Shouldn a buck shot in the evening be taken to the locker plant the next day rather than photographed?
brad from IA asks: ethics?i seen the vids for bucks already harvested for 2010 season and i just wondered why if the bucks were shot in the evening and recovered at night why is there a photo op in daylight hours seem to me the temps this year would not allow for the meat to still be good and also hunting in iowa over food plots is not legal only crop ground i was just wondering if this is about money more than passion we would all like to get paid for hunting what a job right so i think we need to hold such people to a higher standard Winke Responds: Brad, I think a couple of the bucks were recovered the next day because of marginal hits. If a buck (or doe) is killed in an afternoon hunt and then gutted soon after and the body heat gets out, they will be fine the next day. You are right though, it is far better, if possible, to get a deer on ice shortly after it dies. However, you kill a deer in the evening and the locker plants aren’t open until the next morning anyway. It certainly
