Thread: gutted!

Interesting discussion and intriguing to read different peoples experiences. I've often heard or read of people recovering a shot deer the next day but it's always seemed a bit iffy to me. I'm all for cooling down that meat as fast as possible. I guess it also depends on where it was shot, how long it took to die (and therefore how much tainted blood was circulated etc.). I guess for me next day recovery would not be an intentional choice but only as a result of not being able to locate the animal as in the story above.