Questions for the hunters out there

I've got 0 experience with hunting, but every once and a while when i'm up in the mountains I'll walk by someone with a bow. It gets me a little curious.

So my questions are:
1. What are they hunting (I'm in the wasatch)?
2. What do they do when they kill something (we're talking several miles up a non motorized trail)?

1. Probably deer or elk.

2. They gut it, and then butcher it into carry-able pieces and haul it out in packs on foot (usually over several trips). They generally leave most of the bones and the skin and the rib meat.

Ice T

youtube.com/watch?v=rU7vDDm…

I've experienced several two day carry/pack/drags. It's a lot of work after the kill!

Deer and elk and sometimes bear. I hunt wilderness areas alone with my bow. I live for the solitude and the chase and the meat. I then bone out all of the meat and over the next 24 hours I suffer as I rarely do to pack it all out. this sometimes involves close to 30 miles of hiking. Once I get it home I clean up and butcher the large pieces into steaks, roasts, Jerky then take the rest to be ground into steaks.

but really though, it's just practice for humans, right?

Some folks are going for small game like rabbits, birds, grouse, hares, beaver, ptarmigan, doves, and even turkey.

Tyson Anderson wrote:

I came up on Warren Jeffs kids doing the exact thing at the mouth of Bells canyon a few times years ago.