couple things..If you shoot one at 9pm at night why wait until 2pm the NEXT afternoon to weigh it in ? 75.5 degrees is well above the DQ mark ..thats 17.5 hrs later..if anything your math proves my point..I'm having a difficult time believing a dog that was shot around seven in the morning was dqed on core temp the same day .that yote was walking around during daylight and had a thermometer in him before the sun set ... especially after seeing the Temps on the dogs that were being weighed in . many dogs were shot at night after the previous days weigh in , and were not dqed .the 'freeze up' is rigomortis making them stiff . they look frozen solid . but their CORE temps are still very warm. A little common sense should also be used ..in case.. like when you're going to do a set , put the yote on the floor board of your truck . something doesn't add up. the two I shot were 100 degrees the one my friend shot was 90 .with NO worries about temp ..basically letting them lay out in the snow and the bed of a pickup.
last year some guy my friend knows tried to get through the weigh ins . He shot a dog a few days earler . I found out about this after the fact ..of course during the contest he was complaining about how he was done wrong . So if I seem skeptical thank the likes of this man . If you were playng by the books and were Dqed Than I am sorry .. you were a victim of the unethical type that forces us to have rules , and not the organizers of the contest .
P.S stop submerging your dogs in ice water .
Swamp- The main point I'm getting at is it def is possible for someone to shoot a dog and have it fall below the DQ mark well within the days range....I'll end it at this since you seem unable to understand it...good luck and I'm done..