What do you guys do when you fly out someplace to hunt and then kill a critter. This year while in Iowa I had a local meat processor take care of it for me and then he is shipping the meat I had made up out on Monday! I can't wait to get it. Little spendy for shipping but in the end the sausage, pepperoni sticks and jerky should be great. I think he said I have 80lbs of meats coming! My first corn fed whitetail is on the way home! so what do you guys do when you kill a critter out state.. how do you get it home .. or do you donate it?
When elk hunting I just head to Sears and buy a freezer and an extension cord, both for under $ 300.00 dollars. throw the 1/4s in and plug it in a night where we stay and alls fine. Then at home I up date my freezer and sell the old one for a couple hundred bucks and were all happy.
On my bear and antelope hunts we packed it in a cooler for the flight home. Course there wasn't a ton of meat on either of those critters. Elk hunt we drove and had a freezer with a generator on a trailer.
Hopefully I got a laugh from my previous post! Instead of shock and out rage. All meat is utilized by one of our hunting group that lives in the state we hunt in.He is retired and on a fixed income so it is very welcomed by him and very helpful to him.We do all of our own processing,which consists of skinning and boning.He does have some made in to peperoni and sausage. He took three deer this year from us,one of them his own.He likes us very much!Not enough to drive to the area that we hunt in and scout his tail off for us though.He doesn't elk hunt either.What is up with that,how can you live in north central Idaho and being a passionate whitetail hunter and not elk hunt,or bear hunt or fish?All that quality hunting and excellent table fare. It was a lightning fast mod.(-;
That's what we did too a few different times. If It's late In the year and I'm hunting out of state east or west It's cold enough to not have to worry about freezing anything, It's normally way below freezing anyway so they just go In the back of the truck.
When we went to AK, we bought insulated shipping boxes from a fish cannery. We shipped back as much as we could (just under 400#) and left the rest to the outfitter to use or donate. I don't remember what the boxes cost but the shipping cost $1/pound. They went on the same planes as us. I was really worried when we got back to Chicago and it was 70 degrees and we had to wait 4 hours for our next flight. The meat was nearly frozen when we packed it. And the Insulated boxes did their job. All the meat came through fine.
Depends what it is. I usually have it boned or at least quartered in the field then I can just drop it in a waxed shipping box or cooler and bring it back as excess luggage or air freight it.
