Just hung a doe two hours ago... she will hang AT LEAST two weeks with the hide on. And if it gets super cold, she can stay out behind the garage out of the sun until late February if need be. This isn't always an option during the buck hunt when its 72 degrees on opening day in Dec. (in Kansas- damn hot/weird year). But thankfully we're back in the teens here in the next few days (buying me time to get some fall meat out of my freezers and to my sausage/jerky maker-- so I can FIT the meat I hung up tonight).
Next big purchase: side-by-side stainless restaurant freezer (*WITH LOTS of cages fitted for filling DEEP with prepped game: deer, pig, turkeys, geese, ducks, and occassionally and elk, and/or oryx). Chest freezers are getting old (in many ways).