My elk hunting days are behind me, but I never found anything better than my rancher friend's pack horses. Something that I did to modify my deer hauling pack frame would probably work real well for your elk meat packing frames. I took a front wheel off a junk wheelchair and bolted it below the pack frame rails between two short pieces of aluminum angle. When my shoulders get tired, I can wheel the back pack like a wheelbarrow. Also a Simpson capstan rope winch will get anything you shoot out of a canyon and it only weighs 16 pounds.
My other auto is a .45
The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory
