I'm PISSED

[Gutpile]

I shot a dandy coyote this winter that I wanted to keep and have tanned for the trophy room. Really dark bugger with about 3" of white on the tail. Just a cool dog. Anyways the taxi said just freeze it and bring it in when you can. So I froze it and while cleaning the shop this weekend I just opened the freezer to check it. BOOOOOM!!! The stink was un freaking believeable. My freezer decided to die so I lost the hide. Damnit!! I hate when things like that happen. Thats the second freezer I've had go bad. The last time I lost a whole deer. Oh' well. Guess I'll stimulate the economy and go buy another freezer.

[Red Dawg]

if you have a ton of meat in it you can claim it on your home insurance. I lost both of mine a couple of years ago and I got a good chunk of money for replacement of the freezers and the meat.

[popeshawnpaul]

That sucks.  I've been waiting for that to happen to me. 

[btlsoom]

Maybe you can ask Obama for some stimulus money to help out?  To bad on the hide, sounded cool.

R

[Michelle_Nelson]

Gutpile buy one with a freezer alarm.

Or go buy a freezer alarm.  They are like $10.  

ALL my freezers have an alarm.  Plus i check them atleast once a day.

[Michelle_Nelson]

Another thing to keep in mind.  A frost free freezer will cause hides and food to freezer burn quicker.

[huntnphool]

if you have a ton of meat in it you can claim it on your home insurance.

Do I get another tag and all the money spent on fuel?

[ICEMAN]

I did it myself years ago....unplugged the chest freezer so I could use the table saw....forgot about it.

Probably 10 days later went out to get some meat...    Totally devastating experience. Deer, Elk, pork, salmon, gamebirds, you name it. Horrible.

[Gutpile]

No meat in this one. All the game thats left is in the house.

I may get an alarm. Can you put the alarm in the house even though the freezer is in the shop? I never use the shop in the off season so I'd never know it was going off till it's too late.

That stink was something else. You think coyotes stink when you shoot them? Try a rotton one out.  

Interesting molds too.  

[Gutpile]

Another thing to keep in mind.  A frost free freezer will cause hides and food to freezer burn quicker.

Didn't know that. I was going to bring it up the following day but he wasn't going to be around so figured I'd wait. guess I waited to long.

[huntnphool]

Interesting molds too.

I think I would have just loaded the freezer in the back of the truck and hit the dump

[Michelle_Nelson]

Ok than my question would be how often when you go into the shop in the off season do you check the freezer.  If you are just going in their quick for something you may not check it.

If you have a freezer alarm you don't have to go check it.  Unless your freezer alarm goes out, LOL.

Freezer alarms are worth the $$.

Ohh non of the ones i have seen actually go in the house.

[huntnphool]

My two are in the garage with cars so I see them every day as well, they have alarms too.

[Curly]

I may get an alarm. Can you put the alarm in the house even though the freezer is in the shop? I never use the shop in the off season so I'd never know it was going off till it's too late.

Maybe they make a wireless alarm?  That would be a good idea.

Here is one that I googled up:  http://www.partshelf.com/ci00985.html

[rasbo]

No meat in this one. All the game thats left is in the house.

I may get an alarm. Can you put the alarm in the house even though the freezer is in the shop? I never use the shop in the off season so I'd never know it was going off till it's too late.

That stink was something else. You think coyotes stink when you shoot them? Try a rotton one out.  

Interesting molds too.  

a true dog killer would have rolled in it that sucks losing the dog