12-15
Matt shot his first elk!! WAHOO!!! He actually shot it on the night of the 14th but he couldn't take any pictures because his phone battery died. Shucks! No documentation of how large the cow actually was! I'll have him share his story of the hunt. He tells a great hunting story!
Yep, it turns out an elk will in fact fit in the back of a Ford Explorer if you gut it, cut it, and hoist it in. Done!
I jumped out to help Matt the night after we celebrated our family Christmas. Many hands make light work so we cut meat together. A marriage that processes elk together, STAYS together!! :)
Matt spent most of Friday (12/15) cutting meat off the bones and packing it into two coolers. A huge elk and all the meat fit into two coolers! So strange! What was probably a 600 pound animal now sits wrapped up in 75ish pounds of ground burger, a dozen packages of backstrap, a dozen roasts, and a package of steaks. All in total was probably 115 pounds of meat off the elk. It was a lot but yet not a lot, if that makes sense. Anyway, it's tucked in our freezer and we will be happily eating elk for a good long while!! Congrats, Babe, on your first elk!
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