Elk Camp '09

Elk Down.....

Shot this bull at 5pm and by the time we finished taking pictures we had about an hour before it got dark. We had our game bags but we didn't have any frame packs with us. In an hour we managed to bag up 2 hind quarters 1 front shoulder and a loin with all the meat from the side that was lying up. I took the front shoulder back to my treestand and carried up the tree and left it there overnight. The 2 hind quarters I had to bear hug and carry them up the hill to the logging road about a mile from camp. We walked back to camp with the loin and our guns and gear to get the frame packs. Then we walked back to where we left the hind quarters and picked them up and carried them back to camp. The next morning we got up and day break and cut up the rest of the elk and carried it back to camp. From the time we first started cutting to the time the last meat was hung was probably a total of 8 hours. I sure was glad Erin was along this year, not sure what I would have done without her help. She packed out a front shoulder and a hind quarter more than a mile back to camp.