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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: HoofsandWings on March 27, 2020, 10:30:19 AM

Title: Meat in freezer
Post by: HoofsandWings on March 27, 2020, 10:30:19 AM: Although some of you will be still looking for that trophy, many of us will be looking for meat.
It may become a rare commodity by this fall.
Title: Re: Meat in freezer
Post by: Bango skank on March 27, 2020, 10:31:25 AM: What, you think all the game is going to be poached off?
Title: Re: Meat in freezer
Post by: buckfvr on March 27, 2020, 10:34:35 AM: pffff :chuckle:
Title: Re: Meat in freezer
Post by: Buckmark on March 27, 2020, 10:54:16 AM: Quote from: HoofsandWings on March 27, 2020, 10:30:19 AM
Although some of you will be still looking for that trophy, many of us will be looking for meat.
It may become a rare commodity by this fall.
You must never check success rates for this state, its a rare commodity for alot of tag holders every year :chuckle:
Title: Re: Meat in freezer
Post by: HoofsandWings on March 27, 2020, 11:29:10 AM: Quote from: Bango skank on March 27, 2020, 10:31:25 AM
What, you think all the game is going to be poached off?
I was talking about grocery stores and meat markets.
Title: Re: Meat in freezer
Post by: dilleytech on March 27, 2020, 12:56:04 PM: Quote from: HoofsandWings on March 27, 2020, 11:29:10 AM
Quote from: Bango skank on March 27, 2020, 10:31:25 AM
What, you think all the game is going to be poached off?
I was talking about grocery stores and meat markets.

Fortunately there’s no sign of a shortage of food. Question is why isn’t your freezer all ready full 🤔.
Title: Re: Meat in freezer
Post by: Stein on March 27, 2020, 12:57:12 PM: You guys only have one freezer? :dunno:
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Post by: bhawley76 on March 27, 2020, 02:15:31 PM: I just thought everyone had three or four. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Meat in freezer
Post by: KFhunter on March 27, 2020, 03:10:44 PM: The meat will come back, we have massive warehouses filled with frozen quarters and primals to be shipped off to grocery store meat market, yes there's a slight lag due to panic buying, but like TP......IT WILL COME BACK

If you want to know when to "panic buy" beef, then keep an eye on live beef prices, right now they're abysmally low when compared to packed meat on the shelf.

Once live beef prices skyrocket then the packers are in full buy mode and warehouses running low of stock.
https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/live-cattle-price

This price gouging you're seeing now is the packers making money off this virus, the ranchers and beef producers are not seeing a penny of it.
Title: Re: Meat in freezer
Post by: Bango skank on March 27, 2020, 03:13:56 PM: I would guess most people out there just have the little freezer attached to their fridge, so the masses stockpiling meat is unlikely. Nobody in an apartment is going to have a chest freezer, and probably relatively few people that dont hunt or fish.
Title: Re: Meat in freezer
Post by: h20hunter on March 27, 2020, 03:33:34 PM: 20 cubic feet of supplies at the ready....had to move a full packer brisket to make room for the just laid in 50# of coho.
Title: Re: Meat in freezer
Post by: idaho guy on March 27, 2020, 03:51:39 PM: 3 almost full freezers :tup: and a few deer and elk eating my horse hay everyday if things get really bad :chuckle: