moooose102
June 3, 2008, 07:35 AM
ok, i put in for an elk license this year, i rally do not expect to get a license, it is a drawing system, where the more years you have been trying, the greater the chance you will get a license. anyway, i was talking to my brother about it and we were discussing how to retrieve the animal. would a 4wd suzuki (300 cc) king quad going to be enough to drag one of these things out of the woods? i would not have to drag it all the way. i have a (s-10) 4wd gmc jimmy, and a trailer to load it on. i would just have to get it to where i could get the jimmy to it. the suzuki has a super low range, and a 4 wheel lock, so all 4 wheels are 100% engauged all of the time, no differential in this mode. i guess i am unsure if there is so much animal that i could not get enough traction to drag it??? years ago, we used to use one to drag six cylinder kawasaki motorcycles (in the crate, about 1000 pounds) through a muddy dirt yard and driveway, to get them where we could uncrate them. so power is not in question. but we had to have 2 big guys sitting on the front rack to keep the front end down also. since then, i figured out that hooking the strap to the front bumper of the quad changes the pulling point, and keeps the front end down also. anbody have an opinion if an atv can pull an elk out?