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| ICEMAN:
Cite me! These are usually fifty feet behind me hanging in a tree somewhere. I have never, ever left them attached. Been checked too! No citation... |
| bobcat:
OK, I just looked it up to refresh my memory. If you have the head with the antlers attached, you are ok. That's all you need. But if you do what I like to do, and cut the antlers off the head, so that I don't have to pack out the head (it's heavy!) then you need to leave a nut attached. It's much easier to do that than to pack out the entire head. Do people really pack elk heads out of the woods? :o |
| rackattack:
--- Quote ---Do people really pack elk heads out of the woods? --- End quote --- I guess that depends on how far I'd have to go. Usual pack-out for me is hind quarters first then fronts. I suppose if I was in real rugged terrain or miles from a road I might cut the antlers, but on the westside your really never to far from some road. |
| Little Fish:
I've never had the pleasure of packing an elk out of the woods, but does anyone recommend boning the elk out and just packing the meat? After processing a few deer I was thinking I wouldn't be too hard to pack the front shoulders out whole, but bone everyting else out (including the hind quarters). Any thoughts? |
| Curly:
I'd tend to want to leave the hind quarters and bone the fronts. The front will most likely be hamburger anyway, so you'll bone it eventually. The hinds you can keep nice and clean and know that it is all the "good" cuts in there if you don't bone it out. |
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