Lost: One Elk

My friend (the same one from the gun show yesterday) went hunting yesterday afternoon and shot an elk right before sundown. He knocked it down with a solid body shot and he thought it was D-E-D dead, but it jumped up as he approached and it ran into some thick trees, right when it got too dark to see very well. So we're going to go out this morning to see what we can see. Hopefully it was cold enough last night that nothing spoiled.