I don’t know what TN regs. are - but often on depredation permits for deer or furbearers the meat, pelt, etc. can’t be utilized per the law.
That’s not the case in TN. They are encouraged to use the meat. But the heat in summer makes that difficult
According to my brother, Mississippi is that way. With these permits you cannot eat the meat and have to let it lay where is was shot. He is a cotton duster and has flown over many cotton fields with dear laying dead around the fields.
He uses a cotton dust on the leaves of his okra and a few veggies that the deer don’t like. But this year they have eaten about all his peas and corn. You cn bet he will have a fresh deer in his freezer soon.