Sometimes I stumble around words, but WyoM70 puts it down about as good as you are going to get..
I'm 70+ with COPD, a back that is held together with rods and screws and two bad shoulders,, I can handle an elk if I am careful. I can get it quartered ( no gut method) and barely hung in a tree. Sometimes that is just getting the quarters layed over a log. Sometimes it means cutting it in smaller pieces. Then I go back and get my mules, and hopefully a hunting pard to help load it on the sawbuck. Even at that,I have to rest for two days after doing it.However, without the mules to ride in and pack the meat out, I would not even consider going elk hunting and probably not even deer hunting.
So think hard and long of what you want to accomplish and how you are going to do it.
