Originally Posted by
Jorgy
that is a conversation that should come up before opening morning. Sometimes it's hard to bring up, but it's harder once a elk is down and packed back to a vehicle. I just had 2 buddies come hunt with me for their first elk hunt in Colorado. As we were setting up camp I made it clear that no matter what, I would help them boning, packing and packaging, but we had to talk about how to split the meat. Everyone then knew what to expect.
I personally believe in splitting up equally as the shooting is the easy part, but packing is why so many people road hunt and don't see elk
That's good advise. It's something that can be discussed at the same time everyone is discussing other items like splitting the cost of food, fuel, ect. Our 1st trip, my partner was pleasently surprised that I was giving him half. Heck! Like I mentioned it before, he worked as hard as I did and I wouldn't have it any other way. A few trips after we took another guy and we explained prior to hunting our camp practices and that if one killed something, we would split it 3 ways and that is exactly what we did.