double edge sword! what would you do?

[need_more_time_off]

This weekend 2 of my friends were on their cow hunt in AZ. They both shot their cows the last night of the hunt. They were the only 2 in camp. The blood was not easy to see that night and it was very late, so they decided to resume in the morning. The first elk was found before sun up, and now sat in the back of a truck in a unit with almost no tree cover for shade. Meanwhile the hunter who found his elk has now caught up to the other hunter, and they continue to search for the second elk. The blood is good now and has not slowed any. The cow will not cross any fences, and made several attempts only to leave several pools of blood behind.Now not knowing how much further and it's 11:00 and getting hot!! Temp was 90!! Elk 1 is still in the back of the truck. They still have 2 hours to town, and 3 plus hour to the other elk with packing it out to the truck at best totaling 5 hours maybe longer. The hunter who found his elk would not be able to take his meat to a cooler, and return because he had to be to work that evening. No one else was reachable for help. So they must both leave at the same time! Now do you continue to search risking the meat of both? Do you take the for sure thing to town, and sacrifice the other?

 

[alp75]

Duh, call in sick for work!

 

[Anaconda]

It should not be a problem because cow #1 has reduced to boneless meat and packed in a cooler full of ice, right ?

Tell me they have plenty of cooler space and ice.

Tell me as soon as the first cow was found, they processed it into sub primals, and got it on ice ASAP, and they are planning on working together to do the same with cow #2 ?

 

[Gator]

No it don't sound like that does it.


"I have found if you go the extra mile it's Never crowded".

 

[gleninaz]

Tell them they are too dumb to hunt elk. One man can cut and skin a cow up in 45 minutes so it could be hanging in a shade tree while the other guy looked for his. To leave a whole elk in a steel pickup bed in this weather is just not done if you care to eat it. That is not a good story.