Number of reasons, but mainly cause Im too old, fat, and allergic to them. Dressing one, dragging it off the mountain, then skinning and butchering it is sheer torture to the allergic.
Done it scores of times. Decided to stop as a part of the 'aging gracefully' scenario..


My last elk...

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Last edited by ingwe; 02/25/16.
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe