RE: What did you forget?
We didn't forget it, we were just ignorant.
Up until we killed our first elk we had everything we needed, then came the field dressing partand since we didn't know how to do the Alaskan method.... we really needed a bone saw or hatchet, either would have been a god send.Elk ain't deer. For a conventional field dress, "knives only" just doesn't cut it (no pun intended). I don't care how big the knifeor how strong you are.