Unexpected Kill

[Brunty_Farms]

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More like 6 hours, when I posted it was ten o'clock, which would have been 6 hours after her hawk attack. You want to butcher any animal (esecially small ones) very quickly when the temps are at 50+ degrees. Around here when we duck hunt we hunt all day, the season doesn't come in until fall/winter but the temps are below freezing most of the time. I hunt as well and I wouldn't let a deer sit over night and then butcher it. Not a good idea in my opinion.

Not a good idea too eat an animal killed by a predator anyway. Who knows what the talons/teeth/claws/beak has on it.

 

[chiknwhisperer]

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My DH and I duck hunt and there are times that we are out all day in the blind until shooting time is over. So if I shoot one first thing in the morning it sits there all day. Then depending on how far we have to drive to get home and what time it is when we get in. We let the birds hang upside down where its cold or cool and get them in the morning.

 

[jaku]

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I think everyone is missing the bigger issue here- I'd give an eye to have nighttime temps in the mid 50's right about now.

My only question, though, is... You don't have the gear to boil water??