I would like to do a few quick hunts before work. Under the assumption that I shoot something, will it be okay to leave the birds whole on ice all day and clean them in the evening?

I am curious also if rigor will set in during the day and if it would be recommended to age the duck to get past the rigor stage?

Happy hunting!

Put them on your dash for a few weeks. Thank Guy.




They will be fine.

Rigor sets in no matter what you do with them.

But you're fine with them on ice. On a day like today, I don't even have ice. There's a teal and a specklebelly sitting in the bed of my truck right now in the parking garage.

+1. I have a canadian and a gadwall in the bed of mine

I'm sure that's getting some odd looks from them city folks. Lol

I can only imagine. There are a bunch of "democrats" on three of the floors in this building (call center), and I can only imagine if any of them see those in the back.

Lol

Use to hunt a lot before work and if it was cold enough I'd leve em shaded and in the bed of the truck

Where do they think chicken nuggets come from?

I have 6 hanging on my strap on my truck mirror now from today.

I'll clean em with my limit in the am

You should be fine. Shot some yesterday AM, cleaned and ate them last night - still here to talk about it today

Just make sure they stay pretty cold. I went on a weekend trip with a buddy about 5 years ago where we decided to "age" them and just clean them all when we get home. It was cool out and we had a cooler with some ice. Well the ice melted and the birds we killed Saturday morning were bad when we tried to clean them Sunday evening. Lucky for me it was my buddy that was a second faster than me..he started pulling out the breast and caught a wiff of it and threw up. I laughed pretty hard at him for that but was kind of disappointed with myself for letting that Saturday's birds go bad. Honest mistake but it could have been prevented if we would have checked the ice.