Vince,
Same deal with moose--which not only tend to roll around in stink-water during the rut, but often end up in other kinds of naturally contaminated water when shot. Two fo the moose my wife and I have taken ended up in nearby water, despite pretty quick-killing shots. My Alaskan bull ended up in a stream full of dying salmon, and my wife's Montana cow ended up in a shallow swamp. Didn't leave the hide on either of those, either.
But my main point is that while many hunters make generalizations about game care, willd animals are all different, not just in species but circumstances. Which is also what my wife Eileen emphasises in her "cookbook" on big game from field to table.
