http://www.fieldandstream.com/articl...deer-hang-time
Around here, the weather seldom is right to hang a deer. Yesterday it was 33 degrees when I went into the woods. By the time I gutted and dragged out two doe, it was almost 70 degrees. I took them to the butcher, and i'm sure they got processed yesterday. Hopefully they were out of rigor but probably not. We do a lot of crock pot cooking so it should be ok...still, if you are able to change a deer it usually makes a huge difference. The few times that I have killed a late december deer and let it hang for a week it has been fantastic.