Thread: Shouldn’t cut up an animal before rigor mortis is complete

We were camped at the Mangatutu Hot Springs and our young fellas "found" a deer below the pools on the river.
Spent the weekend hacking the antlers off and generally blunting my knives.
Kept them occupied for the whole weekend.
But as an aside in a yank hiking magazine I saw and interesting thing.
This was that at high occupancy campsites it was better if you pissed in the creek or river if it had enough flow than all piss in the one spot.
It makes sense if you think about it.
A deer carcase will end up in the waterway one way or another.
What we leave eventually will.
It is not as if most us dump a truckload in one hit.
And as Brads says a lot of deer die and end up in creeks you go in after a bad winter storm and you find a few.
Those that die don't really pick their spot.