If the calf is in the shape you state - I'd shoot it in a heartbeat. No point or sense in allowing the animal to suffer. Would I report it... HELL NO. It was an accident - right? I'd bone the little dude out and be done with it... If I ran into someone, or they walked up during the butchering -...
13. That "toothpick-sized" limb got in the way and deflected my arrow... again!
14. We should have gone to that ridge over there...
15. If I'd have drawn a muzzle-loader tag this year, I could have stacked them up!
16. A bear ate my treestand climber and screwed up my "honey-hole"!
Nothing that money and fame can't buy!!! Heck, if we had access to the property he does - we'd kill big elk like that also! Obviously, Chucky boy is a good hunter but ya gotta be where the big ones are living to do that good consistantly - and they are very RARELY on public land... I put...
Here's the story to go with the pictures... First of all, have you ever seen an airboat chasing gators in the high-country swamps in Colorado?? It's awesome - let me tell you. The Gator/Elk combo hunt is wild!!!
Actually, the gators came from the FL Everglades the week before my CO elk hunt...
Moosie - The quarters were totally cleaned of fat, hide, hair, etc, etc... I had 8 roasts cut, bone-in T-bone and rib-steaks with everything else ground into burger - with no beef-fat added.
Well good news to report! With all the input from you guys - I rattled the cage of the processer enough that when my meat arrived yesterday - I got 290#!!! Thanks for the information - it certainly helped educate me so that I could address the issue with the processer...
All's well that ends...
Thanks for all the comments... Moosie - I know it was 440# because upon arrival at the processer - only the owners mother was there and the could not get the animal into a cooler until it was quartered - SOOOOoooo, me and my buddy - caped (yes, the bull was good enough to warrant a large spot on...
The 440# I'm talking about is elk. We transported the animal to the processer whole (less guts/lungs, etc) and then while at the processer, skinned, caped and shanked the carcass - we then split the carcass length-wise and quartered it. The resulting quarters are what weighed 440# - from this...
Got back from CO last week. I killed a nice 6x6. 4 of us hunting, 3 with M/L, 1 with bow. One of the others shot his first bull - a 4x4, other m/l hunter missed a chip-shot at 43 yds and the bow hunter missed a "gimme-shot" at 28 yds on a beautiful 5x5 - got that one on video!!! I just knew he...
How much processed meat should be expected from 440# of hanging quarters? The 440# is skinned, shanked, etc... The processer claims it will yeild only ~120#...? Sounds kind of LOW? Any comments?
Gave up on posting pictures after wasting so much time with the gator pictures that barely show up!
Anyway, got a real nice 6x6 with my ML on 9/16 in CO.
Posting pictures on this site has about pissed me off!!!!!!! GOOD LORD! Anyway this is about the 4th time I've attempted it so before I write the story, I'm going to just try to get the stupid gator pictures to post... this picture posting must be some communist plot!
Got back from my gator hunt... killed 2 one was 8'8", the other 8'11" not bad but not huge - got them both with my bow! I'll send pictures some time when I can come up for air... leave for CO this Thursday...