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Old 08-03-2017 | 01:34 PM
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Shipping game home is very very expensive. A good friend just took a huge bull elk in Idaho last year. He was prepared. He bought a good used chest freezer, they are usually pretty cheap. He put it in the back of his pick up along with a small gas generator. He had it butchered in Idaho and while it was being butchered he had the freezer plugged in to an outlet. The meat was wrapped and quick frozen when he put it in the already cold freezer. Every so often he would start the generator with the freezer plugged into it as he drove home to PA and when he stopped for the night he would plug it into an outlet where he stayed. When he got home, all he had to do was transfer the meat from the freezer in his pick up to his home freezer. If you plan on flying to your hunt, be advised it is extremely expensive to fly your meat home. This method is becoming more common and makes sense.
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