RE: How soon can you eat deer meat?
If you hunt them with a knife then you are halfway to the pit. Just keep them coals hot and ready. Tenders and backstraps don't get better then when someone is cooking next to the cleaning shed while your braking down the rest of the deer. Heck, you might even get someone to feed youwhile your hands are dirty. Kind of like cooking fish while some else is catching them. Doesn't get any fresher.