[
I have had a couple instances where I have shot an elk at below zero temperatures and the first thing I have done is get a hellacious fire going.
And that is a voice of experience!
In parallel story, a friend of mine shot a whitetail at sundown in temps about-25 and dropping fast. A big fir deadfall lay where he took the shot and the intstant the deer hit the ground I started breaking limbs and building a fire. Easy in the cold dry conditions. I called to him to drag the deer to the fire and we gutted it there with a warming fire started BEFORE getting the first drop of liquid on hands.
