So, I finally listened to it and took some notes. I think I'm brave enough to make some changes this year, but we'll see. The first thing is to not chill it or certainly allow it to freeze until it gets into rigor mortis. Before, I would have those things on ice literally within an hour or two. I did some more research and ideal is not below 50 degrees for 10 hours - whoa. It seems to be a battle between tenderness and food safety.
I am going to keep it as whole as possible until I get home which I normally try to do. CWD on deer foils that plan, but antelope should be good.
I laugh outlining my plan, which absolutely never works according to plan, but the plan is to shoot a deer and antelope, get them gutted and skinned and keep them whole and not frozen for at least two days before I take the deer apart for transport and CWD testing. I think I'll have to cut the goat in a couple of pieces to fit in the cooler unless the temps in WA are low enough to keep it whole. MT weather looks perfect, but it usually warms up once I drop back out of ID on the way home.
I don't think I have not at least quartered an animal within a few hours so this will be a new experiment.
