An hour or so after you kill a deer is no bIg deal even in the south. However, I would NEVER leave one in the bed of a hot truck like someone said they see.
In fact, unless it is under 45 degrees, we don’t leave one in the woods overnight. We make sure to recover them right away. Besides, if you don’t the coyotes will ruin it.
If it is under 45 degrees we sometimes gut and leaving them hang till morning.
After skinning and quartering, it does the meat good to sit in ice for week. The taste of our deer in the south is as good as anywhere in the country.
Last edited by Dixie_Rebel; 07/28/20.
