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Originally Posted by elkhunter11

Taking out the off shoulder is no guarantee that an animal won't run off on three legs. And even if it it runs a half mile and then drops, it will die in it's tracks, because unless it is swimming or flying. it will keep making tracks until it stops moving.

And I don't own a boat or a quad, so I would use whatever I can find that is available to recover it, if it ends up in water. I have actually been in on a moose kill, where one of our party waded out and tied a rope onto a moose in a pond. That is one reason that I prefer to hunt moose late season, or away from the swamps.



Pretty much, even an animal with two broken front shoulders can push itself with the hind legs. I have seen a deer go farther than I would have ever thought possible doing just that.

Sooner or later you will grasp that proverbial straw Elk.