Kelly shot again and got him . We only had one shell left when we were done shooting . We were really excited to have killed both of them . The ground was so steep that both of the bucks went sliding down the hill at the same time . So we both took off running after our bucks . We were both amazed at how big they were . After we took a bunch of pictures we started caping and quartering the bucks with a Leatherman because we never took a knife . We weren ’ t planning on hunting . We were just going to retrieve the rest of Kelly ’ s elk . We were over whelmed with the amount of meat we had to pack . We had one half of an elk and two mule deer to pack now . We hung the meat from the mule deer up in a tree and continued on up the hill to finish the task of packing the rest of his elk out . The three mile pack out with the elk quarters wasn ’ t bad at all because we were still so excited about the bucks we had just killed .
The next morning we headed back in to pack our mule deer out . Once we got there we boned the deer out . We headed back to camp on our three mile hike . Back at camp we took the tent down and packed up and headed back to Hellar Bar .
Phenomenal bucks ! Congrats to you both !
It was a great 3 day hunt for both of us . We were tagged out in two days !
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