Just out of curiosity, wouldn’t allowing the body to sit out all night in the heat, undressed, cause the meat to be tainted? My husband hunts deer (bow, shotgun and muzzleloader) and he once hit a deer but it wasn’t a killing shot. He tracked it slowly (not chasing) for hours because he said if he didn’t, he’d never find it the next day, or if it laid out all night, the meat would be ruined because it was an extremely warm Sept. that year.
(He did find it and field dressed it but it was Labor Day and no butcher shops open - and we didn’t have the equipment necessary to do it ourselves. Our neighbor owns a general store and offered to let us hang it up in his huge walk in cooler out back...but he neglected to leave a note for the lady who opened the store for him in the AM!)
Where is there a deer hunting season in September?