A buddy and I carried out a whitetail on a pole in college, ended up spending over an hour in a Rhodo hell. I swore never again, but a few years later I killed one a few miles from camp with no pack. After dragging a hole in the hide, we did the last mile and a half or so on the meat pole, again. In that moment I would have probably traded my truck for the meat hauling pack I have now. If you like to kill stuff far from the road, bite the bullet and buy a Mystery Ranch, Kifaru, Stone Glacier, Seek Outside, etc and be done with it.