"Meat" sleds for moose

I want to buy a sled for next years moose hunt as the area we plan on hunting requires the meat remain on the bone. This means big pieces and I'm and old guy and looking for easy.
Alaska Gear has a roll up flex sled and they have this:
Weight and size of the sled isn't much of an issue as this will be a ATV hunt.
Would you pick the flex or the pulk sled?
The Otters work well, we use them behind snowmobiles in marginal ground amd the hold up very well
 
3 years back, I shot a 63” bull out solo, waaaaaaay up a shallow creek, running back tog get more gear just wasn’t an option so I was digging through my boat looking for anything I could use. I ended up with a tarp I had stuffed under the front deck and about 40 feet of 5/8th” webbing to rig up a “sled”.

The bull died in a slough about 150yds from the river I was hunting on, I walked the slough getting excited about the idea of just inflating a raft and lining the bull out through the slough but it was a dead end, not only did the slough go dry, it led to a place I’d never be able to launch to boat from once it was loaded.

I used my make shift drag tarp to haul loads to the boat and back, it was surprisingly easy and much better than carrying it all. In fact, on that trip I shouldered a quarter and walked it to the boat, for a few weeks after that hunt I thought I’d injured my old hernia repair site, the docs said I just strained multiple groin muscles. Dragging is better than hurting yourself.
 
After giving this much thought I finally ordered one of these in red, 5 foot version, currently waiting to be told when to pick it up:
 
My moose this year in Montana used a jet sled one-mile trips 8 of them slid across short willows tree roots no issues...Was glad for it could barely lift the quarters.
 
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We used a plastic sled from Amazon to move hundreds of pounds of moose meat. 2 loads got the entire Moose to the bottom of the mountain and then from there we loaded it on our backs and packed it through the tundra and out to the airstrip.
 
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