I sent my beretta a400 extreme off to beretta in late September or early October.it was still under warranty,and they wouldn’t fix it free because they said it was my fault that it messed up,so I gave them my credit card info to pay for it .
Now it is February and I still don’t have my gun...
I shot my bull with a bow this year, we weren’t sure if he was dead or not,and we didn’t want to jump him,so we left him till the next morning, he was perfectly fine
It just depends on the situation
If you have never killed an elk, you should probably shoot the first legal elk you see
If you don’t mind coming home with nothing then I would pass up some cows early on in the hunt
Or if its a hard to draw unit I wouldn’t waste the tag on a cow elk.