Wow, I apparently brought out a sore subject. My apologies. I think everyone brought some great advice, some of it preference and some of it situational. I can definitely see both sides of the boning story here and think time of day, temperature and distance to camp/game processor will play big roles.

To wrap up, I have been trying to go elk hunting for 2 years now and have had issues come up both years (new house, baby)but this year I am finally going.

Thanks again to everyone for helping me on this. I would like to leave it at that so that I don't cause anymore arguments.

Hopefully will have some good scenery/elk pics by Sunday night. Not sure iftheywill be put in this thread or a new one.