BuckAlley, like I said, I am hoping that I got some mis-info. Authorities are not always correct, and since it didn' t happen directly to me, I am not willing to confirm anything. I mainly hunt in region 9 of NY, and I have an e-mail into the DEC. when it arrives, I will post it.

BTW, a friend of mine left a deer overnight a couple of years ago because of a possible gut shot, temp was in the 60' s. We went back the next day, and found the deer had been hit in the liver and one lung. It probably died within a few hours, but he thought it was a gut shot. All meat was fine. None was wasted.