So you've been hunting and got one. Nobody is around as you went off to hunt by yourself, so now what do you do?

Here are some easy steps to help you wrangle that deer.

Step One: Purchase for approximately $13 a gambrel hanger/pulley style hoist and keep it in your vehicle while you go hunting. Keep a small piece of baling twine or rope with it.

Step Two: After collecting, tagging and gutting your deer, position it near a tree with good overhanging branches. Select a very strong branch that is long enough so you can drive your vehicle underneath it.

Step Three: Tie your small rope off on the branch and then secure the top pulley hook to the rope. If the branch is pretty high up, you can tie a rope to the top hook and throw it over the branch to get your pulleys up high enough. Tie this rope off on the tree trunk. Next, pull the second hook down to just about ground level. Leave the remainder of the hoist rope where you can quickly get at it. Make sure it is a very strong limb because deer are heavy.

Step Four: Cut holes through the deer's skin in-between the tibia and Achilles tendon (hock area).

Step Five: Insert the gambrel hanger into the holes you cut and pull up on the rope end to raise the hindquarters of the deer up off the ground. The pulley has a locking mechanism to keep your heavy load from falling back down. The pulleys make it very easy for even the smallest person to hoist the animal.

Step Six: Keep pulling on the rope to hoist the deer as high as you need to get on the roof of your vehicle, truck bed or trunk. Lock the pulley and load your deer in/on your vehicle. Release the pulley rope and remove the gambrel until you are ready to hang your deer at home. Repeat the above process to hoist it up into your rafters.