re: oyster mushrooms

I had a dead tree on my shooting lane that had a big bunch of oyster mushrooms growing on the truck about chest high, but I didn't have anything to put them in to carry on the long walk back to the truck and on the way home. I brought a grocery bag back with me a week later and the frost had killed them and they were all discolored and soft/slimy looking, so I didn't cut them. There's another bunch growing about 12' high. Hopefully I can get a bunch off of the tree before hunting season is over. I've gotten honey mushrooms off the same stand in previous years. I've also seen a chicken of the woods while turkey hunting. Edible mushrooms are all over fall through spring.