I went to alaska 10 yrs ago in late sept. The bull i shot stunk bad. I spent over 100$ to bring the meat home to throw it away 2 years later. It was the worst crap i ever tried to eat, Javalina was like veil compared to it. I fed some to the dog and had to rent a carpet cleaner to clean up the diarrea the next day( my fault for feeding him some) So i had no use for the meat. I tried to make some into extra hot spicy italian sausage and they still were terrible. Stay away from the rut!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!