Patent ID: 7896416

Claim:
A transport assembly for a deer carcass for the removal of the deer carcass from the field, the transport assembly comprising: a tubular handle member having a first open end and a second open end, said tubular handle member having aligned U-shaped slots formed in the opposing first end and second end, said tubular handle member having a transverse aperture at said first end and said second end, said apertures being in 90 degree relationship with said U-shaped slots, said apertures for receipt of a locking pin; two hind hock engageable arms, each of said hind hock engageable arms being generally U-shaped in configuration having first and second parallel legs, said first leg formed with an auxiliary leg secured to said first leg defining an enclosed slot between said first leg and said auxiliary leg, said first leg and said auxiliary leg of said hind hock engaging arms slidably receivable within said tubular handle member and slidably secured thereto by means of a locking pin positioned through said apertures in said first and second end of said handle member, and extending through said enclosed slot formed by said first leg members and said auxiliary leg on said hind hock engaging arms, said hind hock engaging arms fully slidably secured within said handle member when not in use, and slidably extended from said handle member and pivoted about said locking pin so as to engage said first leg and said auxiliary leg of said hind hock engaging arms in said slots formed in said handle member, said opposing second legs of said hind hock engaging arms spaced outwardly and apart from said first end and said second end of said handle member so as to engage by means of a slit in the skin of the hind hock, the hind hock of a deer carcass for the facile dragging of the deer carcass from the point of kill to another desired location, said second legs of said hind hock engagable arms are externally threaded at their ends and securable by an internal complimentary cylinder to provide facile transport of said transport assembly when not in use in transporting a deer.