Quote Originally Posted by bryjcom View Post
Thanks guys.

I ended up just putting a dowel in my 20 rounder and it limits it to 4 rounds. Better safe than sorry.

As far as checking for blaze orange. Did he measure you? I have a orange hat and orange vest. Will that be enough?

Also do you still have to keep the liver and heart with the animal?

he didn't measure, but he made sure we had it. As long as you have a cheap orange vest and some sort of orange hat, you are good to go. I have one of those super cheap hats and vests from wal-mart and throw the hat on and the vest over the back of my packframe and i am good to go. I think orange is the most ridiculous thing in the world, but i also don't hunt during rifle season.

I don't gut the elk. I never even cut into the cavity at all. I quater everything, take the backstraps, all the quaters with the bone in (saw off the lower part of the legs under the joint for easy carry), get the neck meat, the head with cape attached (i get free wall mounts that way!) and whatever other cuts of meat I can find. When you are 5 miles back in, its comes down to weight, and the few pounds that you can get by gutting the animal isn't all that worth it to me. I give some back to the scavengers and other animals so they can enjoy a meal, but always end up with well over 200 lbs off the elk (at least the last 2 these last 2 years)

I don't like liver anyways, although I am sure my mom would enjoy it. And I don't like to eat the heart. So it would be a waste of weight to haul it back and give it to the dogs or throw it outside the camp which would just attack predators.