re: Does anyone have any tricks or gadgets to get a deer in the bed of the truck?

I don't know if it's applicable here however I use a ranger and big pigs or deer myself and my 9 year old have had trouble.

I use a come along hook it to the roll bar and tilt the dump bed down, open the tailgate and wench it up. As you get further up the deer/pig will start to close the tilt bed but it will be in the bed enough where you can push him in the bed. This worked last year with me, a 7 and 9 yo and a 342# hog. No way were were getting it in by ourselves and there was no one else at the lease that night.