I know I was speaking more on the side of deer as were probably most. On Elk/moose,(the latter I have no experience on) I would quarter it for sure.I shot a spike roosevelt once he went down about 100 yds. from a road,we figured that since it was fairly flat area we would just drag it to the road.Screw that! Two hours on just dragging the animal.Of course as usual he wouldn' t help us much. I told my old man that if I shot an elk that fell in the truck,I' d pull him out just to cut him up next time. You guys thinking,it was just a spike,welll the Roosevelt or Olympic weigh a bit more than the Rockies.Had 400 Ilbs of meat out of that spike.