is a real pain for a pair of ever more decrepit 75 year olds..
Ron

I use a game hoist similar to this. As mentioned before, lift the head and I swing the rear half in by hand.

My gin pole has saved my 70 year old back more than once.

Beautiful old buck! And more pictures of the top and foot of your gin pole rig please. Where do you get that square tubing with the holes?

^^^^

Man....I hear ya.

Daughter shot a buck a few years ago and we went to load it in her truck (Ford 4x4). I had the head/antlers and she had the rear legs. The plan of course, was to swing it back and forth and on the third swing...lift and try to project it up on the tailgate. I'm old (65 now) but still a pretty large person (6'-5" 270 lbs) . She weighs less than half of what I do and was having trouble getting her end of the deer up high enough.

On the fourth try (and switching ends of the deer) we finally got it in the truck. A good, healthy buck here will go 180-200 lbs. on the hoof. But as everyone knows, 'dead weight' is hard to handle. So after that fiasco....I just take a small trailer to the kill site and load them on that.

Who is the forum member that makes the game hoist?

'Hadn't seen him on here in a while and I can't remember his screen name. NW of Georgetown I think. I bought one and picked it up. Heavy, but hell-for-stout.

bholt, thats where i got mine. I know his last name is holt, but i think thats it.

Yep thats it. And a very nice man to deal with.

Creek: Had to cobble two old pics to show both top and bottom. Found the tubing at a metal recycling yard while shopping for wheel weights. Two diameters, so the lower part fits truck hitch and top slides into lower. Went with an eye-bolt at top to run the cable thru, but the cable will eat thru a soft eye-bolt so have since replaced with a pulley. Pretty simple welding job and has held up to a 290# boar.

Another vote for the hitch winch. You can pick them up, drive to your cleaning area and do all the messy work while it hangs.

I'm nearly 76 with arthritis in my thumbs and knees. I can't get on the ground - or if I do, I can't get up easily.

At some point, I'm going to have to resort to taking pictures and breathing fresh air, but the hitch winch has extended that date.

most of the time I have not had any issue with loading deer in the bed of my truck or Kubota RTV ... but last year, the big 10 point (194#), it just wasn't happening by myself. I used two ratchet straps around the body of the deer, one in front of hind legs, one behind the front legs... legs facing away from vehicle. pulled up on one end at a time before engaging ratchet, then ratchet up as high as it would go, then roll the legs over the top and into the bed. worked like a charm. There are similar videos on YouTube if you search "loading deer in truck by yourself" ...

Full live weight buck of any type size is a chore for one person, lot easier with the entrails out and 40-50 lbs. lighter if don't have a hoist

agree DQ, but we are supposed to log live weight in our log book on one lease, i.e. no dressing in the field ... anywhere else, they get field dressed before loading, which makes it much easier.

The fold up hitch racks are the easiest. Add a short 3 ft price of 2x4 and you have an easy drag up ramp

Cut them in half and toss them in.

What I have found and now do is that I don't shoot anything bigger than I think I can load.

I use a comealong like the one pictured above hook one end to the bed roll out the cable use a dog choker chain, pull loops thru both ends go over the hooves it wont come loose when tightened crank one end or the middle of the deer up to the tailgate, then its pretty easy to load the rest of the deer. also a d ring on the tool box will also make a good anchor

I got a rope come along from Amazon and hooked it to the tie down in the bed of my truck. Then I wrapped the rope end with the hook around his antlers and comealonged him into the truck. Once the head and shoulders were in, I just pushed the back half in. I did not want the cable comealong, the cable would cut the bed liner on my tailgate.