Neither is burying it by hand. Good point about the radio collar, though.
A small farm/ranch had a grizzly wander onto the the property. Proceeded to menace the horses in a corral. The family children were in the vicinity.
The father came out armed and the grizzly wouldn't back off so he shot it, killing it.
His mistake was he used his back hoe to bury the bear on his property. The bear had a radio collar.
In a few weeks a team from the F&G showed up. Since the bear had a radio collar they were tracked. When the collar stopped moving it was investigated. They found the bear and the rancher who thought he did nothing wrong was reamed in the court system
End result 10’s of thousands of $$$$ later for a lawyer the rancher ended up paying beau coupe big bucks to stay out of jail and had to pay $$$$ in fines.
Lesson learned remove the radio collar if any and dispose of it in such a way as to not have it point back to you.