[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Hope he wasn’t planning on eating the deer. Leaving it that long ruins the meat.

[marktwain]

I hear that mountain lion is actually pretty good.

[Northern Yankee]

He backed away slowly and went to call the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. Officials said he had two choices — return with friends, making noise to scare the animal away, or purchase a mountain lion hunting license.

He opted for the license, and dropped the lion in one shot.

I like stories with happy endings.

[SLB]

Hope he wasn’t planning on eating the deer. Leaving it that long ruins the meat.

We used to regularly leave deer overnight if we shot them late in the evening. Gut them, prop the carcass up off of the ground and prop the body cavity open with some sticks. You have to understand the overnite temperature there was probably in the teens if not single digits. When elk hunting it was nothing for us to get our elk the first day, quarter them and hang them away from camp (bear) and higher than the bears could reach and then stay in the mountains for another five or six days. Take the elk down, haul it to the processing plant to be cut a frozen. It was very well aged and extremely tender.