Meat Care

[ffbowhunter]

My Utah trip in August is approaching quickly and this will be my first out of state trip. What do you do for meat care? Do you take it to a local processor? Or bring it back? Any advice would be great.  We will be hunting near Fruitland, UT.

[Bigshooter]

On a couple different antelope hunts that I did that were really hot I put them on dry ice.  It worked well.

[ghosthunter]

I know a couple guys who wired small freezers in the back of their pick ups.

[KDB]

Coming back from Wyoming elk hunts in Sept. we boned out the animal, put the meat in clean game bags, iced meat bags down in large ice chests and headed home draining and adding ice to the ice chests several times.

Last year in BC we hauled several moose back to Washington State in Sept. We hung the animals in walk-in coolers for several days before we left. We wrapped them in tarps before we left and headed home. It took us 2 days to get home and the meat was fine.

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

You could Rent a Cold Storage Trailer. Haul your gear in it to and fro. And have cold storage. If its really hot use it as a hunting blind!

[MtnMuley]

elk hunts in Sept. we boned out the animal, put the meat in clean game bags, iced meat bags down in large ice chests and headed home draining and adding ice to the ice chests several times.

Spot on.

[ffbowhunter]

You could Rent a Cold Storage Trailer. Haul your gear in it to and fro. And have cold storage. If its really hot use it as a hunting blind!

I do not need anymore advice, you are the winner!!!

[Karl Blanchard]

You could Rent a Cold Storage Trailer. Haul your gear in it to and fro. And have cold storage. If its really hot use it as a hunting blind!

I do not need anymore advice, you are the winner!!!

Just a suggestion, but a 150 qt igloo cooler and some ice is far less expensive than renting a trailer AND the added cost of fuel for hauling it.  Not to mention dealing with a trailer once there.  Once initially cooled, meat keeps very well.  Bone it out, get it cooled off, then into the garbage bags and onto the ice with it.  Add ice as needed.  Just my    Good luck on your hunt and shoot straight

[Tbob]

Good luck man and lots of great advise. I'm headed out for my first early season AZ mule deer hunt in August as well.. Gonna be hot and I'm taking 2 50qt coolers and Gonna bone and put on ice and boogie home asap. That is if I'm even lucky enough to get one:-)

[ffbowhunter]

You could Rent a Cold Storage Trailer. Haul your gear in it to and fro. And have cold storage. If its really hot use it as a hunting blind!

I do not need anymore advice, you are the winner!!!

Just a suggestion, but a 150 qt igloo cooler and some ice is far less expensive than renting a trailer AND the added cost of fuel for hauling it.  Not to mention dealing with a trailer once there.  Once initially cooled, meat keeps very well.  Bone it out, get it cooled off, then into the garbage bags and onto the ice with it.  Add ice as needed.  Just my    Good luck on your hunt and shoot straight

I like the air conditioned blind that best!

[Karl Blanchard]

You could Rent a Cold Storage Trailer. Haul your gear in it to and fro. And have cold storage. If its really hot use it as a hunting blind!

I do not need anymore advice, you are the winner!!!

Just a suggestion, but a 150 qt igloo cooler and some ice is far less expensive than renting a trailer AND the added cost of fuel for hauling it.  Not to mention dealing with a trailer once there.  Once initially cooled, meat keeps very well.  Bone it out, get it cooled off, then into the garbage bags and onto the ice with it.  Add ice as needed.  Just my    Good luck on your hunt and shoot straight

I like the air conditioned blind that best!

Somehow I missed that part!  I retract my previous statement

[Stein]

Same as above, but I don't bone it out.  Quartered and one ice within 60-90 minutes of falling over this year and it turned out great.  Dump water as much as possible so it isn't sitting in a pool of bloody water.

[jamesfromseattle]

I have no concerns about keeping a deer/elk in a well drained cooler on ice for a week or more, but what about antelope? Never shot one before but have read that it is best not to get them cold immediately and not age them at all.

Thinking about doing a trailer hitch gear carrier with a generator and a small chest freezer but not sure if it is necessary.

[MtnMuley]

I don't know where you read that, but I would sttongly disagree. Get those lopes boned and on ice asap.

[carpsniperg2]

  i have killed a good amount of lopes and always get the hide off and broke down on ice asap. I have seen people drive around with them just field dressed in 70deg weather in the back of there trucks for a couple days! Nasty!

Antelope can be good eats if taken care of right. Thete diet has a lot to do with taste just like anything. Killed some sage goats and they did not eat great. Have killed some off circles and good grass lands and they are great!