Method works fine.

Assuming that you are in compliance with local laws regarding hunting...

IMO, wild game always carries an element of risk to eat. I always cook it well done to make sure.

To finish 'ponders' excellent point, if you find the blotches, those are not delicacies, but reasons to not eat the squirrel, rabbit, etc. Or if you find the innards just don't look right, pass. Since you have butchered other animals, I assume you would have some sense of this.

Otherwise, enjoy!