ddog, the sooner that your animal is taken care of the better the taste of the meat. I always gut the animal as soon as it is down. I leave the skin on until I get it home, which for me is maybe 45 minutes, this helps to keep the dirt out. I see you show a location of Arizona, so that means it will probably be warm when you hunt. What that means is the sooner that you can get the insides out and the skin off to help cool the carcass down the better. Now with all this being said, depending on where you hunt be it public or private, some landowners do not like to have gut piles left on their property, it draws varmints, so that means that if you hunt on private property you need to find out from the landowner his preference. Hope this helps.
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Bird Dogs and Hunting
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