with opening weekend just a couple days away and temps being near 80 degrees how long do yall think you have to get deer gutted and on ice or to procecer before it spoils

I get my deer skinned and on ice within an hour. You better be pretty quick in high temps. No way would I let a deer stand out for 1/2 day in these temps.

sooner the better

No matter what the temp is, I always get mine gutted, skinned quartered and on ice as fast as possible.

OK, here's what we do........luckily, we have some old refrigerators behind our camp. We laid them on their backs and drilled holes in them to let water drain out. We gut the deer and put them in one of the the fridges, put several bags of ice on them and shut the door. The ice lasts because the fridges are insulated, it keeps the bugs off/out and the drilled holes lets any water and/or blood drained out. It works for quartered up deer too......damn Texas heat....haha.