I have a couple of friends that have taken elk meat home with them on the airplane. We have a dry ice business here in town that will give them their scraps of dry ice for free (2-3) pound chunks. Their meat has always been fine. The last trip the two guys were out here and we decided to turn all their deer meat into jerky since they were a couple of old sage brush bucks in the rut. I shipped the jerky to them a couple of weeks later. If you ever have any meat that you don't want to ship leave it with us. We will take very good care of it.

A mature bull will weigh around 600 lbs on the hoof. You should easily yeild around 300 lbs of boned out meat.

I did some reasearch when I shipped my friends jerky, sausage and peperoni and found the post office the cheapest for shipping. It cost 200.00 to ship 100 lbs next day air. The post office uses federal express as the contracted next day carrier. I think that you will be better off checking it as extra baggage. My suggestion would be to take all the prime cuts with you as extra baggage and if you have some-one who can ship to you, turn the grind and trim into just jerky which is lighter and have that shipped via the post office. 300 lbs is alot of weight either way you look at it. Turning the trim into jerky will greatly reduce the water weight. And you still have all the primals safe and sound with you.