[4RE KLR]

I read the story you wrote. Fred had posted the link.

There is no way in hell I would even go hunting with the intent of shooting an animal without someone there to teach / help me with the processing after it was down. No way. As I said I also would not hunt for the pleasure just to kill it. It would be to put in the freezer and eat or I would never shoot it in the first place.

I cannot imagine getting inside the carcase of an animal to clean it out. However I would like to go Elk hunting some day. I hunted every year with my dad when I was a little kid but that was so long ago and when he was cleaning the dear I never really paid much attention as to what he was actually doing.

I remember one year we were out looking for "camp meat" and this little dear walked out in front of us and just froze. Dad said "dammit, it is too close to us" (@ 15' in front of us) he said well I'll clean and kill it at the same time. When he shot it completely gutted the dear and threw it about twenty or thirty feet from where it was standing.

That was a Remington 7MM. I was in awe. I remember there was not much left to clean up though.