This goes along with my early post about cooler size. What is the best way to transport your kill by car and trailer. We are going to have a 22-24 hour drive ahead of us when we go and I have only been able to find a few suggestions about this. I was thinking about layering the bottom of the cooler with ice, quartering the deer, wrapping it in butcher paper, and then putting it in plastic bags, and then covering it all with ice. I would drain the cooler and fill it as needed and then it would be on to the processor the day after we get home. My buddy that I am going with and I were debating the best way to do it and he was thinking to leave the drain plug open, but I don't think it is a great idea. We are going in the beginning of September so the weather would be warm still and I would prefer to keep the coolers in the trailer rather than baking in the sun in the bed of the truck.
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What's wrong with just putting the quarters on ice in the cooler? Just stop as needed to pee, check the ice level and drain the water. Won't hurt at all to let em bleed out in ice for a few days. -
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Last year before our move to TX we were here for a visit
I had 3 hogs to take back 23hr drive
I quartered the hogs and used dry ice
Took a few days to thaw but had no problemsComment
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Won't hurt the meat if it gets wet. Just don't let it soak in the water and you'll be good. I've wasted a lot of plastic bags over the years, just to realize it isn't necessary. Open plugs are always better if it's sitting more than a day or two, in case the ice melts faster than anticipated in between check ups.Comment
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Got a generator? A chest freezer off Craigslist would be cheaper than a big yeti or brute. Even if you bought or found a free one that didn't work you could still put a boat load of meat in it and I think it would hold ice very well.Comment
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Quarter and put on Ice.
Drain water when u get home.
Ice cooler down before putting meat in.
Simple.Comment
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I guarantee you that if you quarter it up, place it in a regular cooler and wrap the cooler in a a blanket you will be fine. And will not need to worry about iceComment
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dry ice...Comment
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What do you do with meat that is killed near home?
We usually leave the quartered meat in a cooler with the drain plug open for at least 3 days, usually 5, adding ice as necessary.
This "pulls" the blood from the meat and you end up with less gamey taste.
I don't see why you couldn't do the same.Comment
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This is what I do. When we come down there hunting pigs/javelin. I have a freezer mounted on the front of my utv trailer. While we are down there we keep every thing that needs to be frozen in it. As we kill pigs we quarter them up place in game bags and stick them in the freezer. When coming home the motels will let ya run an extension cord to plug it in. Then it will keep the meat frozen and we always have gallon jugs of water that we keep frozen and it will refreeze and keep it cold while traveling. This works better then any thing we have tried.Comment
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At home I usually take it to the processor pretty quickly, don't have the time to do it myself right now. When I lived in MI the guy I hunted with aged it in the fridge. This is the first time I am taking a road trip hunting so trying to get some ideas. One of the guys that is going says to leave the drain plug open and I say drain it and check it when we stop.Comment
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Drain plug open or drain and check when you stop, either way isn't really going to make much of a difference in just 24 hours.Originally posted by mww982 View Post
You'll be fine either way as long as meat has a layer of ice on top of it at all times.Comment
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