Dirt2:

Good points.

The trick or technique I describe above is a method of getting your animal cool pronto, as may be necessary in hot weather. Imagine you are hunting out of your truck miles away from any facilities. It may be easier to throw the animal in your truck and drive four hours -- home, to some place where it is convenient to hang the animal for skinning and quartering -- than to quarter the animal on the ground at your hunting location. Stuffing a block of ice inside the empty body cavity of the animal may accomplish the needed cooling and allow you to follow this course.

Of course, there are many other alternative things one may do. I just found this an interesting technique which I wanted to store in my brain in case I ever have a need of this particular approach.

I used to buy organic milk in glass bottles several years back. Once a bottle smacked into another bottle when I put it in the car and, unknown to me, leaked milk down my seat and onto the rear floorboards. The smell evolved towards the smell of a ripe cheese, the specific kind of cheese that gives rise to the expression "who cut the cheese?!" This smell has now largely passed from my car's interior, but it was pretty unpleasant for awhile!