Thread: Overnight meat recovery - thoughts?

Originally Posted by Tahr

Have never done it. Hate the thought of it. I know others' do it. When I was meat hunting in the Ruahines often enough I would find them in the dark and then bivy there and carry them out in the morning. I have spent some uncomfortable nights in an old fairy down bivy bag and all of my clothing. But its never longer than 8 hours and you can get going with the carry.

Leaving them overnight seems to go hand in hand with long range shooting. My approach has always been if I cant retrieve it or get to it that evening I don't shoot it.

Duleys do it and their vids seem to have normalised it. But I bet they don't kill a house mutton on their farm and then leave it laying outside for 10 hors before they get around to skinning and gutting it.

And while Im at it, WTF is this YouTube invention called a "blind"? Im guessing its what's always been called a "look out" or "shooting spot". And a "recovery" - jeez - what ever happened to "going to get it". And "checking weapon status"? What happen to "have ya checked ya gun"? And "got my eyes on one". FFS, it was always "there's one" or "I can see one". And people walk "clicks"?? My hip clicks when I walk, but I guess they are actually meaning something else. I dunno. Its whole new YouTube language.

Pretty much spot on as far as my opinion gos as well.
Ive left one deer over night to recover next morning. it was edible but did look suspicious. not something I would ever do out of choice again. Have seen a big boar go off on a hot summer night on the carry out! Poor brother, carried it all the way home and then had to dump it.

On a side note. The moon light thing. i think it gets brought up alot because people are hunting more often on fine warm nights than cold ones. Ive never seen a correlation between moonlight and meat going off. just in warmth and meat going off.