I am taking the ATV to retrieve my elk after I kill one.
Furthermore: We are hunting private land & BLM land
You can pretty much do what you want with one on private land. BLM is another story. You have to stay ON trails marked for motorized vehicles. No taking it off-trail to the kill site.That means (legally) you still have to hump your critter back to the trail. And, I have no reason to believe YOU would be any different than any other guy that's never killed an elk before. Once a feller gets one down, and sees just how much bigger one is, compared to the jackrabbit-sized whitetails from home, few can resist the temptation to say fugg it, the $50 dollar fine for taking one offtrail, beats the chit outta having to work up a sweat........
