I guess spoiled is like beauty and is in the eye (or taste buds) of the beholder. I've heard of cultures that bury monkeys that they have harvested and dig them up days later and eat them. (I believe raw.)
    A couple months back there was a buck  hit by a car around 5:00 am  just up the road from us. I got to it around noon and it was already bloated. I thought that it would still be ok and used baking soda on it. We processed it into burger with pork and beef added, but when we tried it you could still smell and taste the gasey flavor. Yes, it was edible but the patalability was terrible. We dumped the whole works.
Temperatures were in the 40's.
     Is your meat edible? Yes. Will it taste good? Probably not.  Could you get sick from it? I can't say for sure etiher way, but at the tempertures you stated there would be accellerated bacterial growth.
    With the whitetail populations at the levels they are, is it worth it?

Dave

 

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