RE: Elk down - Now what?
The best way to pack one out is the way I did one of my last ones. Our hunting party included three football player from the University of SD. They made short work of that job. Of coure you can't count on that kind of help very often. I prefer to bone it out on the spot and carry it out in as many trips as it takes. This of course would be in the absents of a couple Mules or Pack horses. Maybe even the dreaded four wheelers where legal.