Thanks for all of the responses...
To clarify a couple of things...it was bigger older cow. It was the 4th day of the season and I am guessing these elk were pressured quite a bit, I don't know how stressed that made them. I did the quartering skinning with the animal on the ground, so when it...
Yeah, I would have liked to have let it hang overnight, but we sere staying in a little motel, so I tried to let it get as much air as I could by laying it out as if on racks on the coolers, folding chairs, frame pack, etc. Again, the steaks, backstraps, etc are fine. It's just the ground...
I harvested a cow elk this year, 4th season, in Colorado. I gutted it, skinned it, and quartered it. I placed the quarters and the ribcage in cloth game bags, all within about 3.5 hours after killing the elk. We stored the bagged meat in the back of my truck(cap) spread out on top of coolers...
Thank you all for the warm welcome. Lot's of PA connections. My wife and I both grew up in Greensburg (Hempfield Township) and basically still live there in adjacent Latrobe.
I have been following this site for a couple of years and joined in August. This is my first post. I love the site, the TV shows, and the idea of hunting "on your own". I thought I would briefly share my western hunting experiences with you, most of which have been in CO, except for a 2003...