Originally Posted by Middlefork_Miner
No experience there, but I once let a cackler hang for a day and a half....best tasting goose I ever ate...I doubt a elk would spoil that quick.
Difference is a goose cools quickly, especially if you gut it & pull the feathers off. A dead elk covered in warm fur with only an arrow hole to let out the heat is going to spoil quickly. Plus an elk has 100x the body mass to hold heat.

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