I always heard the same thing about lopes and it kind of turned me off to hunting them, for awhile anyway. We (my group) does just as the above have stated, skin, quarter and get on ice. The meat is always excellent!

When I'm hunting in Wyoming I see lots of guys who will shot a lope early in the day and it's still in the back of his pickup at night while he is sipping barley, what a waste of fine flesh.