HELP! TURKEY DOWN BUT LOST!

[Tom Tamer]

The meat would still be fine at 40* temps, look at how many guys hang them i  a tree around camp at night. I hung mine from a tree after plucking him and let him cool til nightfall then laid him i  the cooler. Done it many times, even let them hang outside over night amd never had an issue.

[irishevox]

As far as finding it it was laying in extremely thick brush,... thats why i couldn;t find it the first day.. i went and got a really good machete and found it after cutting away almost one side of the brush

[BOWHUNTER45]

It happens ..even with a shotgun .. If it only layed over night I would think it would be fine ...it is cold over there at night and I can not see it not being edible ...if it was more 12 hours then I would most likely sheet can it ...Glad you found it ...where are the pictures 

[irishevox]

pictures are coming they are on my phone.... i didn't take pictures except of the head spurs beard and fan... the rest of  him was hard as a rock i couldn;t even like open him for a pic

[irishevox]

here are the pics.  odd thing the tail feathers look a little odd to me..... i dunno... they don;t look right.  and they are in rough shape i am gonna fix them after a awhile when i get the thing to mount it on.