Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting Winching out Elk setup...

Nothing very cool sorry to say.
Shot the bull late and got it field dressed in the dark but there were no trees tall enough so the quarters hung about a foot off the ground.
I knew there were bears about.
Next morning a bear had claimed the bull and covered the gut pile with leaves. My blue heelers were going crazy and they made it clear to us that the bear was only about 75 yards off in another stand of timber.
I was young and poor and an S&W .22 was all I had at the time. I'd have brought my rifle if I had known it was going to get as sporting as that.