RE: Keeping Meat Cool
The only way to keep your meat cool and avoid a ticket is get it out of the woods.If you are alone this means packing by your self and it takes some work and sacrifice.You owe it to the animal to at least eat it.
Once your animal is down skin,quarter or debone and place in GOOD,HEAVY game bags.Take black pepper and sprinkle on all game bags,even before placing 1/4's in rub peper all over them(keeps blow flies and the ilk away).
Then hang each game bag 4-5 ft off the ground lay pine bowes on the sunny side to shade meat and help with air flow.Load your pack and get the meat out,if this requiers a all nighter then so be it(you shot it deal with it).If you let it spoil the loacl game wardedn will likely get you for wanton waste(or poaching)and revoke your hunting privliges.
I have slaved over many a 1/4 and a freinds 1/4's to get them out.It's part of early season hunting,if you go with a freind or freinds it make the task alot easier and they can always go back and hunt once the works done(or they may not after a pack like that).
BBJ