We deal with heat in TX mostly.
If I can gut a deer I'll let it hang over night if temps are ok or all day.
Usually we have to debone a bit within a few hours. In that bad time usually IE starting rigor.
I try like heck to go early or late but lots of times the weather is the factor.
After that it stays in the cooler almost always 10 days on ice. We don't have a walk in... or weather to hang.
We rarely have bad meat.
The worst I've had though is even been backstraps taken off an animal during rigor... tough as whatever you think tough is to you.
Preferably I'd hang for 10 or more days at the right temps with hide on...
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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