Easy solution... Don't gut them!!¡!
Old PA tradition of gutting and dragging.
So much easier just quarter them and carry quarters out.. same for PA elk..
I had to put my 12 yr old Black male lab down before and my 10 yr old Chocolate female lab down. Gets harder and harder. I didn't want another but my wife did. Now I couldn't imagine not having our Yellow male now.
So funny to me how people get over deer.
I improve as much on my 25 acres as I can for my wife and I to harvest deer on it.
But my neighbors can literally shoot all the deer they want to legally...it's their property! And... They are not MY deer or their deer... lol
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I also have ran them for many years and on steep slopes. On packed snow especially they will slide or spin out. For your question it will not have traction your skid steer does with chains.
I would suggest Valdez in August. Lots of fishing opportunity for charters or just fishing from shoreline. Salmon Gulch Hatchery is real neat to visit with all the Pinks returning to Hatchery. May get to see a bear or lots of sea lions there.
Beautiful scenery. Whale watching opportunities...
Congratulations
my wife new Tikka 6.5CM for Alaska trip. We tried those 143 precision hunters out of it and it did not like it.
Switched to Norma bondstrike 143gr.
It shoots lights out with it.