little-d

here in mississippi we don't get the advantage of the cold weather that you get in the northern country. (Now that i said it will be colder than a whitch's tit in a brass dra). But if it were to get cold enough to let a deer hang for a few weeks it would hang as long as the cold would last in my shop with the skin left on . When i get deer or hogs and it's still hot they go into a ice chest for as long as i can come up with ice. I leave the ice chest plug open so as the ice melts and the blood comes out in goes down the drain. I never let it soak in water I just keep the ice on it, I will let it stay in the ice chest for up to 3 weeks. And it keeps very well, the deer meat will not be as gamey as a fresh kill and the hogs down here are so strong that if you try to eat loin the day after you kill it you will swear it just crawed out of a hog waller.