The shot was cleanly delivered, the animal is down and has already been field-dressed and taken care of - good hunting!
However, the situation does not always allow for driving up to the animal with a car or off-road vehicle to load and transport it. Often, the animal must be transported to the vehicle using one's own muscle power. Since larger pieces of wild boar, as well as red and fallow deer, can be quite unwieldy, so-called recovery aids greatly facilitate the process.
Recovery aids come in many different forms. There are one-handed recovery aids, which usually consist of steel or wire loops with a handle or hook with a handle, as well as systems based on straps for tying, and wild sleds or foldable wild trays in which the game can be pulled. All these systems work, and they have one thing in common: the muscle power mentioned above, which is needed to use them.
Additionally, there is the option of using winches. Nowadays, mobile winches that can be mounted in or on the car are available at quite affordable prices. With their help, even large animals can be recovered effortlessly, and heavy loads are no longer a major problem.
Before deciding on a system, one should take a personal look at the respective system and also check how well one can handle it. For one-handed recovery aids, which are usually very light and not very large, making them easy to store and transport, it is important that the handle has a size that is comfortable for one's hand and is easy to grip.
In general, it should be considered in advance for which species of game the recovery aid will primarily be used and accordingly how large the animals to be recovered are on average, as well as how the terrain in which it will be used affects the system.
Game weighing over 30 kg is already quite difficult to carry even for strong hunters, so a recovery aid should be part of the basic equipment for all hunters.
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