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He bobbed his head smiling, "Yes, I believe we did. Let's get the horses and find out."
Getting the horses, Doc put his rifle away as they ran up to the fallen elk.
"Yup," he said smiling, "We got it. Nicely done!" He then high fived her as he climbed to the ground to examine the kill.
It was a full grown male. The blood still flowed from the initial shot while the other two shots took out a front leg. The animal was quite handsome....and big. Doc would have to drag it back on a skid pad he had brought. For now though, the gross part.
He just smirked at her, "Let's find out what kind of outdoors person you really are," saying this as he pulled out a very large knife.
"We gut it here and it's less of a mess later," he explained and pointed to one of it's front legs, "take that and hold it."
With that, Doc drove the knife into the top of it's chest and pulled hard, opening the animal. He did so right to the carcass.
He didn't know if she was watching but he then removed much of it's insides, placing them in a pile nearby. "Something will eat that later."
He did, however, save the liver, wrapping them in some cloth. "This is good," he told her, "normally the heart is too but there's not much left of it."
He unrolled the skid pad and together they tied the elk onto it, securing it for the drag home. Bloody from the mess, Doc began washing his hands and arms at the swamp's edge.