Applying for my first elk hunt right now, and I wondered if you guys had any tricks for keeping scavengers off your meat. I had an incident this past December where I killed my first deer and left the carcass for about 20 minutes after gutting it. When I got back to drag it out I found more buzzards on it than I had ever seen in my entire life, and they had picked it almost completely clean in that short period of time. I'm pretty nervous now about the idea of leaving elk meat in the field for an extended period while I pack it out. Don't know if there are as many scavengers out west, but what do you guys do to keep your meat protected? Would bagging it up and hanging it be enough?