As others have said, the key is cooling the carcass. Even though I hunt practically in my backyard, I have always field dressed, brought the carcass to the house, and skinned and deboned it. I have always thought skinning after field dressing was a pain.
I was fortunate enough to hunt in S. Africa last year and after seeing their method, don't think I will ever field dress another animal. Watching their skinners work on animals that were NOT field dressed was a real treat. Now they get the animal to the skinning room less than an hour after it is harvested and have large coolers for the carcass but I am going to give it a try.
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