Excellent and interesting post, Wind Drift. Thanks. I've always hung my game hide on as long as reasonably possible and never had a problem with toughness. Prime beef goes as long as 21 days.
I'm curious about the spine shot thing though. The nervous system is essentially an electrical network just like we all have in our homes. While likely impossible to prove, I wonder is the massive kinetic energy transfer from projectile to spine does not cause a 'short' so to speak. Working in conjunction to your theory on 'cold shortening', perhaps this is an accelerating factor?
Tree
|