At times there were wild dogs or runnaways out in the jungle. I killed several, doing the deer a favor. As far as not wanting to carry the big ones, it was a matter of climbing almost straight up, I could handle them up to about 150 lbs. We did kill one about 350 lbs on flat ground, about a mile from the truck. We did gut it because we could not carry it more than 20 ft. Killed it at 9 am, and got out to the truck at 6 pm. The ground was almost all sharp volcanic rock. As none of us could carry alone, we cut down a pole and tied it on. Three of us there, and we took turns taking a break. Forgot to tell you that we killed two does also, so had to haul out three deer at once. Carried some forward, and went back and got the other. Made one trip back to the truck for water. The rack on that buck was about twice the size of the deer in the pic, only three points, but very heavy antlers. I was on the island for six years the last time, so i got in some prime hunting time. Also chased and caught blue marlin and yellowfin tuna and others from 16 foot boats on reefs and such as much as twenty miles offshore. Did not want to screw up there as was 40 day float to Mindino in the Philipines.